What's the difference between enthrall and transfix?

Enthrall


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To hold in thrall; to enslave. See Inthrall.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Regardless of one’s political leanings, the resulting images are spellbinding – to quote Guardian correspondent Toby Manhire: “The album, which has been publicly made available on Facebook , is enthralling.
  • (2) It takes your heart a little bit.” He had everyone enthralled.
  • (3) Ibrahimovic, so languid, had looked an embarrassment at times in this enthralling team, but everything Barça created began from the back.
  • (4) It took Maria Sharapova , four majors to the good and five years older, three hours and two minutes to subdue the 22-year-old over three enthralling sets.
  • (5) He remembers picking up an atlas (he was very interested in maps) and becoming enthralled by a solar system diagram at the back.
  • (6) She has sold more records than any other woman, enthralled fans at the Super Bowl and starred on the big screen as Eva Perón.
  • (7) But here we have an enthralling MLS playoff between perennial regular season titans Sporting Kansas City and, how should we put this, an overachieving New England Revolution.
  • (8) He was by turn patient, stubborn and just too damn good, winning a contest marked by swearing, stare-downs, minor tantrums, an odd time violation and some artful tennis on a chill, still night on Rod Laver Arena, with the man himself among an enthralled audience.
  • (9) Koenig’s original investigation has become a more awkward, enthralling, aggravating investigation into the nature of truth.
  • (10) Then there were the imported dramas broadcast because they were weighty, such as 1984's Heimat , an enthralling dramatisation of ordinary lives in 20th-century Germany.
  • (11) But just as Oliver Stone has managed to make a boring sequel to Wall Street, despite the real Wall Street's enthralling and nigh-on-cinematic recent wickedness (the inner Freudian torment of boring Shia LaBoeuf's boring character is apparently more interesting to Stone – once the great purveyor of conspiracy theories – than the near-collapse of capitalism), so the makers of the upcoming films about Facebook have missed an obvious trick with their movies.
  • (12) This was an enthralling stalemate both managers felt they could have won, but each seemed content with a point earned largely through excellent performances from defenders prepared time and again to throw their bodies on the line.
  • (13) The 2014 NCAA March Madness tournament opened with an enthralling upset that saw the sixth-seeded Ohio State Buckeyes beaten by their neighbours from Dayton.
  • (14) On July 14, France's glamorous presidential couple enthralled the world.
  • (15) As an enthralling, thrilling, romantic, beautiful, fun, weird piece of art, few things have felt more relevant.
  • (16) While Westminster was enthralled by the eruption over the policy between Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg and former Department for Education special adviser Dominic Cummings – with accusations flying that Clegg wanted Cummings charged under the official secrets act – school heads say they have been left to fend for themselves in parts of the country.
  • (17) That’s how, five years after I lost my friend, I gave away most of my belongings and bought a one-way ticket to San Francisco , the setting of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, which had long enthralled me.
  • (18) In the mid 70s, the couple met Jackson Browne, who was immediately enthralled by Zevon's music.
  • (19) He could enthrall you with his lifelong passion for William Blake, his new-found interest in gardening, his arguments for proportional representation.
  • (20) By this point, the faithful are enthralled, the curious baffled and the traditionalists utterly bemused.

Transfix


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Major pin-tract infections are a potentially dangerous complication associated with the use of skeletal transfixation pins.
  • (2) Photograph: Getty So that was the grand import of the producer’s vision, realised on an unprecedented scale and to eventual rightful acclaim: despite Gagarin and the rest, Americans in particular (and then Australia, and Britain) became transfixed by all the unfolding tales and testimonies.
  • (3) In a series of trials involving a uniform axial load, different transfixing wire tensions, and the separation of paired proximal and distal rings, fragment displacement was measured.
  • (4) Transcutaneous wires and pins in wire-tension Ilizarov external fixators provide frame stability, transfix and transport bone segments, produce distraction, and stimulate transosseous osteogenesis.
  • (5) A modified Ilizarov external fixator was used to transfix the stifle joint in 13 dogs.
  • (6) The adjacent vertebrae were transfixed by two 3-mm Steinman pins placed vertically.
  • (7) We concluded that patients with non-union following high tibial osteotomy for osteoarthritis of the knee should undergo resection of the pseudarthrosis and transfixation compression as the treatment of choice.
  • (8) The windows become viewing stations to stare out of – transfixed by every small jet that magically lifts from the ground carrying tonnes of travellers and trinkets.
  • (9) The distal phalanx was then transfixed to the bone graft by 2 crossed-K-wires.
  • (10) The monofixateur is indicated for treatment of closed, open and infected fractures, pseudarthrosis, osteotomy adaption, arthrodesis and joint transfixations.
  • (11) I was transfixed by scholars such as Claire Pajaczkowska, who wore Doc Martens but were bringing us poststructuralism straight off the press.
  • (12) According to the principles of treatment for other tarsal injuries, we carried out open reduction with joint debridement, reconstruction of ligaments and internal stabilization with transfixation screws.
  • (13) Watching her on stage, as she coiled and uncoiled her impossible limbs, I had become transfixed by the question of what was going on in her head while she danced.
  • (14) Sahloul stood transfixed, the scene unfolding like a silent movie in front of him.
  • (15) With a stiff catheter in the urethra, via a horizontal 'H'-shaped perineal incision and through the puborectalis sling, the rectum was mobilised and the fistula transfixed.
  • (16) Anyway, back to these fraudsters, who are the least costly element of a leaky system, but nevertheless transfix the political imagination as though they were masterminds of cunning and audacity, whose long game were to destroy the fabric of society altogether.
  • (17) Because of delayed treatment, transfixation of carpal bones (necessary for stability), and surgical trauma, degenerative joint disease with osteophyte formation occurred in all 5 horses.
  • (18) Temperature measurements were performed during drilling, smooth part penetration (transfixing pins), tapping, and screwing.
  • (19) Rotational displacement was limited the most by transfixation between the vertebral bodies (position one or two).
  • (20) In order to prevent the making of a triangular-shaped crown, a false transfixed core removable is built over the intramobile component of the IMZ as well as pa periodontal ring.