What's the difference between aiguille and blasting?
Aiguille
Definition:
(n.) A needle-shaped peak.
(n.) An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the Montenvers railway turn right and zigzag easily up the extra 150m to grab great views of the pinnacles of the Aiguille Verte at 4,122m, Les Drus and the Mer de Glace (sea of ice).
(2) Tour du Mont Blanc France The Aiguilles Rouges Chamonix, France.
(3) Early one morning, they took the Aiguille du Midi cable car to an unbelievable station perched high in jagged pinnacles.
(4) This walk can be done in reverse: start early and see the sun come up from behind Les Aiguilles.
(5) • £589pp on 20 December self-catering at ski-in ski-out Résidence Le Cheval Blanc, based on six sharing, sno.co.uk Advanced skiers and boarders Val d’Isère, France, 1,850-3,456m, 79 lifts, 300km of piste, glaciers Facebook Twitter Pinterest Aiguille Percee, Tignes, Val d’Isère.
(6) From Chamonix take the Aiguille cable car to the halfway point at Plan de l'Aiguille.
Blasting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blast
(n.) A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause.
(n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the business of one who blasts.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(2) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
(3) However, the blasts formed mixed colonies consisting of erythroblasts, granulocytes, macrophages, and immature blasts when cultured in methylcellulose with PHA-leukocyte conditioned medium.
(4) A proportion of blasts from five of 10 cases of AML expressed receptors for IL-2 (IL-2R) when tested directly ex-vivo with monoclonal antibodies against the receptor.
(5) The patients were divided into two equal groups according to the degree of perivascular and paratrabecular infiltration: those with minimal (one to three layers of blasts and promyelocytes) and those with marked (four to eight layers of blasts and promyelocytes) infiltration.
(6) Sequential analyses of the serologic reactivity of cells from AMML patients undergoing chemotherapy corresponded with the clinical course of the patient, even though there was little correlation between the percentage of blast cells present and the per cent cytotoxicity with the antisera.
(7) Conversely, the expression in the more differentiated blast cells obtained from 10 of 11 AML patients classified as M1 and M2 were at levels similar to the levels in HL-60 cells.
(8) We concluded that patients with MDS with excess of blasts and blastic transformation may be treated with aggressive chemotherapy with low toxicity and high remission rate, similarly to de novo acute myeloid leukemia.
(9) "Everyone has been blasted by anonymous figures who crushed the economy.
(10) At the second admission, blasts were present in the peripheral blood, and later accounted for 49% of the total leukocyte count.
(11) Lymphocyte blast transformation, serum immunoglobulins, and circulating immune complexes were also evaluated.
(12) In the phase of blast crisis, the bone marrow demonstrated a significant rise of the portion of the G2 cells and of the mitotic index.
(13) Lymphocytes with low floating density lyse NK-sensitive target cells and leukemic B-lymphocytes, increase the lytic activity with respect to blasts of K-562 line under the effect of alpha-interferon.
(14) During tumor growth, a population of T cell blasts appears that may be involved with an immune response against the tumor.
(15) In the high-grade component, the blasts occurred in clusters or sheets, and often possessed plasmacytoid cytoplasm; glandular invasion was a rare event.
(16) The results showed that increasing age of the donors and the presence of anti-CMV antibodies are significantly associated with low proliferative responses of PBMC, whereas the HLA-B8 antigen and female donor sex were found to be associated with high blast cell formation after PWM stimulation.
(17) You can also blast individual eyeballs from their sockets, or – if you're particularly skilful – make their testicles explode like a pair of microwaved eggs.
(18) Fifteen injuries resulted from direct penetration of a vessel and three were concussion or blast injuries.
(19) A2HSGP did indeed inhibit blast transformation in these cell populations.
(20) Late-night hosts blast Trumpcare: 'Needless suffering for low and middle-income people' Read more In the Harvard study, the researchers had 9,000 people in their dataset – enough that they were able to ensure they were really measuring the impact of a lack of health insurance.