What's the difference between baa and bay?

Baa


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To cry baa, or bleat as a sheep.
  • (n.) The cry or bleating of a sheep; a bleat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) AstraZeneca is likely to go the way of many other leading British firms such as Pilkington, Corus, BAA, Tarmac, Blue Circle, various utilities and Cadbury among many others.
  • (2) Previous studies [Fluit, A.C., Baas, P.D., van Boom, J.H., Veeneman, G.H.
  • (3) Sir Peter, 62, is believed to be backing BAA chief executive Mike Clasper to take over as chief executive.
  • (4) This suggests that the presence and position of the ether linkage, as it is in BAA, are critical for the development of hematotoxicity.
  • (5) Meanwhile, the owner of Heathrow, BAA, licences a small number of photographers who are allowed to be based airside, so they can get the first shots of whoever is coming from planes that day.
  • (6) This region is composed of 42 tandem repeating oligonucleotides, is 599 base pairs long and the sequence is 5' cdi jfa faa aba baa aaa fab aaa caa aac aca cba aaf ccb 3' (abbreviated as a = ACAGGGGTGTGGGG; b = ACAGGGGTCTGGGG; c = ACAGGGGTCCTGGGG; d = ACAGGGGTCCGGGG; f = ACAGGGGTCCCGGGG; i = ACAGGGTCCTGGGG; j = ACAGGGGTGTGAGG).
  • (7) The effect of beta-adrenoceptor antagonists (BAAs) differing in lipophilicity and partial agonist activity (PAA), and a full agonist, on the dissociation constant for [125I]-(-)- iodocyanopindolol binding to beta 2-adrenoceptors (KD) has been investigated.
  • (8) A source at one Heathrow airline acknowledged that BAA had been hit by "unprecedented" snowfall, but criticised the speed of the airport owner's response.
  • (9) In the reciprocal combination of native BaA as the immunogen and modified BaA as the eliciting antigen, the relationship of anti-BaA responses to DH was examined.
  • (10) However, whole blood amino acid (BAA) concentrations revealed significantly greater levels of methionine when methionine was administered via the jugular vein.
  • (11) If a politician or overpaid columnist reports that Baa, Baa, Black Sheep has been banned in primary schools (Phillips insists no such school has ever been identified) the chances are that they are just trying to stir up trouble rather than inform enlightened public debate.
  • (12) Land of the free Pity the BAA lawyers scratching their heads over how to buy out the owners of the acre of land at Heathrow that the company will need to build its third runway.
  • (13) Pretreatment of rats with pyrene decreased elimination of BaA.
  • (14) The mechanisms responsible are likely related to the fact that older cells are more susceptible to BE and BAA and that hemolysis of these cells during the initial exposure followed by their replacement with less susceptible younger cells may account for tolerance development.
  • (15) Such was the crush of people seeking information on their flights – or simply having nowhere else to wait – that airports operator BAA said no more passengers would be allowed into Terminals 1 and 3.
  • (16) There was no difference in short-cut, shank-off, semiboneless leg yield between control and BAA.
  • (17) These results indicate that, in rats, overall metabolism of BE to BAA, the hemolytic metabolite, was linearly related to the exposure concentration up to a concentration that caused severe toxicity (438 ppm).
  • (18) January 2012 BAA announces record traffic figures for Heathrow with 69.4 million passengers passing through its terminals in 2011.
  • (19) Dithiothreitol (DTT, 5 mM) enhanced proteinase activity threefold for UDH, fourfold for BAA, and fivefold for BANA.
  • (20) Butoxyacetic acid (BAA) was earlier identified as a urinary metabolite of BE.

Bay


Definition:

  • (a.) Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses.
  • (n.) An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.
  • (n.) A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.
  • (n.) A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.
  • (n.) A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.
  • (n.) A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.
  • (n.) A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay.
  • (n.) A berry, particularly of the laurel.
  • (n.) The laurel tree (Laurus nobilis). Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel.
  • (n.) A tract covered with bay trees.
  • (v. i.) To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game.
  • (v. t.) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear.
  • (v. i.) Deep-toned, prolonged barking.
  • (v. i.) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
  • (v. t.) To bathe.
  • (n.) A bank or dam to keep back water.
  • (v. t.) To dam, as water; -- with up or back.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effects of low doses of dihydropyridine (DHP) calcium channel antagonists nimodipine, nifedipine, (-)-R-202-791, and amlodipine, the DHP calcium channel agonist BAY K 8644 were investigated on clonic convulsions to pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) in mice.
  • (2) The biphasic response to (-)-(S)-Bay K 8644 and (+)-(S)-202-791 suggests that the properties of Ca++ channel activation and antagonism may reside within a single 1,4-dihydropyridine molecule.
  • (3) The Ca2+ agonist Bay K 8644 (1 microM) potentiated the effects of elevated K+ on both ChAT and TOH.
  • (4) BAY 19139, 1-(4-chlorophenoxy)-1-(1-imidazolyl)-3,3-dimethyl-2-butanol is a new imidazolyl derivative of antifungal agent.
  • (5) The effects of the dihydropyridine calcium channel agonist Bay K 8644 on indo-1-loaded Jurkat human leukemia T lymphocytes was assessed by flow cytometry.
  • (6) While visitors amble freely around the newly refurbished inside – the Pierhead is sure and steadfast in its role outside as the drastic red building, emblazoning the landscape of Cardiff Bay in all its regal beauty.
  • (7) These mutants have been used to test for the presence of their required metabolites in natural seawater samples from the Gulf of Mexico and adjacent bays.
  • (8) Now remarried, and a father, he is standing for Plaid Cymru, again in the Cardiff Bay seat.
  • (9) The administration is also attacked for endangering America with its proposals to dismantle the prison at Guantánamo Bay.
  • (10) These observations are consistent with the high sensitivity of the newborn mouse lung towards the tumorigenic effects of bay region diolepoxides.
  • (11) At doses of 1, 5 and 10 mg kg-1 Bay K 8644 antagonized the anaesthetic effects of pentobarbitone.
  • (12) We knew how good they were at keeping the ball and moving it around and we knew we would have to work hard to keep them at bay.
  • (13) San Francisco Tenderloin map They could potentially gentrify this gritty, 50-block swath of downtown into condos, lofts, hipster bars, organic cafes and yoga studios, as has happened in other parts of San Francisco and the Bay area.
  • (14) When tested on rat atrium, SNP by itself had no effect on basal inotropy or the increase in inotropy induced by (-)-S-BAY K 8644.
  • (15) Subjects were 862 nonsmoking coronary patients in the San Francisco Bay Area, randomized in 1978 to receive, over 4.5 years, cardiac counseling or cardiac counseling plus type A behavioral counseling.
  • (16) And so, through Trove’s archived newspapers, I’ve found Harry – the mission boy who saw the Japanese at Caledon Bay imprison women, girls and old men in the trepang smokehouse, before raping the women in the bush.
  • (17) AHH-active PCB congeners (intrinsic effects) and PCBs in general (extrinsic effects) appeared to be the only contaminants at the concentrations measured in eggs, capable of producing the effects that were observed at Green Bay.
  • (18) Every time we have a negotiation, the bidding process (for the project) slows and postpones things.” Water quality has become a hot-button issue as the Olympics draw closer with little sign of progress in cleaning up the fetid bay, as well as the lagoon system in western Rio that hugs the sites of the Olympic park, the very heart of the games.
  • (19) Alternans of both action potential shape and APD was suppressed by nisoldipine (2 X 10(-6) M) and attenuated by Bay K 8644 (3 X 10(-8) M).
  • (20) The last American soldier held captive by the Afghan Taliban has been released, after the US government agreed to free five Afghan detainees from the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba to the custody of the Qatari government, US officials said.

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