What's the difference between baa and baya?

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.

Baya


Definition:

  • (n.) The East Indian weaver bird (Ploceus Philippinus).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The open pit Lomas Bayas mine is 80 miles from the Chilean port of Antofagasta and produces low-grade copper ore that is converted to copper cathode.
  • (2) Glencore slashes zinc production and jobs Read more The company said it decided to sell the Cobar and Lomas Bayas mines after a number of potential bidders made enquiries.
  • (3) He spent around three months there, and eventually swore a baya , a pledge of allegiance, on behalf of ABM.

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