What's the difference between recreation and recreative?
Recreation
Definition:
(n.) The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.
Example Sentences:
(1) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(2) For recreational runners who have sustained injuries, especially within the past year, a reduction in running to below 32 km per week is recommended.
(3) Employment problems, amount of pain, and social and recreational difficulties were assessed.
(4) Several reports have suggested that staphylococci, and especially Staphylococcus aureus, are useful indicators of pollution of recreational waters.
(5) The implications for other professional divers and for recreational underwater divers who follow standard decompression protocols are reassuring.
(6) The subjects responded to a mail survey that defined before surgery and after recovery functioning in relation to 22 activities of daily living representing personal care, housework-yard work, and recreation-social activities.
(7) 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is a recently popularized recreational drug, although some have advocated its psychotherapeutic potential.
(8) Accidents from sports and recreation were the cause in 23% of the cases.
(9) More men than women reported high rates of sports and recreational activities, gardening, and do-it-yourself.
(10) An inverse Fourier transform is then used to recreate the new time domain representation, which has been appropriately filtered for extraneous noise.
(11) Cases were more likely to have worked in the following industries: mining, paper and wood, medicine and science, and entertainment and recreation.
(12) To determine whether recreational levels of training (jogging) will provoke short luteal phase menstrual cycles, a prospective study was conducted.
(13) Benzene concentrations of 2.5, 14, and 250 ppm should be acceptable for residential, industrial, and recreational soils, respectively.
(14) The present results suggest that, although we observed a larger effect with occupational activity than with recreational activity, middle-aged men may reduce their risk of colorectal cancer if they exercise when they are not working.
(15) He confessed to over-indulgence in this pleasure at some stages of his life, and to the recreational use of drugs.
(16) Obama may have been deliberately recreating one of Mandela's own most useful gestures in his moment of human contact with the president of Cuba .
(17) Similar applies to the new standards of the TAL 1974 and that recommendations of the "Deutscher Bäderverband" to estimate health resorts, recreation areas and mineral springs.
(18) The embryotoxic levels of these solvents needed in culture were higher than blood levels likely to occur in the human following industrial exposure or recreational abuse.
(19) Relationships between the severity and frequency of low back pain and referred lower extremity pain and other variables such as occupation, recreation, age, sex and predominant working posture was analysed.
(20) The results showed that VCF valued, in order of priority: TWs, University library privileges, faculty parking, photocopying service, clinical faculty awards, use of recreational facilities, and faculty discounts.
Recreative
Definition:
(a.) Tending to recreate or refresh; recreating; giving new vigor or animation; reinvigorating; giving relief after labor or pain; amusing; diverting.
Example Sentences:
(1) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(2) For recreational runners who have sustained injuries, especially within the past year, a reduction in running to below 32 km per week is recommended.
(3) Employment problems, amount of pain, and social and recreational difficulties were assessed.
(4) Several reports have suggested that staphylococci, and especially Staphylococcus aureus, are useful indicators of pollution of recreational waters.
(5) The implications for other professional divers and for recreational underwater divers who follow standard decompression protocols are reassuring.
(6) The subjects responded to a mail survey that defined before surgery and after recovery functioning in relation to 22 activities of daily living representing personal care, housework-yard work, and recreation-social activities.
(7) 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is a recently popularized recreational drug, although some have advocated its psychotherapeutic potential.
(8) Accidents from sports and recreation were the cause in 23% of the cases.
(9) More men than women reported high rates of sports and recreational activities, gardening, and do-it-yourself.
(10) An inverse Fourier transform is then used to recreate the new time domain representation, which has been appropriately filtered for extraneous noise.
(11) Cases were more likely to have worked in the following industries: mining, paper and wood, medicine and science, and entertainment and recreation.
(12) To determine whether recreational levels of training (jogging) will provoke short luteal phase menstrual cycles, a prospective study was conducted.
(13) Benzene concentrations of 2.5, 14, and 250 ppm should be acceptable for residential, industrial, and recreational soils, respectively.
(14) The present results suggest that, although we observed a larger effect with occupational activity than with recreational activity, middle-aged men may reduce their risk of colorectal cancer if they exercise when they are not working.
(15) He confessed to over-indulgence in this pleasure at some stages of his life, and to the recreational use of drugs.
(16) Obama may have been deliberately recreating one of Mandela's own most useful gestures in his moment of human contact with the president of Cuba .
(17) Similar applies to the new standards of the TAL 1974 and that recommendations of the "Deutscher Bäderverband" to estimate health resorts, recreation areas and mineral springs.
(18) The embryotoxic levels of these solvents needed in culture were higher than blood levels likely to occur in the human following industrial exposure or recreational abuse.
(19) Relationships between the severity and frequency of low back pain and referred lower extremity pain and other variables such as occupation, recreation, age, sex and predominant working posture was analysed.
(20) The results showed that VCF valued, in order of priority: TWs, University library privileges, faculty parking, photocopying service, clinical faculty awards, use of recreational facilities, and faculty discounts.