What's the difference between rotating and turning?

Rotating


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rotate

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To determine the accuracy of double-contrast arthrography in complete rotator cuff tears, we studied 805 patients thought to have a complete rotator cuff tear who had undergone double-contrast shoulder arthrography (DCSA) between 1978 and 1983.
  • (2) When the posterior capsule was sectioned, no significant changes were noted in the severity of the sag or the rotation.
  • (3) The Ta loop was a smooth, elongated ellipse in configuration and showed clockwise rotation in all planes, as did the P loop.
  • (4) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
  • (5) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
  • (6) This series of tests included tests for pathologic nystagmus, saccades, smooth pursuit, and optokinetic nystagmus, as well as bithermal caloric testing and rotational testing.
  • (7) The adherence of 51Cr-labeled platelets to rabbit aortae everted on probes rotated in platelet-red cell suspensions has been measured.
  • (8) We have used a modification of the rotating-frame imaging technique to measure PCr-to-ATP ratio non-invasively in human heart.
  • (9) Experimental evidence suggested that nucleosome rotational positioning is determined by the DNA sequence itself.
  • (10) The X-ray tube rotates outside the detector array at the rate of one revolution per second.
  • (11) The data collection scheme for the scanner uses multiple rotations of a linearly shifted, asymmetric fan beam permitting user-defined variable resolution.
  • (12) The purity and configuration of each isomer of the free acid and N-chloroacetylated derivative were ascertained by: (a) paper chromatography in five solvent systems, (b) elemental analysis, (c) Van Slyke nitrous acid determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (d) Van Slyke ninhydrin determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (e) optical rotation.
  • (13) Based on our experience with the mark I prosthesis we have designed and developed a mark II model which has freedom of axial rotation of the saddle.
  • (14) The reported study demonstrates that performance asymmetries between normal or reflected letters presented in the right and left visual field favors the right visual field when stimulus patterns are blocked and rotated 90 degrees clockwise and favors the left visual field when they are blocked and rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
  • (15) Moreover, the majority of the 'out of phase' units showed an increased discharge during side-up animal tilt and side-down neck rotation.
  • (16) 3-D curves were computed with an apparent rotation around the vertical axis Z.
  • (17) Subsequently, due to the rotation of the original polar axis in one hemisphere, the third cleavage plane through one half of the egg is transverse to the third cleavage plane through the other half.
  • (18) This suggests that S1 is a flexible protein with at least two domains that can rotate independently.
  • (19) Per-rotational nystagmus was recorded in rabbits with unilaterally narrowed vertebral arteries or following unilateral cervical sympathectomies.
  • (20) We found that the Gallie system generally allowed significantly more rotation in flexion, extension, axial rotation, and lateral bending than the other three fixation techniques.

Turning


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Turn
  • (n.) The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander.
  • (n.) The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road.
  • (n.) Deviation from the way or proper course.
  • (n.) Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools.
  • (n.) The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned.
  • (n.) A maneuver by which an enemy or a position is turned.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
  • (2) These are typically runaway processes in which global temperature rises lead to further releases of CO², which in turn brings about more global warming.
  • (3) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
  • (4) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
  • (5) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
  • (6) Since the first is balked by the obstacle of deficit reduction, emphasis has turned to the second.
  • (7) He said: "Monetary policy affects the exchange rate – which in turn can offset or reinforce our exposure to rising import prices.
  • (8) A second Scottish referendum has turned from a highly probable event into an almost inevitable one.
  • (9) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
  • (10) "Especially at a time when they are turning down voluntary requests and securing the positions of senior managers."
  • (11) Each L subunit contains 127 residues arranged into 10 beta-strands connected by turns.
  • (12) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
  • (13) In just a week her life has been turned upside down.
  • (14) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
  • (15) Berlin said it was not too late to turn back from the abyss, without proposing any decisions or action.
  • (16) The C-terminal sequence contains an amphiphilic alpha-helix of four turns which lies on the surface of the beta-barrel.
  • (17) Two years later, Trump tweeted that “Obama’s motto” was: “If I don’t go on taxpayer funded vacations & constantly fundraise then the terrorists win.” The joke, it turns out, is on Trump.
  • (18) A new bill, to be published this week with the aim of turning it into law by next month, will allow the government to use Britain's low borrowing rates to guarantee the £40bn in infrastructure projects and £10bn for underwriting housing projects.
  • (19) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
  • (20) Seconds later the camera turns away as what sounds like at least 15 gunshots are fired amid bystanders’ screams.