What's the difference between pole and vole?

Pole


Definition:

  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.
  • (n.) A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See Maypole. (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers. (e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.
  • (n.) A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5/ yards, or a square measure equal to 30/ square yards; a rod; a perch.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops.
  • (v. t.) To convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn.
  • (v. t.) To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.
  • (v. t.) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
  • (n.) Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole.
  • (n.) A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian.
  • (n.) One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle.
  • (n.) The firmament; the sky.
  • (n.) See Polarity, and Polar, n.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two small populations of GLY + neurons were observed outside of the named nuclei of the SOC; one was located dorsal to the LSO, near its dorsal hilus, and the other was identified near the medial pole of the LSO.
  • (2) In 22 cases (63%), retinal detachment was at least partially flattened in the area of the posterior pole of the eye.
  • (3) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
  • (4) David Blunkett, not Straw, was the home secretary at the time the decision was taken to allow Poles and others immediate access to the British labour market.
  • (5) PYY-containing secretory granules were primarily found in the basal pole of open-type endocrine cells.
  • (6) Were he from Iceland, or from the north pole, then I would say he still had his ski boots on.
  • (7) A 40 year old female presented with secondary glaucoma and loss of vision due to anterior pole metastasis of breast carcinoma.
  • (8) A modification of a previously described curved ruler, the current model has a hinge for greater ease of maneuverability and a "T" piece on one end to facilitate measurement and marking of both poles of the muscle without repositioning the ruler.
  • (9) Two of them, the radiocapitate and deep radioscapholunate, insert on the scaphoid, whereas the collateral ligament courses to the distal pole of the scaphoid.
  • (10) Thus, the present observations provide histochemical evidence indicating an exclusive localization of calcium in mitochondria and tubulovesicular structures of the secretory ameloblast, and support their contributions to the translocation of calcium from the proximal to the distal pole of the cytoplasm.
  • (11) His balancing pole swayed uncontrollably, nearly tapping the sides of his feet.
  • (12) The retinal findings are quite similar to those found in diabetic retinopathy, except for unilaterality corresponding to the more obstructed artery and early onset in the retinal midzone rather than the posterior pole.
  • (13) Less marked lesions were however observed in distal tubules, particularly large vacuoles were present at the apical poles of the tubule cells, the sites of kallikrein secretion.
  • (14) The testicular vein--midway between the internal inguinal ring and the lower pole of the kidney--divides into the medial and lateral branch to form a delta.
  • (15) Probably there is a continuity of this system throughout the entire vascular pole including (1) all granulated cells, (2) all lacis cells, (3) the mesangium cells and (4) the adjacent smooth muscle cells of the vas afferens and vas efferens.
  • (16) In all of the old rats, but not in any of the young ones, symmetric high voltage activity was observed in the frontal pole of the cortex.
  • (17) Later, these vacuoles were divided into numerous vesicular spiral formation-centers, producing micronemes at the apical pole of young merozoites.
  • (18) Therefore, this nonrandom segregation to opposite poles can occur by mechanisms that do not involve DNA sequence homology.
  • (19) The intranuclear spindle of yeast has an electron-opaque body at each pole.
  • (20) All of these AChE positive fibers appeared to be related to the medial portions of the dorsal hippocampus from its septal pole to the dorsal psalterium.

Vole


Definition:

  • (n.) A deal at cards that draws all the tricks.
  • (v. i.) To win all the tricks by a vole.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of micelike rodents belonging to Arvicola and allied genera of the subfamily Arvicolinae. They have a thick head, short ears, and a short hairy tail.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is concluded that in its hormonal requirements for a successful DCR the bank vole is similar to the mouse.
  • (2) The concentrations of several acidic and neutral amino acids of brain, liver, and skeletal muscle were determined in field voles, Microtus montanus, and compared to values obtained from voles harboring a chronic infection of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense.
  • (3) Meadow vole dams, housed in a 14L:10D photoperiod were injected daily 3 h before onset of darkness with 10 micrograms melatonin.
  • (4) When female voles were allowed contact with the stud male for only 1 h at the time of mating, 55% exhibited pregnancy failure when exposed to a strange male 48 h later.
  • (5) Citing the noted study by Larry Young into voles, which went some way to proving their monogamy was a function of the way in which the hormone oxytocin was transmitted in the brain, Faulkes believes something similar will likely be revealed in the naked mole rats.
  • (6) Body mass and food intake increased substantially during pregnancy and lactation and the magnitude of the increase was unaffected by daylength; by contrast, body weight was significantly reduced in non-impregnated voles kept in short as compared to long days.
  • (7) The regression is less pronounced in voles than in shrews.
  • (8) Revertant vole cells appear morphologically similar to normal, uninfected cells, yet, like transformed vole cells, they are fully capable of growing in agar suspension and producing tumors in athymic nude mice.
  • (9) A survey in Essex in 2006 found most main rivers “utterly devoid of water voles”.
  • (10) The hypothesis that sex differences in maze learning result from sex differences in activity was tested with wild-caught prairie (Microtus ochrogaster) and meadow (M. pennsylvanicus) voles.
  • (11) Meadow voles exposed to house dust mites from the homes of patients did not develop serologic or pathologic evidence of infection due to rickettsiae in the spotted fever and typhus groups or Coxiella burnetii.
  • (12) The results suggest that in northern red-backed voles: the pineal does not mediate seasonal changes in thermogenic capacity, the pineal may mediate reduction of body weight and regression of reproductive organs but, in addition to day-length, other cues or factors may be important, populations may exhibit variability in sensitivity of reproduction to photoperiod which could allow for opportunistic breeding.
  • (13) Bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against the two envelope glycoproteins (G 1 and G 2) of the Puumala (PUU) virus were generated and characterized.
  • (14) Look and listen out for Little owls hunting voles and mice and badgers crossing over the summit from a set on the hillside below.
  • (15) The X chromosome of voles captured in Oregon was 39% longer than that of voles trapped in Washington.
  • (16) One vole of the 15 on the .001% PLCN treatment died.
  • (17) Water voles have recently been returned to Cornwall after being declared extinct in the county, to the South Downs national park and to Gwent in south Wales .
  • (18) Partial immunological cross-reaction was detected in a radioimmunoassay system between rat prolactin and either extracts of vole pituitaries or media on which vole pituitaries had been cultured; vole placental lactogen showed no cross-reaction with rat prolactin.
  • (19) For the first time in 30 years, and possibly longer, fresh water from deep underground is not filling the ditches and reedbeds of the 40-hectare reserve known for its bitterns, water voles and marsh harriers.
  • (20) The basic infective cycle of the parasite is a zoonosis between foxes as final hosts and small rodents such as common voles as intermediate hosts.

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