Ambulatory vs Sedentary - What's the difference?
ambulatory | sedentary |
Of, relating to, or adapted to walking
* Sir H. Wotton
(comparable, medicine) Able to walk about and not bedridden.
(medicine) Performed on or involving an ambulatory patient or an outpatient.
Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.
* Jeremy Taylor
(legal) Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable.
The round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.
Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.
Not moving much; sitting around.
* Bishop Warburton
* Beaconsfield
(obsolete) inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil
* Milton
* Spectator
(obsolete) Caused by long sitting.
* Milton
As adjectives the difference between ambulatory and sedentary
is that ambulatory is of, relating to, or adapted to walking while sedentary is not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.As a noun ambulatory
is the round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.ambulatory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- ambulatory exercise
- The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels.
- an ambulatory patient
- an ambulatory electrocardiogram
- ambulatory medical care
- an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places
- The priesthood before was very ambulatory , and dispersed into all families.
- The dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.
Noun
(ambulatories)sedentary
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The oyster is a sedentary''' mollusk; the barnacles are '''sedentary crustaceans.
- Sedentary , scholastic sophists.
- Any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect.
- The sedentary earth.
- The soul, considered abstractly from its passions, is of a remiss, sedentary nature.
- Sedentary numbness.