What's the difference between aye and wye?

Aye


Definition:

  • (adv.) Alt. of Ay
  • (n.) An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, "To call for the ayes and noes;" "The ayes have it."
  • (a.) Alt. of Ay

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Digestion of aye-aye fixed metaphase chromosomes with the restriction endonuclease HaeIII produced G-banding.
  • (2) Jasmin Lorch, from the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies in Hamburg, said: “If the military gets the feeling that its vested interests are threatened, it can always act as a veto player and block further reforms.” The New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch said the elections were fundamentally flawed, citing a lack of an independent election commission with its leader, chairman U Tin Aye, both a former army general and former member of the ruling party.
  • (3) 'Aye,' Moyes says, eyes fixed firmly on the road, 'it'll be hard.'
  • (4) While the government has seemingly taken steps to address the issue, a Rakhine inquiry commission set up in August raised eyebrows after it emerged there was not a single Rohingya representative on the commission, yet its chairman, Aye Maung, heads the RNDP, and another of its representatives, Ko Ko Gyi, has previously stated that Rohingya are "invading" Burma.
  • (5) In the "Aye, naw, mibbe" discussion, I was a definite "mibbe".
  • (6) These teeth are not much wider or thicker than those of the extant aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis), but their arc of curvature is noticeably greater.
  • (7) I'd reply "aye right" using respectful Japanese logographs, but this computer doesn't have the character set.
  • (8) Updated at 3.31pm BST 1.54pm BST 49th over: England 91-5 (Root 11, Ali 26) I wonder if Sri Lanka are beginning to wonder - Mathews getting stuck into Root suggests mebbes aye, and according to Bumble, the middle is nurturing a pleasing and increasing heat.
  • (9) The quote "To be or not to be, aye there's the point" originally said "I there's the point."
  • (10) However, we would feel a betrayal very deeply when we were promised time after time by Nicola, by John Swinney, by all her MSPs, MPs, MEPs and councillors that this was ‘once in a generation’ and we were told by the end of the campaign it was ‘once in a lifetime’.” Jim Murphy joked that Sturgeon had gone from leader of the yes campaign to head of the “maybes ayes, maybes naws” campaign.
  • (11) Part of NLD’s policy is to defend human rights and democracy,” said Mya Aye, a rejected Muslim candidate from NLD, “but rejecting Muslim candidates from their party is rejecting the rights of five million Muslim minorities.” In her first trip ever to Rakhine, Suu Kyi will campaign for three days in Taungup, Thandwe and Gwa towns in southern part of the state, where the NLD support is the strongest.
  • (12) No player or players have been involved in any mutiny" 11.20am BST Luis, Luis, aye-yi-yi-yi ...
  • (13) The history of the aye-aye in captivity outside Madagascar is briefly reviewed.
  • (14) Two of the three drilled aye-aye incisors collected in 1901 by Grandidier at the subfossil site of Lamboharana were recently rediscovered in uncatalogued collections of the Institut de Paléontologie in Paris.
  • (15) These observations of the aye-aye in a forest of higher altitude suggest a still much wider distribution of this species than previously thought.
  • (16) One of the letters was start-to-finish in Scots, and made me grin: “Aye, ah wis fair taen wi this mairvellous ‘word hoard’ ye hae dug up!!
  • (17) "Aye, but he has," said a growly Labour voice, referring to Cameron's jolly social sessions with the News Corp bosses.
  • (18) AYED's external consultation at the National Institute of Ophthalmology.
  • (19) The karyotype of a prosimian primate, the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis), is described.
  • (20) Her approval has seemed likely since at least two weeks ago, when her nomination was passed out of the judiciary committee with 12 “aye” votes, including three from Republicans.

Wye


Definition:

  • (n.) The letter Y.
  • (n.) A kind of crotch. See Y, n. (a).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results are broadly consistent with a more homogeneous environment for the Wye base in the presence of Mg2+.
  • (2) Then, in October 1998, as the newly appointed foreign minister, he astounded his acolytes by signing the Wye River agreement, facilitated in Maryland by President Bill Clinton, which granted Palestinians control over another 13% of the West Bank.
  • (3) After attending Rose Hill school, Tunbridge Wells, and Durham school, he dropped out of Wye Agricultural College in Kent in order to study acting at the Old Vic.
  • (4) They knew they had to go west, because the storm-troopers would be coming from the east; they got as far as Ross-on-Wye, where their passports and cameras were taken away.
  • (5) By way of escape, David headed for a hotel in Ross-on-Wye with an old lover, George Lassalle.
  • (6) An examination of the frameshift signals or proposed signals within published sequences of retroviruses and other genetic elements from higher animals shows that each site utilizes a tRNA which normally contains Wybutoxine (Wye) base or Queuine (Q) base in the anticodon loop.
  • (7) Work undertaken within the Wye basin, central Wales, demonstrates a complex distribution of fallout at the catchment scale, with the bulk of the deposition concentrated in a narrow north-south band, situated in the west central areas of the basin, which contained in excess of 1500 Bq m(-2) of (134)Cs.
  • (8) The complex conformational states of the anticodon loop of yeast tRNA(Phe) which we had previously studied with relaxation experiments by monitoring fluorescence of the naturally occurring Wye base, are analyzed using time and polarization resolved fluorescence measurements at varying counterion concentrations.
  • (9) Sky Arts has made a number of profile-raising deals, including sponsoring the Hay on Wye festival since 2007, backing English National Opera, and giving coverage last year to people occupying the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.
  • (10) Rodney Mace Hay-on-Wye, Brecknockshire • With the new wall being built in Hungary ( Work begins on border fence to block migrants , 14 July), I am reminded of a conversation I had with a woman whose family has owned, since the 1920s, the apartment where I spent the night a few years ago.
  • (11) Phenylalanine transfer RNA (tRNAPhe) of mammalian tissues contains the hypermodified guanine derivative Y (Wye) adjacent to the 3'-end of the anticodon and two O-methylated bases in the 5' portion of the anticodon loop.
  • (12) Under pressure from the Clinton administration, he signed the Wye River Memorandum in October 1998, which included a pledge for an Israeli withdrawal from 13% of the West Bank as a step towards a final status agreement with the Palestinians.
  • (13) When [methyl-3H5methionine is added in the presence of actinomycin D, which blocks new RNA synthesis, label appears in the wye base of tRNA2Phe.
  • (14) Measurements of the Wye base fluorescence demonstrate that the isolated anticodon loop of tRNA(Phe) (15 nucleotide residues) has a binding constant K = 75 M-1 for Phe-amide, which is only slightly lower than that observed previously for the complete tRNA(Phe) (K = 100 M-1).
  • (15) Although the reactions of lithiated 7 with electrophiles gave the 2-substituted derivatives 14, 15, 17, 20, 21, and 22, lithiation of 1-benzyl-7-bromo-2-chlorowye (23) followed by treatment with Me2CHCH2CHO (13) successfully introduced a side chain at the 7-position to afford 1-benzyl-2-chloro-7-(1-hydroxy-3-methylbutyl)wye (24).
  • (16) It could generate up to 8GW - 5% of the UK's energy needs • Shoots barrage - a scheme further upstream which would generate around 1GW, equivalent to a large fossil fuel plant • Beachley barrage - an even smaller scheme, just above the Wye River, which would generate around 625MW • Bridgwater Bay lagoon - a proposal which would impound a section of the estuary on the coast between east of Hinkley Point and Weston-super-Mare, which could generate 1.36GW • Fleming lagoon - a similar scheme which would generate the same amount of power from a section of the Welsh shore between Newport and the Severn road crossings.
  • (17) A fluorescent base wye (Yt base) was isolated from Torulopsis utilis tRNAPhe.
  • (18) Marks & Spencer, however, which claims to be the only UK supermarket selling only British asparagus, says it has 100% availability in all its stores, grown in Herefordshire in the Wye Valley under polytunnels .
  • (19) The NHS's Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) on Wednesday said that those three, plus Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS foundation trust, Aintree University Hospital NHS foundation trust in Liverpool and Wye Valley NHS trust in Herefordshire, all had unusually high death rates in 2012-13, as judged by the summary hospital-level mortality indicator ( SHMI ).
  • (20) A relaxation effect with a time constant of approximately 100 microseconds, indicated by the Wye base fluorescence, is attributed to a conformational change of the anticodon loop and is very similar to a corresponding transition observed previously for the whole tRNAPhe molecule.

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