What's the difference between fie and fir?

Fie


Definition:

  • (interj.) An exclamation denoting contempt or dislike. See Fy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She fied of recurrent tumor and related complications 9 months after discovery of the lesion.
  • (2) To evaluate this observation further, we retrospectively reviewed reports of EEGs for evidence of focal interictal epileptiform discharges (FIED) of temporal lobe origin and correlated this finding with seizure type.
  • (3) Of 79 patients, 61 had secondary generalized seizures, 45 with left temporal FIED, 16 with right FIED.
  • (4) The final preparations of esterases I and II, which were puri fied 70-and 140-fold, respectively, gave single protein bands on polyacrylamide gel and sodium dodecyl sulfate-gel electrophoreses.
  • (5) The occasional failures appear to be related either to faulty technique or to a deep-seated localisation beyond the fied of action of the ultraviolet rays.
  • (6) Of 79 patients, 18 had partial seizures, 13 with right temporal FIED, 5 with left FIED (p less than 0.001).
  • (7) As a whole, the systemic administration of the calcium antagonist verapamil depressed FIED and exerted an inverse effect on synchronized non-epileptic neuronal activity.
  • (8) True Romance, in which he Scott-i-fied Tarantino's script, remains a delight, and Crimson Tide looks far more current than the movie that won the Best Film Oscar that year: come on down, Braveheart.

Fir


Definition:

  • (n.) A genus (Abies) of coniferous trees, often of large size and elegant shape, some of them valued for their timber and others for their resin. The species are distinguished as the balsam fir, the silver fir, the red fir, etc. The Scotch fir is a Pinus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A rater-specifuc varuabke was fiybd fir eacg if tge fiyr raters.
  • (2) Linear phase finite impulse response (FIR) filtering can be used to differentiate auditory brainstem evoked potentials (ABEP) components.
  • (3) Pieces of Douglas fir and polyvinyl chloride were colonized in a recirculating system and the comparative efficacy of two biocides (Bronopol and Kathon) against the sessile and planktonic populations was examined.
  • (4) A method is described for the isolation of DNA from spruce and fir, starting with 3 to 5 apices (5 mg material).
  • (5) The colonies of migrating monarch butterflies that spend the winter in a patch of fir forest in central Mexico were dramatically smaller this season than they have been since monitoring began 20 years ago, according to the annual census of the insects released this week.
  • (6) The channel will also air highlights from the traditional New Year's Day concert from Vienna, a three-part documentary about the city now known as Istanbul with Simon Sebag Montefiore, and the Fir Tree, a Danish film following the life of a Christmas tree, from the perspective of the tree.
  • (7) Cardiopulmonary parameters were studied in awake, instrumented goats following spontaneous inhalation of characterized Douglas fir smoke.
  • (8) An optimal correction of a conventional finite impulse response (FIR) filter is achieved by using a priori knowledge of noise variance and a continuous estimation of the error signal's power.
  • (9) In 4 series of experiments a dependence between 3,4-benzpyrene (BP) output and the temperature of fir sawdust pyrolysis under isothermic conditions has been investigated.
  • (10) A s the air cools in a fir-lined valley east of Croatia's Velebit mountains, the bears of Kuterevo stir to life in the gloaming.
  • (11) Recent literature has suggested that total intrauterine volume (TIUV) estimation is useful fir distinguishing normal from growth-retarded fetuses.
  • (12) Deletion mutant (IG-FIR delta 22) (amino acid 944-965) did not transduce the IGF-I signal to the GH gene.
  • (13) First, the eye-movement signal is smoothed using a predictive finite-impulse response (FIR), median hybrid filter.
  • (14) They were Douglas fir, wool, and polyvinyl chloride.
  • (15) The major wound-inducible monoterpene synthase (cyclase) of grand fir (Abies grandis) stems transforms geranyl pyrophosphate to both (-)-alpha-pinene (40%) and (-)-beta-pinene (60%).
  • (16) Rapidly conducting fibres are the firs ones to cease activity (fig.
  • (17) Douglas-fir possesses a major inversion of 40-50 kilobases relative to radiata pine and nonconiferous plants.
  • (18) The funds, which include New York-based Fir Tree Partners, Davidson Kempner Capital Management and Aurelius Capital, are known as the Ad Hoc Group of Puerto Rico and hold $5.2bn of Puerto Rico bonds.
  • (19) Therefore, the fast insulin release (FIR) to intravenously administered glucose was measured in 23 adult CF patients.
  • (20) In 11 of the 18 normoglycemic patients with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency and the 3 nontreated diabetic CF patients studied, an FIR value lower than the 3rd percentile was found.

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