What's the difference between chew and hew?

Chew


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.
  • (v. t.) To ruminate mentally; to meditate on.
  • (v. i.) To perform the action of biting and grinding with the teeth; to ruminate; to meditate.
  • (n.) That which is chewed; that which is held in the mouth at once; a cud.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was a linear increase in the dimensions of these zones after the chewing.
  • (2) In a second set of test sessions, volunteers chewed sugarless gum for 10 minutes, starting 15 minutes after they ate the snack food.
  • (3) The model has been used to evaluate mineral changes from the use of fluoride dentifrices and rinses, chewing gum, and food sequencing.
  • (4) The prevalence of kola nut chewing and the effects attributed to it are briefly reviewed.
  • (5) A case is presented of deliberate chewing of the flowers of henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) in the hope of producing euphoria, and an account is given of the poisoning so produced.
  • (6) The wide variation in potency explains the variation found in absolute bioavailability, and the increase in release rate when the pellets are crushed explains the differences seen in peak plasma times, since the pellets will be chewed to varying degrees by the horse.
  • (7) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .
  • (8) Pictures of the Social Network star emerged on Twitter and Instagram on Wednesday, showing Garfield in full costume for Punchdrunk's current show, The Drowned Man , chewing seductively on a stick of straw .
  • (9) Chew on this during the change: TBS notes that the Pirates are 69-17 when they score four or more runs....gulp.
  • (10) Relationships between chewing activities and rates of particle breakdown, passage, and digestion were also determined.
  • (11) During each test period one group chewed a combination of one piece sorbitol and one piece sucrose flavored gum five times per day, the second group correspondingly chewed xylitol and sucrose flavored gum, while the third group served as a no hygiene control group.
  • (12) Epidemiologists need to conduct studies to determine if there is an increased likelihood of developing cancer in betel chewing pregnant women and OC users due to increased sensitivity of their lymphocytes to genetic damage compared with nonchewing pregnant women and OC users.
  • (13) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
  • (14) The relationship of nutritional status, self-perceived chewing ability, dental status, and social isolation was examined.
  • (15) A cooperative multicenter study was performed to evaluate two salivary secretion methods-the chewing gum test and the Saxon test by a crossover method.
  • (16) The buccal mucosa was the most common site of occurrence; 98.3% of these individuals had oral habits, with smoking alone or smoking in combination with "pan" or "supari" chewing accounting for 74.9% of the habit forms.
  • (17) We have compared the ability of drugs to induce chewing and retching or emesis in squirrel monkeys; such studies are not possible in rodents, which do not vomit.
  • (18) The ability to perceive thickness differences between the incisors was more accurate after 1 hour's chewing than normally.
  • (19) The results show a significant difference between the cranial values of the two chewing experiences.
  • (20) When increasing the length of the chewing object, secretion of fluid (P less than 0.013), but not enzymes, further increased.

Hew


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; -- often with down, or off.
  • (v. t.) To form or shape with a sharp instrument; to cut; hence, to form laboriously; -- often with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher.
  • (v. t.) To cut in pieces; to chop; to hack.
  • (n.) Destruction by cutting down.
  • (n.) Hue; color.
  • (n.) Shape; form.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The disruption by means of the Hews press yielded a more active preparation as compared with ultrasonic disintegration.
  • (2) I suspect that means he does in fact hew pretty closely to what the Bible says.
  • (3) The concept of using examination content guidelines as sources for curriculum content is presented, using the ASCP Board of Registry grids and a task list developed for HEW as a basis for proficiency examinations.
  • (4) During this latter period, training support provided by HEW remained essentially constant, that by the Environmental Protection Agency decreased to less than half, while that from the universities approximately tripled.
  • (5) On his Twitter feed, the governor said the bus bridge will run from Barclays Center, MetroTech and Hewes St stations, using special lanes up 3rd Avenue, and returning down Lexington Avenue.
  • (6) Historians Hew Strachan, Max Hastings, Margaret MacMillan, Chris Clark, Niall Ferguson, Richard Evans , Norman Stone and others have answered to Kitchener's Your Country Needs You.
  • (7) These experiments allow comparison of the properties of TEW lysozyme with those of the hen egg white (HEW) enzyme reported previously (Banerjee, S. K., Holler, E., Hess, G. P., and Rupley, J.
  • (8) North Korean universities have their own fairly sophisticated Intranet system, though the material posted to it is closely vetted by authorities and hews to propaganda.
  • (9) Thus, blocking of the lymphocytotoxic response of cystadenocarcinoma patients towards HeW cells may be utilized to monitor the isolation of ovarian carcinoma-associated antigen.
  • (10) The fictional family bore strong similarities to Franzen’s own, his father a railway engineer, his mother a housewife, although, he says, as “writing becomes more autobiographical, the less it hews to actual lived experience.
  • (11) The amino acid composition indicated similarities and differences as compared with that of hen egg white (HEW) lysozyme.
  • (12) Instead, we need to press Labor to hew to its best instincts over the long term, whoever the next prime minister might be.
  • (13) A cell-mediated cytotoxicity test, quantitated by postlabeling with tritiated thymidine, was used to asses immune reactivity of cancer patients to the HeW cell line derived from serous cystadenocarcinoma of the ovary.
  • (14) The magnitude of the low pH difference spectrum is enhanced by binding of saccharide for HEW and Oxa-62-lysozymes but not for TEW lysozyme.
  • (15) "The director must hew to the rule of law and accountability," the ACLU's German said.
  • (16) Palin's speech, like many others, mostly hewed faithfully to Beck's official theme of the rally, which was paying tribute to America's armed forces.
  • (17) In 1969 a study by an HEW commission documented the need for further legislation.
  • (18) This Note contends that the Act and related HEW regulations preclude states from exempting health care facilities' research expenditures and education expenditures from the scope of the states' certificate-of-need programs.
  • (19) Hew Strachan, a prominent military historian who is on the advisory board, has warned that the commemorations "will be repetitive, sterile and possibly even boring" if the centenary turns into "Remembrance Sunday writ large".
  • (20) HEW's Health Care Financing Administration links uniform reporting and Medicare reimbursement under the provisions of the proposed System for Hospital Uniform Reporting.

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