What's the difference between eon and yon?

Eon


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Aeon

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In response to the Advisory Committee on training in Nursing recommendations EONS in association with Marie Curie Memorial Foundation organized a workshop, where representatives of the 12 member states of the EEC, actively involved in cancer nursing education, were invited to prepare a core curriculum in cancer nursing education.
  • (2) Casino Royale, whose rights had been individually sold off by Fleming in 1955, eventually passed to Eon in 1999 as a result of an agreement between Eon’s backers MGM and rival Hollywood studio Sony – thereby clearing the way for the 2006 version.
  • (3) Eon only regained the rights to use Spectre and Blofeld in 007 movies last year after resolving a long-running legal dispute stretching back to a suggestion, in 1959, by the Irish writer Kevin McClory that Ian Fleming, the spy’s creator, should pen a Bond film set in the Bahamas .
  • (4) Accumulation of random mutations and large macromolecular sequence change in all organisms since the Proterozoic Eon has been importantly supplemented by acquisition of inherited genomes ('symbiogenesis').
  • (5) Karyotypic alterations (polyploidization and karyotypic fissioning) have been added to these other mechanisms of species origin in plants and animals during the Phanerozoic Eon.
  • (6) Authentic Scottish Labour, no longer a “branch office” of the party in Westminster, needs to keep top talent at Holyrood, after eons of brain-drain southwards.
  • (7) Ofgem is understood to believe the big six – Centrica's British Gas, EDF Energy, RWE Npower, SSE, Eon and Scottish Power – hold up to £400m in millions of accounts closed after customers switched suppliers or moved home.
  • (8) Vin reminds me that we have not had a change in score since the third inning, which was eons ago.
  • (9) In his first major interview since taking office, Will Day, the incoming chair of the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC), told the Guardian that construction of new coal stations, such as the planned Eon Kingsnorth facility in Kent, would provide a "lightning rod" for international protest.
  • (10) However, it’s clear that Eon does its best to use British directors, reinforcing the national brand identity that is part of the Bond selling point.
  • (11) However, after a six-year break, Eon installed Martin Campbell in the chair: another experienced director, but one who was able to orchestrate one of the most elaborate stunts in Bond history.
  • (12) Frankly, producers Eon would have been better off giving the lead to Madonna’s innuendo-dispensing fencing instructor, but perhaps the idea deserves a revamp more than a decade on.
  • (13) The Sky deal comprises the 22 official Bond films made by Eon Productions as well as two non-Eon movies – Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again.
  • (14) Don Lieper , director of new business at Eon, said: "We take this very seriously – it is a legal requirement.
  • (15) But he appeared to rule himself out in April, telling an audience at London’s British Film Institute that he had given up on getting the call from 007 production company Eon.
  • (16) Local distributor eOne was quick to trumpet this achievement as bigger than the UK opening of Slumdog Millionaire (£1.83m from 324 cinemas), and with a higher screen average than the debut of The King's Speech (£8,919).
  • (17) For example, the functional competence of most, if not all, of the sugar-metabolizing enzymes was clearly established before the division of eukaryotes from prokaryotes eons ago, each critical active-site amino acid sequence being conserved ever since by bacteria as well as by mammals.
  • (18) Photograph: eOne If he is indeed the nemesis of Luke Skywalker & Co, he has bodybuilder-size shoes to fill ( David Prowse , who wore the original suit, stood at 6ft 6in).
  • (19) This paper outlines the content of that core curriculum and presents EONS' subsequent plans to design educational courses in all aspects of cancer care for European nurses.
  • (20) The sites have been nominated by the energy giants EDF, Eon and RWE, and by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), which owns some nuclear sites.

Yon


Definition:

  • (a.) At a distance, but within view; yonder.
  • (adv.) Yonder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hb La Roche-sur-Yon [beta 81 (EF5) Leu----His] is an unstable hemoglobin variant displaying a moderately increased oxygen affinity.
  • (2) The clustered arrangement (no two adjacent genes are separated by more than 73 base pairs [bp] and two genes overlap by 133 bp at their 3' ends) of the four genes (Surf-1 to -4) identified so far in the mouse surfeit locus (T. Williams, J. Yon, C. Huxley, and M. Fried, Proc.
  • (3) 8.40pm BST 39 min: Scotland give the old tiki-taka a go, passing it hither and yon across the back like, and pinging a couple of little triangles down either flank.
  • (4) The mouse surfeit locus is unusual in that it contains a number of closely clustered genes (Surf-1, -2, and -4) that alternate in their direction of transcription (T. Williams, J. Yon, C. Huxley, and M. Fried, Proc.
  • (5) The same conclusion has been drawn in a comparison of reactive histidine residues in the two enzymes [Cole & Yon (1986) Biochemistry 25, 7168-7174].
  • (6) Everyone knows the best players stand for the entire match in the centre circle dictating play, walking no more than five yards hither and yon, with a massive beer belly hanging over the belt of their shorts.
  • (7) The purification scheme includes the use of biospecific "imphilyte" chromatography as described by Yon [Biochem.J.
  • (8) She had a reputation for being a skinflint and Burns wrote on her death: Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation!
  • (9) Each of their political broadcasts would have a wee meme video at the end with yon big pair of bare-chested, kilted yoga boys doing handstands in a Highland pine forest with Mesdames Sturgeon, Dugdale and Davidson doing a cheesy thumbs-up.
  • (10) Bounced around, pushed hither and yon by a hand she could neither see nor control, the victim of a hidden player who saw her as little more than a figure on a digital screen.
  • (11) 3, 55-60; Missiakas, D., Betton, J.M., Minard, P., & Yon, J.M., 1990, Biochemistry 29, 8683-8689).
  • (12) "I think our might of single-hearted unity around the headquarters of revolution is demonstrated to the full through the ceremony today," said Kim Song-yon, another participant.
  • (13) Although this evidence of positive cooperativity in the enzyme-matrix interaction points to a deficiency in quantitative affinity chromatography theory based on equivalence and independence of these interactions [L. W. Nichol, L. D. Ward, and D. J. Winzor (1981) Biochemistry 20, 4856-4860], it is shown that such treatment leads to a much better description of the experimental situation than that provided by an alternative analysis based on cooperativity of enzyme-matrix interactions to the extent that only a single enzyme-matrix complex exists [P. Kyprianou and R. J. Yon (1982) Biochem.
  • (14) One verse says: Ye see yon birkie, ca’d a lord, Wha struts, an’ stares, an’ a’ that; Tho’ hundreds worship at his word, He’s but a coof for a’ that: For a’ that, an’ a’ that, His ribband, star, an’ a’ that: The man o’ independent mind He looks an’ laughs at a’ that.
  • (15) The idea that that would be subject to tariffs hither and yon is really very scary.” The production of many baked goods could similarly be vulnerable to disruption as raw ingredients such as flour cross EU borders several times before cakes and confectionery appear on supermarket shelves.
  • (16) Korean pop culture's first foray into Japan was led almost a decade ago by Bae Yong-joon , an actor whose mainly middle-aged, female devotees nicknamed him Yon-sama, or the Honourable Yon.
  • (17) Another on the new sanctions list, Cho Yon Jun of the powerful organization and guidance department, is in charge of enforcing loyalty to Kim, including executing those who defy his will, the senior US official said.

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