What's the difference between pram and vehicle?

Pram


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Prame

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) If you have young kids, bring a booster seat, as prams and pushchairs aren't allowed inside.
  • (3) Parish's (1972) Revised PRAM II did not detect any change, but Williams' (1971) PRAM II demonstrated a significant reduction in anti-Afro-American attitudes for those Ss who received 8 conditioning sessions.
  • (4) Prams triggered low-grade, non-specific anxiety: they were vehicles of entrapment.
  • (5) At our best we use it to spur on creativity, at our worst we launch our toys out of the pram and become drama queens instead of dramatists, citing conspiracy theories and the powers that be for destroying our work.
  • (6) Her baby daughter was also kitted out in Burberry, and Westbrook had a beige-check pram.
  • (7) Pickup, now 71, recalls the "horrible, infinitesimal detail of how accurate you had to be, partly because you didn't want stones bouncing off the pram into the audience".
  • (8) I mention David Miliband (whose claim for a £199 pram was rejected) and Jack Straw (who paid only half the amount of council tax he claimed back in allowances over four years – he apologised and repaid the difference).
  • (9) From there, it was a short hop to the repopularisation of the kind of archetypes that, in the 80s, were the preserve of boneheaded Tory MPs - not least that of the "Pram Face", defined on the website Urban Dictionary as "a girl who is a little rough round the edges and wouldn't look at all out of place at 14 years of age pushing a newborn through a council estate".
  • (10) New parents also face a £9,152 bill during the first twelve months of their new baby's life, taking into account expenditure on equipment such as buggies, cots and prams etc.
  • (11) The kindergarten teacher suffered a 5cm gash to her right hand, after intervening to stop a firework exploding in her three-year-old’s pram.
  • (12) These criminals are putting knives in kids hands, and the prams.
  • (13) The best casual game designers never assume that the player's attention will be fully on the game; they may be on the bus or even pushing a pram.
  • (14) Pavements and public transport become yours (I was once asked to get off a bus so a woman with a pram could get on, but let's not re-enact that ugly scene here) and the world can't get enough of you.
  • (15) Some claim that the pram in the hall is the enemy of art.
  • (16) The camera cuts back to show that alongside her in the gloom are other figures – but these are swathed in burkas, pushing prams.
  • (17) With the benefit of hindsight, Kid A's wilful racket now recalls the clatter of a rattle being thrown from a pram.
  • (18) I run in the dark with my iPod in full view and, like most Danish mothers, I would leave Liv sleeping in a pram outside a cafe.
  • (19) Three cases of accidental strangulation of children in prams are described.
  • (20) But that's very British – pram races, sea-boot races and a Jack in the Green festival that has very ancient roots.

Vehicle


Definition:

  • (n.) That in or on which any person or thing is, or may be, carried, as a coach, carriage, wagon, cart, car, sleigh, bicycle, etc.; a means of conveyance; specifically, a means of conveyance upon land.
  • (n.) That which is used as the instrument of conveyance or communication; as, matter is the vehicle of energy.
  • (n.) A substance in which medicine is taken.
  • (n.) Any liquid with which a pigment is applied, including whatever gum, wax, or glutinous or adhesive substance is combined with it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They broke in with a battering ram: an armoured vehicle known as a Bearcat.
  • (2) Six of 7 SAO shock rats treated with U74006F survived for 120 min following reperfusion, while none of 7 SAO shock rats given the vehicle survived for 120 min (P less than .01).
  • (3) It would be "very easy to manipulate and access one of our vehicles", he said.
  • (4) A group of rats raised on D-P++ for 4 weeks were fed D-P- for 7 days after which they received 500 pmol of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25(OH)2D3; SUPP] or an equal volume of the vehicle (ETH).
  • (5) Neonatal treatment with a low dose of the estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES) had no significant effect on adult estrogen binding within the assayed vaginal compartments; however, this treatment caused a 2-fold increase in the level of cytosolic progestin binding in the vaginal FMW over that in vehicle-treated mice.
  • (6) Each subject applied a vehicle cream containing 0.075% capsaicin (Axsain, GalenPharma Inc.) to a 4 cm2 area of skin on one volar forearm and vehicle alone to an identical treatment area on the other forearm, according to a double-blind procedure.
  • (7) Utilizing the bilateral comparison technique in 30 hospitalized patients with chronic stable plaque-type psoriasis vulgaris, we closely monitored the clinical responses to ultraviolet radiation (Westinghouse fluorescent FS40 bulbs, 290--400 nm) and a variety of tar preparations and lubricant vehicles in combination and separately.
  • (8) Controls were injected in the same manner with vehicle and microspheres.
  • (9) Sympathetic nervous system function was blocked in developing male SHR by treating pups from days 0 to 14 with: (1) guanethidine, (2) combined alpha- and beta-receptor antagonists (prazosin and timolol), or (3) vehicle (5% sucrose).
  • (10) The most common seenario was a vehicle-vehicle collision in which seat belts were not used and the decedent or the decedent's driver was at fault.
  • (11) Thus, the lymphoid population containing cell-mediated anti-idiotypic responsiveness served as a vehicle of resistance.
  • (12) Well known buyout firms such as Blackstone and Carlyle appear in the leaked documents, and Luxembourg investment vehicles are commonplace in such investment firms.
  • (13) Future studies will need to carefully evaluate the vehicle used and the strength of topical CsA employed.
  • (14) The Calspan 3-D Computer Simulator of a Motor Vehicle Crash Victim was used to provide estimates of the head and neck response to be expected for the very specific deceleration profiles simulated.
  • (15) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
  • (16) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
  • (17) Vehicle administration had no effect on pulmonary function.
  • (18) The best was the oral version of the Symbol Digit Modalities test, which by itself accounted for 70% of the variance of the full-sized-vehicle driving score.
  • (19) II with melatonin instead of 25.9% in the corresponding vehicle controls.
  • (20) Twenty-four h prior to the measurement of 45Ca2+ uptake, the cells were transferred to serum-free medium ([Ca2+], 1.0 mM) containing 1.0 nM 1,25(OH)2D3 or vehicle.