What's the difference between mattock and pickax?

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.

Pickax


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Pickaxe

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It has recently been jigsawed together and displayed for only the second time in its history after it was pickaxed from a wall of Keynsham railway station in 1851.
  • (2) At the bottom of the sandy dunes sit wide turquoise craters, looked over by gritty hills where haphazard tents made from tarpaulins and thatch serve as shelters for the men descending into the hollowed-out pools with pickaxes and buckets.
  • (3) Mandla Mandela called a press conference in Mvezo village a day after the sheriff of the local court used a pickaxe to force open the gates of his homestead so the bones of Mandela's three late children, including his father, Makgatho Mandela, who died in 2005, could be exhumed.
  • (4) The vast government compound in Pangkal Pinang is built on a reclaimed mine, and even here men with pickaxes can be seen digging when officials aren't looking.
  • (5) They are, as the builders of Timbuktu say, “God’s gift to the poor for building.” The only expense involved in collecting the material – which is cut from the ground with pickaxes, rather like peat – is the amount charged by local tip-truck operators and their labourers.
  • (6) Smoke billowed from vehicles nearby, and men used pickaxes and whatever tools they could find to try to tear down the walls of the mosque.
  • (7) The Scottish tax adviser said his hands and feet were caned and beaten with a pickaxe handle.
  • (8) israel jerusalem unrest At one stage the Guardian witnessed a group of masked youths with pickaxes attacking the railway stop.
  • (9) Under a pounding midday sun, about a dozen men and women watched as an older man plunged a pickaxe into the heavy soil.
  • (10) Eriu says Amref gave out sanitation kits, which included pickaxes, spades, a wheelbarrow and a hoe.
  • (11) Angry after being shouted at by Konrad during the exercise, Kenyon responded by plunging a pickaxe into his skull.
  • (12) If you work slowly, he says, “your characters will take a pickaxe to everything you thought you knew.” Klay’s interest in (and deference to) experiences of the war at odds with his own is very much part of his project.

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