What's the difference between swaddling and waddling?
Swaddling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swaddle
() a. & n. from Swaddle, v.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many are swaddled in grey UNHCR blankets, which are discarded by the side of the road either because they are wet and heavy, or because the refugees are not aware that they will spend many more hours in the open air.
(2) This "swaddling clothes test" has made it possible to establish, for the first time, the microbiological characteristics indicating the degree of epidemic well-being in obstetric institutions.
(3) More often than not in Perlman's career it has been swaddled, daubed, be-horned, encrusted and variously garlanded with the work of the great pioneering makeup technicians of the last 30 years, including Rick Baker, Dick Smith and Stan Winston (Perlman is, all else apart, a crucial figure in the history of movie makeup).
(4) There is a group in the foreground of pale-skinned people who in some ways represent the flight into Egypt – a woman with a swaddled baby, a bearded Joseph figure, a sinister child with a bow and arrow, and an even more sinister child battling a nasty goat next to a spilled water vessel.
(5) Some current investigators have noted that the inhibition of movement by swaddling seems to quiet irritable babies and this might be a useful nursing intervention.
(6) Swaddling is an ancient practice which has been used for many reasons in almost every country in the world.
(7) High levels of insulation for a given room temperature were found particularly at night and in winter, and were associated with the use of thick or doubled duvets and with swaddling.
(8) Let your kid roll around in the dirt, get a pet – don’t swaddle them in a sterile cloth.
(9) The review finds no evidence for the benefits of acupuncture, chiropractic care, or for massage or swaddling for comfort.
(10) Effective strategies to care for these infants included recognizing states and cues, swaddling, use of pacifier, waking to eat, and smaller feedings.
(11) Erla, 37, a lawyer, swaddled in a thick, red mac, says that as an Icelandic woman you can always count on the support of your sisters, and it was in this spirit she attended the Women Strike Back march last year, a protest against the pay gap and sexual violence.
(12) In Turkey and China the ancient practice of swaddling is still commonly practiced.
(13) Speaking in Germany last week, Neil MacGregor described his compatriots’ habit of swaddling themselves in their past as if it were a blanket.
(14) At 2 weeks, infants' HR levels and crying declined significantly more rapidly in the pacifier than in the swaddling condition.
(15) Nearby, a young mother sits on the cold, damp pavement with her tiny infant swaddled in a blanket, begging from passersby.
(16) The "swaddling ethos" is posited to serve as a homeostat whose regulatory function can be discerned through the analysis of family structure and process, in particular through the explication of values, affective patterns, roles, boundaries, and structural units within the family.
(17) During the next four days of the same months, the same infants were monitored with no swaddling.
(18) Due to the open nature of the event, it was also about people who weren’t sure why Reed's dark lyrics were echoing through a manicured plaza, just outside New York City's performing arts library: I'm bigger, smarter, stronger, tough Yet sensitive and kind And though I could crush you like a bug It will never cross my mind The crowd was littered with people swaddled in down jackets to brace from the cold and far more people wore leather jackets than appropriate for the chilly temperature.
(19) No clear long-term effects of swaddling have been demonstrated.
(20) Might it be safest, if the Wass experiment goes ahead, to pick a lightweight Windsor, such as the hawker of endorsements Zara Phillips or the less worrying of the two Fergie daughters, then swaddle the royal inside a light casing of removable padding that could be adjusted in case of weight gain?
Waddling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waddle
Example Sentences:
(1) These changes were considered to be the result of talipes equinus and waddling gait, which are commonly demonstrated in patients with DMD.
(2) Chris Waddle (Former Newcastle winger) Management's not like playing and Alan will find that out.
(3) By 15 years the patient demonstrated a noticeable progress of motor disorders: she was unable to stand up from the chair, experienced difficulties in walking along the ward, and had a waddle gait.
(4) The patient presented with all the signs typical of the disease: severe rhizomelic dwarfism discovered during the second year of life, relatively normal height of trunk, short and massive hands and feet, waddling gait, gross epiphyseal [corrected] gland alterations and shallow vertebral bodies.
(5) He had a waddling gait with proximal hypotonia and paresis.
(6) Progressive diaphyseal dysplasia is characterized clinically by crippling leg pain, fatigue, headache, poor appetite, muscle weakness, and waddling gait.
(7) A 3-year-old boy was seen because of delayed developmental milestones, waddling gait, nonprogressive proximal muscle weakness and hyporeflexia.
(8) Cross the road and pick up some jam and biscuits in Le Comestible grocery and then waddle up to Kuzina fish restaurant for some oysters before settling down for a nightcap in Bar-Cave de la Monnaie on the next corner.
(9) It came to Waddle, 12 yards out on the left side of the box, and he smacked a brilliant first-time shot across Illgner and flush off the inside of the far post.
(10) England (5-3-2): Peter Shilton; Paul Parker, Terry Butcher, Mark Wright, Des Walker, Stuart Pearce; Chris Waddle, Paul Gascoigne , David Platt; Gary Lineker, Peter Beardsley.
(11) England 1–1 West Germany (3–4 pens) Waddle smashes his penalty inches over the bar – although such is its dramatic trajectory it soon looks like he’s missed by yards – and England’s dream is over.
(12) The patron saint of Walkers crisps scored a late equaliser, before Chris Waddle fired over the bar.
(13) The symptoms included a waddling gait and crepitus, pain, and tenderness over the symphysis pubis.
(14) A time when you couldn't bulk-buy cheap meat, produce crap food with it, and sell it every few yards along every high street, and outside every school, until loads of us are waddling about, obese and poorly, or malnourished, while others are swanning into Heston Blumenthal restaurants to eat "meat fruit" (c 1500) which is mandarin, chicken liver & foie gras parfait or "rice & flesh" (c 1390) which is made with saffron, calf tail & red wine.
(15) Mark Pougatch, presenter of 5 Live Sport, will present commentary of the matches from venues throughout South Africa with pundits including Graham Taylor, Robbie Savage, Chris Waddle, David Moyes and Danny Mills providing expert analysis.
(16) Both patients had a waddling gait, Gowers' maneuver in arising, terminal atrophies and pseudohypertrophies of some muscles, marked fasciculations, and fascicular tremor.
(17) 2.53pm GMT 68 min Waddle makes a lovely angled run behind the defence but Gascoigne overhits his through ball this much and that allows the last man Kohler to come across and concede a corner.
(18) For three years he had increasing pain in the lower back and hip with a noticeable waddling gait.
(19) Waddle’s free-kick from the right is headed clear by Klinsmann; it comes to Gascoigne, who controls the ball on his chest 22 yards from goal and then lashes the bouncing ball towards goal.
(20) He’s finished.’ “Kevin completely turned it round with Peter [Beardsley] and Chris Waddle.