What's the difference between ax and poleaxe?

Ax


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Axe
  • (v. t. & i.) To ask; to inquire or inquire of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With an additional procedure of adrenalectomy (BN + Ax), the enzyme activity failed to show any increase in ARF rats produced by BN.
  • (2) 3H-Ax was found in the liver of all trout indicating that 3H-Cx and 3H-Zx were Ax precursors, and that salmonids probably possess carotenoid oxidative pathways unknown until now.
  • (3) MBC increased significantly in Ax animals treated with dexamethasone (Ax + D) and in Tx + Ax + D compared with the Tx and control groups.
  • (4) All samples are well detected by anti-B from AW, Aend, Ax, Am but none is detected by anti-B from ABx, Cis AB, or by an auto-anti-B.
  • (5) Subunit X, which is also a component of the anthranilate synthase complex, has no PABA synthase activity itself but complexes with subunit A to give an AX aggregate that can use glutamine as a substrate.
  • (6) The AX actin was incorporated into the cytoskeletal fraction with the same efficiency as beta- and gamma-actin.
  • (7) Three patients are reported on who suffered anaphylactic reactions after amoxycillin (AX) treatment and challenge but tolerated benzylpenicillin (BP) parenterally and orally.
  • (8) Reagent prepared from BIRMA-1 detected most examples of Ax and all other A subgroups and A variants tested.
  • (9) The mixture of oligosaccharides was converted to the reduced p-aminobenzoic ethyl ester (ABEE) derivative and the components separated by HPLC on an ion-exchange (AX-10) column.
  • (10) Temporal differentiation by man was studied for intervals from 50 to 700 msec my means of the traditional method of constant stimulus differences (AX) and combinations of AX with methods of multiplication by two and three (AB-2 and AB-3).
  • (11) In cell homogenates of Dictyostelium discoideum, strain AX-2, four major soluble protein kinases (ATP:protein phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.37) and one membrane-associated protein kinase activity were identified.
  • (12) The AX labeling reponses showed large contrast effects (both proactive and retroactive) that were greatly reduced when auditory memory was interfered with.
  • (13) We have isolated cDNA clones-coding for rat intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (RICAM-1) from a cDNA library constructed from rat Ax cells stimulated with IL-1 beta using the mouse ICAM-1 cDNA as a hybridization probe.
  • (14) Patients were treated with either tangential fields alone (n = 508) or tangents with a third field to the supraclavicular (SC) or SC-axillary (AX) region (n = 1116).
  • (15) From the above results, CXM-AX is considered to be a useful drug like CCL in the treatment of acute dental infections.
  • (16) The ionic species of cytosol estrogen receptors from mature rat uteri have been compared by HPIEC on a SynChrom AX-1000 column when complexed with either [125I]iodoestradiol, [3H]estradiol or [3H]4-hydroxy tamoxifen.
  • (17) Acetylcholine (ACh) almost completely abolished the Iso-induced increase in m,,ax observed from postgestation day 18 to neonatal day 20; this developmental time course for the ACh effect is consistent with the finding that the number of muscarinic cholinoceptors started to increase on post-gestation day 16 and reached a peak on the day of birth.
  • (18) First, we developed a method to purify swine (Po), rabbit (Rb), mouse (Mo), cobra (Co), Xenopus (Xe), axolotl (Ax), and trout (Tr) C3 from plasma.
  • (19) Isolated total viral RNA is end-labeled in vitro, and tRNA subgroups are fractionated using commercial Nucleobond AX-20 mini columns.
  • (20) Two-hundred and fifty micrograms of aldosterone, mixed with sesame oil, was given subcutaneously in the NX-AX-A rats.

Poleaxe


Definition:

  • (n.) Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Child Poverty Action Group lists occupations whose incomes will be poleaxed: a nursery nurse loses £1,788, a hospital porter £2,011, a care worker £1,906.
  • (2) Guided by Vikki, in a voice that was part nursery school teacher, part hypnotist, exercises like “the scan”, where you focus on different parts of your body from the crown of your head to the tops on your toes, left me poleaxed, and a convert to more restorative forms of yoga.
  • (3) The West Ham goalkeeper could have no complaints after poleaxing the Leicester striker.
  • (4) Capital spending was poleaxed, storing up a public squalor deficit for the future that will need to be repaid as surely as the fiscal deficit.
  • (5) Weekend reports from Westminster sought to suggest that, even if David Cameron's enemies aren't preparing the poleaxe quite yet, they are sharpening their stilettos.
  • (6) She said: ‘Allison.’ I said: ‘When did you come here?’ She said: ‘I came yesterday.’” Then came a question that poleaxed him.
  • (7) But if things go too wrong for too long, then, as Churchill famously put it, "he must be poleaxed".
  • (8) Standing outside the courtroom in this bright, modern legal centre, he came across as a man in shock, poleaxed by the allegations of domestic abuse, furious that his children had been taken hundreds of miles away from what had been their family home, but also frightened about what the court would say about his right to see them in the future.
  • (9) I couldn’t move for about five minutes after the curtain call; I was just absolutely poleaxed with grief and sadness for this family and the sadness of life at times.
  • (10) But no one quite knew what was happening that first night - December 3 1947 - except that they had been poleaxed.

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