What's the difference between chick and chock?

Chick


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate.
  • (n.) A chicken.
  • (n.) A child or young person; -- a term of endearment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
  • (2) In the stage 24 chick embryo, a paced increase in heart rate reduces stroke volume, presumably by rate-dependent decrease in passive filling.
  • (3) The in vivo approach consisted of interspecies grafting between quail and chick embryos.
  • (4) Whole-virus vaccines prepared by Merck Sharp and Dohme (West Point, Pa.) and Merrell-National Laboratories (Cincinnati, Ohio) and subunit vaccines prepared by Parke, Davis and Company (Detroit, Mich.) and Wyeth Laboratories (Philadelphia, Pa.) were given intramuscularly in concentrations of 800, 400, or 200 chick cell-agglutinating units per dose.
  • (5) The chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) model was used to study vascular effects of photodynamic therapy (PDT) and hyperthermia (HPT) and the synergism of these modalities.
  • (6) This study examines the morphology of sporadic congenital microphthalmia in 1-day-old chicks, with particular emphasis on the neural retina.
  • (7) Kidney DAAO activity was significantly higher in chicks fed either the DL-AA or .5 DL-AA diet as compared with the L-AA diet.
  • (8) By 3 d in the chick embryo, the first neurons detected by antibodies to Ng-CAM are located in the ventral neural tube; these precursors of motor neurons emit well-stained fibers to the periphery.
  • (9) The resulting cortexolone-Sepharose absorbed easily the cytosolic chick thymus glucocorticoid receptor.
  • (10) Chick sympathetic nerve fibers densely innervate expansor secundariorum muscle, but not skeletal muscle.
  • (11) The onset of vitamin A deficiency had no effect on oviduct growth in these chicks; even though vitamin A-deficient chicks showed a severe decline in growth rate while controls (fed the same diet supplemented with retinyl palmitate) continued to grow, estrogen stimulated resulted in similar oviduct size.
  • (12) In contrast, in paraffin as well as in frozen sections of chick oviduct, fixed by immersion or in vapor, PR was exclusively nuclear, including in the absence of progesterone, and the intensity of immunostaining was not modified by progesterone treatment.
  • (13) Two mechanisms are evident in chicks' spatial representations: a metric frame for encoding the spatial arrangement of surfaces as surfaces and a cue-guidance system for encoding conspicuous landmarks near the target.
  • (14) A more pronounced and significant inhibition was observed in chicks given BCG subcutaneously 8 weeks before the start of the dietary regimen.
  • (15) The growth of the subantarctic King penguin chick is distinguished from that of other penguins by its long winter fasting period (from 2 weeks to 3 months).
  • (16) Dissociated cerebral hemisphere cells from 4- to 7-day-old chick embryos were cultured either on a collagen or a polylysine substrate in a serum-containing medium.
  • (17) In the present study, we have compared the phosphorylation state of the fibronectin receptor in motile neural crest and somitic cells, in stationary somitic cells, and in Rous-sarcoma virus transformed-chick embryo fibroblasts, using immunoprecipitation following metabolic labeling.
  • (18) The myogenic potential of chick limb mesenchyme from stages 18-25 was assessed by micromass culture under conditions conductive to myogenesis, and was measured as the proportion of differentiated (muscle myosin-positive) mononucleated cells detected.
  • (19) Both the formazans and tetrazolium salts were screened for their antiviral activity against the Ranikhet disease virus and vaccinia virus in a stationary culture of chorioallantoic membrane of chick embryo.
  • (20) Studies have been made on the activity of glycosidases from eye tissues of developing chick embryos and adult hens.

Chock


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.
  • (v. i.) To fill up, as a cavity.
  • (n.) A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.
  • (n.) A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.
  • (adv.) Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.
  • (v. t.) To encounter.
  • (n.) An encounter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He channelled his new-found creative freedom into making club-focused hip-hop, chock-full of tongue-twisting put-downs that would give Minaj a run for her Benjamins.
  • (2) Had the Mayans been skilled in predicting the future, they might have foreseen that a week already chock-full with jobs undone, frantic present buying and horrific office parties was hardly the best time to trouble people with the bothersome chore of preparing for the apocalypse.
  • (3) "Women-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock-full of power," Plath writes.
  • (4) "I got in line around 11pm, and beyond the line the plaza was chock full with people," said Huang Xiantong, 26, outside the store.
  • (5) The term chocking is both inaccurate and inappropriate in describing the cause of death in motor neurone disease and its use should be abandoned.
  • (6) The current shadow cabinet is full of people who are chock full of good ideas but unable to get them across.
  • (7) "It's not rocket science to know that that part of London would at least be chock-a-block with displaced traffic."
  • (8) The activation of the ATP,Mg-dependent protein phosphatase [Fc.M] has been shown to involve a transient phosphorylation of the modulator subunit (M) and consequent isomerization of the catalytic subunit (Fc) into its active conformation (Jurgensen, S., Shacter, E., Huang, C. Y., Chock, P. B., Yang, S. -D., Vandenheede, J. R., and Merlevede, W. (1984) J. Biol.
  • (9) Rapid incorporation of exogenous arachidonic acid into phospholipid has been detected in conjunction with eicosanoid synthesis by purified mast cell granules [Chock, S. P. & Schmauder-Chock, E. A.
  • (10) (Tokyo) 91, 1809-1812; Sellers, J. R., Chock, P. B., and Adelstein, R. S. (1983) J. Biol.
  • (11) So now we’re dealing with miles of roads around every supermarket being chock-a-block with sheepish, over-zealous consumers parking up to return the goods that were never needed, like someone making themselves sick on the morning of a hangover.
  • (12) But it is chock full of good people who are very diverse.
  • (13) 143-154, Elsevier Science publisher) and limited proteolysis of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase with yeast proteinase B (Pohlig, G., Schäfer, W., v. Herrath, M. and Holzer, H. (1984) in "Current topics in cellular regulation" (S. Shaltiel and P. Boon Chock, eds.)
  • (14) If excellence is an ageing network of broken roads chock-full of luxury cars and overladen lorries constantly harassed by motorbikes and the unruly drivers of Danfo buses, then I suggest we aspire to something else.
  • (15) But in a division chock full of imperfect champions, the wisest tack may be to expect the unexpected.
  • (16) Over the next three years, 2.4 acres of this site will be transformed into a million square feet of an 11-storey headquarters for the internet giant Google , no doubt chock-a-block with colourful Big Brother -house-style sofas and surreal chill-out zones that mark out its other 70 offices in 40 countries.
  • (17) Outside of a relatively small percentage of high-quality sites, most of the web is chock full of pop-up ads and other interruptive come-ons.
  • (18) Moreover, plasma endothelin concentration is elevated during acute myocardial infarction, in acute renal failure, in patients with hypertension, and during cardiogenic chock.
  • (19) Thylakoids altered by osmotic chock are sensitized to agglutination.
  • (20) Inside the partly open-air space, chock full of football scarves and decades of photos, some of the city's friendliest waiters navigate the fun with grace and efficiency.