What's the difference between dey and dry?

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.

Dry


Definition:

  • (superl.) Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist.
  • (superl.) Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay.
  • (superl.) Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry.
  • (superl.) Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink.
  • (superl.) Of the eyes: Not shedding tears.
  • (superl.) Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh.
  • (superl.) Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain.
  • (superl.) Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit.
  • (superl.) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring.
  • (a.) To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay.
  • (v. i.) To grow dry; to become free from wetness, moisture, or juice; as, the road dries rapidly.
  • (v. i.) To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; -- said of moisture, or a liquid; -- sometimes with up; as, the stream dries, or dries up.
  • (v. i.) To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
  • (2) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
  • (3) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
  • (4) It was shown that gradual recovery of spike wave patterns occurred from initial water swallowing to successive dry swalllowing.
  • (5) Mucosal drying medications and senile salivary gland atrophy seemed to contribute to the high frequency of sicca in this population with a lesser proportion of the subjects demonstrating previously undiagnosed Sjögren's and possible Sjögren's syndrome.
  • (6) Where the guanine content was more than or equal to 0.25% in the dry dust, mite numbers were higher than 10 mites per 0.1 g dust in 43 of the 44 samples.
  • (7) Reconstituted freeze dried allogeneic skin grafts contained virtually no blood, a phenomenon possibly analogous to the 'no reflow' phenomenon of microsurgery.
  • (8) In Humbo in Ethiopia , FMNR has re-greened 2,800 hectares: springs, dry for 30 years, are flowing again.
  • (9) 54% of patients in the rainy season were ELISA positive for RSV compared to 8.8% during the dry season.
  • (10) This study compares the effects of 60 minutes of ischemic arrest with profound topical hypothermia (10 dogs) on myocardial (1) blood flow and distribution (microspheres), (2) metabolism (oxygen and lactate), (3) water content (wet to dry weights), (4) compliance (intraventricular balloon), and (5) performance (isovolumetric function curves) with 180 minutes of cardiopulmonary bypass with the heart in the beating empty state (seven dogs).
  • (11) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.
  • (12) Freeze-dried mannitol preparations were shown to be of a crystalline nature.
  • (13) The dried-specimen-teasing method appears useful, because of the ease of preparation of the specimens, its reproducibility, and the degree of visibility and preservation of cell surface structures and intraclonal relationships.
  • (14) The parameters of LES relaxation for both wet and dry swallows were similar using either a carefully placed single recording orifice or a Dent sleeve.
  • (15) The concentration of prey and the ciliate mean cell volume, dry weight, and number per milliliter were determined at known growth rates.
  • (16) The first stop in this arid place of poor farms and orchards clinging to the dry soil is Rafah, cut off by the border from its Palestinian counterpart.
  • (17) Percentage of dry tissue and protein concentration increased in parallel during the whole period.
  • (18) A clinical investigation was made between workers exposed to dried sewage sludge dust and age matched controls not exposed.
  • (19) During suction a flow of cold, dry room air replaces the warm, moist cavity air, causing cooling both directly and by vaporization of water.
  • (20) Patients with complaints of dry eyes and dry mouth but with no objective abnormalities served as control group.

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