What's the difference between sheaves and shock?

Sheaves


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Sheaf

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ultrastructurally, clusters of intermediate filaments, twisted sheaves of filaments resembling tonofilaments, intermediate junctions, and intracellular canaliculi were found in these cells.
  • (2) Nineteen years ago I’d collected sheaves of estate agents’ details and piled them into Yes, No, Maybe.
  • (3) The art critic John Ruskin claimed to have burned sheaves of them in 1858, but 10 years ago an expert at the Tate Gallery came to the conclusion that this never happened.
  • (4) From the end of the first month to the sixth month small sheaves of smooth-muscle cells were observed in the cicatricial tissue.
  • (5) When you rush big projects in sensitive places, you increase the potential for a disaster – it regularly leads to massive environmental damage and an expensive clean-up that could have been prevented if there had been detailed scientific consideration and community engagement,” Sheaves said.
  • (6) Most days at midday, Uber’s nondescript office in London’s King’s Cross opens its doors and dozens of men clutching sheaves of driving licences and insurance documents pour in.
  • (7) Almost all asbestos fibers detected in the tap water possessed the form of thick or sheaved fibers with lengths ranging from ca.
  • (8) Still employed in the early 1990s, the classic label sported a blue-and-white striped milk jug beside two cherry-red mugs, resting on sheaves of wheat, against an luminous yellow arc of - well, obviously, an incandescent light bulb.
  • (9) "If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaught of the cavalry are translated upon the canvas in sheaves of lines corresponding to the conflicting forces, following the general law of violence of the picture.
  • (10) Prof Marcus Sheaves, head of marine biology at James Cook University, said the lack of a considered process around the wetlands plan was “a serious concern”.
  • (11) Sheaves questioned the lack of a plan for “detailed integrated assessment of all components of the proposal and their implications, despite the sensitive nature of location of the proposed dredge-spoil dumping, and the public concern over the proposal”.
  • (12) Benign prostatic epithelium showed vimentin intermediate filaments distinctively distributed in the basal regions and as paranuclear sheaves along the long axis of the cell.
  • (13) Sheaves of complexly organized fibrillar components appear in the neuronal perikaryon; and ribosomes, Golgi elements, and microtubules are conspicuously numerous.
  • (14) Sheaves said coastal wetlands were crucial to the health of the Great Barrier Reef , as they prevented certain sediments and pollutants from flowing onto the coral.
  • (15) The differentiation of their processes was observed to involve a series of complex events related to retraction of the thick apical processes from the tips of which sheaves of filiform processes emerged, growth in the number and the thickness of the filiform processes, resorption of some of these filiform processes, cyclic changes in the appearance, resorption and reappearance of excrescences on the filiform processes, and changes in size and shape of the growth cones.
  • (16) Most myofibroblasts contained only sheaves of myofilaments along the margins of the cells, but some cells contained larger bundles of myofilaments and very closely resembled smooth muscle cells.
  • (17) Crystals may be arranged in sheaves or bundles and pass from one cell to another disrupting the continuity of membranes of both cells and nuclei.
  • (18) The public probably don’t see it but she has sheaves of handwritten notes.” The historical role of the PAC has been to dig into misspending by Whitehall, such as the tagging scandal that saw G4S and Serco charging for dead offenders (“Shocking complacency”, said Hodge).
  • (19) Many differentiated tumor cells contained organelles, such as vesicle-crowned lamellae (synaptic ribbons) and microtubular sheaves, as consistent with adult hamster pineocytes.
  • (20) One of the most famous bonfires in British art history, the destruction in 1858 of sheaves of erotic paintings by JMW Turner, by the horrified critic John Ruskin, never happened.

Shock


Definition:

  • (n.) A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.
  • (n.) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
  • (v. t.) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.
  • (v. i.) To be occupied with making shocks.
  • (n.) A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.
  • (n.) A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.
  • (n.) A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.
  • (n.) The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body.
  • (v.) To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
  • (v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.
  • (v. i.) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
  • (n.) A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.
  • (n.) A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.
  • (a.) Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
  • (2) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
  • (3) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
  • (4) Using multiple regression, a linear correlation was established between the cardiac index and the arterial-venous pH and PCO2 differences throughout shock and resuscitation (r2 = .91).
  • (5) It was also shown that after a shock at 44 degrees C teratocarcinoma cells were able to accumulate anomalous amounts of hsp 70 despite hsp 70 synthesis inhibition.
  • (6) 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).
  • (7) The shock resulting from acute canine babesiosis is best viewed as anemic shock.
  • (8) Enzymatic activity per gram of urinary creatinine was consistently but not significantly higher before extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy than in control subjects.
  • (9) The high incidence and severity of haemodynamic complications (pulmonary oedema, generalized heart failure, cardiogenic shock) were the main cause of the high death-rate.
  • (10) It is unclear if the changes in high-energy phosphates during endotoxin shock cause irreversibility.
  • (11) Some of what I was churned up about seemed only to do with me, and some of it was timeless, a classic midlife shock and recalibration.
  • (12) The first method used an accelerometer mounted between the teeth of one of the authors (PR) to record skeletal shock.
  • (13) Persons with clinical abdominal findings, shock, altered sensorium, and severe chest injuries after blunt trauma should undergo the procedure.
  • (14) Induction of both potential transcripts follows heat shock in vivo.
  • (15) Passive avoidance performance of HO-DIs was, indeed, influenced by the age of the subject at the time of testing; HO-DIs reentered the shock compartment sooner than HE at 35 days, but later than HE at 120 days.
  • (16) In positive patterning, elemental stimuli, A and B, were presented without an unconditioned stimulus while their compound, AB, was paired with electric shock.
  • (17) Instead, an antiarrhythmic drug should be administered and another shock of the same intensity that defibrillated the first time should be applied.
  • (18) Inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) have been reported to increase mean arterial pressure in animal models of sepsis and recently have been given to patients in septic shock.
  • (19) The aim of the present study was to explore the possible role of heat shock proteins in the manifestation of this heat resistance.
  • (20) Frequency and localization of spontaneous and induced by high temperature (37 degrees C) recessive lethal mutations in X-chromosome of females belonging to the 1(1) ts 403 strain defective in synthesis of heat-shock proteins (HSP) were studied.

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