What's the difference between dewy and dey?

Dewy


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to dew; resembling, consisting of, or moist with, dew.
  • (a.) Falling gently and beneficently, like the dew.
  • (a.) Resembling a dew-covered surface; appearing as if covered with dew.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When you hear the name Jesus, is the first image that comes to mind a dewy-eyed pretty boy with flowing locks?
  • (2) Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti’s photographs of tax havens will be exhibited at the Arles photography festival from 6 July to 20 September, and published in a book, The Heavens: Annual Report, by Dewi Lewis Media on 3 August, priced at £39.
  • (3) "Oh my gosh," she says, in her rich, dewy Kentucky accent, and holds out a perfectly manicured hand.
  • (4) Birrell seeks to paint opponents of privatisation as dewy-eyed nostalgists.
  • (5) This is a house we’ll be able to grow into,” the case study quotes Matthew as saying, presumably as he gazes, dewy-eyed, at a light fitting or something.
  • (6) Only the most dewy-eyed optimists would claim that all is well, though some like Con Coughlin of the Telegraph do.
  • (7) In a review of more than 3000 cancer patients, DeWys and colleagues identified significantly improved survival in those patients without weight loss compared with those had lost 6% of their body weight (Am J Med 69:491-497, 1980).
  • (8) It is wrong (and pointless) to be dewy-eyed about the old industrial era, with its dirty and back-breaking jobs and its exclusion of women.
  • (9) They had longed for this day, and after all the emotion at the start, the dewy-eyed speech from Claudio Ranieri and the guard of honour that ushered his team on to the pitch, their heroes quickly set about showing everyone why they now go by the title of champions of England .
  • (10) Down at the Indy , a dewy-eyed Christina Patterson found Labour's young men floundering against a chap who "looks like a prime minister, sounds like a prime minister and acts like a prime minister".
  • (11) Vinny says, becoming breathless and dewy-eyed as he describes the roar of an audience's laughter and the backstage ambience where the groupies stood in a queue.
  • (12) The last mentioned features are strongly effective also in aride regions, with the well known fluctations of high parching and dewiness.
  • (13) Why did we have to have Little Red Riding Hood?’’ But that is about as dewy-eyed as he gets.
  • (14) The yes surge is not being driven by blood-and-soil nationalism, by dewy-eyed Celtic nostalgia or the resurrection of a Braveheart spirit.
  • (15) • Guantánamo: If The Light Goes Out, by Edmund Clark, Julian Stallabrass and Omar Deghayes, is published by Dewi Lewis Publishing at £35.
  • (16) If you talk to people of a certain age, they will tell you, dewy eyed, about being huddled over a retro computer such as a Sinclair Spectrum or Commodore C64 plugged into a portable TV, playing games which by today’s modern standards are very simple, often very silly, but had a fun factor never seen before till that point in time.” Revival of the Spectrum brand will boost the profile of the 74-year-old Sinclair, who launched his first mass-market consumer product in 1962.
  • (17) STAY in Old Post Office Cottage or Ivy Cottage (£180 for two) in the grounds, or at the restaurant's own Angel Hotel, (01873 857121, angelabergavenny.com , doubles from £101) Y Polyn, Capel Dewi, Carmarthernshire Photograph: Alamy From the statement on their website – "Fat equals flavour.
  • (18) Results of prospective and long-term investigations will help to define subsets of stage I patients for whom RLND may be unnecessary (DeWys et al.
  • (19) · Degrees by Andy Gotts is published by Dewi Lewis Media on October 6.
  • (20) 100 Leading Ladies is published by Dewi Lewis Media on 2 October at £30.

Dey


Definition:

  • (n.) A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.
  • (n.) The governor of Algiers; -- so called before the French conquest in 1830.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "), and the Scousers ("Dey do dough, don't dey dough?").
  • (2) While Deyes says he has no plans to move into television for the moment, he does have a one-hour slot on BBC Radio 1, on which he appears alongside other vloggers including TomSka , Tyler Oakley and Caspar .
  • (3) Speaking to the Observer after the publicity furore surrounding the publication of his first volume, The Pointless Book , which already tops the Amazon bestsellers list, Deyes, 21, said he would consider moving into the world of conventional, networked television and radio if he was in charge of the content.
  • (4) "We dey pop champagne, pop pop pop pop, pop champagne!"
  • (5) Television might seem like a step up from YouTube, but Deyes sees it as a completely different public platform, though one where you may be no more than a face or a voice to someone else's script.
  • (6) There's only 10 of each, so those who covet them need to move quickly ( madebynode.com )… Greenspeak: Daylighting {dey-lie-t'ing} present participle Trend in architecture (possibly because we're not that keen on eco bulbs) to illuminate with natural daylight, making particular use of skylights.
  • (7) We’ve done our part so now he must do his.” A group of women in brightly coloured hijabs sang in the local dialect: “When Buhari dey for power, Nigeria go better.” Among them was Zainab Galadima, who said: “I was expecting it, but I can’t believe it’s happened.
  • (8) This time round it’s the YouTube stars Zoella , Alfie Deyes and ThatcherJoe .
  • (9) The scale of the reception to his book signing at Waterstones in Piccadilly was overwhelming, Deyes added, but vlogging is not a way to get famous quickly.
  • (10) "Social Talent is definitely the new celebrity," said Dominic Smales, Managing Director of Gleam Futures, a company that manages emerging digital celebrities such as Deyes and Sugg.
  • (11) Mark has overseen seen a variety of high-profile activities for Direct Line Group in 2016, such as its telematics ‘Drive Plus Plug In’ partnership with popular vlogger Alfie Deyes that targeted young drivers, the Churchill Lollipoppers campaign that put Lollipop men and women back onto school crossings, and Fleetlights, a prototype fleet of drones responsive to an individual’s movements and controlled via a bespoke app, created to address car and pedestrian safety issues relating to darkness in UK communities.
  • (12) A statistical estimation of significance between treatments demonstrated that Dey-Engley medium (DE; Difco) was generally effective when tested as an agar growth medium with several bacterial test organisms.
  • (13) Hundreds of pounds of confetti was tossed from the top balconies of apartments when his procession of cars passed through the poor Moslem suburbs of Hussein Dey and Touba.
  • (14) In the second experiment dried egg yolk (DEY) and dried egg white (DEW) were compared with DWE at equivalent levels of egg components.
  • (15) But it is also becoming an important route into traditional careers in print publishing or television, according to Alfie Deyes, the vlogger with more than three million subscribers who was mobbed by 8,000 fans at his book launch earlier this month.
  • (16) The drawbacks include the prolific internet trolls who attempt to undermine vloggers who are trying to make a living online, but Deyes says that he is surrounded with so much positivity that negative comments do not bother him.
  • (17) Deyes is also the boyfriend of one of the most influential vloggers in the young female market, Zoe Sugg, known as Zoella , and the couple sometimes vlog together under the name of Zalfie.
  • (18) As nurses became familiar with the proper angle and distance for applying the Dey-Wash, the problem of splashback became more manageable.
  • (19) Liver fat was approximately five times greater in the groups receiving DWE and DEY than in the groups receiving DEW.
  • (20) The analysis of the factors modulating tubular potassium transfer has shown that the potassium concentration in the cells of the distal nephron is a dey factactors involved in setting the cellular potassium concentration are active potassium uptake at the peritubular and luminal membrane of the cells as well as electrogenic solium extrusion across the peritubular boundary of the cells.

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