What's the difference between fireman and pip?

Fireman


Definition:

  • (n.) A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.
  • (n.) A man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But we don't have a go at a fireman if someone is killed in a fire."
  • (2) Some abnormalities (increased VC, decreased RV) are typical of diving activities, but the deterioration of effort-dependent expiratory flow values and alveolar-capillary diffusion must be ascribed to specific nuisances (fumes, polluants, toxic substances) associated with fireman's activities.
  • (3) Her parents, a midwife and a retired fireman, said they were proud of their supremely focussed, "no fuss" daughter.
  • (4) One of these kids could be the next engineer, the next politician, fireman, cop.
  • (5) This rule has been applied primarily to police applicants, secondarily to fireman applicants, and rarely to other.
  • (6) My friend Vince, he's a fireman – he borrows my car sometimes and it's a running joke at the fire station – he's never been stopped."
  • (7) It is the obvious anguish of Stephen Thomasson, 65, a retired fireman, that suggests some may now be thinking the previously unthinkable.
  • (8) Refugees are our future spouses, best friends, or soulmates, the drummer for the band of our children, our next colleague, Miss Iceland in 2022, the carpenter who finally finished the bathroom, the cook in the cafeteria, the fireman, the computer genius, or the television host.” Syrian refugees: four million people forced to flee as crisis deepens Read more Many of those posting on the group have said they would offer up their homes and skills to help refugees integrate.
  • (9) "At the bottom of one slide, a fireman tried to protect those already lying on the floor from those coming down the slide by lying across the bottom of the slide."
  • (10) The recent kerfuffle provoked by the film of the off-duty fireman chucking the alleged fair dodger off the train in Scotland has opened an interesting debate about this issue.
  • (11) She told Ebony magazine that her partner, Ian, "was a Royal Marine, then a fireman, then a Cambridge graduate in chemistry.
  • (12) Three cases (a chemist with exposure to halogenated aromatic compounds and aliphatic amines, a pipefitter with exposure to asbestos, and a machinist with exposures to cutting oils, solvents, and abrasives) and one of 28 controls (a fireman with multiple hazardous exposures) had an occupational risk factor.
  • (13) Casting about for a career, he settled on being a fireman, because a fireman is an indisputably essential guy, right?
  • (14) Asked if she planned to be present for the execution, she replied without hesitation “oh, I’ll be there every step of the way.” Michael Ward, an off-duty fireman who was one of the first responders on the scene, put it more succinctly.
  • (15) features shows including Peppa Pig, Fireman Sam and Thomas & Friends.
  • (16) The cases are classified, by correlation of clinical and histopathological data as a variant of Fireman's disease.
  • (17) As a volunteer fireman he was on duty during the Luftwaffe's 1942 attacks on Bath, and his account of civilian life and preparations for D-day in June 1944 from his vantage point as maintenance manager at a US army camp is as engrossing as his tales of trench life.
  • (18) A fireman inspected Hope’s installation and told him he was OK to carry on.
  • (19) The capacity for barefaced lying infuriated and exasperated the legions of diplomats and mediators who dealt with Milosevic, for years treating him as the chief fireman rather than chief arsonist.
  • (20) They had two sons, Matt, a director of the McLaren Formula One team, and Foff (Francis), a West Sussex fireman.

Pip


Definition:

  • (n.) A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a "scale" on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them.
  • (n.) A seed, as of an apple or orange.
  • (n.) One of the conventional figures or "spots" on playing cards, dominoes, etc.
  • (v. i.) To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The D-Phe peptides, which are cleaved especially rapidly by thrombin in water, have structures (in deuterated DMSO) in which the aromatic ring of the D-Phe residue is folded back over the Val or Pip residue.
  • (2) Each tone pip was presented at four intensity levels (70, 50, 30, and 10 dB hearing threshold level), and graphic recordings were made for each frequency at the specific intensity levels.
  • (3) Low concentrations of each of the negatively charged phospholipids increased the Vmax., but high ratios of PIP, PIP2 or PA to PC decreased this parameter.
  • (4) We recorded auditory evoked magnetic fields in response to 128 15 msec duration 1 kHz tone pips from both hemispheres of 6 normal adult males.
  • (5) Following the complete GSH oxidation diamide impaired the turnover of PIP and PA dramatically.
  • (6) Each new PIP claim - worth between £21 and £134 a week to disabled claimants - costs an average £182 to administer, compared to £49 under the disability living allowance, said the report.
  • (7) She admits she "got it wrong" by voting in favour of the Iraq war, a stance exploited by Barack Obama when he pipped the former first lady for the Democratic nomination in 2008.
  • (8) The precision (coefficient of variation) of the calibration curves for underivatized drugs and their derivatized metabolites over the linear ranges was 2-20% and the reproducibility of the assay over a range of clinical concentrations of these drugs found in human plasma was 5-16% for PANC, 2-4% for VEC and 6-11% for PIP.
  • (9) A behavioral observation scale (Virginia Polydipsia Scale; VPS) for monitoring drinking patterns was developed and its reliability tested during 25 hours of tandem ratings among six patients with the syndrome of psychosis, intermittent hyponatremia, and polydipsia (PIPS).
  • (10) By 24 hours pulmonary edema resolved and the PIP and PaO2 returned to baseline.
  • (11) The thrombin-induced hydrolysis of inositol phospholipids by phospholipase C, which was measured as the formation of [32P]PA, was potentiated by adrenaline, as was the increase in the levels of [32P]PIP2 and [32P]PIP.
  • (12) Only PIP or TIC + SUL or TAZ were able to inhibit at least 90% of tested strains.
  • (13) Analysis of twenty-one MP and sixty-eight PIP endoprostheses placed in eighty-three patients until 1979 is given.
  • (14) A phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PIP) pool linked to muscarinic receptor-activation increased 160% after addition of atropine, the maximal response occurring at a time when relaxation was 80% complete.
  • (15) We demonstrate for the first time that a number of plasma membrane glycerophospholipids effectively stimulate the ATPase, including PIP, PIP2, and cardiolipin.
  • (16) Claimants of the benefit that PIP replaced, the very people whom Mr Duncan Smith resigns to defend, were previously at the sharp end of his maladministration.
  • (17) After two weeks ground squirrels were reanesthetized and tone pips and clicks were delivered through a TDH-49 headphone.
  • (18) The range of the mean uptake varied considerably between proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joints in normal subjects.
  • (19) He will himself have to repeatedly reapply for PIP, despite the fact that the severity of his condition meant he was granted a lifelong DLA award, after a paper-based assessment.
  • (20) The aim was to investigate whether these velocities altered in relation to the peak inflation pressure (PIP) used.

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