What's the difference between hickey and smooth?

Hickey


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hickey initially courted Belarus but then turned to Azerbaijan when that trail went cold.
  • (2) Evidence that the sensitivity of lysU expression to anaerobiosis, as well as to low external pH conditions (E. W. Hickey and I. N. Hirshfield, Appl.
  • (3) We are very concerned about journalists ... not getting in,” Hickey told Around the Rings.
  • (4) Cells grown in the presence of ethidium bromide continued to produce low enzyme levels after regrowth in the absence of dye, but formed normal amounts of puromycin on Hickey-Tresner agar.
  • (5) Among those who had travelled to Oman to await the release of the hikers were Cindy Hickey and Al Bauer, Shane's mother and father, his sisters, Nicole Lindstrom and Shannon Bauer, Jacob and Laura Fattal, Josh's mother and father and his brother, Alex.
  • (6) In addition, physicians are seeing a wide variety of traumatic lesions of the genitals from "hickeys" of the labia to dental imprints and ulcerations of the glans penis.
  • (7) Only the larger form, hsp89 alpha, is induced by the adenovirus E1A gene product (M. C. Simon, K. Kitchener, H. T. Kao, E. Hickey, L. Weber, R. Voellmy, N. Heintz, and J. R. Nevins, Mol.
  • (8) He then moved to the Sunday Express before joining the Daily Express's William Hickey column.
  • (9) Hickey came calling at just the right time for Baku and a marriage of convenience was quickly sealed.
  • (10) Most people think of the island and think of Cowes Week and the festival but we’ve also got 28% child poverty levels.” Jack Hickey: ‘Just throwing money at problems doesn’t always solve them’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest A primary school teacher, Hickey qualified two years ago and has taught at Blackthorn academy in Northampton since last October.
  • (11) They should start using their influence now and urge President Aliyev to stop the crackdown, allow a free press and immediately and unconditionally release government critics who have been unfairly imprisoned.” Pat Hickey, the Irish head of the European Olympic Committees who hosted a lunch for 70 IOC members including the president, Thomas Bach, before the opening ceremony, said on Friday that there was no more it could do to ensure freedom of reporting.
  • (12) Then, almost immediately, she came to the UK for publicity, bringing long-time friend and colleague John Benjamin Hickey, who plays her brother in The Big C, as her prompt and protector through the interview.
  • (13) He pulled himself together as a wryly observant Larry Slade in one of the landmark productions of the past 20 years: O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh at the Almeida in 1998, transferring to the Old Vic, and to Broadway, with Kevin Spacey as the salesman Hickey revisiting the last chance saloon where Pigott-Smith propped up the bar with Rupert Graves , Mark Strong and Clarke Peters in Davies’ great production.
  • (14) Lille and back for two at under £62 Finding a reasonably priced last-minute weekend away for the spring bank holiday was always going to be an uphill struggle, writes Shane Hickey .
  • (15) The publication deal is understood to have been signed off by Dan Hickey, the TMG's general manager of lifestyle, who was brought in last year by fellow American Jason Seiken, TMG's chief content officer and editor in chief.
  • (16) NUMBER IS UP FOR ANONYMOUS DIALLERS Plans to make marketing companies display their phone numbers on caller identification screens would give people the opportunity to avoid answering unwanted contact from cold callers, writes Shane Hickey .
  • (17) Results of the hypertonic saline (Hickey-Hare) test were positive in only one case.
  • (18) Julian Hickey, partner at Lawrence Graham, a law firm, said the increase might hasten the departure of wealthy individuals from Britain.
  • (19) Labeling with [3H]thymidine shows that the ganglion cells which survive in the adult are produced as several temporally shifted, overlapping waves: medium-sized cells are produced before large cells, whereas the smallest ganglion cells are produced throughout the period of ganglion cell generation (Walsh, C., E. H. Polley, T. L. Hickey, and R. W. Guillery (1983) Nature 302: 611-614).
  • (20) The Games are the brainchild of Patrick Hickey, the Irish International Olympic Committee member who is also head of the European Olympic Committees.

Smooth


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain.
  • (superl.) Evenly spread or arranged; sleek; as, smooth hair.
  • (superl.) Gently flowing; moving equably; not ruffled or obstructed; as, a smooth stream.
  • (superl.) Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; voluble; even; fluent.
  • (superl.) Bland; mild; smoothing; fattering.
  • (superl.) Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless.
  • (adv.) Smoothly.
  • (n.) The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths.
  • (n.) That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything.
  • (a.) To make smooth; to make even on the surface by any means; as, to smooth a board with a plane; to smooth cloth with an iron.
  • (a.) To free from obstruction; to make easy.
  • (a.) To free from harshness; to make flowing.
  • (a.) To palliate; to gloze; as, to smooth over a fault.
  • (a.) To give a smooth or calm appearance to.
  • (a.) To ease; to regulate.
  • (v. i.) To flatter; to use blandishment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
  • (2) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
  • (3) In addition to their involvement in thrombosis, activated platelets release growth factors, most notably a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) which may be the principal mediator of smooth muscle cell migration from the media into the intima and of smooth muscle cell proliferation in the intima as well as of vasoconstriction.
  • (4) Peripheral eosinocytes increased by 10%, and tests for HBsAg, antiHBs, antimitochondrial antibody and anti-smooth muscle antibody were all negative.
  • (5) After vascular injury, smooth muscle cells proliferate, reaching a maximum rate at day 2.
  • (6) Recent studies have shown that an aberration in platelet-derived growth factor gene expression is unlikely to be a factor in proliferation of smooth-muscle cells.
  • (7) The Ta loop was a smooth, elongated ellipse in configuration and showed clockwise rotation in all planes, as did the P loop.
  • (8) This series of tests included tests for pathologic nystagmus, saccades, smooth pursuit, and optokinetic nystagmus, as well as bithermal caloric testing and rotational testing.
  • (9) It inhibits platelet and vascular smooth muscle activation by cGMP-dependent attenuation of the agonist-induced rise of intracellular free Ca2+.
  • (10) It is concluded that a Na-H antiport system in vascular smooth muscle regulates Na influx rate, contributes to intracellular pH regulation and influences basal levels of Na,K-pump activity.
  • (11) By 30 min after insemination, the surface of the egg is relatively smooth.
  • (12) An electrogenic sodium-potassium pump appears to contribute materially to the steady-state potential and to certain of the transient potential responses of vascular smooth muscle.
  • (13) Distribution patterns of phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylinositol in the smooth muscle as well as in the mucosa were different from those in the liver.
  • (14) Ultrastructural study of the uterine lesion demonstrated smooth muscle cells with only a few "autophagic" facuoles to cells nearly replaced by lysosomes.
  • (15) These early hyperplastic lesions revealed stellate-shaped dilated bile canaliculi lined by blebs and abnormally thick elongated microvilli, a decreased number of microvilli on the sinusoidal surface, a marked increase in smooth endoplasmic reticulum, large nucleoli, and bundles of pericanalicular microfilaments.
  • (16) We conclude that once daily doxazosin provides smooth and effective blood pressure control throughout a 24 h post-dose period.
  • (17) It is suggested that contractile responses to electrical stimulation in isolated sheep urethral smooth muscle are mediated by the sympathetic nervous system, mainly through release of noradrenaline stimulating postjunctional alpha 1-adrenoceptors.
  • (18) Four fractions enriched, respectively, in plasma membrane (PM), smooth endoplasmic reticulum (SER), rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER), and mitochondria were isolated from estrogen-dominated rat myometrium.
  • (19) From the findings of this study the authors recommend wide excision of colorectal smooth-muscle tumours whenever there is a suggestion of malignancy.
  • (20) All smooth strains of Brucella bear two lipopolysaccharide (LPS) antigens in a ratio that defines the classification of strains in serovars, A (A greater than M), M (M greater than A) and A.M (A = M).