What's the difference between cliff and palisade?

Cliff


Definition:

  • (n.) A high, steep rock; a precipice.
  • (n.) See Clef.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cliff's choice of opening a cappella number for the centre court crowds was inspired: Summer Holiday.
  • (2) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
  • (3) • earthseasky.org North Zakynthos Potamitis Brothers, North Zakynthos Where to stay: Potamitis Brothers The brothers run boat trips (see below), but also own some rather special accommodation perched on the cliffs of Cape Skinari on the northern tip of Zakynthos.
  • (4) Politically speaking, that could generate some powerful questions, as families on the cliff-edge begin to digest politicians' rhetoric about hardworking families and ask themselves: "How did we get here?"
  • (5) The New South Wales and South Australian premiers have joined forces to tell treasurer Scott Morrison that finding extra federal funding to head off a looming hospitals and schools funding “cliff” is a “non negotiable” condition of their support for increasing the GST.
  • (6) Yes, at the 2010 Conservative conference the party announced a similar cliff-edge at the higher rate tax threshold as a way of effectively means-testing child benefit payments, but that was eventually removed and replaced with a less egregious taper at the 2012 budget.
  • (7) This may go some way to explaining why, even as his approval ratings fall off a cliff and some call for his impeachment, he sees no reason to course-correct, as he and a noisy caucus around him seem to become ever more self-righteous.
  • (8) So, if the Fed is afraid that the fiscal cliff may cause a disruption so big that even the Fed's all-encompassing embrace of the markets can't fix it, then it's Chairman Bernanke's word – and not that of Congress – that carries the most weight.
  • (9) A search and rescue operation was immediately undertaken however the escapee’s body was later discovered by search and rescue teams on Sunday at the bottom of island cliffs away from the centre.
  • (10) I think, in all honestly, if I could be Bradley Whitford I would be very, very happy.” He becomes almost drawlingly dreamy, rolling his “r”s as he leans against the warm oolite cliffs of this Jurassic Coast, until rudely interrupted by me, asking whether there’s talk of a Broadchurch 3 .
  • (11) Updated at 11.27am BST 11.18am BST Another reminder that the debt ceiling is looming: James Pethokoukis (@JimPethokoukis) Washington fell off the government shutdown cliff ... and there is not another cliff to break its fall until Oct. 17 - Wash. Research Group October 1, 2013 11.16am BST How much will the shutdown cost?
  • (12) In the pre-budget report, Darling announced £20bn in tax cuts and increased spending, in an attempt to stop the UK economy falling off a cliff.
  • (13) Migration from other EU countries has not fallen off a cliff despite the result of last summer’s referendum: according to the Office for National Statistics, the number of non-UK nationals from the EU working in the UK rose by 171,000 to 2.32 million between the first quarter of 2016 and the first quarter of 2017.
  • (14) During the global financial crisis and recession, when demand fell off a cliff, Australia activated stimulus measures to support consumption and to invest in infrastructure to support jobs and growth.
  • (15) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
  • (16) A group of economists told the Wall Street Journal that is exactly what is happening : They blame our lackluster recovery this year on a pullback in spending and investment by US companies, which are afraid that the fallout from a fiscal cliff could compromise their ability to find funding or function normally.
  • (17) I eventually had to assume the role of boss because if you decide to slide away from the steering wheel, the car could go off the cliff.” We both know what he’s talking about.
  • (18) "We would like to see the United States lower the level of uncertainty by embracing more specifically the need to avoid the fiscal cliff and deal with the medium-term problems," said Lipton, a former economic adviser to President Barack Obama.
  • (19) What he says “You just find a cliff and jump off, and you keep doing it, and if it works on a small cliff, then you move on to a higher one, and a higher one, and then finally you get to a big audience and you go, ‘Fine, OK, I’m happy with this material’.
  • (20) Brees is sacked by Cliff Avril on third-and-nine, taking his team out of field goal range, and instead Thomas Morstead comes back out to punt.

Palisade


Definition:

  • (n.) A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense.
  • (n.) Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.
  • (v. t.) To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No AbMV DNA was found in cells from palisade and spongy parenchyma, the tissues which show the predominant cytopathological effects.
  • (2) Four cases that showed palisading granulomas cultured positive for Staphylococcus aureus.
  • (3) The arrangement in palisades is maintained even after fibers are separated from each other by their individual basal lamina.
  • (4) 2 kinds of cells, Teloglia cell Type I showing flat profile, and Teloglia cell Type II showing spherical profile and possessing numerous caveolae in its surface were observed at the basal portion of the palisade-shaped endings.
  • (5) RN tended to show homogeneous, eosinophilic necrobiosis, giant cells within palisaded foci, and significant stromal fibrosis; while lesions of SGA showed pale, edematous necrobiosis, an absence of giant cells, and lesser degrees of fibrosis.
  • (6) 1) In portal hypertension, the palisade zone has increasing veins running in the submucosa, which veins belonged originally to the lamina propria.
  • (7) The highest degree of palisade specialization was encountered in lobe C1, where Purkinje cells have on average 50 palisade dendrites with a very regular distribution in a sagittal plane.
  • (8) There is distinct palisading of the nuclei of the peripheral tumour cell layers.
  • (9) Among the histologic parameters, statistically significant differences between the recurrent and nonrecurrent groups were found in: measured distance to the resection margins, shape of cell groups, growth pattern, contour of invading edge, and degree of peripheral palisading and nuclear pleomorphism.
  • (10) The biopsy specimens from the first four surgeries showed a stroma-free spindle cell tumor with benign cytologic features and no mitotic activity, which exhibited palisading of nuclei, imbrication of delicate cytoplasmic processes (neuropil), true perivascular rosettes with cytoplasmic processes oriented perpendicular to vessel walls, and Wright rosettes.
  • (11) These radial glial processes formed a continuous palisade separating the right and left brainstem.
  • (12) Large ganglion cells (type I) are situated in the centre of the ganglion cell complex with a palisade arrangement.
  • (13) Cell block preparations showed discrete areas of necrosis containing a neutrophilic infiltrate and focally palisaded by epithelioid histiocytes.
  • (14) These features included peripheral palisading, Bowenoid nuclei, and keratinized cells.
  • (15) The results are consistent with the hypothesis that during the early stages of cerebellar development the Bergmann fiber palisades organize the orientation of the parallel fibers in the longitudinal plane of the folium.
  • (16) Unique features were xanthogranulomatous panniculitis, often appearing as Touton cell panniculitis, and a rare but distinctive palisading cholesterol cleft granuloma.
  • (17) We found that the necrotizing granulomas consisted of a peripheral rim of Ia positive palisaded, epithelioid histiocytes and central areas of debris and scattered inflammatory cells that were T11 positive.
  • (18) In the thick-walled cysts (wall thickness 4.9--7.49 micrometer), the primary cyst wall forms massive, palisade-like protrusions lying close one to another (Figs.
  • (19) The histopathologic caracteristics of these lesions are described including the presence of prominent palisading and intraepithelial nesting in some tumors.
  • (20) These results support the view that the palisading cells are derived from macrophages, and indicate that there is vasculitis with activation of C3 and the terminal complement pathway in the granulomatous tissue.

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