What's the difference between sike and sire?

Sike


Definition:

  • (a.) Such. See Such.
  • (n.) A gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer.
  • (n.) A sick person.
  • (v. i.) To sigh.
  • (n.) A sigh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sikes also explained that he had continued to depress the brakes until "finally they started smelling really bad and I had metal sounds coming in the car".
  • (2) The driver, 61 year-old James Sikes, called Highway Patrol officers on his mobile phone after the 2008 Prius suddenly began to accelerate of its own accord while he was driving down the Interstate 8 freeway outside San Diego.
  • (3) Earlier models, such as Sikes's, were not included in this recall.
  • (4) "I pushed the gas pedal to pass a car, and it just did something kind of funny … and it just stuck there," Sikes told a news conference outside a Highway Patrol office following the incident.
  • (5) The Antibody Binding Test, a new technique for the evaluation of inactivated Rabies vaccines, developed by Arko, Wiktor and Sikes, was compared with the NIH- and Habel Test.
  • (6) Slaty Sike is a catchment that copes well under normal weather conditions but when the area is hit by bigger storms experiences a rapid flow of water down the steep hillsides, washing debris and stones into Haltwhistle Burn.
  • (7) Sikes said the accelerator pedal was stuck, and that the car would not stop even though he was pressing the brake with all his force.
  • (8) Sikes told reporters that he had taken his car to a local Toyota dealership about two weeks ago for a service, and was told his car was not on the recall list.
  • (9) Located at Slaty Sike, a tributary of Haltwhistle Burn, the scheme stems from research being carried out by Newcastle University into natural flood management (NFM) - natural engineering which works with the landscape to slow, store and filter water after heavy rainfall.
  • (10) Once the car slowed to 50mph Sikes was able to turn off the engine.
  • (11) The highway patrol team drove alongside the Prius, and instructed Sikes to engage the hand brake while simultaneously holding down the foot brake.

Sire


Definition:

  • (n.) A lord, master, or other person in authority. See Sir.
  • (n.) A tittle of respect formerly used in speaking to elders and superiors, but now only in addressing a sovereign.
  • (n.) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
  • (n.) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
  • (n.) The male parent of a beast; -- applied especially to horses; as, the horse had a good sire.
  • (v. t.) To beget; to procreate; -- used of beasts, and especially of stallions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sires of the cows had been divergently selected on yearling weight (YW) and total maternal (MAT) EPD to form four groups: high YW, high MAT EPD; high YW, low MAT EPD; low YW, high MAT EPD; and low YW, low MAT EPD.
  • (2) Beyond 20 mo, weights were adjusted to a constant condition score within breed of sire.
  • (3) Genetic parameters were estimated from sire components of variance and covariance obtained from a multiple-trait restricted maximum likelihood procedure.
  • (4) Simmental sires had significantly heavier calves at birth and S and H dams tended to have more calving difficulty and lower survival rates.
  • (5) Micromanipulation of sperm and ova has been suggested as a means to produce progeny of two sires instead of a sire and dam.
  • (6) Each sire family consisted of a sire, his foals, and the dams of those foals.
  • (7) Records of birth weight (BW), weaning weight (WW) and condition score (CS) from 1,467 Brahman and Brahman X Angus crossbred calves from Brahman and crossbred Brahman sires and Brahman, crossbred Brahman and Angus dams were collected at the Subtropical Agricultural Research Station, Brooksville, Florida, from 1971 to 1982.
  • (8) Live BW, carcass data, and organ data taken at 34 days of age on approximately 1,000 quail of both sexes from 110 sires and 290 dams were utilized to estimate genetic parameters from the initial generation of a selection study.
  • (9) Weaning weight records of 44,357 Australian Angus calves produced by 1,020 sires in 90 herds were used to evaluate the importance of sire x herd interactions.
  • (10) Additive relationships among sires and maternal grandsires were included.
  • (11) The purebred animals represented progeny of 107 sires.
  • (12) Repeatabilities and heritabilities of days to first service, days open, and number of services per conception were estimated from 235,589 records on 80,333 Holstein cows, daughters of 306 sires obtained from the Quebec Dairy Herd Analysis Service, by REML.
  • (13) Calves of mature dams were all sired by Limousin bulls and slaughtered at 12 mo.
  • (14) In single purpose dairy populations, sire models gave biased estimates of genetic parameters even when all data were included in the analysis.
  • (15) By including an artificial sire and an artificial dam and choosing appropriate merit values for the artificial matings, this problem can be solved by efficient "transportation" algorithms.
  • (16) A study of 24 offspring from one sire, heterozygous for W10 and Eu28R, showed that offspring inheriting Eu28R from the sire were significantly more likely to have antibodies to BLV than offspring inheriting the opposing W10 haplotype.
  • (17) Forty-three Hampshire or Suffolk-sired ram lambs were weaned at 60 d of age (average 23.6 kg of BW) and assigned to a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement of treatments consisting of 1) basal diet (control = BAS), 2) BAS with 6% whole canola seed (CS), 3) BAS with 4.9% deoiled soy lecithin (SL), and 4) BAS with 6% CS and 4.8% SL (CSSL).
  • (18) The correlation between sire of fetus effect and sire of cow effect on three production traits - milk yield, fat yield, and protein yield - in first lactation cows was investigated.
  • (19) Corresponding numbers of sires were 298, 289, 305, and 313.
  • (20) A sire-maternal grandsire mixed model with relationships was used to analyze the data to yield BLUP for the sire and maternal grandsire effects.