(n.) A peculiar whistling sound made by the Australian aborigenes as a call or signal.
Example Sentences:
(1) If we assume that there will be some kind of global framework of regulations on climate change that keep the world within cooee of 2°C of warming then there are going to be a lot of fossil fuels left underground.
Hey
Definition:
(a.) High.
(interj.) An exclamation of joy, surprise, or encouragement.
(interj.) A cry to set dogs on.
Example Sentences:
(1) The result will be yet another humiliating hammering for Labour in a seat it could never win, but hey, never mind.
(2) But Hey Diddly Dee, in Sky Arts' latest Playhouse Presents season, could only manage 71,000 viewers, despite the combined star power of Kylie Minogue, David Harewood, Peter Serafinowicz and Mathew Horne.
(3) When the red lights go off it could be anything from ‘hey, we need to replace a drive’, to ‘hey, we need to call in some exploits because something bad is happening’.
(4) Oh hey if you want to get in on the liveblogging action, just a reminder that you can email your thoughts to hunter.felt.freelance@guardiannews.com or tweet them to @HunterFelt .
(5) 4.28pm ET: Oh hey, Fox News finds time in its busy schedule to cover the rally.
(6) By 2008, recalls Brendan Kenalty, of customer base management, 2007-10: All the market research was saying, “Hey, everybody wants what they call candy bar phones,” which is the nonflip phone.
(7) Senior Yen Trader: hey ...you think we be able to convince [Primary Submitter] to change the libor today?
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest “Hey, why don’t we get a celebrity to make the ad?
(9) And hey is that Brady holding the ball for the successful extra point?
(10) And, hey, until Friday morning, most surveillance reform advocates were worried about the Senate ramming through the currently neutered version of the USA Freedom Act as its fig leaf of reform, before going back to business as usual and proposing bills that will give the NSA more power – not less.
(11) As soon as I called them and was like, 'Hey guys, it's OK, I'm not smoking meth or anything,' it was OK." He adds, frowning: "I don't really know why it happened… My girlfriend told me everyone had been saying, [he puts on a sulky voice] 'Man, Mac's shows aren't crazy any more.'
(12) That will end the college football season, but hey I just realized that the NFL Playoffs are still going on which means we'll have more football liveblogging here at the Guardian starting again this weekend where we will cover every game up to the Super Bowl.
(13) Purified preparations of previously identified growth factors including epidermal growth factor, transforming growth factor-beta, tumor necrosis factor, platelet-derived growth factor, thrombin, insulin, interleukin-1, interleukin-2, vasopressin, angiotensin, alpha- and gamma-interferons, and fibroblast growth factor did not increase cytosolic-free calcium in either fresh ovarian cancer cells or HEY cells.
(14) 3.15am BST Heat 49-54 Spurs, :29 remaining, second quarter Oh hey, we actually have a solid chunk of time where there's no scoring.
(15) The main part of the relation described by Hey et al.
(16) As my sister and her van companions entered the cell, one of them held her hands up in the air and shouted, “Hey kids!
(17) According to Titz, Charlie approached him at his studio when he was photographing artist Bobby West Tjupurrula and said, “hey mate, can you take my photo?” “He was travelling with a band of people from Kiwirrkurra,” Titz says.
(18) We have a few quotations from a compendium of jokes of the first emperor Augustus (not all brilliant: "When a man was nervously giving him a petition and kept putting his hand out, then drawing it back, the emperor quipped, 'Hey, do you think you're giving a penny to an elephant?'").
(19) Then someone came up to me and said: ‘Hey, do you know who that is?
(20) If In The Loop marks a time when people stop shouting, "Hey Tony!"