What's the difference between jump and prick?

Jump


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of loose jacket for men.
  • (n.) A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.
  • (v. i.) To spring free from the ground by the muscular action of the feet and legs; to project one's self through the air; to spring; to bound; to leap.
  • (v. i.) To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to jolt.
  • (v. i.) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; -- followed by with.
  • (v. t.) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a stream.
  • (v. t.) To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch.
  • (v. t.) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
  • (v. t.) To join by a butt weld.
  • (v. t.) To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
  • (v. t.) To bore with a jumper.
  • (n.) The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
  • (n.) An effort; an attempt; a venture.
  • (n.) The space traversed by a leap.
  • (n.) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
  • (n.) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
  • (a.) Nice; exact; matched; fitting; precise.
  • (adv.) Exactly; pat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
  • (2) The deep green people who have an issue with the language of natural capital are actually making the same jump from value to commodification that they state that they don’t want ... They’ve equated one with the other,” he says.
  • (3) Results on resting blood pressure, serum lipids, vital capacity, flexibility, upper body strength, and vertical jump tests were comparable to values found for the sedentary population.
  • (4) It is shown that the combined effects of altitude and wind assistance yielded an increment in the length of the jump of about 31 cm, compared to a corresponding jump at sea level under still air conditions.
  • (5) Proper maintenance of body orientation was defined to be achieved if the net angular displacement of the head-and-trunk segment was zero during the flight phase of the long jump.
  • (6) Analysis of this mutant illustrates that indirect flight muscles and jump muscles utilize different mechanisms for alternative RNA splicing.
  • (7) By 2014-15 that number had jumped to 16,500 and a rate of 345 per 100,000 people.
  • (8) The deal will also be scrutinised to see if its claims of new billions to jump start world economies prove to be inflated.
  • (9) The effects of Urocalun and jumping exercise upon the passage of calculi were studied.
  • (10) Godiya Usman, an 18-year-old finalist who jumped off the back of the truck, said she feels trapped by survivor's guilt.
  • (11) flexion, stretch, rolling, startle, jumping (stepping), and writhing.
  • (12) 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.
  • (13) The intracerebroventricular injection of Tyr-Phe-NHOH alone (0.17 mumol, 60 micrograms) does not significantly modify the jump latency time as compared to the control.
  • (14) Abrupt withdrawal jumping behavior in morphine-dependent mice is accompanied by a decrease in brain dopamine turnover and an increase in brain dopamine level which parallel strain differences in jumping incidence.
  • (15) Another military veteran, Brett Puffenbarger, 29, said: “I jumped on Trump train fairly early on.
  • (16) In type V, dysrhythmic nystagmus develops and the visual line often jumps over several targets without fixation.
  • (17) Poor preparation of the jump may have contributed to the accidents.
  • (18) injection of phenylbenzoquinone, (6) forepaw licking and jump latencies on a hot plate.
  • (19) For direct measurement of the ESR signal of superoxide anion (O2-) produced in biological samples, O2- generated at a physiological pH was trapped in alkaline media instead of by a rapid freezing method, and then its signal was measured by ESR spectroscopy at 77 K. A reaction mixture for O2- generation, such as xanthine oxidase-xanthine and neutrophils, was incubated at a physiological pH (pH 7.0-7.5) for a suitable reaction period (30s), then an aliquot (300 microliters) was pipetted out and squirted into 600 microliters of 0.5 M NaOH to stabilize O2- (pH-jump).
  • (20) The treatment effects of continuous bite jumping with the Herbst appliance in the correction of Class II malocclusions have been analysed in previous investigations.

Prick


Definition:

  • (v.) That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.
  • (v.) The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse.
  • (v.) A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point.
  • (v.) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
  • (v.) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
  • (v.) A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch.
  • (v.) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English translations of Euclid.
  • (v.) The footprint of a hare.
  • (v.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco.
  • (n.) To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper.
  • (n.) To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board.
  • (n.) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off.
  • (n.) To mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition.
  • (n.) To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off.
  • (n.) To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
  • (n.) To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; -- said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; -- hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged.
  • (n.) To render acid or pungent.
  • (n.) To dress; to prink; -- usually with up.
  • (n.) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail.
  • (n.) To trace on a chart, as a ship's course.
  • (n.) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
  • (n.) To nick.
  • (v. i.) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks.
  • (v. i.) To spur onward; to ride on horseback.
  • (v. i.) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
  • (v. i.) To aim at a point or mark.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results have implications in utilizing codeine phosphate as a positive skin prick test control for allergy testing.
  • (2) The diagnosis of occupational allergy was based on history, skin prick tests and RAST to the pollen.
  • (3) Prick tests performed on 16 different condom brands showed that 4 brands caused positive reactions in 52-67% of patients.
  • (4) One hundred and forty-four had non-allergic and 69 allergic asthma verified retrospectively by positive skin prick test in 1988.
  • (5) The results of this investigation are clearly in contrast to earlier earlier reports, in that there was a very good correlation between prick test, RAST and case history.
  • (6) The prick tests, using both commercial allergens and specific extracts prepared from the most common types of coffee and their corresponding sacks, confirmed a sensitization in 21 workers (9.6%).
  • (7) There were statistically significant exposure-response relations between exposure and symptoms from eyes and upper airways, dry cough, positive skin prick test, and specific IgE and IgG antibodies.
  • (8) The effect of 4.4 mg azelastine administered orally on airway responsiveness, skin prick testing, daily peak expiratory flow rates and symptoms of asthma was compared with placebo in a 7 week double-blind, parallel group study of 24 patients with extrinsic asthma.
  • (9) Subjective pain ratings of mucosal pin-prick decreased a surprisingly small degree after application of both solutions.
  • (10) Having said that, though, the man is clearly a bit of a prick and one with a serial addiction to publicity."
  • (11) In allergologic out-patient departments of Dubrovnik, Split, Sibenik, Zadar, Pula and Rijeka, 300 patients with pollinosis have been tested by the application of the prick method of group allergens of grass, tree and weed pollen, particularly of Parietariae (pellitory) pollen.
  • (12) In comparison with conventional allergen preparations immunologically characterized allergens were tested by skin-prick-tests for reactions.
  • (13) Exclusion of asthmatics and taking into account smoking and skin prick test positivity yielded mostly similar results.
  • (14) The results of the Phadezym-RAST and IgE-Quick correlated very well (r = 0.96) and both in-vitro methods corresponded to the Skin-Prick-Test (greater than 90%).
  • (15) Throughout history there have been periods of wild exuberance followed by the pricking of bubbles.
  • (16) By skin prick testing comparable results were obtained with both extracts.
  • (17) In both groups of patients, there was a low incidence of the causes of post-cordotomy pain recurrence contralateral to the lesion, i.e., deafferentation pain, fading of analgesia, and pain above the levels up to which deep pin-prick analgesia had been obtained.
  • (18) In making a computerized cephalometric analysis, first the film should be traced, and the landmarks pricked and manually digitalized into an X-Y coordinate system.
  • (19) Sections of eggs, fixed 20 to 60 s following fertilization or pricking, show that the tubular cisternae have disappeared and the clusters of cisternae have opened to give rise to longer cisternae arranged in chains.
  • (20) Bronchial responsiveness to histamine and skin prick test reactions to airborne allergens were measured in a random population sample of 891 adults and 1293 schoolchildren.