What's the difference between movie and pix?

Movie


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Right from the beginning, I had been mad about movies.
  • (2) Movies such as Concussion , about the dissatisfactions of a bourgeois lesbian marriage, are already starting to ask these questions.
  • (3) It's the roughly $2bn in revenue grossed by his blockbuster movies, some of which he had to be talked into making.
  • (4) "The best artists, the best writers, the best directors are coming from movies and into television.
  • (5) I think a long time ago television passed up movies in terms of a reasonable and balanced portrayal of gay characters.
  • (6) (3) A 2006 Bobcat movie in which the lead ... pampers her pooch.
  • (7) Losing Murphy is a blow to the Oscars which has struggled to liven up its image amid a general decline in its TV ratings over the last couple of decades and a rush of awards shows that appeal to younger crowds, such as the MTV Movie Awards.
  • (8) It's not a great stretch to see parallels between the movie's set-up and the film industry in 2012: disposable teens are manipulated into behaving in certain ways, before being degraded and dispatched, all the while being remotely observed by middle-aged men, gambling on their fates.
  • (9) Fields said: "The assertions that Tom Cruise likened making a movie to being at war in Afghanistan is a gross distortion of the record... What Tom said, laughingly, was that sometimes, 'That's what it feels like.'"
  • (10) Later this month sees the release in the US of Star Trek Beyond – Yelchin’s most high-profile movie to be released posthumously.
  • (11) Mockingjay Part 1 may simply be suffering due to the huge success earlier this year of the latest Transformers movie, which made a colossal $301m in China .
  • (12) "In the UK our long-term competition will likely be Sky Go offering Sky Movies and Sky Atlantic on demand," he said.
  • (13) The "Be Kind Rewind Protocol", as he calls it, involves setting up small studios with modest sets and facilities – props, back-projection footage, video cameras – so that groups of people can make their own amateur movies together according to anti-auteurist rules drawn up by Gondry.
  • (14) A week after the New York Film Critics Circle gave the movie its top award, a liberal political commentator wrote: "I'm betting that Dick Cheney will love [the film, which is] a far, far cry from the rousing piece of pro-Obama propaganda that some conservatives feared it would be."
  • (15) A few days later he tweeted : "People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it.
  • (16) He admitted the increased profile afforded him by appearances in movies such as Captain America , its forthcoming sequel The Winter Soldier and 2012's $1.5bn superhero ensemble piece The Avengers had helped him get a foot on the ladder as a film-maker.
  • (17) With movies it was Adolph Zukor, who created the Hollywood studio system.
  • (18) However, some will be disappointed not to see the new movies from Terrence Malick, Emir Kusturica, Fatih Akin and Roy Andersson.
  • (19) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
  • (20) Relatives of some victims have expressed anger with Jenkins for choosing not to talk to them: "But, you know, it's not a movie about them.

Pix


Definition:

  • (n. & v.) See Pyx.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Proton induced X-ray emission (PIXE) analyses were performed on single hair fibers in triplicate from 103 individuals in order to determine sulfur, zinc, calcium, and chlorine content.
  • (2) quinone complex (X) was chemically reduced (state [PIX-]; P is the reaction center bacteriochlorophyll dimer, I is the long wavelength bacteriopheophytin), and compares these with the fluorescence observed when all the traps are open (state [PIX]) and with the fluorescence observed when all the traps are closed (state [P+IX]).
  • (3) The effect of dietary zinc deficiency on the mossy fiber zinc content of the rat hippocampus was investigated using PIXE (Particle Induced X-Ray Emission) spectroscopy.
  • (4) The great advantage of PIXE analysis in studying physiologically important trace elements such as Zn, Mg, Fe, and Cu is underlined.
  • (5) These viruses are the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), Western Equine Encephalitis (WEE), St. Louis Encephalitis (SLE), Mucambo (MUC) and Pixuna (PIX).
  • (6) A microwave acid digestion method for the preparation of biological samples for PIXE analysis is presented.
  • (7) The trace elements of both calcified atherosclerotic plaques and plaque-free vessel walls of the carotid bifurcation from 31 autopsies were investigated using the proton-induced X-ray emission (PIXE) method.
  • (8) In contrast, efficient transcription was observed in the cells transfected with a replicating plasmid containing the pIX gene.
  • (9) Antioxidant status can be evaluated by blood selenium, vitamins A and E. The level of selenium was determined in whole blood, erythrocytes and plasma of 170 French people (70-95 years old) healthy and with intercurrent illness, by using PIXE (proton-induced X-ray emission analysis).
  • (10) Deletion of either the sequence between positions -45 and -70 or the TATA box abolished the initiation of pIX gene transcription in vivo and transcription with HeLa cell nuclear extracts in vitro.
  • (11) Large samples of tissue and biopsy specimen were taken from a single human liver, homogenized or paraffin-embedded, then analyzed by PIXE.
  • (12) Plasmid constructs containing the pIX gene with deletions in the SP1 or TATA sites were defective in pIX mRNA production in transient expression assays.
  • (13) Particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE) allows accurate determination of various elements including iron in cells and biological fluids.
  • (14) Particle-induced x-ray emission (PIXE) was used to determine the trace element content of bovine retinal disk membranes.
  • (15) A minor capsid protein, pIX, was unable to substitute in assembly of the heterologous phage.
  • (16) The femoral bone from the 18-day pregnancy embryo and an rib cartilage of mature mice have been investigated using PIXE (proton induced X-ray emission) in combination with a proton microprobe on snap frozen cryosectioned material.
  • (17) The PIX virus has the lowest prevalence and, it was isolated in only a few cases, one being from a laboratory infection.
  • (18) The spatial distribution of platinum (Pt) in the kidney was studied by an autoradiographic technique, in which cisplatin (CDDP) was replaced by 195mPt-labeled CDDP, and by proton-induced X-ray emission (PIXE).
  • (19) The multielemental capability of PIXE allows the analysis time per element to be very low if a number of elements are detected in each sample.
  • (20) Apart from studies on aerosols, the majority of applications of proton induced X-ray emission (PIXE) with a normal beam or a microprobe (micro-PIXE) is found in biology and medicine.

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