leen?
I’m thinking it has more to do with encouraging the target to be reached than the physical act of leaning or listing.
Malevolence has a good point. I’ve experienced that sense of let-down in similar situations.
Tropism n.
1 a: involuntary orientation by an organism or one of its parts that involves turning or curving by movement or by differential growth and is a positive or negative response to a source of stimulation
I’m thinking if you find the appropriate prefix for -tropism, then you have a winner. Another candidate for prefixing would be -taxis. Also, I am thinking that is as accurate as you will get to describing this phenomenon, but that no single word actually does describe it perfectly.
You’d better not come back here and be like “Oh, I was thinking ‘telekinesis’ or ‘psychokinesis.’ And I didn’t read it on a word a day website, I was watching Carrie.”
To follow up on my above post. Klino seems to be the prefix we’re looking for.
Klinotaxis would be defined as :Positive orientation movement of a motile organism induced by a stimulus.
But perhaps the most accurate would be Klinokinesis.
Eitherway, there is some overlap in these terms and none of them quite satisfy the mario kart example, but I don’t think you will get much closer.
[quote]Malevolence wrote:
To follow up on my above post. Klino seems to be the prefix we’re looking for.
Klinotaxis would be defined as :Positive orientation movement of a motile organism induced by a stimulus.
But perhaps the most accurate would be Klinokinesis.
Eitherway, there is some overlap in these terms and none of them quite satisfy the mario kart example, but I don’t think you will get much closer.[/quote]
Well, he did say my ‘is it’ questions above described it.
To summarize, it’s like when you’re watching a ball game, and you ‘will’ the ball to go between the uprights and move your arms to ‘get it’ between those poles…and when you’re bowling you do the same thing (imagine saying “go left go left go left”…that weird act is what he’s looking for the word for
So, what is the deal? you find your word or what?
I used to think that there was a military term for crawling on your belly, with your rifle held between your crossed arms, and your head held low. I recalled that when I was young me and my friends used this one word term for this military-style crawling.
However there is no such term and my memories of having used such a term when I was young are wrong.
And yet I still have the irrational feeling that this non-existent term really exists and that it is right on the tip of my tongue.
Evidently it is common to think that there exists a word for a thing or action when there isn’t.
[quote]btbnashua wrote:
I used to think that there was a military term for crawling on your belly, with your rifle held between your crossed arms, and your head held low. I recalled that when I was young me and my friends used this one word term for this military-style crawling.
However there is no such term and my memories of having used such a term when I was young are wrong.
And yet I still have the irrational feeling that this non-existent term really exists and that it is right on the tip of my tongue.
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It is possible that you misunderstood a different word, and used it to refer to this action. Maybe “prone?”
Nope, it wasn’t prone.
In my gut, I swear there’s a word for it, though rationally I know no such word exists.
When I was growing up we played “army” all the time. All of our fathers back then had extensive military service and we were able to know quite a few military terms from our fathers (not to mention picking up terms from Rat Patrol, Combat, etc --Did I just age myself?)
But I have asked around and there seems to be no word for it. My memory that we used to have a word for it are likely false.
[quote]btbnashua wrote:
Nope, it wasn’t prone.
In my gut, I swear there’s a word for it, though rationally I know no such word exists.
When I was growing up we played “army” all the time. All of our fathers back then had extensive military service and we were able to know quite a few military terms from our fathers (not to mention picking up terms from Rat Patrol, Combat, etc --Did I just age myself?) But I have asked around and there seems to be no word for it. My memory that we used to have a word for it are likely false.
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There is a word for that! I’m sure of it.
That’s it. I’m not clicking on this thread anymore.
[quote]btbnashua wrote:
I used to think that there was a military term for crawling on your belly, with your rifle held between your crossed arms, and your head held low. I recalled that when I was young me and my friends used this one word term for this military-style crawling.
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Dear Lord-- here we go again, and we don’t even know what the OP’s word is yet…
“Low Crawl” (vs. High Crawl)?
If this isn’t it, it may at least get you closer:
Countersteering
it�??s done instinctively and most cyclists only recognize the act of countersteering as “leaning the bike into a turn”.
That’s from here:
Unconscious behavior
Countersteering is indispensable for bike steering. Most people are not consciously aware that they employ countersteering when riding their bike any more than they are aware of the physics of walking.
That’s from here:
http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Countersteering
This might sound stupid but enertia?
I’m thinking of an object.
Who wants to play 20 Questions!!! Wooo!!!
[quote]NateOrade wrote:
I’m thinking of an object.
Who wants to play 20 Questions!!! Wooo!!![/quote]
Is it round?
[quote]AngryVader wrote:
NateOrade wrote:
I’m thinking of an object.
Who wants to play 20 Questions!!! Wooo!!!
Is it round?[/quote]
Part of it is. (Okay that’s not yes or no, see how nice I am?)
[quote]NateOrade wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
NateOrade wrote:
I’m thinking of an object.
Who wants to play 20 Questions!!! Wooo!!!
Is it round?
Part of it is. (Okay that’s not yes or no, see how nice I am?)[/quote]
Is it squishy?
“kinesthesia” comes to mind…
[quote]AngryVader wrote:
NateOrade wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
NateOrade wrote:
I’m thinking of an object.
Who wants to play 20 Questions!!! Wooo!!!
Is it round?
Part of it is. (Okay that’s not yes or no, see how nice I am?)
Is it squishy?[/quote]
Nope.