What's the difference between sidetrack and topic?

Sidetrack


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We're in danger of being sidetracked by a simplistic debate that suggests an emphasis on people and their responsibility somehow blames individuals and ignores the real social determinants of health and disease.
  • (2) The problem starts at school, and girls very quickly get sidetracked out of maths and physics.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Many respondents felt more girls needed to study Stem subjects at younger ages.
  • (3) Wants to avoid getting sidetracked by applications.
  • (4) One expert goes so far as warning , "Cleavage could sidetrack a legal career".
  • (5) Learning about the super-clarity that is needed on stage to bring about thatslight sidetracking of reality.
  • (6) As he lays out his plan, you are totally with him, even when it gets sidetracked a bit by his big buddy Groot.
  • (7) But the Syrian “revolution” was quickly and predictably sidetracked and deformed by the much more powerful Islamists.
  • (8) Other women who have run their states laughed wryly at similar memories of enduring sexist insults and being obliged to sidetrack their election campaigns to deal with them.
  • (9) So from now on, my focus will be on working with them, face-to-face, for the whole day rather than getting sidetracked with emails, phone calls, meetings or proposals.
  • (10) And it was refreshing to be able to spend all the time on that and not be sidetracked by special effects and spectacle, which a lot of other films I've done have been.
  • (11) Asked about this Pulis said: "To say he was doing it as a sidetrack to influence the referee, you've said it.
  • (12) Environment groups urged countries to renew their pledges under the Kyoto treaty and not be sidetracked by promises of a better deal.
  • (13) Soon, dozens of cases were sidetracked by endless technical argument.
  • (14) I’m all for important discussions on the state of authorship and recognition for black artists in pop – but as Swift’s tweet showed, couching those analyses in something as pointless as the VMAs soon sidetracks the conversation.
  • (15) Yes, I want to ask a question.” Scolari was promptly sidetracked by the extra question that is invariably jammed in from somebody in the room.
  • (16) Recent debates about redress mechanisms for medical accident victims have been sidetracked by fears of an American-style medical malpractice crisis.
  • (17) In Britain we have simply allowed ourselves to be sidetracked by our governing elite's military adventures and the bread and circuses of royal occasions and sporting festivals.
  • (18) Lord knows we had the tunes but the times that we did it when we should have been great was the first year we headlined it and we got sidetracked.
  • (19) Nursing organizations formed coalitions, held meetings, published position statements, and mounted campaigns to sidetrack the AMA plans.
  • (20) 'It was refreshing to be able to spend all the time on my character in Rush and not be sidetracked by special effects and spectacle' With Daniel Bruhl in Rush.

Topic


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, -- denominated by Aristotle to`poi (literally, places), as being the places or sources from which arguments may be derived, or to which they may be referred; also, a prepared form of argument, applicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of which the ancient rhetoricians and orators provided themselves; a commonplace of argument or oratory.
  • (n.) A treatise on forms of argument; a system or scheme of forms or commonplaces of argument or oratory; as, the Topics of Aristotle.
  • (n.) An argument or reason.
  • (n.) The subject of any distinct portion of a discourse, or argument, or literary composition; also, the general or main subject of the whole; a matter treated of; a subject, as of conversation or of thought; a matter; a point; a head.
  • (n.) An external local application or remedy, as a plaster, a blister, etc.
  • (a.) Topical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
  • (2) Topical and systemic antibiotic therapy is common in dermatology, yet it is hard to find a rationale for a particular route in some diseases.
  • (3) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
  • (4) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
  • (5) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
  • (6) Health information dissemination is severely complicated by the widespread stigma associated with digestive topics, manifested in the American public's general discomfort in communicating with others about digestive health.
  • (7) Female CD-1 mice were initiated with 200 nmol 7,12-dimethylbenz[a] anthracene and topically promoted three times weekly for 20 weeks with doses of 25, 50, 100, or 200 nmol mirex.
  • (8) This study compares the effects of 60 minutes of ischemic arrest with profound topical hypothermia (10 dogs) on myocardial (1) blood flow and distribution (microspheres), (2) metabolism (oxygen and lactate), (3) water content (wet to dry weights), (4) compliance (intraventricular balloon), and (5) performance (isovolumetric function curves) with 180 minutes of cardiopulmonary bypass with the heart in the beating empty state (seven dogs).
  • (9) "This will obviously be a sensitive topic for the US administration, but partners in the transatlantic alliance must be clear on common rules of engagement in times of conflict if we are to retain any moral standing in the world," Verhofstadt said.
  • (10) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
  • (11) The tetracaine component of TAC is superfluous for obtaining topical anesthesia of minor dermal lacerations of the face in children.
  • (12) I think we are still trying to understand all that and I think that fits under the broader topic of social licence and what bringing in automation to an area does to that region as a whole, which we don’t quite know yet.” Could carbon farming be the answer for a 'clapped-out' Australia?
  • (13) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
  • (14) CNS excitation and seizures, manifestations of organochlorine intoxication, can occur following ingestion or inappropriate application of the 1 per cent topical formulation of lindane used to treat scabies and lice.
  • (15) A water based 5% benzoyl peroxide gel (Benzac W5) was compared with topical 1% clindamycin phosphate solution (Cleocin T) in the treatment of acne vulgaris using a randomized, investigator blind study design.
  • (16) In conclusion, this study indicates that topical CsA is capable of locally suppressing a strong T-cell-mediated immune response after an initial short-term systemic dose of CsA.
  • (17) Poly(ortho ester) bioerodible polymers are suitable materials for the topical administration of a wide variety of therapeutic agents; varying the nature and amounts of excipients physically incorporated into the polymer will vary the erosion rates from a few hours to many months.
  • (18) Future studies will need to carefully evaluate the vehicle used and the strength of topical CsA employed.
  • (19) The animal model of psoriasis was effectively treated by bimolane, both systemically and topically, and also by parenteral methotrexate and topical betamethasone valerate.
  • (20) Data were compared with those from a previous study with topical 1% minoxidil solution.

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