What's the difference between poking and poxing?

Poking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Poke
  • (a.) Drudging; servile.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Experts on the red web share their views Read more Earlier this year student Ruslan Starostin posted an image poking fun at Putin on VKontakte.
  • (2) Kim Kardashian: Hollywood could benefit from a sharper script and more willingness – or freedom, which may be the issue given the game’s official status – to poke at the culture it’s representing.
  • (3) Agüero’s run was as strong as it was skilful, beating four attempted tacklers in a drive into the penalty area that ended with him poking the ball past Ruddy as the goalkeeper came out to narrow the angle.
  • (4) As Cavani was shunted of the ball, it broke to Suarez, who aimed a quick-witted toe-poke at the bottom corner from 15 yards, only to be denied by Buffon, who showed tremendous agility to plunge to his right and tip it around the post!
  • (5) A Cairo heart surgeon inspired by the US news programme The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has captivated Egyptian viewers with a new style of satirical TV show poking fun at politicians on air for the first time.
  • (6) Two measures of exploration (rearing, nose poking) were recorded during a single brief exposure.
  • (7) Previously a cover-up and reworking of a tattoo beneath, when she was performing across the UK with Girls Aloud in February , you could see the bold work in progress poking above her backless stage costumes.
  • (8) Nose-poke responses with stimulation of the non-lesioned MPC were just about normal.
  • (9) ForzaVista is back, but it's been hugely expanded allowing players to poke around every nook and cranny of every car in the game.
  • (10) Juan nearly pokes a backpass past an advancing Julio Cesar; the keeper does well to hack clear.
  • (11) Silva c Prior b Anderson 13 (Sri Lanka 37-1) Anderson continues for the eighth and presumably final over of his opening spell and again he beats the bat with successive deliveries, drawing a checked drive outside off then a cautious poke.
  • (12) Even if that means poking the front half of the pantomime horse where it hurts.
  • (13) The three young men were trying to get to grips with a troubling scene in which they lark about with a baby in its pram, poking it, pulling off its nappy, goading each other until they stone it to death.
  • (14) Within a few minutes, I had them picking up crabs and poking anenomes.
  • (15) Only they who love without desire shall have power granted them in their darkest hour!” As I have confessed before, in 1992 I was a gag writer on a doomed Channel 4 show, A Pig in a Poke .
  • (16) Lochhead nips in to poke the pass out of the striker's reach.
  • (17) Suárez conjured space on the left of the box and his cross-shot bounced off the post and out to Downing, who sidestepped two defenders before firing a shot that Kenny beat into the path of Kuyt, who poked the ball in from five yards.
  • (18) And when the US president pokes his finger in this one, it is a hornets nest.” Shen Dingli, a prominent Chinese foreign policy expert from Shanghai’s Fudan University, told the New York Times such behaviour from Trump could not be tolerated once he reached the White House.
  • (19) "We will share a monarch, we will share a currency and, under our proposals, we will share a social union, but we won't have diktats from Westminster for Scotland and we won't have Scottish MPs poking their nose into English business in the House of Commons," said Salmond.
  • (20) Poke about at the right ancient monuments and you will find reference to dates that go back billions and billions of years.

Poxing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pox

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Electron microscopical examination showed the presence of typical pox virions in affected epidermal cells.
  • (2) The NIa-like protein of plum pox virus is a protease with high sequence specificity that is autocatalytically released from the viral polyprotein.
  • (3) Significant increased risks were associated with a history of herpes zoster infection (odds ratio (OR): 2.3, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.1-4.9), chicken-pox (OR: 2.1, 95% CI: 1.2-4.1) and mumps (OR: 2.0, 95% CI: 1.1-3.8).
  • (4) Pox virus isolated from psittacine birds was used as a vaccine in trials with love birds (Agapornis roseicollis).
  • (5) Ecthyma contagiosum, or orf, is an uncommon dermatosis resulting from cutaneous infection with sheep pox virus.
  • (6) As suggested from the high level of sequence similarity of these viral proteins with the recently described superfamilies of helicase-like proteins (3-5), the NTBM-containing cylindrical inclusion (CI) protein from plum pox virus (PPV), which belongs to the potyvirus group of positive strand RNA viruses, is shown to be able to unwind RNA duplexes.
  • (7) Pth and Pox induced pulmonary edema by increasing endothelium permeability without changing the hemodynamic parameters at any level of the vascular bed.
  • (8) We have measured glomerular filtration rate (GFR), extracellular fluid volume (ECF), oxalate distribution volume (OxDV), plasma oxalate concentration (POx.
  • (9) A total of 45 of the 60 birds in the aviary developed pox lesions around the beaks and eyes.
  • (10) The immune response of chicks to oral vaccination with HP1-strain of fowl pox virus was studied using intracellular virus alone or a combination of intra and extracellular viruses.
  • (11) Rhesus monkeys immunized with the soluble fraction elicited virus-neutralizing (1:1,200), complement-fixing (1:16), and hemagglutinating-inhibiting (1:80 to 1:160) antibody titers and were completely protected against monkey pox virus-induced disease.
  • (12) On the other hand, the binding of GuoPP[CH2]Pox to EF-2 inhibited all of these reactions strongly.
  • (13) There was no significant difference between immediate prehaemodialysis POx and the POx in the CAPD patients.
  • (14) A trypsinized preparation of Mycobacterium phlei, non specific stimulator of immunity (NSI), and Sheep Pox Virus (SPV) were inoculated in different groups of sheep to activate B-lymphocytes and induce SPV neutralizing substance(s).
  • (15) An infection of cattle by transmission of vaccinia virus from milkers vaccinated against small pox is reported.
  • (16) They refer to an outbreak of sheep-pox at Rackwitz, a place near his practice at Wollstein (Fig.
  • (17) The compounds also protected mice against lethal mengovirus infection and against the development of experimental pox lesions on the tail.
  • (18) For a rapid proving of the pig pox virus in the skin of naturally infected pigs, the simple electron microscopic method of negative staining was used.
  • (19) The POX1 gene encodes a 84-kDa POX protein composed of 748 amino acids.
  • (20) Several avian viruses (infectious bursal disease virus, Newcastle disease virus, Canary pox virus, and reovirus) formed plaques under agar.

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