What's the difference between hew and hey?

Hew


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; -- often with down, or off.
  • (v. t.) To form or shape with a sharp instrument; to cut; hence, to form laboriously; -- often with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher.
  • (v. t.) To cut in pieces; to chop; to hack.
  • (n.) Destruction by cutting down.
  • (n.) Hue; color.
  • (n.) Shape; form.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The disruption by means of the Hews press yielded a more active preparation as compared with ultrasonic disintegration.
  • (2) I suspect that means he does in fact hew pretty closely to what the Bible says.
  • (3) The concept of using examination content guidelines as sources for curriculum content is presented, using the ASCP Board of Registry grids and a task list developed for HEW as a basis for proficiency examinations.
  • (4) During this latter period, training support provided by HEW remained essentially constant, that by the Environmental Protection Agency decreased to less than half, while that from the universities approximately tripled.
  • (5) On his Twitter feed, the governor said the bus bridge will run from Barclays Center, MetroTech and Hewes St stations, using special lanes up 3rd Avenue, and returning down Lexington Avenue.
  • (6) Historians Hew Strachan, Max Hastings, Margaret MacMillan, Chris Clark, Niall Ferguson, Richard Evans , Norman Stone and others have answered to Kitchener's Your Country Needs You.
  • (7) These experiments allow comparison of the properties of TEW lysozyme with those of the hen egg white (HEW) enzyme reported previously (Banerjee, S. K., Holler, E., Hess, G. P., and Rupley, J.
  • (8) North Korean universities have their own fairly sophisticated Intranet system, though the material posted to it is closely vetted by authorities and hews to propaganda.
  • (9) Thus, blocking of the lymphocytotoxic response of cystadenocarcinoma patients towards HeW cells may be utilized to monitor the isolation of ovarian carcinoma-associated antigen.
  • (10) The fictional family bore strong similarities to Franzen’s own, his father a railway engineer, his mother a housewife, although, he says, as “writing becomes more autobiographical, the less it hews to actual lived experience.
  • (11) The amino acid composition indicated similarities and differences as compared with that of hen egg white (HEW) lysozyme.
  • (12) Instead, we need to press Labor to hew to its best instincts over the long term, whoever the next prime minister might be.
  • (13) A cell-mediated cytotoxicity test, quantitated by postlabeling with tritiated thymidine, was used to asses immune reactivity of cancer patients to the HeW cell line derived from serous cystadenocarcinoma of the ovary.
  • (14) The magnitude of the low pH difference spectrum is enhanced by binding of saccharide for HEW and Oxa-62-lysozymes but not for TEW lysozyme.
  • (15) "The director must hew to the rule of law and accountability," the ACLU's German said.
  • (16) Palin's speech, like many others, mostly hewed faithfully to Beck's official theme of the rally, which was paying tribute to America's armed forces.
  • (17) In 1969 a study by an HEW commission documented the need for further legislation.
  • (18) This Note contends that the Act and related HEW regulations preclude states from exempting health care facilities' research expenditures and education expenditures from the scope of the states' certificate-of-need programs.
  • (19) Hew Strachan, a prominent military historian who is on the advisory board, has warned that the commemorations "will be repetitive, sterile and possibly even boring" if the centenary turns into "Remembrance Sunday writ large".
  • (20) HEW's Health Care Financing Administration links uniform reporting and Medicare reimbursement under the provisions of the proposed System for Hospital Uniform Reporting.

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!"

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