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Antipox vs Antipop - What's the difference?

antipox | antipop |

As adjectives the difference between antipox and antipop

is that antipox is working against pox while antipop is opposing mainstream pop music.

antipox

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Working against pox.
  • * 1984 , Molecular Biology (volume 18, issues 1-2, page 157)
    • The best example of such type is the insertion of the HBs gene into the genome of variolovaccine virus, which represents a well-known live antipox vaccine
  • * 2011 , Paul Stamets, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
    • Strains appear to differ in their antipox activities.

    antipop

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Opposing mainstream pop music.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 15, author=The New York Times, title=South by Southwest, Shot by Shot, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=It extrapolates those ideas in antipop directions; the beat started amid feedback and reverb, then drove the music toward brick-walled dead ends, while Mr. Barnett repeated thoughts like “Strike me down” or “We’re being watched by experts.” }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 17, author=Jon Pareles, title=An Antipop Soundscape of Beats, Riffs, Throbs and Hisses, Full of Ideas, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Autechre’s soundscape is crowded and discordant, determinedly antipop . }}
  • * 2011 , Thomas Harrison, Music of the 1980s (page 143)
    • The song, “We've Saved the Best for Last,” became a wide mainstream hit as well, adding even more fuel to an antipop sentiment in jazz.