What's the difference between candlestick and spike?

Candlestick


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After running the 49ers close at Candlestick Park last weekend, they are giving Carolina everything they’ve got here at the Georgia Dome, Matt Ryan hitting Roddy White down the seam for a 39-yard score.
  • (2) Aaron grew up in Chico, California, a giant hop, skip and puddle jump from Candlestick Park.
  • (3) "Candlestick Park is an incredible venue, with great fans, so to be out there playing my first game a year after taking part in the Olympics was pretty amazing."
  • (4) Updated at 6.30am GMT 4.34am GMT 49ers 45 - Packers 31, 0:56 4th quarter San Francisco hang on to the kick and the 49ers are moments from victory at Candlestick Park.
  • (5) San Francisco split two games with their division rivals this season, winning at Candlestick Park but losing in Seattle.
  • (6) The Quakes were fortunate enough to play the last competitive match at the San Francisco 49ers‘ old home, Candlestick Park.
  • (7) The "candlestick" maneuver still is the most reliable clinical triggering maneuver.
  • (8) A year ago, in the divisional playoffs vs the Packers at Candlestick Park, Kaepernick was a kid with a chip on his shoulder.
  • (9) Opinionated butchers, bakers and candlestick makers, hacks, artists and pornographers, impresarios and charlatans were now the protagonists in a roiling landscape of new ideas and opportunities.
  • (10) San Francisco’s opponents in the divisional playoff round, Carolina, had beaten them 10-9 at Candlestick Park in week 10.
  • (11) Instead, their smaller stores have enabled us to make shopping for food a small part of some other excursion – to meet a friend for a drink, walk the dog, go to the hairdresser or the gym, go – heaven forfend – to the butcher, the baker or the candlestick maker as well.
  • (12) • Simple arrangements of white lilies and greenery will be at the foot of the lectern and candlestick.
  • (13) Doppler technique located the "branched candlestick" along the thalamostriate arteries.
  • (14) "We're free to sell anything today," said Van Bavel offering an old pair of candlesticks and an unwanted picture frame.
  • (15) Here’s another stadium food suggestion from Twitter: Dave Moss (@DM0SS) @Paolo_Bandini - The garlic fries at Candlestick cannot be beaten January 11, 2014 I’ll have to take your word for it.
  • (16) If this were baseball I'd make a "candlesticks are always a great gift" joke.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson at Candlestick Park.
  • (18) The USA have been training at Stanford University over the past couple of weeks, and they're at Candlestick Park in San Francisco tonight, where they’ll be taking on Azerbaijan.
  • (19) However, he also came away with a pair of Royal Crown Derby candlesticks and a collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets contained in a specially commissioned leather and gilt box, made by the Royal Bindery.
  • (20) Matt Maiocco (@MaioccoCSN) There's still a chance Candlestick Park has not seen its final game.

Spike


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To set or furnish with spikes.
  • (v. t.) To fix on a spike.
  • (n.) A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
  • (n.) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
  • (n.) An ear of corn or grain.
  • (n.) A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
  • (v. t.) To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.
  • (v. t.) To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it.
  • (n.) Spike lavender. See Lavender.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
  • (2) The pons, on the other hand, has a bioelectrical activity of its own during PS, i.e., the ponto-geniculo-occipital spikes (PGO).
  • (3) The spikes likely correspond to VP3, a hemagglutinin, while the rest of the mass density in the outer shell represents 780 molecules of VP7, a neutralization antigen.
  • (4) In this series there were 45 patients (40%) with independent focal interictal EEG epileptic abnormalities over frontobasal cortex (with or without independent spiking over interomedial temporal region).
  • (5) It was shown that gradual recovery of spike wave patterns occurred from initial water swallowing to successive dry swalllowing.
  • (6) One might expect that a similar news spike and rebounding of support for stricter gun control can happen, given President Obama's new push.
  • (7) By this action, oxytocin is believed to increase the probability of successful regenerative spikes and thereby initiate electrical activity in quiescent preparations, increase the frequency of burst discharges, the number of spikes in each burst, and the amplitude of spikes in individual cells.
  • (8) The differentiated neuroblastoma cell possesses characteristics of an electrically excitable cell and can generate propagated potential spikes in which Ca2+ is the inward charge carrier.
  • (9) Jane's life clearly still has a massive Spike-shaped hole in it.
  • (10) Our hypothesis is that phase unlocking may be one of the induction mechanisms of spike-burst activity.
  • (11) The threshold of epileptic spiking varied inversely with the area of cortical damage inflicted by the electrode.
  • (12) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
  • (13) The best understood fusion mechanism is that of influenza virus, for which sequences involved in pH-dependent fusion can be correlated with the crystallographic structure of the spike protein.
  • (14) Single shocks applied to medullary pressor sites evoked a train of spikes in the interneurons.
  • (15) Many subjects have a negative spike in the beginning of a saccade in electro-oculographic signals.
  • (16) This enhancement of laminin synthesis corresponds to the mesangial expansion and to the development of laminin-containing spike formations of the glomerular basement membrane at week 8.
  • (17) A train of conditioning stimuli to either of the midbrain nuclei produced inhibition of evoked population spikes recorded in the CA1 pyramidal cell layer of the hippocampus.
  • (18) The brief (3 ms) afterhyperpolarizations that followed such spikes were blocked by intracellular injections of Cs+ or by bath applications of tetraethylammonium.
  • (19) They discharged one or two spikes only at the beginning of depolarizing current pulses.
  • (20) An increase followed by a decrease in the number of spikes per burst and a reduction in the peak activity were observed.