What's the difference between fike and tike?

Fike


Definition:

  • (n.) See Fyke.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We circumvented this difficulty by using a mutant which produces a precursor maltose-binding protein that is translocated across the cytoplasmic membrane but is not cleaved by the signal peptidase (J. D. Fikes and P. J. Bassford, Jr., J. Bacteriol.
  • (2) USA 79:3438-3441, 1982; J. W. Puziss, J. D. Fikes, and P. J. Bassford, Jr., J. Bacteriol.
  • (3) This report, more so than any, shows that science is certain that this is a long-term problem,” said Ryan Fikes, a scientist with NWF.

Tike


Definition:

  • (n.) A tick. See 2d Tick.
  • (n.) A dog; a cur.
  • (n.) A countryman or clown; a boorish person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When highly purified preparations of the anticoagulant activity from the Tike-Uba tree were examined in specific blood coagulation enzyme assays utilizing chromogenic substrates, the highest inhibitory potency was found versus thrombin, followed by factor Xa.
  • (2) The arrow poison was prepared from the bark of a tree, known locally as Tike-Uba.
  • (3) Tracing the story of Tike and Ella May Hamlin, "hardscrabble farmers" in Texas, it is a "searing portrait of the Panhandle and its marginalised Great Depression residents".

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