What's the difference between soar and spike?

Soar


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To fly aloft, as a bird; to mount upward on wings, or as on wings.
  • (v. i.) Fig.: To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
  • (n.) The act of soaring; upward flight.
  • (a.) See 3d Sore.
  • (a.) See Sore, reddish brown.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
  • (2) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
  • (3) And the idea that it is somehow “unfair” to tax a small number of mostly rich people who were lucky enough to buy houses in central London that have soared in value to over £2m is perverse.
  • (4) The level of prescribing of opioid painkillers – Percocet in Geni’s case – has soared, and with it the incidence of addiction, and addiction’s grim best friend: fatal overdoses.
  • (5) Two decades after Donna Tartt soared to literary stardom with her debut The Secret History, the reclusive author is set to release her third novel this autumn.
  • (6) None of the major parties have proposed a stimulus package as the solution to Ireland's soaring deficit and unemployment (which has tripled since the start of the economic crisis to almost 14%).
  • (7) Tourism numbers have soared from 23m in 2010 to 47m last year, in a city of just 7m; the government wants 100m by 2020.
  • (8) "The soaring cost of air travel will ultimately be a small factor in increased rail fares, as the ONS said plane tickets pushed the inflation index higher.
  • (9) Soaring demand for rental property means homes are being let in record time, even though more properties are coming on to the market, according to research from lettings agent Countrywide.
  • (10) Neither splenectomy nor marginal resection of the liver resulted in a significant increase in postoperative mortality which, however, soared up by as much as 50% after radical surgery involving the resection of the pancreas.
  • (11) Yet bank bonuses soared in April as payments were delayed so the highest paid could benefit from this government's top rate tax cut.
  • (12) • Two new polls have provided fresh evidence that the Lib Dems are soaring.
  • (13) The Scottish Greens and the housing charity Shelter said the measure failed to address the more significant issues of a lack of affordable new homes and the council tax system, which greatly benefits wealthier homeowners whose property values are soaring.
  • (14) As public sector workers prepare for the biggest strike since the Winter of Discontent in 1979, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that workers in the worst paid jobs – such as dinner ladies, hairdressers and waiters – have seen their pay fall sharply in real terms, fanning fears about families' ability to cope with soaring food and energy bills.
  • (15) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
  • (16) The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) said today that City bonuses could soar to £6bn this year .
  • (17) At the same time, for many on low pay the last several years have seen the cost of living soar as their wage packet has shrunk.
  • (18) With sales of tablets, smartphones and gadgets predicted to soar this Christmas , many British households will soon be temples to the latest technology.
  • (19) Soaring SNP membership, at 103,000, would be equivalent to a UK-wide Labour or Tory party garnering 1.2 million supporters.
  • (20) This does not result from an initiative taken by the medical profession, but from a government plan aimed at checking the soaring costs of medical care.

Spike


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To set or furnish with spikes.
  • (v. t.) To fix on a spike.
  • (n.) A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
  • (n.) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
  • (n.) An ear of corn or grain.
  • (n.) A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
  • (v. t.) To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.
  • (v. t.) To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it.
  • (n.) Spike lavender. See Lavender.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
  • (2) The pons, on the other hand, has a bioelectrical activity of its own during PS, i.e., the ponto-geniculo-occipital spikes (PGO).
  • (3) The spikes likely correspond to VP3, a hemagglutinin, while the rest of the mass density in the outer shell represents 780 molecules of VP7, a neutralization antigen.
  • (4) In this series there were 45 patients (40%) with independent focal interictal EEG epileptic abnormalities over frontobasal cortex (with or without independent spiking over interomedial temporal region).
  • (5) It was shown that gradual recovery of spike wave patterns occurred from initial water swallowing to successive dry swalllowing.
  • (6) One might expect that a similar news spike and rebounding of support for stricter gun control can happen, given President Obama's new push.
  • (7) By this action, oxytocin is believed to increase the probability of successful regenerative spikes and thereby initiate electrical activity in quiescent preparations, increase the frequency of burst discharges, the number of spikes in each burst, and the amplitude of spikes in individual cells.
  • (8) The differentiated neuroblastoma cell possesses characteristics of an electrically excitable cell and can generate propagated potential spikes in which Ca2+ is the inward charge carrier.
  • (9) Jane's life clearly still has a massive Spike-shaped hole in it.
  • (10) Our hypothesis is that phase unlocking may be one of the induction mechanisms of spike-burst activity.
  • (11) The threshold of epileptic spiking varied inversely with the area of cortical damage inflicted by the electrode.
  • (12) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
  • (13) The best understood fusion mechanism is that of influenza virus, for which sequences involved in pH-dependent fusion can be correlated with the crystallographic structure of the spike protein.
  • (14) Single shocks applied to medullary pressor sites evoked a train of spikes in the interneurons.
  • (15) Many subjects have a negative spike in the beginning of a saccade in electro-oculographic signals.
  • (16) This enhancement of laminin synthesis corresponds to the mesangial expansion and to the development of laminin-containing spike formations of the glomerular basement membrane at week 8.
  • (17) A train of conditioning stimuli to either of the midbrain nuclei produced inhibition of evoked population spikes recorded in the CA1 pyramidal cell layer of the hippocampus.
  • (18) The brief (3 ms) afterhyperpolarizations that followed such spikes were blocked by intracellular injections of Cs+ or by bath applications of tetraethylammonium.
  • (19) They discharged one or two spikes only at the beginning of depolarizing current pulses.
  • (20) An increase followed by a decrease in the number of spikes per burst and a reduction in the peak activity were observed.