What's the difference between eaves and eavesdrop?

Eaves


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) The edges or lower borders of the roof of a building, which overhang the walls, and cast off the water that falls on the roof.
  • (n. pl.) Brow; ridge.
  • (n. pl.) Eyelids or eyelashes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This family, termed the endogenous avian retrovirus (EAV) family, is distinct from the previously characterized avian endogenous and exogenous retroviruses.
  • (2) To examine the role of enteric adenoviruses (EAV) in an urban area of Buenos Aires (Argentina), we prospectively studied faecal samples from 49 families of newborns.
  • (3) We have recently shown that the genome of equine arteritis virus (EAV) contains seven open reading frames (ORFs).
  • (4) Sisal eaves curtains deterred mosquitoes from hut entry but did not kill those that had entered.
  • (5) Stallions may also harbor EAV in the genital tract and transmit the virus to mares during coitus.
  • (6) Fluid leaking from arterial and venous extra-alveolar vessels (EAV's) may account for up to 60% of the total transvascular fluid flux when edema occurs in the setting of normal vascular permeability.
  • (7) An ART-CH polypurine tract, a tRNA(Trp)-binding site, regions around the TATA box and polyadenylation signal, and the beginning of the putative gag gene strongly resemble the corresponding regions of avian leukosis viruses and EAV, the two described classes of chicken retroviruses.
  • (8) Transmission of EAV infection by long-term carrier stallions would appear to occur solely by the venereal route.
  • (9) The infectivity of equine abortion (herpes) virus (EAV) was inactivated by treatment with reduced dithiothreitol (DTT).
  • (10) Case study Eaves recently struggled to help 29-year-old Linda and her 11-month-old baby.
  • (11) Northern blot hybridization analysis of RNA from Line-0 chicken embryos reveals several transcripts derived from the EAV proviruses.
  • (12) We conclude that the arterial and venous EAV's share a common interstitium in the zone 1 condition, this interstitium cannot be represented as a single compartment with a fixed resistance and compliance, and arterial and venous EAV leakage influences leakage from the other segment.
  • (13) A total of 180 samples from cases of diarrhoea and 766 samples obtained during diarrhoea-free periods were studied by dot-blot hybridization with an EAV-specific DNA probe.
  • (14) In comparisons of catches in two huts with 8 cm entry slits at eaves or ground level, large numbers of An.
  • (15) Perhaps the most interesting question arising concerns the ability of EAV, a DNA virus, to replicate successfully despite the presence of deoxyribonuclease activity at the site of replication (the nucleus).
  • (16) These carrier stallions play an important role in the dissemination and perpetuation of EAV.
  • (17) A number of these ORFs are predicted to encode structural EAV proteins.
  • (18) Consistent with previous findings (Kendler, Heath, Martin, & Eaves, Archives of General Psychiatry 43, 213-221, 1986) shared environmental influences were found to play a relatively minor role in the report of depressive symptoms.
  • (19) The F1- and F2-polypeptide components of in ovo activated fusion proteins of one virulent (AV or Australia-Victoria) strain, one low-virulence (EG or Eaves-Grimes) strain, and two avirulent (V4 or Queensland and WA2116) strains of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) were isolated and subjected to structural analysis.
  • (20) Ara-HxMP prevented hepatitis-associated deaths in hamsters, reduced the titer of EAV developing in hamsters, and inhibited the increase of serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase in EAV-infected hamsters.

Eavesdrop


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To stand under the eaves, near a window or at the door, of a house, to listen and learn what is said within doors; hence, to listen secretly to what is said in private.
  • (n.) The water which falls in drops from the eaves of a house.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Iain Lobban, the director of GCHQ, the government's eavesdropping and encrypting agency, last week used his first public speech to call for an aggressive approach to cyber attacks, and warned of the dangers of adopting the sort of defensive strategy famously symbolised by France's Maginot line, which was meant to repel the Germans and failed.
  • (2) The ISC report does not include the evidence it has been given recently by GCHQ officials on the massive British and US eavesdropping programmes leaked to the Guardian .
  • (3) The Guardian , along with some of the world's other major media organisations, including the New York Times, the Washington Post and Der Spiegel, began disclosing details of the extent and reach of secret surveillance programmes run by Britain's eavesdropping centre, GCHQ, and the National Security Agency in June.
  • (4) Claiming not to have seen the specific reports, Hogan-Howe said he would be “amazed” if officials at MI5 and GCHQ were routinely eavesdropping on attorney-client conversations, adding: “That is very legally restricted unless the lawyer is involved with crime.” “It’s very clear what the law says, which is obviously that there is a legal privilege that exists between a lawyer and their client,” he said.
  • (5) Then she asks: Why did we not know that heads of state were being eavesdropped on, spied on?
  • (6) And now, the US supreme court just consecrated one of the most corrupt acts of the US government over the past decade: its vesting of retroactive legal immunity in the nation's telecom giants after they had been caught red-handed violating multiple US eavesdropping laws.
  • (7) By integrating bulk data [redaction] with information about individual subjects of interest from other sources of intelligence (liaison relationships, agent reporting, intercept, eavesdropping, surveillance) and from ‘fusing’ different data-sets in order to identify common links, we can better understand target networks, locations and behaviours, enabling a greater depth and breadth of target coverage.
  • (8) In the UK, arguments against the “snooper’s charter”, a bill that gives the British government huge power to eavesdrop on encrypted connections, have also been made with regard to China.
  • (9) The intervention comes after the Guardian and some of the world's other major media organisations, including the New York Times, the Washington Post and Der Spiegel, began disclosing details of the extent and reach of secret surveillance programmes run by Britain's eavesdropping centre, GCHQ, and the National Security Agency.
  • (10) In his first public speech, Iain Lobban, the director of GCHQ, the government's eavesdropping and encrypting agency, last week called for an aggressive approach to cyber attacks, and warned of the dangers of adopting the sort of defensive strategy famously symbolised by France's Maginot line , which was meant to repel the Germans.
  • (11) National security state officials also decreed that it would "not be in the public interest" to report on the Pentagon Papers, or the My Lai massacre, or the network of CIA black sites in which detainees were tortured, or the NSA warrantless eavesdropping program, or the documents negating claims of Iraqi WMDs, or a whole litany of waste, corruption and illegality that once bore the "top secret" label.
  • (12) Both Labour and Lib Dems said the wording opens the door into an investigation into whether the US National Security Agency or GCHQ eavesdropping centre in Cheltenham have been circumventing the warrant system approved by parliament by using technologies to hoover up information from communications traffic.
  • (13) Ludlam’s question, by way of the journalists’ union’s submission, was this: if conducted as an SIO, would it be illegal to report that intel agencies eavesdropped on the private phone conversations of the Indonesian president’s wife?
  • (14) This is why the UK began the Cyber Security Challenge in 2011, and why Millican and otherparticipants have been discreetly courted by GCHQ, the government's electronic eavesdropping centre, which is on the frontline of this new power struggle.
  • (15) Timor-Leste is reluctant to pursue the Indonesian military for its crimes, provable in part due to Australian eavesdropping, in the name of enhanced relations with its all-powerful neighbour in Jakarta.
  • (16) Coulson has always denied any knowledge of the illegal eavesdropping at the News of the World, for which ex-royal editor Clive Goodman and a private detective were jailed in 2007.
  • (17) Le Monde said: "The document specifies the techniques used to spy on the communications of the French diplomats: Highlands for pirating computers using remotely delivered cookies; Vagrant for capturing information from screens; and finally PBX, which is the equivalent of eavesdropping on the discussion of the French diplomatic service as if one was participating in a conference call."
  • (18) If you posit that the entire world is a "battlefield", then you're authorizing him to do anywhere in the world what he can do on a battlefield: kill, imprison, eavesdrop, detain - all without limits or oversight or accountability.
  • (19) Declassified after 50 years, they show that MI5 subjected Edith Tudor-Hart to round-the-clock surveillance, opened her mail, tapped her telephone, bugged her home and eavesdropped on the conversations of her friends and associates.
  • (20) Files leaked by Snowden show the British eavesdropping centre, GCHQ, and its US counterpart, the National Security Agency, have developed capabilities to undertake mass surveillance of the web and mobile phone networks.