What's the difference between dew and hew?

Dew


Definition:

  • (n.) Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night.
  • (n.) Figuratively, anything which falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.
  • (n.) An emblem of morning, or fresh vigor.
  • (v. t.) To wet with dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew.
  • (a. & n.) Same as Due, or Duty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As Geoff Dyer notes in his essay for Dewe Mathews's book, her images may "bear a conceptual resemblance to Sternfeld's, but they are taken within the already charged zone of memory that is the Western Front.
  • (2) Advantages of DEW over the use of conventional manuals are 1) the extensive volume of text, 2) the large number of high quality illustrations, 3) the immediate access to cross references and 4) the potential for continuous revision.
  • (3) Physiological measurements included local skin and dew-point temperatures.
  • (4) Photograph: Chloe Dewe Mathews On another trip, Dewe Mathews visited the local council maintenance office in Mazingarbe, Nord–Pas-de-Calais, which is situated in a former abbatoir where 11 British soldiers were executed for desertion between December 1915 and March 1918.
  • (5) Photograph: Chloe Dewe Mathews His officer namesake later recorded the proceedings in his memoirs: "There are hooks on the post; we always do things thoroughly in the Rifles.
  • (6) Dew point, however, failed to predict patient load during the 1990 race.
  • (7) Five male volunteers performed three 180-min experiments (three repeats of 10 min rest, 50 min walking at 440 watts) in an environment of 38 degrees C dry bulb (Tdb), 12 degrees C dew point (Tdp).
  • (8) Five subjects performed intermittent exercise on a bicycle ergometer (25 min work, 5 min rest cycles for 2 hours, and 20 min work, 10 min rest cycles for a further hour) in a hot environment (air and wall temperatures = 36 degrees C; dew-point temperature = 10 degrees C; air velocity = 0.6 m.s-1).
  • (9) We have always followed this conservative procedure, as of course in cases of liver echinococcus, that is: cyst enucleation and marcupialisation (Posadas-Dew method), if there are no cyst complications.
  • (10) Chloe Dewe Mathews: ‘Druid Chris Parks rows his homemade coracle on the upper Thames.
  • (11) A homogeneous batch of dew retted hackled flax was divided into two portions.
  • (12) Skrillex and Chance The Rapper Recess tracklist All is Fair In Love And Brostep with Ragga Twins Recess, with Kill the Noise, Fatman Scoop and Michael Angelakos Stranger, with KillaGraham from Milo and Otis and Sam Dew Try It Out (Neon Mix), with Alvin Risk Coast Is Clear, with Chance the Rapper and the Social Experiment Dirty Vibe, with Diplo, G-Dragon from Big Bang and CL from 2NE1 Ragga Bomb, with Ragga Twins Doompy Poomp Fuck That Ease My Mind, with Niki and the Dove Fire Away, with Kid Harpoon
  • (13) Five subjects exercised on a cycle ergometer for 30 min at 55% peak oxygen consumption on two occasions in an environmental test chamber (ambient temperature = 29 degrees C; dew point temperature = 10 degrees C).
  • (14) A subline (FL) of a long-term growth-selected line (F) of turkeys was established by mass selecting solely for increased shank width at the narrowest point (dew claw).
  • (15) The evaluation experiment was, however, very rigid and negatively biased with respect to the DEW system.
  • (16) Experiments were carried out on four healthy male subjects in two separate sessions: (a) A baseline period of two consecutive nights, one spent at thermoneutrality [operative temperature (To) = 30 degrees C, dew-point temperature (Tdp) = 7 degrees C, air velocity (Va) = 0.2 m.s-1] and the other in hot condition (To = 35 degrees C, Tdp = 7 degrees C, Va = 0.2 m.s-1).
  • (17) Vivienne Dews, the OFT chief executive, said of the study into SMEs: "Our work suggests there may be competition concerns in this sector.
  • (18) Sharp retained his chairmanship of £175m lobbying and public relations group Huntsworth, better known in City circles for its trading brands, Citigate Dewe Rogerson, Grayling and Red.
  • (19) Direct dew-point recording offers an easy practical dimension to the study of efficacy of latent heat loss and skin wettedness properties through garments.
  • (20) "Initially, I was wary of taking on a project about the first world war as I have no personal connection with it," says Dewe Mathews, "but, from a documentary photography perspective, I was drawn to the idea of arriving somewhere 100 years afterwards.

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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