What's the difference between fey and wey?

Fey


Definition:

  • (a.) Fated; doomed.
  • (n.) Faith.
  • (v. t.) To cleanse; to clean out.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey and Tom Hiddleston will be popping up to get pally with the puppets.
  • (2) The US comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will replace Ricky Gervais as next year's Golden Globe hosts – bringing perhaps a gentler touch to proceedings on the occasion of the awards' 70th anniversary.
  • (3) And the comedy Sisters, starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, also did reasonably well as R-rated adult-skewed counter-programming, opening with $13.4m in third.
  • (4) The snowman's quest is accompanied by a fey, irritating cover version of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's The Power of Love , in which Holly Johnson is replaced by a breathy chanteuse whimpering at the piano like a dog that needs taking for a walk.
  • (5) But Fey and Poehler would never condone this kind of unseemly contest between them, with people (ie, me) deciding which one they prefer, so I'll stop this nonsense now.
  • (6) An ode to better days: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 12.30am BST Amy Poehler confirms that she and Tina Fey will discuss whether they want to host the Golden Globes tonight.
  • (7) Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have been brilliant hosts for the Golden Globes – and that event itself has started in recent years itself to look sharper, smarter, more intimate: a cool revue-type show, compared to the deadly serious Oscars in a cavernous theatre.
  • (8) The two women have worked together pretty much throughout their careers, from Saturday Night Live (highlights include Poehler playing Hillary Clinton to Fey's Sarah Palin) to their forays into film, Baby Mama and, of course, Mean Girls .
  • (9) Tina Fey’s unflattering impersonations on Saturday Night Live were an instant hit.
  • (10) Sure, movies should be fun and a great deal of the fun – indeed, I would go so far as to say the primary fun – of American Hustle lies in the fact that it resembles, in Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's spot-on description, "an explosion in a wig factory".
  • (11) Here’s one of the latest videos of Fey and Poehler talking about what we can expect tonight.
  • (12) A slow start from Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, but then it picks up quickly.
  • (13) Kenneth introduced them both to Swinging London and he enjoyed the frisson of arriving at debauched parties with two 21-year-old men, one of them fey and elegant, and the other raffish and working-class."
  • (14) Actress Tina Fey arrives with Audi at the 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held in Los Angeles.
  • (15) Five years ago, with Mean Girls, Tina Fey looked as though she might be shaping up to fill that role, and of course last year she scored a double-whammy with Sarah Palin and 30 Rock.
  • (16) The noncompetitive Sandwich-ELISA (polystyrene balls) with labelled antibody for staphylococcal enterotoxins (SE) A, B, C, and D according to Fey et al.
  • (17) Alignment of the CNBr-cleavage fragments was made easier by comparison with the cDNA sequence of mouse pro-C3 [Wetsel, Lundwall, Davidson, Gibson, Tack & Fey (1984) J. Biol.
  • (18) These are things that might make me as happy as news that the wonderful Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are to take over from the increasingly dreary Ricky Gervais as hosts of the Golden Globes – but not by much.
  • (19) The show broke its rating records in 2008 when vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin appeared alongside comedian and writer Tina Fey, who played her in a skit.
  • (20) Yes, Fey did crack a joke about Fallon petting Trump’s hair; it was the best line of the skit.

Wey


Definition:

  • (n.) Way; road; path.
  • (v. t. & i.) To weigh.
  • (n.) A certain measure of weight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Double labelling with different sized gold particles for the ET-1 and beta 2R locations were performed on the hearts of young adult WEY, SHR, and SHRsp rats.
  • (2) Both IES and another Swedish company, Kunskapsskolan, have ambitions to manage chains of free schools on a similar basis, as does Wey Education – recently founded by Zenna Atkins, a former Ofsted chair.
  • (3) • The river Wey at Millmead, Surrey, is threatening to burst its banks.
  • (4) The first occurs very soon after reaching the Wey, just beyond the Manor Inn, and is a tiny patch of sandy beach where someone has placed poles, presumably to warn non-swimmers not to go on into deep water.
  • (5) Once the route joins the Wey Navigation, it follows the towpath right into Guildford and almost to the station.
  • (6) ■ The same firm, run by Zenna Atkins, the former chair of Ofsted, hopes to make an "impact in a positive way" on the lives of 250,000 children over the next five years, while Wey's broker forecasts a turnover of £17.5m by 2014 and a £9.9m "bottom line", through providing services in the UK and abroad.
  • (7) Iodine-125 and occasionally iodine-131 have been found in the thyroid glands of most of the swans that have died on the River Thames, the River Wey and the Grand Union Canal, and in algae and water samples from the Thames and many of its tributaries.
  • (8) Updated at 9.31am GMT 8.52am GMT Further east in Guildford, Surrey, which has an amber warning for heavy rain today and tomorrow , the river Wey at Millmead is threatening to burst its banks.
  • (9) Atkins, who earns £100,000 a year in her role at Wey Education, says she is working with seven potential founders of free schools and hopes to help them to manage their establishments once they are set up – at least in part because of the daunting nature of the task.
  • (10) As the groups of parents behind other free schools come to realise that managing schools is harder work than they imagined, a range of companies are lining up to offer help, including Zenna Atkins' Wey Education, who said last December that it saw an opportunity brought about by "the deconstruction of the education function within local authorities".
  • (11) Follow the North Downs Way along the river Wey, then join the Surrey Cycleway Link before your first swim in Tilford.
  • (12) Chilworth to Guildford, Surrey This eight-mile walk crosses heathland dotted with pretty villages before dropping down to follow the Wey Navigation , where there are many swimming places.
  • (13) ■ Wey Education, one of the unsuccessful bidders for the Breckland contract, told the stock exchange in December that a market opportunity brought about by "the deconstruction of the education function within local authorities" offers a clear potential to "make a substantial return to investors and improve education in the UK".

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