What's the difference between sax and saxophone?

Sax


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
  • (2) For that purpose, cells were incubated for 3 days before reaching confluency in the presence of myo-[3H]inositol in order to label the phosphoinositide pool, and the various [3H]IPs were separated by HPLC on a SAX column with a phosphate gradient.
  • (3) We outline the use of SAXS to characterise a large conformational change of myosin.
  • (4) Physical characterization of these copolymers was by means of thermal analysis, transmission electron microscope, wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD), and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS).
  • (5) Comparing these results with those of the small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) investigation by Matsushima et al.
  • (6) Evidence for a domain structure of cellobiohydrolase II (CBH II, 58 kDa) from Trichoderma reesei (Teeri et al., 1987; Tomme et al., 1988) is corroborated by results from SAXS experiments.
  • (7) To rule out eventual artifacts due to sample preparation, four different standard preparation techniques were used and a comparison showed that the SAXS results were identical for all four methods.
  • (8) This result stands in contrast to results of x-ray crystallographic studies of hydroxyethylthiamin, which place a partial negative charge on C-2 (Pletcher, J., and Sax, M. (1974) J.
  • (9) For isocitrate dehydrogenase, delta Hax dominates; however, the net activation is substantially mitigated by the magnitude of T delta Sax.
  • (10) The use of radially compressed, prepacked cartridges filled with Partisil-10 SAX appeared to be a fast and cheap alternative for expensive stainless-steel columns.
  • (11) Meanwhile, the sax parped sleazily and the monotone chug of the guitar presaged punk.
  • (12) Molecular parameters (Rg = 13.7 A, S = 3,000 A2, V = 9,200 A3 and Dmax = 40 A) were derived from SAXS curves obtained from a solution of this protein at pH = 4.5.
  • (13) Human beta-mannosidosis urine was fractionated by gel permeation chromatography on Bio-Gel P-2 and by high performance liquid chromatography on Partisil 10 SAX.
  • (14) Inosinic acid formed from the enzyme-catalyzed reaction of hypoxanthine and PP-ribose-P using partially purified hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase is measured after chromatography on an ion-exchange column (Partisil 10 SAX).
  • (15) Lee Thompson, on sax, had the concept of The Nutty Boys.
  • (16) Solution characterization of heparin with high affinity (HA) and low affinity (LA) for antithrombin III was performed using the methods of small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS), viscometry, and aqueous gel permeation chromatography (GPC).
  • (17) The SAXS data for the colloidal micellar casein, which yield only cross-sectional information related to a window of scattered intensity, were analyzed by a sum of three Gaussians with no residual function.
  • (18) The interaction between calmodulin (CaM) and two synthetic peptides, C20W and C24W, corresponding to parts of the calmodulin-binding domain of the Ca2+ pump of human erythrocytes, has been studied by using small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS).
  • (19) Better, in fact, than Romney's bumbling foreign adventures , which rather than providing voters with a storyline on which they could take a practiced ideological stand, was likely to be seen as a mostly embarrassing, ultimately unrelatable foreign policy glad-hand tour, set to Yackety Sax .
  • (20) of the ELISA, when a soluble SAX I fraction is used, are statistically significant when compared with the raw, soluble, antigen, and this fraction allows discrimination between patients with intestinal and extraintestinal amebiasis.

Saxophone


Definition:

  • (n.) A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three saxophone players with upper limb amputations have been successfully rehabilitated to play their musical instruments using skin-conductivity touch control.
  • (2) With the promise of a new set starting at midnight, his third of the night, I arrive around 11pm to hear him still in full flow, vein-popping saxophone pealing out into Mornington Crescent.
  • (3) An embouchure aid was constructed as a means of bringing relief to the many clarinet and saxophone players who suffer chronic lip irritation as the result of playing their instruments.
  • (4) I have seen a lady who plays the saxophone fantastically.
  • (5) Mr Woodhouse has an obsession with vitamin pills, Jane Fairfax plays the tenor saxophone and Frank Churchill has been living in Australia: meet the cast of the modern-day Emma, which is to be rewritten for the social media generation by Alexander McCall Smith .
  • (6) The mechanical and electrical modifications to the saxophone are described, as well as the principles of operation of the skin-conductivity touch control module.
  • (7) To make ends meet during my two and a half years there, I played saxophone in Hamburg.
  • (8) Saxophones dominated (sometimes Jones would hire two), but if the approaches reflected Coltrane's, they were closer to the saxophonist's soulful, preacherly manner of the early 1960s than the stormy odysseys later.
  • (9) Fool's Gold, a larger local collective, is an overlapping mass of saxophones, guitars, bongos and tambourines.
  • (10) He sometimes played in a saxophone trio with Lester, five years his senior, and his sister Irma, the trio later expanding to a short-lived 10-piece saxophone ensemble.
  • (11) His half-brother, Terry Burns, nearly a decade older than David, introduced him to jazz musicians, such as John Coltrane and Miles Davis , and in 1961 David’s mother bought him a plastic saxophone, introducing him to an instrument that would become a recurring ingredient in his music.
  • (12) Instrumental composition: Pensamientos for Solo Alto Saxophone and Chamber Orechestra, Clare Fischer.
  • (13) Against the cell’s peeling walls and grimy sink and toilet, Ai’s stool and Fela’s saxophone hold out the promise of bold but joyous antagonism.
  • (14) Unexpected sounds echo over Piraeus port in Athens: a saxophone, a violin, an accordion.
  • (15) They followed the head girl for a day – she was the lead in the school play, plays the saxophone, gets A-stars, and so on.
  • (16) Her listed interests include learning to play the saxophone, supporting Manchester United, and doing cryptic crosswords.
  • (17) Louis van Gaal gave a charismatic speech at Manchester United’s annual awards evening in which the manager acknowledged the fans for their support, roared, “We are very close” regarding the gap to Chelsea and left the stage before returning to thank a saxophone player .
  • (18) Louis van Gaal has stopped thinking about saxophone solos for long enough to determine that his Manchester United squad is spineless.
  • (19) It is distinguished from semantic memory, which is memory for facts, and other kinds of implicit long-term memory, such as your memory for complex actions such as riding a bike or playing a saxophone.
  • (20) Other more benign stickers showed royals partaking in hobbies often publicised by the palace’s media arm, such as King Bhumibol Adulyadej playing a saxophone.

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