What's the difference between aye and yeah?

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.

Yeah


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
  • (2) Yeah, just being dead made more sense than being alive.
  • (3) Did you make them get out of the car?” I said “Well, yeah,” she said, looking confused.
  • (4) 3.19am BST Pacers 49-66 Heat - 4:47 remaining, 3rd quarter So yeah, this is not how Indiana wanted to start things.
  • (5) I’d have been a TV celeb type, done these albums that are nonsense – and yeah, with hindsight, that wouldn’t have been a bad idea.
  • (6) I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m scary, I’ll fuckin’ scare you then.
  • (7) His support, he claimed, was due to admiration of Corbyn’s campaigning history (“I saw some sick picture of him from back in the day when he was campaigning about anti-apartheid and I thought: ‘Yeah, I like your energy’”) as well as the fact that he seemed to express concern for segments of society that other parties don’t (“I feel like he gets what the ethnic minorities are going through and the homeless and the working class”).
  • (8) But yeah, it's all a question of degree and perspective, isn't it?"
  • (9) And I always go, yeah, but you don’t decide to be a transvestite when you’re a sophisticated adult – you’re a child.
  • (10) They wanted to know if Marsha P Johnson was going to be a part of the movie and I was like, ‘Yeah!
  • (11) A Tumblr page succinctly called Fuck Yeah, Cillian Murphy's Eyes consists of pages and pages of photographs of the actor, looking up, down, left, right, blinking, winking, staring, gazing – you name it.
  • (12) Yeah, here's a thing that's not entirely impossible.
  • (13) Obligatory indie section is obligatory Yeah, but there was some good stuff in Microsoft's blipvert run-through of indie titles – all coming to the console courtesy of the ID@Xbox programme, which seeks to help smaller studios make and distribute games on the platform.
  • (14) Yet somehow Yeah Yeah Yeahs are still together and doing their best to wrong-foot their fans 3.
  • (15) Yeah, as I said, come back from the dead.” I have managed to get my hands on some of the correspondence that’s been going back and forth, and can give you a sneak preview of the ideas.
  • (16) "Yeah, they pay you a fee, a nominal fee," Noth told the Guardian.
  • (17) When he came back in January, he said to me, 'Yeah, they [the local Afghans] had their first market in five years last week.
  • (18) When we seen the things happening in Tottenham, everyone just clicked and said, 'Yeah that's our chance.
  • (19) "Oh yeah, she's still massively important," he says, citing her strong connections with the underground and her instinct for sniffing out cutting-edge collaborators as reasons for continuing to take her work seriously.
  • (20) … like I feel like I haven't [been] given the same opportunities and chances as other people have … because at the end of day, yeah, maybe I have got a bit of hate in my heart … against the authority … Like I'm not scared of the police … I don't give a fuck about them, that's not gonna stop me, like if I was scared of the police like, I wouldn't have been able to survive.

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