What's the difference between apply and knife?

Apply


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body.
  • (v. t.) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to the payment of a debt.
  • (v. t.) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person.
  • (v. t.) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
  • (v. t.) To direct or address.
  • (v. t.) To betake; to address; to refer; -- used reflexively.
  • (v. t.) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
  • (v. t.) To visit.
  • (v. i.) To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case.
  • (v. i.) To make request; to have recourse with a view to gain something; to make application. (to); to solicit; as, to apply to a friend for information.
  • (v. i.) To ply; to move.
  • (v. i.) To apply or address one's self; to give application; to attend closely (to).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Renal micropuncture and microdissection techniques with ultramicro fluid analysis have been applied to evaluate single nephron function in the skate, Raja erinacea.
  • (2) Spectrophotometric determination of the sulfhydryl content in the animal tissue before (control) and after using 6,6'-Dithiodinicotinic acid is applied.
  • (3) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
  • (4) The content of the cavities was not stained by any of the immunocytochemical reactions applied.
  • (5) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
  • (6) The models are applied to estimate the demand for tobacco products in Finland.
  • (7) The way how to apply this fixator is described in details.
  • (8) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
  • (9) Here, we review the nature of the heart sound signal and the various signal-processing techniques that have been applied to PCG analysis.
  • (10) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
  • (11) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
  • (12) Median effect analysis was applied for the evaluation of in vitro effect by the growth inhibition, and the in vivo effect by comparison of the increase of life span (ILS) in a combined group with the sum of ILS's in 2 single agent groups.
  • (13) Before carrier vaccines are applied, these risks must be thoroughly evaluated case-by-case.
  • (14) We conclude that both exogenously applied PAF by inhalation and antigen exposure are capable of inducing LAR in sensitized guinea pigs, and thus the priming effect of immunization and PAF may contribute to the development of LAR observed in asthma.
  • (15) J., 4 (1985) 1709-1714) and fast pH changes were applied with a technique developed by Davies et al.
  • (16) I fear that I will have to go through another witch-hunt in order to apply for this benefit."
  • (17) Eddy current transducers measured relative displacements under application of static loads, serially applied in the axial, mediolateral, and craniocaudal directions.
  • (18) An innovative magnetic resonance imaging technique was applied to the measurement of blood flow in the abdominal aorta.
  • (19) The authors suggest that the outstanding high sensitivity of the above mentioned two tests applied parallelly reveals that they highlights partially different aspects of coronary artery disease, and that is why the overlapping between the methods is relatively small.
  • (20) We applied a flow cytometry apparatus (FCM) to differentiating Exophiala dermatitidis, E. moniliae and E. jeanselmei from each other.

Knife


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc..
  • (n.) A sword or dagger.
  • (v. t.) To prune with the knife.
  • (v. t.) To cut or stab with a knife.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I pulled the microphone in front of my seat, not a knife.
  • (2) Leicester looked a little sorry for themselves and, with their concentration down, United twisted the knife.
  • (3) Frontal afferents to the medial basal hypothalamus of the rat were interrupted by a Halász knife, and 4 weeks later the brains were processed for immunostaining of CRF-fibers.
  • (4) Earlier this year the Guardian launched Beyond the Blade , a long-term project looking at young people who are victims of knife crime.
  • (5) When we reached our summit, or whatever spot was deemed by my father to be of adequately punishing distance from the car to deserve lunch, Dad would invariably find he had forgotten his Swiss army knife (looking back, I begin to doubt he ever had one) and instead would cut cheese into slices with the edge of his credit card.
  • (6) More conservative approaches have been used in young women requesting preservation of their childbearing ability, including CO2 laser excision, knife excision, cryotherapy, and electrocauterization.
  • (7) One day, a man she had interviewed held a knife to her throat, holding her captive for 10 days and only releasing her when the French embassy came looking for her.
  • (8) In the wake of a second fatal police shooting in the St Louis area after the death of Michael Brown , concerned citizens are asking why officers had to kill Kajieme Powell, a 25-year-old man who was holding a knife and “behaving erratically.” They want to know why officers don’t shoot someone like Powell in the leg or the arm, rather than aiming for vital organs, or why they don’t just use a less lethal weapon, like a Taser.
  • (9) At home, he’s besieged by leadership speculation of sufficient intensity to see his conservative allies resort to public verbal knife-fights.
  • (10) When it's serving time, use a good serrated knife to saw cleanly through the rhubarb.
  • (11) I don’t remember what happened afterward.” By morning, Israeli newspapers had published the official version of Anas al-Atrash’s death: A 23-year-old Palestinian had run from his car and rushed at a checkpoint soldier with a knife.
  • (12) A disproportionate number of those who are victims and perpetrators of knife crime are African-Caribbean.
  • (13) It also said that night that the suspect had been unarmed — an assertion that was revealed to be false the next day when officials acknowledged Gonzalez had a knife with him when he was apprehended.
  • (14) Hogan-Howe waded into the row, saying gang members heard simple messages such as that there was a minimum five-year jail sentence for possession of a gun, but had no idea about the equivalent sentence for carrying a knife.
  • (15) With it sank my suitcase of clothes and my striped prisoner uniform, including my hat, coat, shirt and a knife.
  • (16) Albeit an unloveable, slightly scary Ron Burgundy in a 'I may now be a low level Tesco manager in a cheap suit but I still remember how to handle a stanley knife' kind of way," reckons Robert Lowery, who is forgetting that Jim White has a phone.
  • (17) He didn't even mind the National Front turning up and sieg-heiling during gigs, which seems enormously sporting of him, given his raft of horrifying stories about experiencing racism in 60s and 70s Britain, and the scars he still bears as the result of a racially motivated 1980 knife attack.
  • (18) Lysine vasopressin and a long-acting analogue N alpha-triglycyl-lysine vasopressin were compared in a prospective randomized double-blind study including 71 women undergoing cold knife conization of the uterine cervix.
  • (19) There was a 24% rise in knife crime in London in the 12 months ending in March.
  • (20) Once, the inquest heard, he threatened Luke’s football coach, telling him: “I have a knife with your name on it.” When Anderson killed Luke there were four warrants out for his arrest including one related to his possession of child sex abuse images.