What's the difference between lice and nitpick?

Lice


Definition:

  • (n.) pl. of Louse.
  • (pl. ) of Louse

Example Sentences:

  • (1) CNS excitation and seizures, manifestations of organochlorine intoxication, can occur following ingestion or inappropriate application of the 1 per cent topical formulation of lindane used to treat scabies and lice.
  • (2) Twelve days after the first treatment the second treatment was carried out and the presence of head lice was examined for the evaluation of treatment effect.
  • (3) Subjects were inspected for evidence of live lice and eggs at 24 hours and 3 to 4 weeks after application of treatment.
  • (4) Over 60 forms of parasites were found out as follows: three species of blood parasites, 12 species of Coccidia, 8 species of cestodes, 12 species of nematodes, one species of Acanthocephalus, three species of chigger mites, 15 species of gamasid mites, 6 species of ixodid ticks, fleas and lice.
  • (5) Each group was exposed to 6 sheep with moderate to heavy infestations of lice.
  • (6) As these subjects were free of live lice infestation at previous follow-up visits it was highly probable that these were cases of re-infestation from another source.
  • (7) After postcuing, subjects sometimes report lane or lice, instead of the requested word line.
  • (8) Mortality with control solutions varied between 4 and 16% for both lice and eggs.
  • (9) Boys with medium length hair and girls with short hair showed the highest incidence of lice infestation.
  • (10) While we know today that lice do not discriminate between clean and dirty hair, parents and professionals react very negatively to the condition, and this feeling is transferred to children as indicated by their drawings.
  • (11) In summary, head lice can be readily infected with R. prowazeki and disseminate virulent R. prowazeki organisms in their feces.
  • (12) Groups of sheep infested with strains of Bovicola (Damalinia) ovis were obtained from flocks either with a history of failure to control lice with synthetic pyrethroid (SP) pour-on insecticides, or from farms where SP compounds were not used.
  • (13) The results indicate that both products are effective in the treatment of head lice infection and that the phenothrin shampoo would be a useful addition to the insecticides currently employed.
  • (14) The host specificity of the group is reviewed, including features of the natural history of lice and their hosts that may have influenced the evolution of host-parasite associations.
  • (15) If a practical method of applying the insecticide to the tip of wool can be developed, then this technique should provide an effective means of eradicating lice in sheep with long wool.
  • (16) They included the analyses of two nursing cows and their two newborn pups, three 2-month-old pups, and the sucking lice inhabiting these animals, Antarctophthirus callorhini and Proechinophthirus fluctus.
  • (17) Evaluation of the intervention program revealed a significant success in reducing head lice infestation that was not influenced by variation in socioeconomic status or place of residence.
  • (18) Between Days 5 and 9, 13 head lice were dead or moribund and all of them were positive by IF for R. prowazeki.
  • (19) of whom 2 patients (16.7%) gave positive skin reactions to lice extracts.
  • (20) Living lice and eggs were found in 19% of 2643 children examined in Israel.

Nitpick


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Not to nitpick, but this is missing the point of prosecution entirely.
  • (2) Read more The Archers summed it up very neatly when Helen gave evidence, saying: “Rob told me what I could eat, what I could wear, even where I would have my baby.” In any relationship there will be criticism, nitpicking and rows – but they are not relentless, like this.
  • (3) Nitpicking around the edges of a tiny budget is not an arts policy.
  • (4) They were scenes of great jubilation and it feels like nitpicking to point out the victory songs did not extend to serenading Moyes.
  • (5) But they are also cautious, aware that more and more UK employers now resort to legal action, nitpicking strike ballots in the American fashion for procedural errors.
  • (6) He swatted away nitpicking questions of fact, whispering such sweet reason that even the formal reprimand from the official statistics watchdog over the misleading claim that quitting Europe would allow us to “have back” £350m in membership fees began to seem like just one more opinion.
  • (7) "The Lords' decision recognises the effort and care with which the Journal's reporters and editors produced the story, and the importance of giving news organisations an incentive to produce serious journalism on compelling subjects of public concern without the risk of nitpicking and second guessing by courts years later."
  • (8) Maurice Allen, the chairman of the Poundbury Residents' Association, said he felt that some of the people who are complaining about their homes were "nitpicking".
  • (9) Make sure we know Aside from increasing the percentage of votes he wins, the second thing that Sanders needs to do is increase public awareness of his wins (and minimise nitpicking coverage – like this article – which adds caveats to his successes).
  • (10) Called to account, Sean Spicer dismissed the resulting outrage as the grumbling of “nitpickers”.
  • (11) Is the endless aggro that cab drivers get from some passengers really just a desperate attempt to overcompensate for the impotence of the backseat, to assert superiority – if only by nitpicking about whether this really is the fastest route to the station?
  • (12) The country is safer for it.” Spicer also attempted to defend a security decision to detain a young child, insisting: “The point is that you that can go through and nitpick, this individual or this, but that’s why we slow it down a little and to make sure that, if they are a five-year-old, that maybe they’re with their parents and they don’t pose a threat.
  • (13) As such, it looks like nitpicking to point out the ways Hyperloop ignores the lessons of conventional rail projects.
  • (14) Then, warming to their task, the British army of eurosceptics and nitpicking economists pronounce that the real test will be Italy rather than Greece.
  • (15) It's easy to nitpick and say we should have moved say BBC3 here etc, but we are where we are."
  • (16) Above all, he needs to get to grips with a profound gap between a terrifyingly ambitious project to forever re-tilt the balance between public and private, and Labour politicians who only seem able to take one of three options – staying silent, taking issue with the coalition's plans only on the basis of nitpicking, or making internecine mischief.

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