What's the difference between fag and fay?

Fag


Definition:

  • (n.) A knot or coarse part in cloth.
  • (v. i.) To become weary; to tire.
  • (v. i.) To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
  • (v. i.) To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.
  • (v. t.) To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
  • (v. t.) Anything that fatigues.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rebelling by dabbling in drink, fags, sex – the list goes on – is part of growing up.
  • (2) Here, we examine a group of six recessive mutations, the facets (fa, fa3, fag, fag-2, fafx and fasw), which affect eye and optic lobe morphology and have been previously shown to be associated with the insertion of transposable elements into an intronic region of Notch.
  • (3) There were 54 cases of somaticised anxiety (brain fag); 22 cases of depressive neurosis characterised by hypochondriasis, cognitive complaints, and culturally determined paranoid ideation; 23 cases of 'hysteria' in the form of dissociative states, pseudoseizures and fugues; and 39 cases of brief reactive psychosis which differed from the dissociative states more in duration and intensity than in form.
  • (4) The use of VW FAg levels in the diagnosis of vasculitic disorders has been proposed.
  • (5) It is the fact that the poor spend too much on fags and booze.
  • (6) In this paper an attempt has been made to tie the concept down more firmly by proposing a strict definition, examining the appropriateness of this definition in determining the CBS status of two new syndromes (anorexia nervosa and brain-fag) and analysing the usefulness or not of the basic CBS concept.
  • (7) In males, atrophic areas and the remaining choriocapillaris are clearly demonstrated in FAG and less well visible in ICG angiograms.
  • (8) At baseline, although the levels were not outside the laboratory range, the disease groups had raised VW FAg compared with the simultaneously tested controls.
  • (9) For those who like verisimilitude in their faux fags there are disposables – the hefty but effective Ten Motives or the petite, feminine NJOY – and rechargeable kits complete with USB chargers and cartridges from the likes of E-Lites, Halo and Skycig.
  • (10) Venostatic stress increased VW FAg activity in all disease groups, control levels also increased and differences between controls and disease groups diminished in significance.
  • (11) Brown's fear has been that he might inherit the fag end of a tired government.
  • (12) In other words, the noise surrounding this debate, not to mention the TV duel, will only partly be about whether Britain should be in Europe or not: the rest of it, one would imagine, will centre on the issue of immigration, both in terms of its links with the EU, and as a public concern that informs just about every other area of policy – and, implicitly or otherwise, the sense a lot of people have that we are governed by a homogeneous, well-heeled, cosseted bunch of politicians, and among the only people who offer any kind of alternative is Farage, complete with his pint and fag.
  • (13) At fluorescein angiography (FAG) at a mean of 8 months post-operatively, 9 showed leaking from the iridal vessels, and 3 were normal: Three cases were excluded because of factors affecting the iris FAG.
  • (14) He cycles down to the docks, puffs a fag and contemplates the water.
  • (15) In 1995, when Williams walked out on his boyband, he bounded into Liam's rock'n'roll life with ease – because although he had once writhed around in jelly , he also had a rebellious side with a penchant for Adidas jackets, booze, birds and fags.
  • (16) A lovely woman meets us, gives us fags in the cab and says she'll happily answer to the name of Dave too.
  • (17) ITV chief executive Charles Allen accused the corporation of "back of a fag packet" calculations after it requested an inflation-busting settlement that would result in the current £131.50 fee increase to more than £180 by 2014.
  • (18) "Obviously all the other cunts will have the same idea, and the motorways will be rammed," Dad continued, fag wedged in mouth, "so we'll be taking the back roads.
  • (19) In M-SHRSPs with age of 8 weeks, systolic blood pressure was 220mmHg or more and retinal arterioles showed generalised narrowing but no dye leakage was recognized by fluorescein angiography (FAG).
  • (20) The gently warm vapour ingeniously replicates the reflective pause of a real fag, the same quiet little buzz.

Fay


Definition:

  • (n.) A fairy; an elf.
  • (n.) Faith; as, by my fay.
  • (v. t.) To fit; to join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so as to make the surface fit together.
  • (v. i.) To lie close together; to fit; to fadge; -- often with in, into, with, or together.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The GMB had contacts with him via Fulham football club; 'Pal Fayed', the local paper, the Rhondda Leader, called him on their front page.
  • (2) Cas Anvar is Dodi Fayed, the billionaire boyfriend who died with Diana in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997.
  • (3) Fay Ballard, daughter of the writer JG Ballard , is describing what happened when her mother, Mary, died of pneumonia, aged 34, on a family holiday in Alicante, Spain.
  • (4) With Redknapp's and Mandaric's trial now over, it can be revealed that as a result of Operation Apprentice, Storrie was prosecuted, charged with cheating the public revenue in relation to the alleged payment to Faye, and that he and Mandaric were also tried for tax evasion over an alleged termination fee paid to the midfielder Eyal Berkovic via a company, Medellin Enterprises, registered in the British Virgin Islands.
  • (5) Tony Pulis came down on the side of boldness, recalling Abdou Faye and Andy Wilkinson in defence after suspension in the strongest available line-up.
  • (6) 1986 Tory MP Tim Smith begins taking cash in brown envelopes from Fayed in return for asking Commons questions and other parliamentary activities.
  • (7) Fay Ballard in her garden with a sculpture JG Ballard made in the early 1960s.
  • (8) Conspiracy theories, many put forward by Mohamed Al Fayed, former Harrods owner and father of Dodi Fayed , Diana's companion at the time, who was also killed in the crash on 31 August 1997, were demolished in the course of the much-delayed inquest, held in the high court between October 2007 and April 2008.
  • (9) To all involved – including our presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, the film-makers, and our fans watching worldwide – we apologise.” The Academy said it spent Sunday night and the following day “investigating the circumstances” to “determine what actions are appropriate going forward”.
  • (10) With his dying breath, Fred Ery identified Floyd "Buzz" Fay as his murderer.
  • (11) We previously showed that in pupae of Hyalophora cecropia, eight hemolymph proteins (P1 through P8) were selectively synthetized after immunization (Faye et al., Infect, Immun.
  • (12) "When I reached the age of 34, that was a milestone," says Fay.
  • (13) Reporter Fay Schlesinger tweeted : "James Harding's departure is a massive loss for us.
  • (14) Sutherland and Johnson both agreed the picture was Austen; Le Faye did not.
  • (15) Harrods was sold by Mohammed Al Fayed in 2010 to an investment trust of the Qatari royal family for a reported £1.5bn .
  • (16) Though it's clear that this was a traumatic experience for Ballard, Fay says that he actually quite liked being in Lunghua camp and based his novel Empire of the Sun on that time.
  • (17) Peter Barlow's son, Our Simon, is particularly irksome, and Faye, who has been used to address the issue of bullying, has it coming.
  • (18) "I remember taking it for granted that there would be whisky on his study table at 9am," says Fay.
  • (19) In his last high profile victory, a year ago, he successfully defended the Harrods owner Mohammed Al Fayed, who was sued by Neil Hamilton over allegations that the former Tory MP took cash for asking parliamentary questions.
  • (20) Atypical facial pain was first described by Temple Fay in 1927 as a vascular syndrome of dull, throbbing pain situated deep in the eye and malar region often referred toward the ear, lateral neck, and shoulders.

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