What's the difference between gee and haw?

Gee


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To agree; to harmonize.
  • (v. i.) To turn to the off side, or from the driver (i.e., in the United States, to the right side); -- said of cattle, or a team; used most frequently in the imperative, often with off, by drivers of oxen, in directing their teams, and opposed to haw, or hoi.
  • (v. t.) To cause (a team) to turn to the off side, or from the driver.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Automatic analysis of oculopneumoplethysmography recordings might minimize the risks of misinterpretation and might improve the clinical significance of the Gee-oculopneumoplethysmography test.
  • (2) OPG-Gee is a useful test to screen for postoperative carotid thrombosis.
  • (3) Saying Robinson’s death made him heartsick, Reverend Alexander Gee Jr, pastor of the Fountain of Life church, recommended a soul-searching analysis.
  • (4) They whisper encouragement to each other, to gee themselves up.
  • (5) In April, Trump told Chris Wallace on Fox News: “It’s not like, gee whiz, nobody has them.
  • (6) OPG-Gee, however, offers the unique additional possibility of a judgement on the systolic blood pressure in the carotid siphon without, however, taking into account a (difference in) pre-existing intraocular pressure.
  • (7) [table: see text] With the angiography results as the standard of comparison, 4 incorrect diagnoses were obtained by OPG-Gee, thus yielding an overall accuracy of 92 for this method.
  • (8) Read more “It’s basically the end of, in our view, what was the best mechanism for supporting some of the most vulnerable children in south London,” said Gee.
  • (9) Oculopneumoplethysmography (OPG-Gee) was performed pre- and postoperatively in 100 patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy and 14 patients undergoing nonendarterectomy procedures (aortofemoral or carotid-subclavian bypass).
  • (10) "He arrived in Lowestoft," laughs Gee, "and saw everybody was happy, that the weather was lovely, and then he went and had a swim in the sea.
  • (11) Of these approaches, the GEE method of Liang and Zeger would be best suited for the analysis of our data when the question of interest concerns a variable that is constant over all pregnancies, such as HLA sharing.
  • (12) OPG-Gee is presented as a simple noninvasive test that reliably and reproducibly assesses the quantitative physiologic changes associated with the repair of carotid lesions of hemodynamic consequence.
  • (13) When our aunt Ruby, a primary-school teacher, visits from California, she has me put a penny in a bank each time I say “gee”.
  • (14) The diagnostic value of the Gee-oculopneumoplethysmography test for the detection of hemodynamically significant carotid artery obstructions has frequently been questioned due to the rather low agreement with arteriography.
  • (15) Whereas monocyte cytotoxic capacity was significantly stimulated in the presence of methylamine (MA), dansylcadaverine (DC) and glycine ethylester (GEE), lymphocyte ADCC was markedly suppressed by these agents.
  • (16) Other Twitter users suggested BrewDog might like to reimburse the McFadyens for the costs incurred in changing their signage and web page after BrewDog’s legal threat: Michael_Gee (@Michael_Gee) A nicer gesture @BrewDogJames might be reimbursing @TheWolfBham any money they might've already spent on rebranding?
  • (17) The selectivity of the modification by the two nucleophiles, glycine ethyl ester (GEE) and glucosamine, is distinct.
  • (18) Since April 1977, 87 patients with 131 asymptomatic carotid bruits were evaluated with the Gee oculoplethysmography (OPG).
  • (19) The GEEs have solutions which are consistent and asymptotically Gaussian even when the time dependence is misspecified as we often expect.
  • (20) He quoted all these other great lyrics from the Gee Officer Krupke section and then said: "You've got a reputation to keep, so we've booked you on another movie."

Haw


Definition:

  • (n.) A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.
  • (n.) The fruit of the hawthorn.
  • (n.) The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.
  • (n.) An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made.
  • (v. i.) To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
  • (v. i.) To turn to the near side, or toward the driver; -- said of cattle or a team: a word used by teamsters in guiding their teams, and most frequently in the imperative. See Gee.
  • (v. t.) To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver; as, to haw a team of oxen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mike Hawes, chief executive of the SMMT, said: “These figures mark an encouraging start to the year after a very strong 2014, with a strikingly robust company car market as businesses take advantage of the attractive finance offers currently available.” British car sales zoom ahead, but for how long?
  • (2) Nearby, peace campaigner Maria Galliastegui, a veteran of the camp set up by Brian Haw and others on Parliament Square, stood wearing a white poppy.
  • (3) Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive, said buyers were snapping up "enticing deals on a wealth of advanced new products".
  • (4) On stage 1, the first hill that might split the peloton is Buttertubs Pass, now restyled as Côte de Buttertubs, which rises up out of Hawes in North Yorkshire and swoops down into the gorgeous Swaledale valley.
  • (5) This is not the time to restrict our choices by casting it aside.” Mike Hawes, the chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, is also expected to mount a defence of diesel cars at the National Air Quality Conference in Birmingham later on Thursday, arguing that the latest diesel vehicles are the cleanest ever.
  • (6) Private and fleet buyers are clearly capitalising on attractive deals and new technologies against a backdrop of increasing economic confidence," said Mike Hawes, chief executive of the SMMT.
  • (7) Mike Hawes, the chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers, told the BBC leaving the EU would jeopardise the industry’s continued success.
  • (8) Consumer confidence remains high as buyers continue to capitalise on attractive finance deals, although this could be affected by political and economic uncertainty in the coming months,” said Hawes.
  • (9) The major basis for suspecting Griggs and Johnson killed Rondeau was the word of a snitch named Eugene Hawes.
  • (10) The SMMT backed the remain camp in the run-up to the EU referendum, and Hawes said members were most concerned about possible tariffs being imposed on parts imported from the EU after Brexit.
  • (11) Hawes said parts could sometimes pass through four countries before reaching the UK.
  • (12) So he positively enjoyed draping what is, in fact, a chilling allegory of paternal possessiveness and pseudo-scientific fanaticism, in the gaudy fabric of a "romance", just as the author pretends, in his pseudo-preface, to have discovered it among the works of "M de l'Aubépine" (French for "haw-thorn").
  • (13) Mike Hawes, chief executive of the trade body, told the National Air Quality Conference: “Consumers are right to be concerned following the events of the past 10 days.
  • (14) "B rutalist" would be a generous way of describing the Dublin car park where the Guardian first catches sight of Line Of Duty 's new lead, Keeley Hawes.
  • (15) A lot of the myth about Conservatives is that they are a certain type of person in a tweed suit going ‘haw, haw, haw’,” says Kendrick.
  • (16) Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive, said Britain's strengthening economy was driving the market: “This marks 26 consecutive months of growth as GDP continues to pick up, inflation falls and wage levels improve."
  • (17) Mike Hawes, the SMMT's chief executive, said: "The UK automotive industry continued its renaissance in July, with the month marking five million car exports since 2010.
  • (18) Before joining the SMMT in 2013, Hawes was a senior executive at Bentley, and carried out work for its parent company, Volkswagen AG, in corporate affairs roles.
  • (19) He won for State Britain [Wallinger's recreation of peace campaigner Brian Haw's protest camp] – but that wasn't shown.
  • (20) Haw was compared with the synthetic reference compound using GC-MS, IR, TLC, PC, ion-exchange chromatogrpahy and high-voltage electrophoresis.

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