What's the difference between bat and tice?

Bat


Definition:

  • (n.) A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.
  • (n.) Shale or bituminous shale.
  • (n.) A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
  • (n.) A part of a brick with one whole end.
  • (v. t.) To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.
  • (v. i.) To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.
  • (n.) One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
  • (2) Rhesus monkey BAT mitochondria (BATM) possess an uncoupling protein that is characteristic of BAT as evidenced by the binding of [3H]GDP, the inhibition by GDP of the high Cl- permeability or rapid alpha-glycerol-3-phosphate oxidation.
  • (3) Echo delay discrimination by the bat Eptesicus fuscus had been investigated in an experiment with simulated targets jittering in range (Simmons 1979).
  • (4) Additionally, in a group of bats, HRP was injected into various functionally (i.e., BF) identified regions of the central nucleus of the inferior coliculus (IC) to clarify the type and location of CN projecting neurons.
  • (5) Monaural plugging was performed on different juvenile bats at 7, 14, and 35 days of age.
  • (6) Bats infected with the high dose had viable H. capsulatum in the lungs, liver, spleen and gut as early as 2 weeks post-infection.
  • (7) Sympathetic activation of lipogenesis in BAT is not solely attributable to the action of noradrenaline but involves some non-adrenergic mechanism.
  • (8) I think it will be done right.” Jeter was cheered when he took batting practice and when he ran into his dugout when it was over.
  • (9) The relationship between the meal-induced increase in brown adipose tissue (BAT) thermogenesis, determined by the level of GDP binding to BAT mitochondria, and thyroid hormone metabolism have been examined.
  • (10) Plasma steroid binding was examined in samples obtained from seven species of bats representing four different families.
  • (11) Several haematological and biochemical parameters were measured in the erythrocytes of the grey-headed fruit bat.
  • (12) Rates of fatty acid synthesis in liver and BAT were several times greater than that in WAT.
  • (13) We also identified UCP in eight cases in group B, in five cases in group C and six cases in group D. The human H-UCP-0.5 genomic probe detected a typical BAT mRNA in the periadrenal adipose tissue of all subjects of groups B, C and D showing a positive Western blot.
  • (14) The 1,400 victims are those who had actually experienced sexual exploitation.” Determined that no one could bat away her findings, she had produced a 153-page report that spelled out in plain language the appalling abuse suffered by children aged 10-16 in the South Yorkshire town between 1997 and 2013.
  • (15) Excision of BAT, but not white adipose tissue increased RGE susceptibility of 21w rats.
  • (16) When the reference target to which the bats were trained was presented, targets differing in internal delay by about 1 microseconds were discriminated.
  • (17) The results suggest that BAT contains two different pathways for regulation of lipoprotein lipase activity, both involving mRNA synthesis.
  • (18) Bats have maximum life spans a minimum of 3 times those of nonflying eutherians--a trend resulting from neither low basal metabolic rate, the ability to enter torpor, nor large relative brain size.
  • (19) From January 1989 through December 1990, 74 patients were admitted to our urban level I trauma center with injuries inflicted by baseball bats.
  • (20) However, in both LSO and MSO there is an expanded representation of the frequencies around 60 kHz, the main frequency component of the bat's echolocation call; there is another expanded representation of the range around 90 kHz, the third harmonic of the call.

Tice


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To entice.
  • (n.) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The left kidney was then infused weekly for six weeks with two ampules of BCG (Tice strain) dissolved in 75 cc of saline.
  • (2) Tice was working for The Washington Post, McClatchy Newspapers and other media outlets when he was kidnapped.
  • (3) Russ Tice and Thomas Drake, two whistleblowers that used to work for the NSA, took to the stage after the credits rolled.
  • (4) The BCG Tice introduced aerogenically or subcutaniously into normal mice induced degrees of antituberculous resistance equivalent to those seen earlier in intravenously infected mice.
  • (5) Bacilli of the Connaught, Pasteur, Phipps, and Tice strains multiplied appreciably in the lungs and disseminated into the spleen In contrast, BCG Birkhaug and Glaxo strains did not replicate in the lungs or spread to the spleen.
  • (6) Intravesical instillations of Tice strain bacillus Calmette-Guerin were given to 33 patients with biopsy proved carcinoma in situ.
  • (7) Tice strain bacillus Calmette-Guerin (1 vial, 2 to 8 times 10(8) organisms in 60 cc saline) was instilled intravesically without cutaneous inoculation.
  • (8) "I figured it would probably be about 2015" before the NSA had "the computer capacity … to collect all digital communications word for word," Tice said.
  • (9) Intravenous administration of a lyphilized preparation of bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG-Tice) into mice significantly protected these animals from infection with Schistosoma mansoni.
  • (10) Growing colonies of Mycobacterium bovis BCG, Tice and Glaxo substrains, and freshly ball milled and freeze-dried Tice BCG vaccines were examined by scanning and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and by light microscopy after cytochemical staining.
  • (11) We evaluated 139 patients with superficial bladder cancer (Stages Ta, Tl, and TIS) and treated them with either intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guérin, Tice strain (BCG), or doxorubicin hydrochloride (Adriamycin [ADR]) in a nonrandomized, multicenter study.
  • (12) BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) vaccine, Tice strain, caused a threefold increase in spleen weight of normal animals and a fourfold increase in spleen weight of sarcoma-bearing mice.
  • (13) American journalist Austin Tice went missing from Syria in August 2012 and is believed to be held by Isis rival al-Nusra Front, according to the Associated Press.
  • (14) An expansion of the principles established in Summers v. Tice and Ybarra v. Spangard provide a logical and rational means for the courts to address products liability issues in cases involving multiple and unnamed defendants.
  • (15) In 2 cases epididymo-orchitis, indistinguishable from a testicular tumor, developed as a late (15 and 34 months, respectively) complication following use of Tice strain bacillus Calmette-Guerin for treatment of superficial bladder carcinoma.
  • (16) Experimental vaccines from the Trudeau Mycobacterial Collection, stored as frozen liquid suspensions, showed a less marked variation in physical properties; here too, the Pasteur strain was superior to two other Trudeau preparations examined (Tice and Phipps).
  • (17) A substrain of Mycobacterium kansasii, designated the "high-binding strain," was found to bind FN more readily (P less than 0.05) in in vitro studies, when compared to commercially available substrains of BCG (Tice, Connaught, and Armand Frappier).
  • (18) The cytostatic activity of five Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) strains (Pasteur, Evans, Tice, RIVM and Connaught) on human transitional cell cancer T24 cells was examined.
  • (19) The palmitic acid methyl ester peak area determined by gas chromatography was directly proportional to the wet weight of freshly grown Tice-, Pasteur-, and Glaxo-substrain BCG, as well as the dry weight of the ampoule contents after removal of soluble material.
  • (20) All such therapy was discontinued in these survivors at 36 months after diagnosis and they were given monthly inoculations of BCG of the Tice strain by tine technique.

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