Prone vs. Recumbent — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Prone and Recumbent
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Prone
Likely or liable to suffer from, do, or experience something unpleasant or regrettable
He was written off by many as too injury-prone
Farmed fish are prone to disease
Recumbent
(especially of a person or effigy) lying down
Recumbent statues
Prone
Lying flat, especially face downwards
A prone position
I was lying prone on a foam mattress
Recumbent
A type of bicycle designed to be ridden lying almost flat on one's back.
Prone
Lying with the front or face downward.
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Recumbent
Lying down, especially in a position of comfort or rest; reclining.
Prone
Having a tendency; inclined. Often used in combination
Paper that is prone to yellowing.
An accident-prone child.
Recumbent
Resting; idle.
Prone
In a prone manner
The patient was lying prone on the bed.
Recumbent
(Biology) Resting on the surface from which it arises. Used of an organ or other structure.
Prone
Lying face downward.
Prone position
Recumbent
A recumbent bicycle.
Prone
Of the hand, forearm or foot: turned facing away from the body; with the thumb inward or big toe downward.
The hand is in the prone position typically when using a keyboard; and the forearm is then also in the prone position; when the foot is resting on the inner side of the sole, it is in the prone position.
Recumbent
Lying down.
Prone
Having a downward inclination or slope.
Recumbent
Inactive; idle.
Prone
(figuratively) Predisposed, liable, inclined.
Prone to failure
Recumbent
A bicycle or tricycle that places the rider in a reclined posture.
Prone
(medicine) To place in a prone position, to place face down.
Recumbent
Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle.
Prone
Bending forward; inclined; not erect.
Towards him they bendWith awful reverence prone.
Recumbent
Lying down; in a position of comfort or rest
Prone
Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; - opposed to supine.
Which, as the wind,Blew where it listed, laying all things prone.
Prone
Headlong; running downward or headlong.
Prone
Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level.
Since the floods demand,For their descent, a prone and sinking land.
Prone
Inclined; propense; disposed; - applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to.
Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy.
Prone
Lying face downward
Prone
Having a tendency (to); often used in combination;
A child prone to mischief
Failure-prone
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