What's the difference between cab and cay?

Cab


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.
  • (n.) The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.
  • (n.) A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was founded in 1984 by Hussain, a former Chicago cab driver, and won broad support among the "mohajirs" - Muslims who fled India after partition in 1947.
  • (2) The trip raised millions for Comic Relief but prompted some uncharitable headlines after it emerged in July that Parfitt had billed the taxpayer £541.83 for "specialist clothing" – and a further £26.20 for the cost of picking it up in a cab.
  • (3) Group 1 (purpose to preserve the bladder, preoperative MVP-CAB): Four of 7 patients achieved a partial response.
  • (4) Sequences from the 5' upstream regions (-400 to translational start) of some cab genes were determined in this study, and a total of 16 tomato cab gene promoters for which sequences are now available were analyzed.
  • (5) Uber drivers are employees not contractors, California rules Read more Like many Ethiopian immigrants in San Diego , Sahilu gravitated towards driving a cab because he didn’t speak much English and couldn’t get recognition for his educational qualifications – in his case, a chemistry degree.
  • (6) TfL , which has come under pressure from black-cab drivers, who feel Uber has been getting too easy a time from the regulators, is running the consultation until 23 December.
  • (7) It was concluded that important alterations in SNS activity and thyroid hormone homeostasis occur in humans during CABS and deep hypothermia, and that changes in core temperature may contribute to these findings.
  • (8) Even for those who don't know a "540 cab" from a "360 grab", or what it means to "huck it", the scale of the achievement was clear.
  • (9) Endemic outbreaks of CAB often originate from contaminated infusion fluids.
  • (10) At both temperatures, the conditioned PMMA, CAB, silafocon A, and pasifocon C lenses wet slightly better, by 1 degree to 12 degrees, than unconditioned lenses.
  • (11) In London, Trafalgar Square and Whitehall were jammed from the start of the planned "go slow" at 2pm, as thousands of black cabs gathered honking their horns, bringing total gridlock to the centre of the capital, while supporters waved banners and started occasionally chanting: "Boris, out!"
  • (12) Topographical distribution of concanavalin A binding sites (CABS) was studied in two lines of virally transformed fibroblasts as a function of fatty acid composition.
  • (13) Arrhythmias were analyzed in 50 patients undergoing cardiac surgery: 27 with valve surgery, 15 with coronary artery bypass (CAB), 5 with CAB and valve surgery, and 3 with miscellaneous procedures.
  • (14) She appeared out of nowhere, said a few words that no one could hear and then slowly made her way through the photographers to a cab and vanished: a great, big, fruitily dressed fairy godmother who, when you come to think of it, bears not the slightest resemblance to any of the other seven billion people on the planet.
  • (15) A study was made of lipid peroxidation and the antioxidant system in patients with bronchial asthma (BA) and chronic asthmatic bronchitis (CAB) before and after muscular exercise.
  • (16) The central subdivision of the BNST appeared as a histochemically clearly circumscribed compartment with massive fibre immunoreactivity for SOM, ENK, VIP, SYN, CHR-A, CAB as well as SOM, ENK, NT and CAB positive cells but lacked cytosolic or fibre-like immunolabel for NPY and SP.
  • (17) He picked the brothers up in his leased taxi-cab, and drove them to Man-O-Salwa, a kebab restaurant in Somerville, Massachusetts, where Matanov and Tamerlan often dined.
  • (18) London's black-cab drivers are to launch private prosecutions against minicab drivers who use Uber , the booking software that allows smartphone users to hail private-hire cars from any location.
  • (19) Another 129 patients with unstable disease (group II) had unilateral, asymptomatic carotid lesions and were prospectively randomized to receive either combined operations (IIA; n = 71) or CAB followed by delayed CE (IIB; n = 58).
  • (20) To determine the importance of operative variables in the development of postoperative atelectasis and the incidence of phrenic nerve injury caused by topical cold cardioplegic solution, we studied 57 patients (53 male, four female) undergoing CAB.

Cay


Definition:

  • (n.) See Key, a ledge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The increase in blood FFA level correlated with the increase in body weight on both KK-CAy mice and the controls.
  • (2) The PR and BP alteration in diabetic KK-CAy mice were significantly different from the PR one in alloxan-mice and from the BP one in STZ-mice, respectively.
  • (3) The neuromuscular junctions of genetically diabetic KK-CAy mice are reported to be hypersensitive to succinylcholine (SuCh) but not to d-tubocurarine (d-TC).
  • (4) SuCh in diabetic KK-CAy muscles inhibited ACh potentials to a greater extent than in normal ddY muscles.
  • (5) The dishonest media can continue to make this part of their agenda, while the president will focus on his, which includes tax reform that will benefit all Americans.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The envelope in which pages from Donald Trump’s 2005 federal tax return were sent to the journalist David Cay Johnston.
  • (6) In the experiments reported here, UV-B-induced photoproducts (cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers) have been quantified in DNA molecules exposed to solar UV at the surface and at various depths in clear, tropical marine waters off Lee Stocking Island (23 degrees 45' N, 76 degrees 0.7' W), Exuma Cays, Bahamas.
  • (7) Insulin-stimulated glucose uptake was the same at higher glucose levels (25 mM) as at 8.3 mM glucose for 1 h, despite an increase in basal glucose uptake (without insulin) in KK-CAy mice.
  • (8) The gastrocnemius Mg was also 9.0 and 5.5% greater in the KK-CAy and the alloxan-mice.
  • (9) Two strains were isolated from ticks of the species Ornithodoros capensis Neumann 1901 collected from the nests of Sooty Terns, Sterna fuscata Linnaeus 1766 on coral cays off the east coast of Queensland, Australia.
  • (10) The myopathy in skeletal muscles of genetically diabetic male KK-CAy mice or alloxan-induced diabetic mice was investigated.
  • (11) "The government's treatment of Dieu Cay appears to be inconsistent with Vietnam's obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as well as the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights relating to freedom of expression and due process," it said in a statement.
  • (12) Islands such as San Salvador, Cat Island and Rum Cay were expected to experience the most significant effects later in the day and Friday as the storm begins an expected shift toward the north, forecasters said.
  • (13) The skeletal muscles of alloxan-induced diabetic mice and genetically diabetic KK-CAY mice are hypersensitive to a depolarizing blocker, succinylcholine (SuCh) but not to the competitive antagonist, d-tubocurarine (d-TC).
  • (14) The experiments were carried out in Les Cayes, Haiti.
  • (15) The wedding precedes a larger event to be held this weekend on Depp’s private island, Little Hall’s Pond Cay in the Bahamas, which has islands named after his two children, Lily-Rose, 15, and Jack, 12.
  • (16) They turned up in the mailbox of David Cay Johnston , a tax expert and author of a book on Trump, without explanation.
  • (17) Guests paddle through the South Water Caye Marine Reserve, exploring mangrove channels and reefs, watching out for stingrays, manatees and pelicans.
  • (18) In regards to the inhibition of ACh potentials, KK-CAy myotubes were not hypersensitive to both SuCh and d-TC when compared with ddY myotubes.
  • (19) The island that took the top spot in the best in the world category was Ambergris Caye in Belize, a tiny island beside the second largest coral reef on the planet, which attracts divers and snorkellers.
  • (20) She was going to her father's house near the town of Les Cayes, four hours south of Port-au-Prince.

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