(interj.) An onomatopoetic word used as an expression of hesitation, doubt, etc. It is often a sort of voluntary half cough, loud or subdued, and would perhaps be better expressed by hm.
(n.) An utterance or sound of the voice, hem or hm, often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
(v. i.) To make the sound expressed by the word hem; hence, to hesitate in speaking.
(n.) The edge or border of a garment or cloth, doubled over and sewed, to strengthen raveling.
(n.) Border; edge; margin.
(n.) A border made on sheet-metal ware by doubling over the edge of the sheet, to stiffen it and remove the sharp edge.
(v. t.) To form a hem or border to; to fold and sew down the edge of.
(v. t.) To border; to edge
Example Sentences:
(1) PRA and ANG II increased by 4 min after each hem, and although the difference was small the early PRA and ANG II responses were greater after H2.
(2) Because of significant differences of blood-pressure measurements compared to the Riva-Rocci method, the digital measurement with the HEM-812F device (Omron) can not be generally recommended.
(3) Cape Town was conceived with a white-only centre, surrounded by contained settlements for the black and coloured labour forces to the east, each hemmed in by highways and rail lines, rivers and valleys, and separated from the affluent white suburbs by protective buffer zones of scrubland,” he says.
(4) His goal came at a crucial moment , immediately after the Bruins had the Habs hemmed in their own end.
(5) In the streets that hem in the old stadium, he would have been offered plenty of alternatives.
(6) Except for a greater maximum TGF response in HEM, the normalized TGF responses were similar in all three groups, as was the regulation of distal fluid delivery.
(7) The magnetic axes are oriented so that the z axis is tipped approximately 15 degrees from the heme normal toward the hem delta-meso-H and coincides approximately with the characterized FeCO tilt axis in the isostructural MbCO complex [Kuriyan, J., Wilz, S., Karplus, M., & Petsko, G. A.
(8) The 420-pupil school – the numbers have almost doubled in two years, and an extra reception class is being added – is hemmed in by one of the most densely built up parts of south London , with one of the most diverse populations and some of the worst pockets of deprivation in the country.
(9) Even if you can't make a whole dress, little jazzy touches will make the blandest of clothing a billion times better: sewing on snazzy buttons, for example, or putting on some piping, or not going around in dresses covered in moth holes and decked with trailing hems, as some of us do because we never learned to bloody sew.
(10) The effect on the levels of microsomal cytochrome B5 and P450 as well as on that of hem was investigated.
(11) Hemming, who used parliamentary privilege to avoid the legal ban on reporting the use of superinjunctions, asked: "Will the government have a debate or a statement on freedom of speech and whether there's one rule for the rich like Fred Goodwin and one rule for the poor?"
(12) Data from the freeze-dissection (133Xe) analysis revealed that the percentage distribution of blood flow as renal outer cortical (OC) blood flow was less (26%) in the HEM group than in the LABI group (50%), this latter value being very similar to that of control dogs that experienced no hypotension (49%).
(13) Twenty-three MCABs, 20 of which reacted in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with HEM membrane, 2 with human thyroid membrane, and 1 nonreactive negative control, were selected for the study.
(15) This location is distinct from the other known hem loci in E. coli K12.
(16) Tillerson’s counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, tweeted back a jab about the shadow of the Russia investigations hanging over the Trump presidency: “For their own sake, US officials should worry more about saving their own regime than changing Iran’s, where 75% of people just voted.” There is growing concern among US allies in Europe that the Trump administration has struck a posture towards Iran before deciding on a strategy for addressing its influence in the region, and anxiety that such posturing could become louder and more dangerous as Trump feels hemmed in by investigations into his campaign’s Russia links.
(17) A freeze-dried, formalized-erythrocytes-bound VZV antigen for indirect haemagglutination, VZV-HEM, was prepared.
(18) Bill Hemmings, programme manager for international transport at the Transport and Environment pressure group, said: "Opponents of the inclusion of international flights in the EU ETS have always said that a global solution under ICAO is the way to go.
(19) Hemodynamic responses to the hems were not different.
(20) The resolution of the latter method was found to be approximately 10 times more sensitive than that of the former (Hemmings & Williams, 1976); thus rendering the site of labelled protein easier to locate.
Hey
Definition:
(a.) High.
(interj.) An exclamation of joy, surprise, or encouragement.
(interj.) A cry to set dogs on.
Example Sentences:
(1) The result will be yet another humiliating hammering for Labour in a seat it could never win, but hey, never mind.
(2) But Hey Diddly Dee, in Sky Arts' latest Playhouse Presents season, could only manage 71,000 viewers, despite the combined star power of Kylie Minogue, David Harewood, Peter Serafinowicz and Mathew Horne.
(3) When the red lights go off it could be anything from ‘hey, we need to replace a drive’, to ‘hey, we need to call in some exploits because something bad is happening’.
(4) Oh hey if you want to get in on the liveblogging action, just a reminder that you can email your thoughts to hunter.felt.freelance@guardiannews.com or tweet them to @HunterFelt .
(5) 4.28pm ET: Oh hey, Fox News finds time in its busy schedule to cover the rally.
(6) By 2008, recalls Brendan Kenalty, of customer base management, 2007-10: All the market research was saying, “Hey, everybody wants what they call candy bar phones,” which is the nonflip phone.
(7) Senior Yen Trader: hey ...you think we be able to convince [Primary Submitter] to change the libor today?
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest “Hey, why don’t we get a celebrity to make the ad?
(9) And hey is that Brady holding the ball for the successful extra point?
(10) And, hey, until Friday morning, most surveillance reform advocates were worried about the Senate ramming through the currently neutered version of the USA Freedom Act as its fig leaf of reform, before going back to business as usual and proposing bills that will give the NSA more power – not less.
(11) As soon as I called them and was like, 'Hey guys, it's OK, I'm not smoking meth or anything,' it was OK." He adds, frowning: "I don't really know why it happened… My girlfriend told me everyone had been saying, [he puts on a sulky voice] 'Man, Mac's shows aren't crazy any more.'
(12) That will end the college football season, but hey I just realized that the NFL Playoffs are still going on which means we'll have more football liveblogging here at the Guardian starting again this weekend where we will cover every game up to the Super Bowl.
(13) Purified preparations of previously identified growth factors including epidermal growth factor, transforming growth factor-beta, tumor necrosis factor, platelet-derived growth factor, thrombin, insulin, interleukin-1, interleukin-2, vasopressin, angiotensin, alpha- and gamma-interferons, and fibroblast growth factor did not increase cytosolic-free calcium in either fresh ovarian cancer cells or HEY cells.
(14) 3.15am BST Heat 49-54 Spurs, :29 remaining, second quarter Oh hey, we actually have a solid chunk of time where there's no scoring.
(15) The main part of the relation described by Hey et al.
(16) As my sister and her van companions entered the cell, one of them held her hands up in the air and shouted, “Hey kids!
(17) According to Titz, Charlie approached him at his studio when he was photographing artist Bobby West Tjupurrula and said, “hey mate, can you take my photo?” “He was travelling with a band of people from Kiwirrkurra,” Titz says.
(18) We have a few quotations from a compendium of jokes of the first emperor Augustus (not all brilliant: "When a man was nervously giving him a petition and kept putting his hand out, then drawing it back, the emperor quipped, 'Hey, do you think you're giving a penny to an elephant?'").
(19) Then someone came up to me and said: ‘Hey, do you know who that is?
(20) If In The Loop marks a time when people stop shouting, "Hey Tony!"