What's the difference between hew and yew?

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.

Yew


Definition:

  • (v. i.) See Yaw.
  • (n.) An evergreen tree (Taxus baccata) of Europe, allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. It frequently grows in British churchyards.
  • (n.) The wood of the yew. It is light red in color, compact, fine-grained, and very elastic. It is preferred to all other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from Spain.
  • (n.) A bow for shooting, made of the yew.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Kuan Yew with Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in 2009.
  • (2) The investigational antineoplastic agent, taxol, a natural product from the yew, Taxus sp.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Kuan Yew, right, and his wife, Kwa Geok Choo, second left, posing with the Japanese Emperor Hirohito and his wife Empress Nagako, in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in 1968.
  • (4) A 40-year-old patient attempted suicide by drinking an extract made from 120 g of yew needles.
  • (5) One feels alone but not lonely amid the tall centuries-old ash, beech, birch, oak and yew, and the woodland is well preserved and conserved.
  • (6) Christine Cole Northampton • I think Philip Bowring almost completely misses the point in his obituary of Lee Kuan Yew.
  • (7) Lee Kuan Yew’s grip on Singapore | Letters Read more Ethnic prejudice lurked just under Lee’s image of technocratic rationalism.
  • (8) Presently, taxol is derived from the bark of the Pacific yew, Taxus brevifolia, a small, slow-growing evergreen tree native to the northwestern United States.
  • (9) Standing in the shade of a 1,000-year-old yew tree at the front of St Mary's church in Harmondsworth, Ken Hughes says he knows how locals will react if the latest extension plans at Heathrow come to fruition.
  • (10) The whole “father of Singapore” image has often been taken far too literally, but Lee Kuan Yew’s governing style was nothing if not paternalistic.
  • (11) Four prisoners drank a decoction of yew (Taxus baccata) needles containing the toxic alkaloid taxine++ B.
  • (12) Taxol is a chemotherapeutic drug which acts by stabilizing microtubules, preventing normal mitosis and resulting in a block of the cell cycle at G2 and M. The drug is isolated from the yew, Taxus sp.
  • (13) Data from the literature concerning the toxicity of yew and some (traditional) uses of yew are reported.
  • (14) In Singapore, however, where a hodgepodge mix of ethnic Chinese, Malay and Indian residents actively aim to maintain what the nation's "founder", Lee Kuan Yew, has termed "racial harmony", supporters are hard to come by.
  • (15) Lee Kuan Yew’s grip on Singapore | Letters Read more Voting in Singapore is compulsory.
  • (16) To many Singaporeans, and indeed others too, Lee Kuan Yew was Singapore ,” he said.
  • (17) Songbirds chatter in the intertwining branches of a yew walk planted over 500 years ago.
  • (18) Singapore’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, who led the city-state for more than three decades, has died aged 91.
  • (19) Few have demonstrated such complete commitment to a cause greater than themselves.” This article was amended on Monday 23 March 2015 to correct a misspelling of Lee Kuan Yew’s name and to correct the time of the announcement of his death.
  • (20) The passing of a giant like Lee Kuan Yew is the end of an era,” Bishop told Sky News.

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