What's the difference between hey and wey?

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!"

Wey


Definition:

  • (n.) Way; road; path.
  • (v. t. & i.) To weigh.
  • (n.) A certain measure of weight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Double labelling with different sized gold particles for the ET-1 and beta 2R locations were performed on the hearts of young adult WEY, SHR, and SHRsp rats.
  • (2) Both IES and another Swedish company, Kunskapsskolan, have ambitions to manage chains of free schools on a similar basis, as does Wey Education – recently founded by Zenna Atkins, a former Ofsted chair.
  • (3) • The river Wey at Millmead, Surrey, is threatening to burst its banks.
  • (4) The first occurs very soon after reaching the Wey, just beyond the Manor Inn, and is a tiny patch of sandy beach where someone has placed poles, presumably to warn non-swimmers not to go on into deep water.
  • (5) Once the route joins the Wey Navigation, it follows the towpath right into Guildford and almost to the station.
  • (6) ■ The same firm, run by Zenna Atkins, the former chair of Ofsted, hopes to make an "impact in a positive way" on the lives of 250,000 children over the next five years, while Wey's broker forecasts a turnover of £17.5m by 2014 and a £9.9m "bottom line", through providing services in the UK and abroad.
  • (7) Iodine-125 and occasionally iodine-131 have been found in the thyroid glands of most of the swans that have died on the River Thames, the River Wey and the Grand Union Canal, and in algae and water samples from the Thames and many of its tributaries.
  • (8) Updated at 9.31am GMT 8.52am GMT Further east in Guildford, Surrey, which has an amber warning for heavy rain today and tomorrow , the river Wey at Millmead is threatening to burst its banks.
  • (9) Atkins, who earns £100,000 a year in her role at Wey Education, says she is working with seven potential founders of free schools and hopes to help them to manage their establishments once they are set up – at least in part because of the daunting nature of the task.
  • (10) As the groups of parents behind other free schools come to realise that managing schools is harder work than they imagined, a range of companies are lining up to offer help, including Zenna Atkins' Wey Education, who said last December that it saw an opportunity brought about by "the deconstruction of the education function within local authorities".
  • (11) Follow the North Downs Way along the river Wey, then join the Surrey Cycleway Link before your first swim in Tilford.
  • (12) Chilworth to Guildford, Surrey This eight-mile walk crosses heathland dotted with pretty villages before dropping down to follow the Wey Navigation , where there are many swimming places.
  • (13) ■ Wey Education, one of the unsuccessful bidders for the Breckland contract, told the stock exchange in December that a market opportunity brought about by "the deconstruction of the education function within local authorities" offers a clear potential to "make a substantial return to investors and improve education in the UK".

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