What's the difference between heep and weep?

Heep


Definition:

  • (n.) The hip of the dog-rose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Remarkably, Fight the Power contains a sample of the English rock band Uriah Heep (3) .
  • (2) Some of the city’s best known modernist buildings date back to this period, including David Libeskind’s Conjunto Nacional , Franz Heep’s Edifício Itália , and Oscar’s Niemeyer’s iconic S-shaped Copan building .
  • (3) (3) Heep's 1970 prog-metal opus Bird of Prey is sampled.
  • (4) In truth, I did not much care for Heep, finding him a deeply aspirant member of the lower orders, but I bore myself with the dignity expected of distressed gentlefolk and treated him with a patronising contempt disguised as good manners.
  • (5) It does have to be admitted that there is something irresistible about the delivery of a custard pie to a face, even when the victim is a confused octogenarian belatedly starting a new life as Uriah Heep.
  • (6) As for you, Heep, I shall visit you in prison to lecture you once more."
  • (7) The inclusion of a Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry Number index in HEEP has led to the need for a special database designed to link substance names with their appropriate CAS chemical compound Registry Numbers.
  • (8) rarities or Uriah Heep bootlegs, because, hey, it’s all vinyl, huh, vinyl’s great, it’s what we do downtown.
  • (9) Mr Cooke himself even described the late BCCI chairman Agha Abedi as "the living personification of Uriah Heep".
  • (10) "Why I have been investigating your business dealings with Mr Wickfield, Heep, and it seems you are a crook …" "So my father wasn't totally incompetent," cried Agnes.
  • (11) With Heep having finally been exposed as the crook I had always assumed his petit-bourgeois aspirations would lead him to be, I never enquired how someone as feckless as Mr Micawber should be such an astute accountant.
  • (12) It’s a treaty, he said, just that, and should not be viewed as a tablet brought down from on high with Australians behaving as Uriah Heeps grateful to be in the glow of American greatness.
  • (13) Just don't marry Uriah Heep now he's running your father's business."
  • (14) Tim Lott and Josephine Cox opted for Pip and Oliver respectively; Freya North chose Uriah Heep, describing him as a "loathsome character who seeps from the pages like a noxious gas"; Daisy Goodwin went for "the anti-heroine of Bleak House", Lady Dedlock, while Adele Parks favoured the "morally ambiguous" Nancy from Oliver Twist.
  • (15) And our hero proprietor, so famously fastidious about such matters, has to tell Uriah Heep: "That is not my job."
  • (16) But I certainly don’t feel that I need to be Uriah Heep-ish about it in any way.
  • (17) It really isn’t lost on me what a privilege it is to be given a show like this,” this latterday Uriah Heep tells his audience, “and I will really do my best not to let any of you down.” The reviews suggest Corden’s passed this supposed trial-by-fire, but what’s interesting is the criteria applied.
  • (18) I did not hesitate to work still harder for Mr Micawber's release and the only break in my day was the invitation to take tea with an unattractive clerk by the name of Uriah Heep.

Weep


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry.
  • (n.) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
  • () imp. of Weep, for wept.
  • (v. i.) To lament; to complain.
  • (v. i.) To flow in drops; to run in drops.
  • (v. i.) To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
  • (v. i.) To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
  • (v. t.) To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.
  • (v. t.) To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patients with bilateral forebrain disease may commonly manifest the syndrome of pathologic laughing and weeping.
  • (2) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
  • (3) We report the emergence of an erythematous weeping rash with impending exfoliation three years after the initiation of minoxidil therapy.
  • (4) Abu Qatada's brothers, children and sisters remained on a court bench, some of the women weeping as journalists pressed against the courtroom cell to ask the Salafist leader about his views on Isis violence.
  • (5) Dan Heymann, a reluctant army conscript, wrote the brutally satirical Weeping for His Band Bright Blue .
  • (6) Quite a number of people brought up in the emotional straitjackets of the English upper classes found blessed relief in the permission the Holy Spirit gave them to weep or laugh and gibber and faint in public.
  • (7) Past reunions brought together weeping family members desperate for details and news.
  • (8) A Syrian man who was pictured weeping as he and his family reached the Greek island of Kos last month has arrived in Berlin, it has been reported.
  • (9) People were weeping in the streets outside, but once the fire was out everyone took stock a little bit.
  • (10) How was I expected to get through the night without weeping openly?
  • (11) That’s fine, that’s the great thing about being an artist – I’m not going to weep over their multimillion-pound suit trousers.” Grayson Perry: All Man concludes on Thursday 19 May at 10pm on Channel 4
  • (12) As measured by the Hospital Observed Behavior Scale, subjects in the intensive care unit exhibited apprehension, anxiety, detachment, sadness, and weeping more often than did patients in the ward.
  • (13) These genes do not appear to play a role in infection of weeping lovegrass because both parents and all progeny infect weeping lovegrass.
  • (14) Angry beyond belief, unable to control his weeping, he ran to the local governor's office to complain at this vicious injustice.
  • (15) If the football fans were like that, Emile Heskey would be an almost sacred figure and people would still be weeping about Peter Beardsley.
  • (16) He said she was weeping with shock but was not taken to hospital and instead was met by her boyfriend and taken to stay with her sister.
  • (17) Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.” It’s not a sentiment reflected in ACL press releases, less concerned with warning the rich than fighting the queers.
  • (18) But for the most part, when I watch these marches on snowy Polish streets, with the familiar cadences of their chants, and when I hear old Lech Wałęsa say that “patriots must unite” to get rid of PiS by unspecified “clever, attractive and peaceful” means, I laugh with one eye and weep with the other.
  • (19) Although this form of application is a special presentation for the treatment of very dry dermatoses, patients with not so dry and weeping dermatoses were also treated in this trial, the object being to include the role played by the vehicle in the results of therapy.
  • (20) Only a short bus ride from Princes Street, it combines peace and tranquillity, a burbling stream, and autumn colours to make New England weep.

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