What's the difference between haw and taw?

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.

Taw


Definition:

  • (n.) Tow.
  • (v. t.) To push; to tug; to tow.
  • (v. t.) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge.
  • (v. t.) To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
  • (n.) A large marble to be played with; also, a game at marbles.
  • (n.) A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Drawbacks of traction-absorbing wiring (TAW) in displaced fractures of the olecranon were observed in 29 out of 55 consecutive patients.
  • (2) A hybridoma secreting human monoclonal antibody (MAB) against Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A (PEA) was constructed by fusing Epstein-Barr virus-transformed peripheral blood lymphocytes with human B lymphoblastoid cell line TAW-925.
  • (3) We studied airway wall temperature (Taw) during dry air challenge of the canine lung periphery.
  • (4) Intravenous salbutamol (2.5 micrograms.kg-1) significantly attenuated the peak fall in Taw during airflow challenge and the peak rise in Rcs following challenge.
  • (5) Using a wedged bronchoscope technique, collateral resistance (Rcs) and airway wall temperature (Taw) were measured before and after a 2-min exposure to dry air.
  • (6) The dissociation between Taw and physiological response after indomethacin likely reflects a decrease in mediators released during challenge.
  • (7) In contrast, aerosolized salbutamol (50 micrograms) minimally decreased the fall in Taw during airflow challenge, while virtually eliminating AIB.
  • (8) Buddha fatigue can set in for travel-weary tourists, but I rallied myself to visit Sein Taw Ya, about 14 miles south of Mawlamyine, which is claimed to be the largest reclining Buddha in the world.
  • (9) The woman was then reunited with a man and a child who had been trapped in the car when the River Taw broke its banks and had been rescued by firefighters.
  • (10) After lowering Taw with cooled blood for 2 min, Rcs did not rise.
  • (11) The HAT (hypoxanthine, aminopterin, thymidine) sensitive and ouabain resistant human B lymphoblastoid cell line TAW-925 was obtained from 6-thioguanine resistant B lymphoblastoid cell line WI-L2.
  • (12) A significant negative correlation was found between Taw recorded during challenge and Rcs observed 5 min after challenge.
  • (13) By changing the temperature of blood perfusing the lobe it was possible to lower Taw without affecting either EHL or osmolarity.
  • (14) Soe Win’s uncle, Taw Phaya, a 93-year-old potential heir, and aunt, Hteik Su Phaya Gyi, 94, are the only surviving grandchildren.
  • (15) Contrast study of the wound canal, thoracoscopy, and diagnostic pneumoperitoneum make it possible to establish or reject the diagnosis of TAW in all patients examined.
  • (16) Day and night he walked the nearby cliffs and beaches or the high moors drained by the rivers Taw and Torridge.
  • (17) The TAW scenario proved more efficacious in determining affective components of attitudes than behavioral aspects.
  • (18) Two questionnaires were administered: MacDonald's Attitude toward Homosexuality Scale--Female (ATHS--F) and the TAW Attitude toward Lesbianism Scenario.
  • (19) Minor operative modifications in the TAW technique are suggested in order to avoid these drawbacks.
  • (20) As flow rate increased, Taw dropped and postchallenge Rcs rose.

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