What's the difference between pow and wow?

Pow


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) He best be careful out there, because one of these days, POW, RIGHT IN THE KISSER!
  • (2) Nevertheless, persistent psychiatric sequelae (especially psychoneurosis but also schizophrenia) are the more notable and pervasive for both Pacific World War II POW's and Korean War POW's as seen not only in elevated hospital admission rates but also in VA disability awards and in symptoms reported on the cornell Medical Index Health Questionnaire.
  • (3) Examined are a variety of clinical issues in the diagnosis and treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) of former prisoners of war (POWs).
  • (4) Ten drug-free former American prisoners of war (POWs), captured on Bataan and Corregidor by the Japanese in World War II, participated in a study of the relationship between structural brain abnormalities on computerized axial tomographic (CT) scans and sleep electroencephalographic (EEG) findings.
  • (5) Malarial transmission was, however, intense in both groups, though more so in POW.
  • (6) All sera were negative for antibodies to POW virus.
  • (7) The study finds that depressive symptomatology, as measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, is elevated in World War II POWs from the Pacific and European theaters and in Korean conflict POWs.
  • (8) Later that day, my father lost all memory of his time as a PoW.
  • (9) Satisfactory estimates of pesticides' fish toxicity are obtained from log POW-dependent QSARs derived using chemicals of similar polarity and reactivity.
  • (10) As assistant bacteriologist and ex-POW he joined the British regimental hospital in Bangkok.
  • (11) But looking back it was a terrible thing to have happened.” Medical staff preserved the POWs’ corpses in formaldehyde for future use by students, but at the end of the war the remains were quickly cremated, as doctors attempted to hide evidence of their crimes.
  • (12) Although POW in fallers was significantly lower at the higher velocity in both joints, the decrease was most prominent in the ankles.
  • (13) However, the subscale fails to distinguish between Pacific and European POW veterans.
  • (14) There is even a carving on a trunk done by German POWs.
  • (15) A random sample of 170 surviving members of the captured Eighth Division of the Australian Army residing in Sydney in 1983 (POWs) was compared with a similar sample of 172 veterans who fought in Southeast Asia during the war but were not imprisoned (non-POWs).
  • (16) To examine the prevalence of long-term physical and emotional consequences of captivity in this population, the authors analyzed medical and psychiatric examination data for 426 former POWs.
  • (17) POWs had more duodenal ulcers than controls but otherwise their physical health was similar, as was their age-adjusted mortality in the post-war years.
  • (18) Dorsiflexion POW production in fallers was the most affected of all the motions (7.5 times less than the control value).
  • (19) On the afternoon of 15 August, hours after the emperor had announced Japan’s surrender, more than a dozen other American POWs held in Fukuoka camps were taken to a mountainside execution site and beheaded.
  • (20) In addition to problems with cognitive deficits and complaints of bodily discomfort, most common among POW survivors were symptoms of suspiciousness, apprehension, confusion, isolation, detachment, and hostility.

Wow


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 9.23am GMT Second set: Murray* 3-6, 2-1 Federer (*denotes server): Wow.
  • (2) We used to watch River Cottage on the telly and thought: “Wow, where’s that?
  • (3) We said before the game, life’s horrible, it’s really tough sometimes; you get a kick in the teeth just when you think you’ve made it and, wow, did we get a kick in the teeth in our semi-final.
  • (4) Surely - famous last words alert - his distance of 8.06m isn't going to win this... 8.08pm BST Wow!
  • (5) And I thought, ‘Wow, that’s the woman I knew was there.’” Did it affect Peake’s own attitude towards men?
  • (6) Ali Mason (@alimason) Wow, Joe Buck is especially keen for us to live más today.
  • (7) Not even a David Freese who is a shadow of the player who wowed the world in the 2011 World Series.
  • (8) Q has upped his gadget game Facebook Twitter Pinterest The brooding and sombre Skyfall scored a few points for post-modern playfulness via its introductory scene for the new Q, in which Ben Whishaw might as well have offered Bond a couple of Netflix vouchers and a year’s subscription to Cosmopolitan for all the wow factor his proffered “gadgets” achieved.
  • (9) (Oh wow, note to self: trademark a version of American Football where players have to crawl or walk on their hands.)
  • (10) 2.43am GMT 49ers 17-23 Seahawks, 2:00, 4th quarter Wow!
  • (11) They tend to have something magical, that makes you go: ‘Wow.
  • (12) In the popular imagination she was a dippy woman who waved her arms a lot, sang in a shrieky voice and said wow every other word.
  • (13) He brought so much joy and heart to millions... Just, wow.
  • (14) At the end of the concert, this guy comes over with long hair and lipstick and he says ‘Hi how are you doing, I’m Brian Eno.’ I thought wow this is poetic justice … here’s Brian Eno listening to me, that’s great.
  • (15) 2.04am BST Heat 35-34 Spurs, 4:54 remaining, 2nd quarter Oh wow.
  • (16) The asymmetric phase shift in the model studied tends to accompany an improvement in the modulation transfer function (MTF) in the midfrequency region while introducing "wows" into the image.
  • (17) Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) The media is so after me on women Wow, this is a tough business.
  • (18) At least half the Tory party thinks you're not completely messing up the economy … Osborne: Wow!
  • (19) China appears to have spared no expense in its bid to wow the world.
  • (20) A recent visit to Hamleys' new dolls area turned up a bumper brash-pack of new fashion dolls from the big companies: LaDeeDa Dolls (a swift move by SpinMaster), buzzing Flitter Fairies (Wow Stuff), glow-in-the-dark Bratzillaz (a brazen MGA fast-follow of the huge Mattel Monster High), Ever After High (Mattel), flashing Novi Stars (also MGA, alien dolls with Camden market hair springs and extensions) and all sorts of blinky, noisy merch spinoffs.

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