What's the difference between prong and tickler?

Prong


Definition:

  • (n.) The tine of a fork, or of a similar instrument; as, a fork of two or three prongs.
  • (n.) A sharp-pointed instrument.
  • (n.) A sharp projection, as of an antler.
  • (n.) The fang of a tooth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To determine if the type of mechanical ventilation used (ie, face mask, nasal prongs, or endotracheal tube) was associated with GPNN, a matched case-control analysis was performed.
  • (2) After amputation of the closed tip, a cap from a syringe was inserted via a slit made at the base into one prong of a pair of nasal cannulae.
  • (3) The system called PRONG (Parallel Recording Of Neural Groups) includes a microelectrode, a lightweight reusable connector, a 24-channel FET-hybrid preamplifier, a 3-band 24-channel amplifier, a 24-channel spike monitor, high-speed digital and analog interfaces and a computer.
  • (4) The studies were performed with a pneumotachograph applied to the upper airway by means of an inflatable face mask or latex nasal prongs.
  • (5) Twenty patients did not reach the target level of 8.6 kPa (65 mmHg) PaO2 with the nasal prongs, but the reservoir cannula allowed nine of these "refractory" patients to hit this therapeutic goal, a result indicating a clear trend towards improved immediate oxygen response.
  • (6) The reservoir cannula Oxymizer Pendant (Chad-Therapeutics Inc.) is a nasal prong system incorporating a pendant reservoir which stores oxygen during expiration and delivers it as a bolus at the onset of inspiration.
  • (7) Oxygen delivery using nasal prongs was assessed using a lung model for spontaneous ventilation.
  • (8) The surprise offer, described by one member of the audience as having an air of desperation, appeared to form part of a two-prong strategy.
  • (9) Based on a model successfully used in the US , the three-pronged Operation Shield combines community mobilisation and opportunities for young people to move away from crime with harsh collective punishment for those who remain in gangs.
  • (10) There was the doll's house-sized two-pronged fork, and the bivalves themselves, pale and ivory against the silvered shell.
  • (11) Stun gun torch Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Zap Light sends one million volts between six metal prongs at the front of its torch.
  • (12) In Britain, there has been a three-pronged approach: the bank rate has been cut from 5% to 0.5%, a lower level than at any time in the 316-year history of the Bank of England; public borrowing has risen to around 11% of GDP, a record for peacetime; and the Bank has pumped £200bn into the money supply through quantitative easing.
  • (13) Nasal prongs are the usual method for delivering O2 on long-term basis, and portable O2 supply systems permit patients to use O2 continuously without significant restriction of their activities.
  • (14) Coronary artery segments were mounted between two L-shaped prongs in tissue baths with buffer solution.
  • (15) The students collect fasting samples of expired air from each other using a simple nasal prong technique.
  • (16) Read more The official added: “Dedicated conduct and discipline personnel deployed in field missions continue to support each field mission with the implementation of the United Nations three-pronged strategy to address sexual exploitation and abuse through prevention, enforcement and remedial actions.
  • (17) After studying a group of countries including Brazil, Cambodia, Mali, Peru and Tanzania, the Bank said a six-pronged approach was needed to tackle inequality.
  • (18) It appeared that the multi-pronged formula would inexorably lead to Greece being deemed to be in sovereign default, at least temporarily.
  • (19) In his meeting with the 1922 committee of Tory backbenchers on Wednesday night, the prime minister echoed a two-pronged message he delivered in a recent interview with the Spectator .
  • (20) The treatment works by mounting a two-pronged attack on cancer.

Tickler


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, tickles.
  • (n.) Something puzzling or difficult.
  • (n.) A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity.
  • (n.) A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We describe a system using an addressograph card and tickler file to facilitate the lending and returning of radiographic jackets, which brings into accountability both the borrower and the lender.
  • (2) This study investigates the influence of a microcomputer tickler system on the ordering of mammograms.
  • (3) Use of "tickler files" or scanning of computerized records are considerably less common practices.
  • (4) The reversal of these contact-sex roles (female tickler vs. male cuddler) did not affect the developmental preference for less cuddling stimulation of the 3 oldest groups of girls; however, the youngest girls now avoided male cuddlers, while the boys were found to prefer male cuddlers at all 4 age levels.
  • (5) Many was the time I had felt the Tickler in her hand.
  • (6) Since then it's been a parade of leading chanteuses, from X Factor winner Leona Lewis to ivory-tickler Alicia Keys, with even some rockers entering the fray.
  • (7) This developmental decrease was most prevalent, for both boys and girls, when the contact agents were a female cuddler versus a male tickler.
  • (8) Then it was up and over, every man, to shake the hand of a foe as a friend, or slap his back like a brother would; exchanging gifts of biscuits, tea, Maconochie's stew, Tickler's jam … for cognac, sausages, cigars, beer, sauerkraut; or chase six hares, who jumped from a cabbage-patch, or find a ball and make of a battleground a football pitch.
  • (9) Unlike the Oscars, the Globes split their key categories in two – and the classification of Birdman as a rib-tickler rather than a mordant study of middle-aged failure may have helped catapult it to the frontrunner at this year’s awards, with seven nominations.
  • (10) He will have to do it (Clarkson's Australian accent is a rib-tickler) on Skype.