What's the difference between ewer and eyer?

Ewer


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug; esp., one used to hold water for the toilet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An anthropometric study in the Asmat population, a coastal group of Papua living in the south-western part of Irian Jaya (Indonesian New Guinea) covered 318 subjects of both sexes, belonging to four different villages (Basim, Senggo, Ewer and Piramanak) of the Asmat region.
  • (2) An initial report of some of these results has been published previously (Ewer et al., 1988).
  • (3) Landon Ewers, chief information officer at Amalgamated Bank, said: “Donald Trump has personally attacked federal judges and a disturbing portion of Americans appear to think he should be able to override the courts.

Eyer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who eyes another.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These different results can be explained by the fact that the unique amalgam investigated by Sarkar and Eyer does not exhibit the same diffusional patterns as does dental amalgam, and that the composition of the gamma 1 in the two amalgams is not the same.
  • (2) The extensive enzymic dephosphorylation of neurofilaments determined the progressive loss of their capacity to interconnect in vitro into a reticulated network, measured by the formation of highly viscous gels in purified preparations of neurofilaments [Leterrier & Eyer (1987) Biochem.
  • (3) Furthermore, secondary electron scans of this dental amalgam failed to reveal the intergranular precipitates of Sn-Hg observed by Sarkar and Eyer (1986) in their amalgam.
  • (4) In a recent study, Sarkar and Eyer (1986) studied an amalgam which was formed using a unique procedure.

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