What's the difference between fox and practical?

Fox


Definition:

  • (n.) A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulvus), the American gray fox (V. Virginianus), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox (V. lagopus) are well-known species.
  • (n.) The European dragonet.
  • (n.) The fox shark or thrasher shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.
  • (n.) A sly, cunning fellow.
  • (n.) Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats.
  • (n.) A sword; -- so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
  • (n.) A tribe of Indians which, with the Sacs, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin; -- called also Outagamies.
  • (n.) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
  • (n.) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
  • (n.) To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
  • (v. i.) To turn sour; -- said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fox was 30 years old - 70% of Parkinson's sufferers are over 50.
  • (2) Alec played a role in the resignation of the UK defence secretary Liam Fox last year over his close ties to his friend Adam Werritty.
  • (3) When Fox woke up one morning in 1990 and noticed his little finger shaking, he thought it was a side effect of a hangover.
  • (4) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
  • (5) Cable news channels like Fox News and CNN carried the address, and some of the networks carried it on their digital platforms, but a network insider told Politico on Thursday the speech’s content was too “overtly political” to broadcast.
  • (6) After distribution, 81% of foxes inspected were positive for tetracycline, a biomarker included in the vaccine bait and, other than one rabid fox detected close to the periphery of the treated area, no case of rabies, either in foxes or in domestic livestock, has been reported in the area.
  • (7) Asked if France had “jumped the gun and didn’t tell us”, Fox said he was notaware of anyone in government who knew about the impending airstrikes.
  • (8) Whenever Fox meets someone for the first time, he slips on this look as instinctively as others shuck on a jacket when they leave the house.
  • (9) Educated at Imperial College London, he trained at the contractors Freeman Fox, but in 1978 he turned freelance as a transport consultant, setting up his own firm: Steer Davies Gleave.
  • (10) Sanders, the Vermont senator and self-described democratic socialist, first answered questions from Fox News anchor Bret Baier over his comments in Sunday’s debate that white people “don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto”.
  • (11) These results combined with absorption studies suggested a close relationship between fox and dog, but different number and morphology of chromosomes, immunoelectrophoretic patterns of serum proteins, and disparities of the transplantation antigens proved that the fox is a species quite separate from the dog.
  • (12) 4.28pm ET: Oh hey, Fox News finds time in its busy schedule to cover the rally.
  • (13) Fox will be accompanied by the sporting director, Hendrik Almstadt, on the back of the 1-1 draw against Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup on Saturday, when their failure to beat a League Two side culminated in angry scenes involving the away supporters.
  • (14) Fox met his wife, Tracy, on the set of Family Ties, the 80s sitcom that launched his career and in which she played his on-screen girlfriend.
  • (15) Werritty, 33, a Scottish Tory who first met Fox when the defence secretary went to speak at Edinburgh University – where Werritty was a student of public policy – had arrived in the emirate a few days earlier to set up meetings for his "boss".
  • (16) Kelly reportedly spoke with lawyers investigating claims of sexual harassment by former Fox chairman Roger Ailes, who left the network following allegations by several women of years of abuse.
  • (17) The highest 3H-thymidine incorporation in cultures of dog lymphocytes was observed at day 3, while in those of fox at day 2, incubated either at 37 degrees C or at 39 degrees C. Lymphocytes cultured at 39 degrees C incorporated more tritiated thymidine than did cells cultured at 37 degrees C. The stimulation index (SI) of dog peripheral blood lymphocytes to both mitogens concanavalin A (Con A) and leucoagglutinin (LA) was in a similar range, while pokeweed mitogen (PWM) showed a weaker but significant stimulatory action.
  • (18) The Republican presidential candidate then told Fox News that Amazon is “getting away with murder tax-wise” and has a “huge antitrust problem because he’s [Bezos] controlling so much”.
  • (19) Although antibodies against selected pathogens were present, no clinical indications of disease were observed in these fox populations.
  • (20) In a speech to Atlantic Bridge members in New York in November 2002, Fox warned "the natural desire to avoid conflict has been reinforced by an innate pacificism in many sections of western society, especially in continental Europe".

Practical


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to practice or action.
  • (a.) Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry.
  • (a.) Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind.
  • (a.) Derived from practice; as, practical skill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
  • (2) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
  • (3) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
  • (4) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
  • (5) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
  • (6) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
  • (7) In practice, however, the necessary dosage is difficult to predict.
  • (8) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
  • (9) The first phase evaluated cytologic and colposcopic diagnoses in 962 consecutive patients in a community practice.
  • (10) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
  • (11) This article is intended as a brief practical guide for physicians and physiotherapists concerned with the treatment of cystic fibrosis.
  • (12) Practical examples are given of the concepts presented using data from several drugs.
  • (13) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (14) Beyond this, physicians learn from specific problems that arise in practice.
  • (15) This observation, reinforced by simultaneous determinations of cortisol levels in the internal spermatic and antecubital veins, practically excluded the validity of the theory of adrenal hormonal suppression of testicular tissues.
  • (16) Implications for practice and research include need for support groups with nurses as facilitators, the importance of fostering hope, and need for education of health care professionals.
  • (17) The author's experience in private psychoanalytic practice and in Philadelphia's rape victim clinics indicates that these assaults occur frequently.
  • (18) Single dose therapy is recommended as the treatment of choice for bacterial cystitis in domiciliary practice.
  • (19) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
  • (20) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.