What's the difference between blew and clew?

Blew


Definition:

  • () imp. of Blow.
  • (imp.) of Blow
  • (imp.) of Blow

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And just a few games shy of making history, the Warriors blew a 17-point lead and fell to the Minnesota Timberwolves – another team that didn’t even come close to making the playoffs – after forcing the game into overtime.
  • (2) The hype of thewhole week blew up in one overreaction from me.
  • (3) When a row about this blew up in March 2010 , just before the election, the prime minister claimed only to have been aware about it for less than month.
  • (4) One of the other attackers in the car is believed to have been Brahim Abdeslam, a Belgian jihadi who blew himself up on Paris’s Boulevard Voltaire.
  • (5) To keep the statistics rolling, last season's best-viewed match came in April when Chelsea blew the title race wide open by defeating Liverpool 2-0 at Anfield – it was watched by more than 3 million people on Sky.
  • (6) The final whistle blew and virtually all the Scarborough fans ran on to the pitch to 'celebrate'.
  • (7) "When it blew up you could see the shock wave hit the wheat field, boom," he said.
  • (8) The row blew up after Luzhkov criticised the Kremlin last week, questioning Medvedev's decision to suspend a Moscow-St Petersburg road-building project.
  • (9) The Sounders tried to keep the deal secret, but fans with access to Twitter and cellphone cameras blew the lid off.
  • (10) Perhaps, too, it’s the reason why another great Scottish poet, Hugh MacDiarmid, blew hot and cold about him.
  • (11) As the final whistle blew, Wenger, suddenly wreathed in smiles, hugged his staff, players and even Alan Pardew, a managerial rival with whom he has not always enjoyed the most cordial of technical area relations.
  • (12) Two factors aligned for the extreme low in the snow pack last year: winter temperatures too warm to allow formation of snow in the Sierras, especially at lower elevations, and a phenomenon known as the “Ridiculously Resilient Ridge”, the high pressure atmospheric formation over the north Pacific that blew storm tracks off course, preventing rains from reaching California.
  • (13) Osborne also blew a £600m hole in Labour’s plans to fund its cut in tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000, taking the money to fund his savings package.
  • (14) Steel bands, choirs and dancers performed while the mass of people, many with their children, blew horns and whistles as they passed alongside parliament.
  • (15) "At first I was taken aback by how quickly this thing blew up."
  • (16) As Wayne Rooney placed the ball on the penalty spot, blew out his cheeks and prepared for the moment he had been waiting for all this time, Wembley lit up with a thousand and one flash bulbs.
  • (17) Marian Gaborik's goal meant that Chicago blew three leads in the game, something their fans can chew on during the intermission.
  • (18) Their average age was 23.5, with the oldest being Crawley father Abdul Waheed Majeed, 41, who blew himself up driving a truck bomb during a prison break in February.
  • (19) A former undercover spy who blew the whistle on abuses of a covert Scotland Yard unit has offered to speak to an inquiry if police chiefs withdraw their threat to investigate him for breaking the Official Secrets Act.
  • (20) At least two people – a woman, identified by police as Abaaoud’s cousin, Hasna Aitboulahcen, who apparently blew herself up by detonating an explosive vest, and a man hit by multiple gunshots and a grenade – were known to have died in the seven-hour assault on the rundown apartment block .

Clew


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Clue
  • (n.) To direct; to guide, as by a thread.
  • (n.) To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Therefore it may be assumed that it is rather a random finding and that it is a type of clew-like nerve ending.
  • (2) Darren Clews, who was Daniel's headteacher at Little Heath primary, has left the school and is now in charge of Grangehurst, also in Coventry.
  • (3) The most frequent is thin and sinous, sometimes forming clews, or loose basket-like arrangement around presumed nerve cells.
  • (4) This enables the angiographic laminae vascularis, which define the sulci in a "semi-direct" manner, to be used a kind of "Ariadne's clew" to identify cortical structures on RMI sections.
  • (5) The ultrastructural characteristics of the branched-axon and clew-like corpuscles, however, were not reported.
  • (6) The sensory nerve endings were divided into the following groups: free endings and arborizations, spray-like endings, seven types of clew-like nerve endings, and Pacinian corpuscles.
  • (7) You’re likely to be the only soul swimming in this tiny cove, with staggering views back towards islet-pocked Clew Bay.
  • (8) Graham Clews Lewes, East Sussex • I can’t help thinking that the Guardian’s Keep it in the ground campaign is not really serious as long as you are willing to take full-page advertising from the likes of Total, as per page 24 on 25 April.
  • (9) It is the clew-like endings that absolutely predominate, they were 2,027 in number.
  • (10) Educating Essex came about as a result of Leach's decision to hire director David Clews, an expert in observational documentaries relying on a "fixed rig" of cameras permanently on location, and Andrew Mackenzie, Twofour's creative director.
  • (11) Under the light microscope, the encapsulated corpuscles of the mouse lower lip mucosa were only classified into 4 types, simple, ramifying, branched-axon, and clew-like corpuscles.
  • (12) The main difference consists in the rate of occurrence (89.6 as against 57.8) and in the thickness of the capsule, while the nerve clew proper does not grow in diameter.
  • (13) "Pupils are under much more stress these days and so are staff, yet teachers don't have training in mental health – or spare time," says Moira Clewes, lead teacher on health at Sandwich technology school, Kent, one of the schools piloting the project.
  • (14) A council spokesman said neither Green's retirement nor Clews' move were connected to the Pelka case.
  • (15) No clew-like type corpuscles or glomerular-Meissner corpuscles were observed.
  • (16) As Twofour head of documentaries Clews also oversees ITV2's Magaluf Weekend and ITV's Happy Families.

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