What's the difference between hoe and mattock?

Hoe


Definition:

  • (n.) A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.
  • (n.) The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish.
  • (v. t.) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn.
  • (v. i.) To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) HOE was the most active compound, being able to accelerate PIP2 breakdown at concentrations between 10(-12) and 10(-6) M, while in the case of HEE the effective doses ranged from 10(-11) to 10(-7) M and from 10(-9) to 10(-6) M in the case of HNE.
  • (2) The coding region for a secreted proteinaceous inhibitor of the human alpha-amylase (tendamistat; HOE 467) was identified by using a synthetic oligonucleotide probe.
  • (3) A carcinogenicity study with the LH-RH analog buserelin (HOE 766) was conducted in male and female Wistar rats.
  • (4) They show HOE 077 to be a promising agent for the inhibition of hepatic fibrosis.
  • (5) S 0885 and HOE 077 inhibit CCl4-induced liver fibrosis in rats, as shown by significantly reduced hydroxyproline content of the liver and improved liver histology.
  • (6) A double-blind cross-over study of the effects of HOE 760 (histamine H2-receptor blocker) on diazepam pharmacokinetics was conducted in 12 healthy men.
  • (7) In addition, the stability of the kinin antagonist, Hoe 140, in synovial fluid was compared with that of synthetic bradykinin.
  • (8) The addition of increasing concentrations of Hoe 760 to the histamine concentration-response curve caused a parallel rightward shift.
  • (9) However, the effect of intravenous Hoe 490 was only half as intense as that of HB 419 in the first hours after treatment and the effect of oral Hoe 490 was initially stronger and thereafter temporarily distinctly weaker than that of HB 419.
  • (10) Studies on absorption and distribution in both skin and organism, as well as on elimination and biotransformation were performed in rats, pigs, and rabbits following topical application of the corticoid prednisolone-17-ethyl carbonate-21-propionate (prednicarbate; test name: Hoe 777), which had been labeled with 14C in position 4 for this purpose.
  • (11) Mode of action studies were made with Hoe 296, a new synthetic antimycotic, mainly in Candida albicans.
  • (12) Treatment with ramipril plus the BK B2-receptor antagonist HOE 140 for 6 weeks significantly attenuated the antihypertensive effects of the ACE-inhibitor in 2K1C hypertensive WI rats, but not in 2K1C hypertensive BN-K rats and in SHR.
  • (13) Partial inhibition by relatively high concentrations of Hoe 296 of the respiratory activity of yeast cells or mitochondria therefrom with exogenous substrates can be explained by decreased uptake of the substrates from the medium.
  • (14) HOE 077 wa rapidly and completely absorbed after oral administration.
  • (15) Hoe 065 prevented the disruption of memory induced by scopolamine administered before training.
  • (16) Preincubation of the detector cells with Hoe 140 completely abolished this nitric oxide release.
  • (17) The organ distribution of the 125I-labelled (3-9)-heptapeptide fragments was similar to LH-RH, but not to Hoe 766.
  • (18) The decrease of cardiac activity in Rhesus monkeys amounted to 69% in 24 h, whereas proscillaridin A decreased cardiac activity only by 41% in 24 h. The absorption of HOE 040 from the duodenum of dogs anesthetized with pentobarbital amounted to 72%, whereas proscillaridin A is observed by only between 14 and 25%.
  • (19) We have developed a neutral human insulin (Hoe 21 GH) which is stabilized for use in implantable roller pumps.
  • (20) A radioimmunoassay for HOE 766 was developed using 125I[D-Trp6,Des-Gly10]GnRH ethylamide as tracer and an antiserum raised against HOE 766.

Mattock


Definition:

  • (n.) An implement for digging and grubbing. The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ball gets away from him for a goal kick and it's still USA 0-0 Jamaica 12.15am BST 38 mins Mattocks has another run at Evans and this time cuts inside.
  • (2) As halftime approached, a team head coach Peter Vermes described as “watching the game” was still recalibrating, with Mattocks’ 39th-minute goal doubling the lead gifted them by right back, Igor Julião: Down two at half-time, Sporting worked themselves into the game, nearly conceding a third goal after Aurèlien Collin gave up a penalty kick five minutes from time.
  • (3) Mattocks hits a low, skimming shot that's straight at Howard and that'll do it for the half.
  • (4) Yet as Real Salt Lake analyst Brian Dunseth explained on air, if you draw a line from Nat Borchers' tackle through the ball, it wouldn't go through Vancouver attacker Darren Mattocks.
  • (5) In a previous study, we showed that aspirin in the presence of limited amounts of moisture falls to follow Leeson-Mattocks kinetics at 62.5 degrees C. This system has been tested at a series of temperatures, and several plausible models have been tested.
  • (6) A minute later there's a better chance as Phillips gets forward well down the left to curl in a sharp outswinger onto the head of Darren Mattocks who at least makes Howard save, if not particularly work.
  • (7) Mattock's goal came from Chris Maguire's accurate delivery as he pounced on a header from Glenn Loovens, and 11 minutes later the left-back was the provider for Oguchi Onyewu, who also scored his first Wednesday goal.
  • (8) Mandaric watched from the Spotland stand, with longer-term Wednesday stalwarts including Roy Hattersley and David Blunkett, as Joe Mattock, the former England under-21 left back, scored his first goal for the club, set up another but was then dismissed for a second yellow card – all this in the space of 15 second-half minutes to leave the Owls with 10 men for a nervy half hour.
  • (9) For pseudouridine (Weissman et al., 1962; Dugaiczyk & Eiler, 1966) and 7-methylguanine (Craddock, Mattocks & Magee, 1968), urinary excretion has been shown to be quantitative.
  • (10) When Mattocks buried the ensuing kick, Vancouver had enought to take a 1-1 out of Rio Tinto.
  • (11) Mattocks, now an activist for YoungMinds, said: “I was being seen by CAMHS and they always said that if you feel unsafe, go to A&E if it is out of hours, and that happened a lot because that tended to be [when] I would feel unsafe.
  • (12) USA: Howard; Evans, Cameron, Besler, Beasley; Bedoya, Diskerud, Jones, Donovan; Johannsson, Altidore Jamaica: Kerr; Doyley, Morgan, Mariappa, Phillips; McAnuff, Austin, Watson, Johnson; Mattocks, Brown 11.07pm BST Preamble If it’s meaning you want you’ve come to the right place.This might be the most meaningful game ever played by the US men’s national team.
  • (13) Kakuta Manneh, the team’s most dangerous player this spring, has lost his starting job, with Darren Mattocks’ return to the lineup pushing Erik Hurtado to one of the team’s wide attacking roles.
  • (14) Having led early through a Darren Mattocks goal, Vancouver ended up having to come back for the draw and ultimately regretting yet more points dropped from winning positions in a season that’s been something of a mixed bag.
  • (15) Mattocks tries to liven things up by running at Brad Evans but the Sounders man sticks to his task well to prod the ball out for a throw.
  • (16) Jamaica meanwhile fielding a very MLS heavy attack, with Vancouver's Mattocks up alongside Colorado's DeShorn Brown.
  • (17) Again Evans looks to have got the better of his man as he slides in to tackle, but as Mattocks goes sprawling the referee awards a free kick in a dangerous position just left of the D. The dangerous Austin takes it and it skims juuuuuuust wide of Howard's right post.
  • (18) On their watch, early intervention services are being stripped back, professionals are being told to do more for less, and more children are becoming so ill they need hospital care.” Nicola Mattocks, 18, from Croydon in south London, who has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, recurring depression, post-traumatic stress and social anxiety, said that it had become common for community services to advise that young people attend A&E during out-of-office hours.
  • (19) b) Biochemical analysis of neuro transmitters according to H. Spatz and Mattock to study clinical and laboratory correlation and guide therapy.
  • (20) The new programme not only releases school nurse time for developing health promotion activities within the core curriculum, writes Carole Mattock.

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