What's the difference between bicycle and bike?

Bicycle


Definition:

  • (n.) A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A novel bicyclic prostaglandin analogue, (1S)-[1 alpha,2 alpha(Z),3 alpha,4 alpha]-7-[3-[(hexylthio)methyl]-7- oxabicyclo [2.2.1]hept-2-yl]-5-heptenoic acid ((-)-10), and its cogeners were found to be potent antagonists at the TxA2 receptor.
  • (2) The authors report an ocular luxation of a four-year-old girl after a bicycle accident.
  • (3) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
  • (4) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
  • (5) Subjects underwent measurement of lung volumes, arterial blood gas analysis and an incremental bicycle exercise test.
  • (6) Each patient underwent graded bicycle exercise testing to define maximal performance, and prolonged exercise at 70% of their peak work capacity.
  • (7) The data of bicycle ergometry test and echocardiography were studied and compared in patients with postinfarction cardiosclerosis and type II diabetes mellitus without the clinical signs of heart failure.
  • (8) We had our bicycles and we were just turned loose all day.
  • (9) Near maximal supine exercise for 10 min on a bicycle ergometer caused a small increase in plasma renin activity during exertion with a much larger increase during recovery which reached a peak between 10-20 min.
  • (10) In all patients a standardized bicycle-ergometric exercise sitting and a coronarography as well as a ventriculography were performed.
  • (11) He has just performed a skit now about his bicycle scheme, which included a swipe at the French (because their scheme resulted in many more cycles being pinched, apparently.)
  • (12) Seven healthy volunteers were exposed to head-down tilt at -15 degrees for 5 h. Before and after exposure they exercised on a bicycle ergometer in the supine and seated positions.
  • (13) The pressure waves recorded in the container were added by computer to those recorded intra-arterially during bicycle ergometry.
  • (14) An incremental, symptom-limited, bicycle exercise test was done one month after the myocardial infarction, and blood samples were taken for determination of plasma potassium.
  • (15) A bicyclic hexadecapeptide, which corresponds to the sequence 36-51 and contains the chymotrypsin-reactive Leu-43-Ser-44 bond of soybean Bowman-Birk inhibitor, has been synthesized.
  • (16) Ester already has a second child with her husband, who makes a living using his bicycle to provide a taxi service.
  • (17) The new protocol (standardised exponential exercise protocol, STEEP) is suitable for use on either a treadmill or a bicycle ergometer.
  • (18) The most frequent cause of abdominal injury in children was a bicycle accident.
  • (19) To test this premise, 14 healthy, untrained men trained four days per week for 20 weeks on a bicycle ergometer for endurance (END Group, n = 4), on an isokinetic device for increased torque production (ITP Group, n = 5), or on both devices (COMBO Group, n = 5).
  • (20) The KB was found to be remarkably tolerant of changes in the electronic constitution and lipophilicity of the bicyclic ring system (template).

Bike


Definition:

  • (n.) A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
  • (2) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
  • (3) There was praise for existing programmes such as the Ferguson Youth Initiative, which gives young people the chance to earn a bike or a computer.
  • (4) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
  • (5) He was on more certain statistical ground when he said that, since 2010, more than half the bike deaths in London have happened when lorries turned left across cyclists.
  • (6) There weren't many people out on their bikes in Harrogate over the weekend: the weather was too poor even for hardy Yorkshire folk.
  • (7) Raj Janagam co-founded Cycle Chalao in 2009, and the project ran for a little over a year – between Mulund train station and a nearby college – with 30 bikes and a user base of around 750.
  • (8) But if you provide a street environment where it’s much more egalitarian, where your granny can cycle to the shops safely and have somewhere to park her Dutch-style bike – that’s when we’ll get those kind of cyclists.
  • (9) A camera located in Downing Street shows Mitchell leaving 9 Downing Street and approaching the main double gates on his bike at 19.36:14 and as he stops to talk to police officers, a woman crosses on the pavement proceeding towards Trafalgar Square.
  • (10) A " bike for the strike " event is scheduled in Oakland on Friday.
  • (11) Control data were compared to data derived from a simulated triathlon (0.8-km swim, 75-min bike, and 40-min run).
  • (12) Matthew Golby, prosecuting, said Antwi was part of a group which surrounded the police car off Brixton Hill and he was captured on CCTV aiming his bike at the car.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Passengers arriving at the main bus station can borrow a bike all day for free.
  • (14) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
  • (15) Visiting an exercise class, Mr Blair, without changing out of his suit, spent some minutes pedalling on an exercise bike for the benefit of cameramen.
  • (16) But the increase in people cycling does seem to be boosting bike awareness and challenging the car mentality.
  • (17) Cycling is a mainstream form of active transport and recreation, but the human trauma costs of bicycle riding are unacceptable,” said Tracey Gaudry, CEO of the Amy Gillett Foundation , a bike safety awareness group set up in honour of the Australian athlete who was killed in a cycling accident in Germany.
  • (18) A 2014 report by the US Public Interest Research Group found that young people were driving less , driving shorter distances and using more transit, biking and walking to get around.
  • (19) Then I tried out a fold-in-half bike called the Bickerton .
  • (20) Bike Nation: How Cycling Can Save the World by Peter Walker is out now.