What's the difference between sole and spike?

Sole


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus Solea and allied genera of the family Soleidae, especially the common European species (Solea vulgaris), which is a valuable food fish.
  • (n.) Any one of several American flounders somewhat resembling the true sole in form or quality, as the California sole (Lepidopsetta bilineata), the long-finned sole (Glyptocephalus zachirus), and other species.
  • (n.) The bottom of the foot; hence, also, rarely, the foot itself.
  • (n.) The bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom.
  • (n.) The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
  • (n.) The bottom of the body of a plow; -- called also slade; also, the bottom of a furrow.
  • (n.) The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
  • (n.) The bottom of an embrasure.
  • (n.) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
  • (n.) The seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a sole; as, to sole a shoe.
  • (a.) Being or acting without another; single; individual; only.
  • (a.) Single; unmarried; as, a feme sole.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
  • (2) In 2012, 20% of small and medium-sized businesses were either run solely or mostly by women.
  • (3) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
  • (4) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
  • (5) This suggested that carcinogen-induced error incorporation during DNA synthesis was restricted solely to the treatment of a deoxynucleotide template.
  • (6) Tests in which the size of the landmark was altered from that used in training suggest that distance is not learned solely in terms of the apparent size of the landmark as seen from the goal.
  • (7) Today the physician who treats women with emotional problems during menopause cannot function solely as a psychotherapist; he must deal with both their soma and psyche.
  • (8) Several oilseed and legume protein products were fed to rats as the sole source of dietary protein, and in blends with cereals for the determination of protein efficiency ratio (PER) and biological availability of amino acids.
  • (9) In contrast, newly formed secondary myotubes are short cells which insert solely into the primary myotubes by a series of complex interdigitating folds along which adhering junctions occur.
  • (10) "It's a very open question as to whether this will come," said a diplomat in Brussels, adding that Cameron could find himself in the lonely position of being the sole national leader urging a renegotiation.
  • (11) Considering those portions of the molecule that can be deleted without a loss of catalytic activity, one is left with a catalytic center of approximately 130 nucleotides that is solely responsible for the molecule's activity.
  • (12) A brevibacterium, strain TH-4, previously isolated by aerobic enrichment on the monocyclic monoterpenoid cis-terpin hydrate as a sole carbon and energy source, was found to grow on alpha-terpineol and on a number of common sugars and organic acids.
  • (13) The results showed that patients with and without GOR disease cannot be separated solely on the basis of the standard manometric test, even adopting more parameters besides the traditional DOS pressure measurement.
  • (14) The favorable prognosis is due solely to the fact that women with an IUD have far less negative antecedents and that the EP probably occurred due to impaired ciliary action, reversible when the IUD is removed.
  • (15) Phosphate appears to be incorporated solely into serine residues.
  • (16) In the medium to long term, sole primary treatment by tamoxifen delays more definitive therapy.
  • (17) In the patients with aplastic anaemia the iron flux was diminished, but never eliminated, demonstrating that the exchangeable compartment was not solely erythroblastic, but included non-erythroid transferrin receptors.
  • (18) Suction mammaplasty can be used as a sole technique in congenital asymmetry or in post-reduction enlargement or asymmetry.
  • (19) The presence of grouped microcalcifications as the sole indicator of malignancy was seen in 100% (seven of seven) of the patients in the 30-39-year age group, 64% (18 of 28) in the 40-49-year age group, 37% (11 of 30) in the 50-59-year age group, 30% (seven of 23) in the 60-69-year age group, and 23% (six of 26) in the 70-85-year age group.
  • (20) If you and your mother are joint tenants, when she dies you will become the sole owner of the whole property even if her will says that she is leaving her share to someone else.

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.