What's the difference between jab and pinch?

Jab


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To thrust; to stab; to punch. See Job, v. t.
  • (n.) A thrust or stab.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When you’ve got a man with a longer jab, you can’t throw single shots.
  • (2) I haven't had the swine flu jab yet because I'm not in a risk group; but as soon as I can get it, I will.
  • (3) Simultaneous determination of antigliadin (AGA) and antiendomysium (EMA) levels, and gliadin and tissue absorption studies, showed that JAB and AGA are different, whereas JAB and EMA are probably identical.
  • (4) The peculiar, sharp, jabbing pain, which has been rarely reported at the onset of intracranial hemorrhage, was followed by acute elevation of blood pressure, arrhythmia, cardiac and respiratory arrests.
  • (5) From 2008 girls aged 12 and 13 have been offered jabs to protect themselves again the human papilloma virus , which causes most cases of cervical cancer.
  • (6) And while he got in a few jabs at Jeb Bush and rolled his eyes at the obligatory protesters who shouted “we loved veterans, Trump loves war,” it didn’t have the trademark fireworks of a Trump rally.
  • (7) Inviting him on while feinting and flicking out the jab.
  • (8) The government's advisers on vaccination are considering whether to recommend the move after health secretary Andrew Lansley asked them to investigate whether protection against flu should be offered to groups other than those who already get a free jab because they are defined as at-risk from the virus.
  • (9) Then Murray goes on the front foot, jabbing away a volley to make it 40-15, but Federer then wrong-foots his foe with a feathery forehand at the net to hold.
  • (10) Come the bell, the upstart nervelessly played it cool, almost a laughingly gay matador, his speed of hand and foot totally nullifying Liston’s wicked jab, the key to his armoury.
  • (11) she cried, jabbing the sculpture with a pole until it crumpled.
  • (12) At the Meadow Inn hotel, these statistics are embodied in a depressing tableau of punters slouched on stools, jabbing at flashing buttons.
  • (13) Body work is becoming my signature,” said Jack, whose output included 52 power punches and 26 jabs to the body.
  • (14) Tillerson’s counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, tweeted back a jab about the shadow of the Russia investigations hanging over the Trump presidency: “For their own sake, US officials should worry more about saving their own regime than changing Iran’s, where 75% of people just voted.” There is growing concern among US allies in Europe that the Trump administration has struck a posture towards Iran before deciding on a strategy for addressing its influence in the region, and anxiety that such posturing could become louder and more dangerous as Trump feels hemmed in by investigations into his campaign’s Russia links.
  • (15) In the pre-bout publicity, Field jabs: “A major aim of the work and pensions committee representatives will be to test how adequately both organisations have carried out their duties to help protect members’ pensions under the existing law, whether the existing law is inadequate and, if so, how should it be strengthened, or whether existing powers are adequate but were not fully exercised.” Seconds out.
  • (16) Otamendi has a habit of diving into challenges and Guardiola even gave his player a little jab in the ribs.
  • (17) However, he praised the former secretary of state’s support for the Iran deal and took a jab at Republican candidate and high school classmate Jeb Bush for drinking “neo-con kool aid” in saying on Thursday that removing Saddam Hussein from power was “a good deal”.
  • (18) Except for the night he cold-cocked Victor Ortiz, Mayweather has never been a committed one-shot closer (although Ricky Hatton might disagree), preferring attritional pain, and Alvarez seemed prepared to soak up the string of jabs in the eighth that lengthened the American's lead to uncatchable – except by knockout.
  • (19) Founded in the 1990s by Jimmy Choo, a Malaysian bespoke shoemaker, and the British designer Tamara Mellon, the firm went through the hands of several private equity firms before JAB bought the brand for more than £500m in 2011.
  • (20) The children, aged about 10 years old, had been given the first MMR jab but not all had the booster.

Pinch


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.
  • (v. t.) o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.
  • (v. t.) To plait.
  • (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.
  • (v. t.) To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.
  • (v. i.) To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.
  • (v. i.) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
  • (v. i.) To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.
  • (n.) A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.
  • (n.) As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.
  • (n.) Pian; pang.
  • (n.) A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) produced a strong analgesic effect in the formalin test and in the tail pinch test.
  • (2) The observed clinical findings include scarring of the face and hands (83.7%), hyperpigmentation (65%), hypertrichosis (44.8%), pinched facies (40.1%), painless arthritis (70.2%), small hands (66.6%), sensory shading (60.6%), myotonia (37.9%), cogwheeling (41.9%), enlarged thyroid (34.9%), and enlarged liver (4.8%).
  • (3) Results indicate substantial postoperative improvement in tip prehension and grasp, while performance remained essentially unchanged for lateral prehension, pinch force, and power grip.
  • (4) To mimic physiological conditions, synaptosomes, which are pinched off presynaptic nerve termini, were used.
  • (5) Comparison with other pinch strength studies established that although force magnitudes may be strongly influenced by specific experimental conditions, empirical relationships among different pinch forces are fairly stable and predictable.
  • (6) Anyone still imagining that it was only the defender’s recovery from injury rather than his form that was preventing him from starting (and it’s been clear for a while that’s not the case) might have noted the coach’s instructions to Gonzalez to be ready to play a few minutes when needed, either as an extra defender or even in a pinch as an extra forward.
  • (7) He has just performed a skit now about his bicycle scheme, which included a swipe at the French (because their scheme resulted in many more cycles being pinched, apparently.)
  • (8) Other small endocytic vesicles pinch off from the surface, move deeper into the cytoplasm and fuse with the lateral plasmalemma; their protein content is emptied into the intercellular space by exocytosis.
  • (9) It is suggested that the optimal way to diagnose microsporidiosis is by light microscopical examination of duodenal pinch biopsy specimens.
  • (10) Numerous 70-mmicro diameter vesicles apparently pinch off from the Golgi systems, transport this material through the egg, and probably then fuse to form a crenate, membrane-limited yolk droplet.
  • (11) Analysis of the rate of functional recovery as measured by total active motion, gross grip strength, and pinch grip strength showed no significant difference between the two groups.
  • (12) Which is another reason why, independent of talent, an Argentine is more likely to make a successful go of life in Madrid, Milan, Manchester or at a pinch (as with the case of the winger Carlos Marinelli) Middlesbrough.
  • (13) The term "barons" hasn't really had any meaning since the Combination Act of 1799 ; at a pinch 1825 , when the legislation to prevent the activity of unions was passed again, in the Combination of Workmen Act.
  • (14) A temporary pinching off of the spermatic cord was carried out in 100 male Wistar rats in order to evaluate the effect of a limited period of ischaemia on the testicular parenchyma.
  • (15) It involved bringing in Kyle Beckerman alongside Jermaine Jones in the base of midfield and asking Jones to pinch in when necessary and get forward when possible.
  • (16) Neurons were first classified as on-cells if they fired faster during noxious pinch or as off-cells if they fired slower.
  • (17) The pinch technique has been found to be useful in repairing cosmetic eyelid deformities.
  • (18) It is proposed that pinch-induced immobility is mediated by both dopaminergic and cholinergic systems.
  • (19) In this article the concept of utilizing a pinched inlet channel for field-flow fractionation (FFF), in which the channel thickness is reduced over a substantial inlet segment to reduce relaxation effects and avoid stopflow, is evaluated for steric FFF using one conventional channel and two pinched inlet channels.
  • (20) Pharmacological analysis of the involvement of the brain catecholamines in tail-pinch behavior suggests that it is critically dependent on the nigrostriatal dopamine system.

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