What's the difference between pellet and projectile?

Pellet


Definition:

  • (n.) A little ball; as, a pellet of wax / paper.
  • (n.) A bullet; a ball for firearms.
  • (v./.) To form into small balls.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A spindle cell sarcoma appeared 20 months after implantation of a pellet of 3-methylcholanthrene in the denervated foreleg of an adult frog, Rana pipiens.
  • (2) During periods of wet steam it was impossible to maintain consistent sterility of the mouse pellets even using a cycle of 126 degrees C for 60 minutes.
  • (3) The lambs of the second group were given 1200-1500 g of concentrate pellets and 300 g chopped wheat straw, and those of the third group were given 800 and 1050 g each of concentrate pellets, and 540 g and 720 g of pellets of whole maize plant containing 40 per cent.
  • (4) The wide variation in potency explains the variation found in absolute bioavailability, and the increase in release rate when the pellets are crushed explains the differences seen in peak plasma times, since the pellets will be chewed to varying degrees by the horse.
  • (5) Three or 14 months later, three pellets containing 75 mg base M were SC implanted into male rats treated neonatally with MSG or equimolar NaCl solution.
  • (6) The perchloric acid extracts of the cell pellets were examined by 13C NMR.
  • (7) a 45-mg pellet every 45 s) induces considerable locomotion, rearing and other motor activities in food-deprived rats.
  • (8) The use of the pellet binder "Lingnosol FG" in broiler diets at three levels plus a control group revealed differences in the consistency, quantity and color of the caecal contents between the treated and untreated groups.
  • (9) To investigate the physical state of water in hydrating biological macro-molecules, the dielectric properties of water in hen egg lysozyme pellets with various moisture contents were studied using the thermally stimulated depolarisation currents technique.
  • (10) The actual existence of the specific mitochondrial glyoxalase II was verified by showing that all of the activity of the crude mitochondrial pellet was still present in purified mitochondria prepared in a Ficoll gradient.
  • (11) The acetone pellet was solubilized using deoxycholate (DOC) and Thy-1.1 was purified by use of a Lens culinaris lectin affinity column and an AcA-34 gel filtration column.
  • (12) A second crystalline material was observed within cells in the 15,000 X g pellet from spinal fluid.
  • (13) Subcutaneously implanted pellets containing the thyroid hormone thyroxine or the thyrotoxic agent propylthiouracil were used to induce hyper- or hypothyroidism in rats.
  • (14) These data suggest that the positive relationship between pelleted feeds and incidence of ascites observed at high altitudes also exists at lower elevations.
  • (15) Enzymes that pelleted more in myogen preparations than as individual purified enzymes in the presence of poly(ethylene glycol) and the absence of F-actin were tested for specific enzyme-enzyme associations, several of which were observed.
  • (16) The method is based on sonification of bacterial suspension in the presence of lysozyme and EDTA and subsequent extraction of the pellet with boiling water.
  • (17) Chartainvilliers) given either chopped (CL) or ground (1.96 mm screen) and pelleted (PL), was measured in a comparative slaughter experiment.
  • (18) This group consisted of 101 cases of whom 38 underwent semen treatment with Centrifugation on a Discontinuous Percoll Gradient (CDPG) and 63 with Pellet Swim-up (PS); the control group was made up of 31 normospermic patients where the semen was treated by PS.
  • (19) The best combination of tracers for this purpose was demonstrated to be: HRP-pellet implantation in the rostral cortex, iron-dextran injections into the striatum and [3H]WGA injections into the rostral RT.
  • (20) By simultaneously pushing the foot bar and pulling the hand bar, the monkey lifts a weight and triggers a microswitch which releases a banana-flavored food pellet into a well close to the animal's mouth.

Projectile


Definition:

  • (a.) Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force.
  • (a.) Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion.
  • (n.) A body projected, or impelled forward, by force; especially, a missile adapted to be shot from a firearm.
  • (n.) A part of mechanics which treats of the motion, range, time of flight, etc., of bodies thrown or driven through the air by an impelling force.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Motor axons possessed elongate, irregularly shaped boutons en passant and morphologically variable boutons terminaux; the latter included huge endings with knobbed projectiles arising from thick collaterals, or smaller, round boutons from thin collaterals.
  • (2) The drug was administered from a distance by means of a projectile syringe shot from a special rifle.
  • (3) The bomb – known as an explosively formed projectile – is similar to devices used by Islamic insurgents to kill British and US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
  • (4) 223 of the Austrian army serves to demonstrate and discuss the wound ballistic effects in relation to the altered behaviour of the projectile.
  • (5) A 5-year-old boy presented with a 7-month history of headache and projectile vomiting.
  • (6) As rioters continued to torch vehicles and stone police lines several officers were injured by projectiles.
  • (7) Young people kept throwing rocks at police; the police fired projectiles.
  • (8) As friends start preparing for baby number two, I remember the sleepless nights, the toxic nappies and the projectile vomiting phase, and I'm fairly sure we've made the right decision.
  • (9) Asked to clarify Belmar’s remarks, Officer Brian Schellman, a spokesman for the county force, said in an email: “The Chief said we did not use rubber bullets, which are large rubber projectiles shot from the barrel of a firearm, which we did not use.
  • (10) (1) In sections showing no atherosclerotic changes, projectiles from hand weapons and from .22 calibre rimfire rifles leave remarkably small holes (comparable to the orifices of the intercostal arteries); in areas with sclerotic plaques the bullet holes are considerably larger.
  • (11) This initial study suggests that low- and high-velocity projectiles produce different types of tissue debris, with much more fragmentation and scarcity of cellular components in the high-velocity rounds.
  • (12) For fixed-diameter projectiles, very slow and high velocities produced minimal abrasion width.
  • (13) This calculation assumes that the nuclear interactions of the incident particles lead to a secondary particle with the velocity of the incident projectile at the interaction point moving in the direction of the incident projectile.
  • (14) An ambulance arrived at SMC hospital with penetrating damage from what seemed to be a large projectile.
  • (15) The solvent characteristics of synovial fluid and associated local arthritis are apparently important factors in the dissolution and absorption of lead from projectiles located in joints.
  • (16) Shami said rebels still had "secret lines" that allowed in food and weapons, and that they were making some projectiles in rudimentary workshops within the neighbourhood.
  • (17) The effects of the two projectiles at 7.7'' twist were found similar in soap; the SS 109 produced more tissue damage than the M 193 missile.
  • (18) The authors reconstruct this evolutionary process as a series of "bifurcation points" of either constraints or opportunities forming a sequence of preconditions for the formation of a high-speed projectile tongue characteristic of tropical salamanders.
  • (19) This article was amended on 21 November 2016 to clarify that Sophia Wilansky’s father told the Guardian that she was injured by a projectile, which North Dakota law enforcement denies.
  • (20) The women were killed by automatic rifle fire and grenades, and the bodies of the two men were blown up by a hand rocket-launcher projectiles.