What's the difference between bowyer and yew?

Bowyer


Definition:

  • (n.) An archer; one who uses bow.
  • (n.) One who makes or sells bows.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 2004, Adrian Bowyer invented a machine that could print around 50% of its own parts, and in 2008 it successfully managed to print itself.
  • (2) 2) Relative distances of the individual redox active centers to the P-side and N-side surfaces of the reconstituted Complex III proteoliposome were measured by our paramagnetic probe method (Blum, H., Bowyer, J. R., Cusanovich, M. A., Waring, A. J., and Ohnishi, T. (1983) Biochim.
  • (3) Szczensy would have been sent off in the second minute for bringing down Lee Bowyer, following a pass from Zigic, had it not been for the mistake by the assistant referee Ron Garfield in raising the flag for offside.
  • (4) That recent indifferent run has now seen them win just once in the last eight but Bowyer believes with the correct application, the play-offs are still achievable.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Unite union representative Dave Bowyer outside the Docks Cafe.
  • (6) But after scoring 20 goals in 39 Championship appearances as Gary Bowyer’s side finished ninth, the Benin international has his heart set on leaving Ewood Park and is understood to want to join Quique Flores’s newly-promoted side despite interest from Norwich City.
  • (7) After the trial of the Leeds United footballers Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate the spotlight has been on the public behaviour of footballers, particularly once they have drunk alcohol, and the game has been marred by a series of embarrassing incidents.
  • (8) "Bowyer was aggrieved because he would be blasted for a challenge like that," McLeish said.
  • (9) Blackburn 2-1 Leeds Gary Bowyer was delighted with his Blackburn side’s “best win of the season” as they recovered from a goal down and a man down to win.
  • (10) "In our last game against Arsenal he was banned for a stamp on Bacary Sagna and there were headlines saying that Bowyer was a naughty boy.
  • (11) "We were on the receiving end of it tonight," said Blackburn's manager Gary Bowyer.
  • (12) Bowyer was found not guilty of the attack but the court heard that the footballers had drunk large amounts of alcohol.
  • (13) Dave Bowyer, a 40-year veteran of the plant and member of trade union Unite’s executive council, said: “Central government … has been very weak.
  • (14) Susannah Bowyer, research and development manager, Research in Practice : “Staff across all services need support to build knowledge and skills in key areas – such as recognition of neglect and assessing parents’ capacity to change.
  • (15) They are divided into 4 groups according to the classification of Shinebourne, Anderson and Bowyer.
  • (16) Processing of the D1 precursor has been recently postulated to play a regulatory role in the light-dependent migration of photosystem II units from the unstacked to the stacked thylakoids (Bowyer, J. M., Packer, J. C. L., McCormack, B.
  • (17) It is for this reason that Bowyer decided to make his designs open source (so anyone can access them), and subsequently build their own printer, using materials costing around £250.
  • (18) Szczesny might have been sent off in the second minute for a foul inside the penalty area on Lee Bowyer only for play to be pulled back for an erroneous offside flag.
  • (19) Koscielny was perhaps also fortunate to escape with yellow for an ugly lunge at Bowyer.
  • (20) Vik Olliver, a long-time collaborator with Bath University's Adrian Bowyer on the RepRap project and seller of 3D printer consumables , points to another elusive goal: as a self-replicating machine, the RepRap was envisaged as colonising to the developing world, where it would be used to make the consumer goods that sustain modern life but which are often inaccessible to poor communities.

Yew


Definition:

  • (v. i.) See Yaw.
  • (n.) An evergreen tree (Taxus baccata) of Europe, allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. It frequently grows in British churchyards.
  • (n.) The wood of the yew. It is light red in color, compact, fine-grained, and very elastic. It is preferred to all other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from Spain.
  • (n.) A bow for shooting, made of the yew.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Kuan Yew with Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in 2009.
  • (2) The investigational antineoplastic agent, taxol, a natural product from the yew, Taxus sp.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Kuan Yew, right, and his wife, Kwa Geok Choo, second left, posing with the Japanese Emperor Hirohito and his wife Empress Nagako, in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in 1968.
  • (4) A 40-year-old patient attempted suicide by drinking an extract made from 120 g of yew needles.
  • (5) One feels alone but not lonely amid the tall centuries-old ash, beech, birch, oak and yew, and the woodland is well preserved and conserved.
  • (6) Christine Cole Northampton • I think Philip Bowring almost completely misses the point in his obituary of Lee Kuan Yew.
  • (7) Lee Kuan Yew’s grip on Singapore | Letters Read more Ethnic prejudice lurked just under Lee’s image of technocratic rationalism.
  • (8) Presently, taxol is derived from the bark of the Pacific yew, Taxus brevifolia, a small, slow-growing evergreen tree native to the northwestern United States.
  • (9) Standing in the shade of a 1,000-year-old yew tree at the front of St Mary's church in Harmondsworth, Ken Hughes says he knows how locals will react if the latest extension plans at Heathrow come to fruition.
  • (10) The whole “father of Singapore” image has often been taken far too literally, but Lee Kuan Yew’s governing style was nothing if not paternalistic.
  • (11) Four prisoners drank a decoction of yew (Taxus baccata) needles containing the toxic alkaloid taxine++ B.
  • (12) Taxol is a chemotherapeutic drug which acts by stabilizing microtubules, preventing normal mitosis and resulting in a block of the cell cycle at G2 and M. The drug is isolated from the yew, Taxus sp.
  • (13) Data from the literature concerning the toxicity of yew and some (traditional) uses of yew are reported.
  • (14) In Singapore, however, where a hodgepodge mix of ethnic Chinese, Malay and Indian residents actively aim to maintain what the nation's "founder", Lee Kuan Yew, has termed "racial harmony", supporters are hard to come by.
  • (15) Lee Kuan Yew’s grip on Singapore | Letters Read more Voting in Singapore is compulsory.
  • (16) To many Singaporeans, and indeed others too, Lee Kuan Yew was Singapore ,” he said.
  • (17) Songbirds chatter in the intertwining branches of a yew walk planted over 500 years ago.
  • (18) Singapore’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, who led the city-state for more than three decades, has died aged 91.
  • (19) Few have demonstrated such complete commitment to a cause greater than themselves.” This article was amended on Monday 23 March 2015 to correct a misspelling of Lee Kuan Yew’s name and to correct the time of the announcement of his death.
  • (20) The passing of a giant like Lee Kuan Yew is the end of an era,” Bishop told Sky News.

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