What's the difference between ahoy and hoy?

Ahoy


Definition:

  • (interj.) A term used in hailing; as, "Ship ahoy."

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Hello" won the day, although "ahoy" still lingers .
  • (2) And Treasure Island has naturally enough moved with the times, with ahoy there face-painting and a fan page on Facebook.
  • (3) Speaking of wildly-hyped Brazilian forwards (well, a few sentences ago), word is that West Ham are looking at Alexandre Pato , even if (understatement ahoy) his career hasn’t quite panned out like Neymar’s has.
  • (4) That's a 24 and possibly 54-minute (plus pens) long rollercoaster ride ahoy!
  • (5) That scoreline is nicely poised for the second leg (about all that was poised — yellow cards ahoy in that one).
  • (6) But Graham Bell's company wanted people to use "ahoy".
  • (7) Parental advisory ahoy: " Ohh… Pablo Zabaleta, he is the fucking man!
  • (8) Prediction time: an easy win for Bayern ahoy, in my opinion.
  • (9) Gamble and Huff documented the era of Vietnam, Watergate and ghetto tension as effectively as the music of Stevie Wonder, Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye, with social commentaries such as the O Jays' For the Love of Money and Ship Ahoy , and Billy Paul's Am I Black Enough for You?

Hoy


Definition:

  • (n.) A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
  • (interj.) Ho! Halloe! Stop!

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jason Kenny's campaign in the match sprint will not end until Monday assuming all goes well, but he got off to the best possible start when he set a new Olympic record in qualifying over the flying 200m, bettering Sir Chris Hoy's 9.815sec from Beijing by over a tenth of a second.
  • (2) Baugé's body language afterwards indicated he had been on the receiving end of another severe psychological blow; both men progressed to the quarter-finals, but Kenny has already shown that he amply merits his selection ahead of the defending champion, Hoy.
  • (3) Hoy and others fear that the Kincora inquiry, which is based in Northern Ireland and taking hearings at the court in Banbridge, County Down, will not have access to sensitive MI5 intelligence files on the people who ran Kincora.
  • (4) That is why many Mexicans are very disconnected with the Galaxy,” said Eduard Cauich, sports editor for Hoy, a Spanish-language weekly published by the Los Angeles Times.
  • (5) "Governments must show all the energy and cunning of Chris Hoy and Mo Farah until they win [the fight]," he told the audience.
  • (6) plcS mapped approximately at 67 min on the 75-min chromosomal map (B. W. Holloway, K. O'Hoy, and H. Matsumoto, p. 213-221, in S. J. O'Brien, ed., Genetic Maps 1987, vol.
  • (7) As Hoy sees it, increasing the number of track cyclists boils down to one issue: access.
  • (8) The MPs must have felt they were being addressed by the Old Man of Hoy.
  • (9) Kenny was selected because he has a proven record of rising to the occasion for major championships and because it was believed that his youth would enable him to recover more quickly than Hoy between matches in a tournament where the first two legs in the final were separated by 15 minutes.
  • (10) Previous behavioral assays showed that crickets discriminate the low frequencies of the species calling song (4-5 kHz) from the high frequencies contained in the vocalizations of insectivorous bats (Nolen and Hoy, 1986a).
  • (11) British cycling team thrown into chaos by departure of Shane Sutton Read more The Australian, who mentored Sir Chris Hoy and Sir Bradley Wiggins to Olympic success before taking over the top role in British Cycling in 2014, was already under scrutiny after allegations of sexism made by the track rider Jess Varnish at the weekend.
  • (12) All right, maybe Bradley Wiggins, Chris Hoy and Jessica Ennis will sneak ahead of the mayor at the finish line.
  • (13) A unique source of ipsilaterally mediated inhibition, tuned to the calling song frequency, accounted for the poor response to calling song and hence the neuron's high-frequency selectivity, and the behavioral and physiological effects of 2-tone suppression of high frequencies by the calling song (Nolen and Hoy, 1986b).
  • (14) As a result, five of the best 10 qualifiers from the world championships were absent here, including Hoy, who took bronze at the world's behind Baugé and Kenny.
  • (15) Hoy now stands alone, a national hero, as the only man who has won three gold medals on two wheels in a single Olympic games, but countless other cyclists have felt the same as he did after five minutes whirling round the bankings: "There was a sudden acceleration, a burst of speed, and I was hooked.
  • (16) Part of the London gold rush was dependent on two riders at the end of their careers – Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton.
  • (17) Hoy is an enthusiastic proponent of his sport: "It's exhilarating as you fly down the bankings.
  • (18) The establishment of the fund represents the largest single injection of public money into cycling in England, and was due to be formally launched by Cameron alongside Britain's most successful Olympian, the track cyclist Chris Hoy.
  • (19) The 24-year-old's status as the stealth champion of British cycling – compared to the cover stars Hoy, Pendleton and Wiggins – looked set to change after the coaches made their unexpected call in June and it will certainly change now.
  • (20) Certainly the newspaper Hoy, Diario del Magdalena had little doubt who was to blame for their defeat.

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