What's the difference between prickle and stab?

Prickle


Definition:

  • (n.) A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine.
  • (n.) A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade.
  • (n.) A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds.
  • (v. t.) To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some peculiarities in the ultrastructure of these neurones were described as the presence of prickles, fringes.
  • (2) Single-unit sensory nerve recordings from the rabbit saphenous nerve were used to identify the receptors responsible for fabric-evoked prickle.
  • (3) Prickle cell masses invaded into the soft tissue in the deeper layer.
  • (4) In some of the distal and middle dendrites and dendritic spines [correction of prickles] in elderly ground squirrels there were plaques, composed of electron-dense material with structure similar to postsynaptic condensations, but without presynaptic specializations of chemical synapses.
  • (5) Desmosomes are most frequent in the prickle cell layer, where desmosome fields may occur, and in the lower functional cell layer.
  • (6) Membrane coating granules first reaching a maximum in the functional cell layer appeared in the upper prickle cell layer and few persisted into the surface cells.
  • (7) Oral discomfort such as prickling and burning sensations, metallic and bad taste was rare in both diabetics and non-diabetics.
  • (8) Gap junctions (nexuses) were observed primarily in the basal and prickle cell layers.
  • (9) Beginning to feel the first prickles of boredom, I thought of young Nathan, for whom Minecraft was life, until it wasn't.
  • (10) The emigrating ERM from PDL explants, as well as occasional proliferating ERM within explants, consisted of two cell types--outer basal-like cells, as described above, and inner tonofilament-rich prickle-like cells, suggesting a propensity for differentiation of ERM.
  • (11) Three layers were identified, as in the light microscopy of the oesophageal epithelium: basal, prickle and funtional cell layers.
  • (12) This system was attached to the upper arms of young adult volunteers who increased the voltage of the rectangular electrical pulses supplied to the electrodes until a reproducible sharp prickling pain sensation was perceived.
  • (13) Various cells were observed in expanded intercellular spaces of basal cell and prickle cell layers.
  • (14) CRBP concentrations were highest in maturing keratinocytes within the prickle cell layers of normal mucosa and in laryngeal papillomas, as estimated on the basis of immunoreactivity to CRBP.
  • (15) The fluid phase marker was taken up most avidly by the prickle cells but to a lesser extent in the functional layers and by basal cells.
  • (16) Light microscopical findings: Leukoplakia exhibited orthokeratinization and the thickening of prickle and corneal cell layers was seen.
  • (17) Prickling of the skin and hirsutism were common side-effects.
  • (18) In all sections of leukoplakia, the positive cells for EGFr were found in the prickle cell layer in addition to the basal cell layer.
  • (19) Each subject judged only one single pair with respect to which one tasted more fizzy ("spritziger"), dry ("trockener"), prickling ("prickelnder") and better ("besser").
  • (20) Untoward effects experienced in volunteers receiving BW 942C included heaviness in the limbs, nasal stuffiness, mouth dryness, facial flushing, skin rash, and prickling sensations.

Stab


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.
  • (v. i.) To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon.
  • (v. i.) To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon.
  • (n.) The thrust of a pointed weapon.
  • (n.) A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin.
  • (n.) Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
  • (2) Dermot Kelly said: "The England Supporters Band is right up there with the vuvuzela for wanting to stab myself in the head with a fork."
  • (3) You could understand why the Met was frantic to find who had stabbed Rachel Nickell 49 times on Wimbledon Common while her screaming child looked on, but the case against Stagg was preposterous.
  • (4) Results indicate that 75% of the participating boys and 10% of participating girls had witnessed the shooting, stabbing, robbing, or killing of another person in their own lives.
  • (5) Stab wounds to the temporal fossa appear as a characteristic clinical entity.
  • (6) Many of the patients with stab wounds of the precordial chest (danger zone) had cardiac or major vascular injuries, and the mortality rate of them was high.
  • (7) Sigurdsson’s deep corner kick was headed back across goal by Borja and Fer, via a slight touch from Van der Hoorn, stabbed over the line.
  • (8) The multi-agency review of the circumstances leading up to the killing of the 16-year-old, who was fatally stabbed at Cults Academy, one of Scotland’s highest performing state schools, on 28 October 2015, also concluded that his death could have been avoided had those who knew that his killer carried weapons in school reported this to staff.
  • (9) Later, it proved that he was stabbed with a foreign body penetrating into the contralateral frontal lobe through the left nasal cavity.
  • (10) Violence had subsided by Sunday evening – but not before dozens had been shot or stabbed, leaving 25 dead and 56 injured.
  • (11) It consists of the comprehensive extraction of the varices through extremely small stab incisions, followed immediately by vigorous marching.
  • (12) It is possible that Clegg could yet get to 30 seats or so at the next election, and in Britain's fluid politics that may give him a stab at forming another coalition.
  • (13) Another Palestinian man, suspected of having stabbed and wounded an Israeli teenager, was shot dead by police in Jerusalem.
  • (14) Based on one-to-one interviews with more than 40 people, the inquiry said the immediate aftermath of the stabbing “was well managed by all agencies”.
  • (15) Overall mortality was 130, 8.7%; 9.5% for gunshot wounds, 3.4% for stab wounds, and 2.5% for blunt trauma.
  • (16) I got to HaHagana bridge with a friend and we saw a big man in a red sweatshirt stabbing a soldier twice, apparently someone from the air force,” he said.
  • (17) On the other hand, both blunt trauma and posterior stab wounds frequently caused isolated retroperitoneal duodenal lesions where the diagnosis was not evident on admission, but in which the insidious and progressive development of symptoms and signs drew attention to the need for laparotomy.
  • (18) A patient who sustained an acute carotid-cavernous fistula due to a stab wound is presented.
  • (19) The use of the Columbia agar stab culture is recommended as a rapid and simple test for recognition of group B streptococci.
  • (20) If so, ministers may need to be prepared for a new breed of civil servants, who will no longer fall on their swords if they believe they have been stabbed in the back.