What's the difference between clew and lew?

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.

Lew


Definition:

  • (a.) Lukewarm; tepid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Treatment of LEW hosts with ART-18 prolongs survival of LBN cardiac allografts up to a month; in contrast, OX-39 never affects acute (8-day) rejection.
  • (2) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
  • (3) LEW rats immunized with each of the three DA MHC chains produced alloantibodies to these chains, suggesting that indirect allorecognition did occur, because of the requirement for cognate recognition of B cells by T helper cells.
  • (4) However, LEW host rats with allografted DA veins rejected subsequent DA fetal hearts in 7.18 days, which was significantly sooner than in controls (8.45 days).
  • (5) In the strong DA-to-LEW combination, class I induction on hepatocytes seemed to appear earlier, beginning at day 3, and was more uniform and intense than in the DA-to-PVG model from day 5.
  • (6) After allogeneic grafting (CAP leads to LEW; RtH-1-incompatible) the non-specific-healing reaction progressed into a second phase, namely the specific reaction: increasing infiltration of the host cornea and the graft with small lymphocytes, blast cells and macrophages, directly followed by severe vascularization, reaching its climax about the 14th day.
  • (7) Blood-glucose estimations were performed on this sample by an automated glucose-oxidase method and by a reflectance meter system (Reflocheck, BCL (London) Ltd., Lewes, East Sussex, UK).
  • (8) The interindividual correlation of the primary and secondary lesions showed an inverse relationship between the gravity of the primary and secondary lesions in the LEW and LE strains.
  • (9) "If the chains had taken over Lewes, it would be difficult, but we're very lucky here."
  • (10) Donor lymphocytes were prepared from BN or third party DA(RT-1a) rat spleens and lymph nodes and injected via PV or IV to LEW rats on the day of transplantation (day 0).
  • (11) LEW rats carrying a DA kidney for 100 days also rejected a subsequent donor-specific pancreas transplant within 30 days.
  • (12) Four groups of inbred male LEW rats were examined: A, germfree athymic; B, specified pathogen free (SPF) athymic; C, germfree euthymic; D, SPF euthymic.
  • (13) In 27 rats, after 30 days, the composite grafts were excised, and immediately transplanted by means of vascular anastomosis into normal LEW recipients (syngeneic to the kidney portion of the graft and allogeneic to the skin).
  • (14) Infected LEW rats produced greater or equal levels of the major classes of serum antibody to M. pulmonis than did infected F344 rats, suggesting that development of serum antibody responses alone does not resolve lesions and is not responsible for the difference in disease severity found in LEW and F344 rats.
  • (15) The influence of artificial unilateral occlusal disturbances on the structure of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) condyle cartilage was investigated by an experimental study using the miniature pig "MINI-LEWE".
  • (16) Unilaterally nephrectomized, sublethally irradiated (780 rads) LEW recipients of renal allografts from irradiated WF donors, were selectively reconstituted with spleen cells from sensitized syngeneic donors and subjected to delayed nephrectomy of the residual native kidney 3 days posttransplantation.
  • (17) In their 125th year, the Rooks fended off bankruptcy to become Lewes Community Football Club, thus joining AFC Wimbledon, FC United of Manchester and Exeter City, among others, as collective entities.
  • (18) To elucidate the immune mechanisms of susceptibility and resistance to EAE, we first examined the T cell repertoire for MBP using thymectomized chimeras that possessed thymuses from EAE-susceptible (LEW) or EAE-resistant (BM) strains.
  • (19) Moreover, transfer of 2.0 x 10(8) splenic lymphocytes or 2 ml serum from DSG-treated LEW rat with surviving ACI heart allograft, to sublethally irradiated grafted host, did not prolong survival both in ACI heart grafts and third party Wistar grafts.
  • (20) This bulletin marks the beginning of a cycle dealing with the structure, function, innervation and quantitative analysis of jaw muscles as well as postnatal cranial growth and dentition in the miniature pig MINI-LEWE.

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