What's the difference between mace and mate?

Mace


Definition:

  • (n.) A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains.
  • (n.) A kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. See Nutmeg.
  • (n.) A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor.
  • (n.) A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority.
  • (n.) An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.
  • (n.) A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
  • (n.) A rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These receptors were subdivided by their morphology in the next groups: pear-shaped receptors with capsule; capsuled spherical receptors located near vascular walls; ovoidal receptors with capsule and glomerular structure; simple or complex mace-shaped receptors without capsule.
  • (2) In the Commons, John McDonnell, the MP for Hayes and Harlington, covering Heathrow, was suspended for five days by the deputy speaker after he picked up the mace and shouted: "It is a disgrace."
  • (3) The two antimicrobial resorcinols malabaricone B [1] and malabaricone C [2] were isolated from mace, the dried seed covers of Myristica fragrans.
  • (4) The results demonstrate that MACE and DACE are effective photosensitizing agents in vitro and compare favorably to DHE.
  • (5) We are keepers of the peace, not soldiers,” says Mace Windu, apropos some urgent battle or other.
  • (6) Leukocytes from a normal donor, after passive sensitization with serum from patient M, released a substantial (greater than or equal to 50%) amount of histamine on challenge with extracts of coriander, mace, and curry powder.
  • (7) In addition, there was a significant increase in the SH content in the liver of mice fed on 1% BHA and 2% mace diets.
  • (8) Expressed in terms of oxygen depletion per cell the order was CASPc approximately PII greater than MACE.
  • (9) In a letter to the Guardian this week, Georgina Mace, professor of conservation science at Imperial College, London and Catherine Redgwell, professor of international law at UCL, said that investment in geo-engineering research had already begun and, "without international governance structures, schemes could soon be implemented unencumbered by the safeguards needed".
  • (10) Patterns of distribution and localization of MACE differ substantially from those observed with HPD and other hydrophobic sensitizers.
  • (11) Protesters trying to tend to the wounded were also maced.
  • (12) The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical effect of mace extract and egg-white lysozyme in two brands of chewing gum on gingival condition.
  • (13) We have treated 47 clinical stage I or IE patients with aggressive lymphoma histologies (diffuse large-cell, diffuse mixed, diffuse immunoblastic, follicular large-cell, diffuse small-non-cleaved cell) with four monthly cycles of an eight-drug combination chemotherapy program consisting of cyclophosphamide, etoposide, doxorubicin, nitrogen mustard (mechlorethamine), procarbazine, high-dose methotrexate with leucovorin rescue, and prednisone (Pro-MACE-MOPP) administered systemically followed by 40 Gy involved-field radiation therapy.
  • (14) Security companies have reported a 50% increase in sales of mace self-defence spray and an increased demand for armed security guards for malls and other public places, while restaurants and markets in areas judged dangerous have emptied.
  • (15) Bean was still tending to Martin’s brother’s stomach wound when they released mace into people’s faces, she told the Guardian.
  • (16) In the blood of 10 guinea pigs, which were exposed to the contents of chemical mace for 1--6 h, the solvants 1,1,2-trichloro-1,2,2-trifluorethane (freon 113) and 1,1,1-trichloroethane could easily be detected--even 23 h after the end of exposure or after a storage of the blood samples for 18 weeks--whereas the lacrimator chloracetophenone (CN) could not be found at all.
  • (17) So did Hezza's mace gesture: intended as one of despair, it looked like attempted bodily harm in the gloomy 10.30pm chamber of the pre-TV era.
  • (18) Forty-five previously untreated patients with intermediate or high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma were treated with the Pro-MACE-C-MOPP regimen (flexitherapy).
  • (19) Rodney Mace Hay-on-Wye, Brecknockshire • With the new wall being built in Hungary ( Work begins on border fence to block migrants , 14 July), I am reminded of a conversation I had with a woman whose family has owned, since the 1920s, the apartment where I spent the night a few years ago.
  • (20) Contact and systemic contact-type dermatitis reactions to spices such as nutmeg, mace, cardamom, curry, cinnamon, and laurel may be rare but may well be overlooked.

Mate


Definition:

  • (n.) The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, and is much used for tea in South America.
  • (n.) Same as Checkmate.
  • (a.) See 2d Mat.
  • (v. t.) To confuse; to confound.
  • (v. t.) To checkmate.
  • (n.) One who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associate; any object which is associated or combined with a similar object.
  • (n.) Hence, specifically, a husband or wife; and among the lower animals, one of a pair associated for propagation and the care of their young.
  • (n.) A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
  • (n.) An officer in a merchant vessel ranking next below the captain. If there are more than one bearing the title, they are called, respectively, first mate, second mate, third mate, etc. In the navy, a subordinate officer or assistant; as, master's mate; surgeon's mate.
  • (v. t.) To match; to marry.
  • (v. t.) To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
  • (v. i.) To be or become a mate or mates, especially in sexual companionship; as, some birds mate for life; this bird will not mate with that one.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He's Billy no-mates with a Heckler & Koch sniper-rifle, drowning in loneliness, booze and depression.
  • (2) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
  • (3) Adult nonpregnant female rhesus monkeys fed purified diets containing 100 or 4 ppm zinc for 1 yr were mated then studied through midgestation.
  • (4) Abnormal synaptonemal complexes were seen in all 19 crosses of N. crassa and N. intermedia that were examined, including matings between standard laboratory strains, inversions, Spore killers, and strains collected from nature.
  • (5) One hundred and ninety-six herd mates without RP served as controls.
  • (6) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
  • (7) To this end, a meiosis-defective mating-type mutation was used as a marker for the plus segment, by taking advantage of its suppressibility by a nonsense suppressor.
  • (8) Using allozymes as the genetic probe, data are presented which show that wild Drosophila buzzatii females and males engaged in copulation mate at random.
  • (9) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
  • (10) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
  • (11) Fumonisins are mycotoxins produced by strains belonging to several different mating populations of Gibberella fujikuroi (anamorphs, Fusarium section Liseola), a major pathogen of maize and sorghum worldwide.
  • (12) Transfer of the shuttle vectors from B. uniformis donors to E. coli occurred at the same frequencies when the matings were done aerobically or anaerobically.
  • (13) the does had been grazing on lucerne from the time of mating and received a free-choice lick, which included iodine.
  • (14) The present investigation examines the assortative mating coefficients for scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) from five separate studies.
  • (15) After irradiation by 137Cs gamma-rays at a dose of 5 Gy the males were mated to unirradiated females and genetic analysis of fertility in the F1 progeny was carried out.
  • (16) Swarming is a requisite for mating in populations of Aedes communis and Ae.
  • (17) Recombination between markers was observed in matings between phage beta and the heteroimmune corynebacteriophages gamma and L. In such matings between heteroimmune phages the c markers of phages beta and gamma failed to segregate from the imm markers which determine the specificity of lysogenic immunity in these phages.
  • (18) Labs that produce new legal highs use the simple expedient of giving them to their mates to test.
  • (19) On the basis of segregating phenotypes, the genetic potentials of these compatible nocardiae were ascertained as follows: the formation of a diploid with subsequent segregation of parental or haploid recombinant genomes or both; persistence of the diploid through many generations; continuing reassortment of genetic information by multiple matings between parental or recombinant organisms; and, very probably, second-round recombinations within the diploid.
  • (20) A test mating between two Manchester Terriers affected by Perthes' disease (PD) resulted in the birth of three affected males and two unaffected females.

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