What's the difference between haycock and pike?

Haycock


Definition:

  • (n.) A conical pile or hear of hay in the field.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tyrosine hydroxylase, which catalyzes the initial step in catecholamine biosynthesis, is phosphorylated at serines 8, 19, 31, and 40 in intact pheochromocytoma (PC12) cells (Haycock, J.W.
  • (2) The authors calculated the body surface of 40 boys and 40 girls aged 3, 5, 6, 7, 12 and 18 years from a group of Brno children followed up on a long-term scale, using the equations of Du Bois D. and Du Bois E. F., Haycock G. B., Gehan E. and George S. L. and Mosteller R. D. Using the paired t-test, they evaluated the closeness of differences.
  • (3) However, we have recently shown that phorbol dibutyrate increased the phosphorylated of synapsin II (formerly protein III, Browning et al., 1987) in chromaffin cells (Haycock et al., 1988).

Pike


Definition:

  • (n. & v.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet.
  • (n. & v.) A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target.
  • (n. & v.) A hayfork.
  • (n. & v.) A pick.
  • (n. & v.) A pointed or peaked hill.
  • (n. & v.) A large haycock.
  • (n. & v.) A turnpike; a toll bar.
  • (sing. & pl.) A large fresh-water fish (Esox lucius), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two fish rhabdoviruses, spring viraemia of Carp virus (SVC) and Pike fry rhabdovirus (PFR), have been shown to multiply in Drosophila melanogaster.
  • (2) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
  • (3) That’s before you even begin to consider the sort of outfits, polite eating and staged photos that guarantee I end up with a bleeding foot, skirt tucked into my knickers, mint in my teeth and a fixed smile last seen on a taxidermied pike.
  • (4) The domains in PIKE, GP32 and RecA exhibit statistically significant sequence homology with GP5.
  • (5) Two distinct coding sequences (A and B) were elucidated for rainbow trout metallothioneins but single isoforms were encoded by genes isolated from the stone loach and pike.
  • (6) Luminescence methods were used to examine the interaction of Eu(III) and Tb(III) with parvalbumin isozyme III from pike (Esox lucius).
  • (7) The neoplasm is morphologically similar to other pike hemic tumors reported in other areas of the world.
  • (8) The cytoarchitecture layers and sublayers of the retina in pike, frog and cat are essentially different.
  • (9) At one extreme they are well developed (macrosmatic) such as in sharks and eels, and at the other they are poorly developed (microsmatic) such as in pike and stickleback.
  • (10) Autoradiography of a pike exposed to 109Cd2+ via the water showed a strong labelling in the receptor-cell-containing olfactory rosettes, whereas other structures in the olfactory chambers were only weakly labelled.
  • (11) In only 12%t of the pikes did the number of T. crassus exceed that of T. nodulosus, however, the mean ratio being 1:13 to favour of T. nodulosus.
  • (12) The report comes after a four-year campaign by the family of Mumbai bomb victim Will Pike, 31, who was left disabled.
  • (13) The association of an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase activity with virions of pike fry rhabdovirus has been demonstrated by both in vitro and in vivo studies.
  • (14) Comparisons with retinal and tectal cells in carp, goldfish, pike, trout and in the Anura were made.
  • (15) A rabbit anti-pike IgM antiserum showed that up to 90% of mononuclear (MN) cells isolated on Ficoll-Isopaque gradients from peripheral blood, spleen and head kidney were surface- and cytoplasmic-immunoglobulin positive by indirect immunofluorescence, while a maximum of 5% of tumor cells were positive.
  • (16) Electrolyte excretion and balance were compared in meal-eating, adlibitum-fed rats maintained in Denver (1,600 m) and on Pikes Peak (4,300 m) and in meal-eating rats maintained in Denver but pair-fed to the Pikes Peak animals.
  • (17) A United Kingdom review: Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo in fine romance Read more The former, in which he stars as Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana, who caused an international stir for marrying a white woman from London in the late 1940s, comes from Amma Asante , whose mixed-race period romance Belle also debuted at Toronto.
  • (18) Structural variations of two parvalbumins, Whiting III and Pike III, in various denaturing conditions, have been studied by circular dichroism.
  • (19) Gone Girl stars Affleck opposite Rosamund Pike, Tyler Perry and Neil Patrick Harris in the story of a former journalist who may or may not have killed his wife.
  • (20) But yesterday, Pike's father Nigel was cautious about the news: "The iniquity of Will's and others' situation was that the terrorism occurred abroad and different countries have wildly differing levels of compensation.

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