What's the difference between hoa and hoy?

Hoa


Definition:

  • (interj.) A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
  • (interj.) Halloo! attend! -- a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.
  • (interj.) Stop! stand still! hold! -- a word now used by teamsters, but formerly to order the cessation of anything.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fertilization of golden hamster eggs was blocked both in vitro and in vivo by antibodies produced in rabbits against specific hamster ovarian antigens (HOA).
  • (2) Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) was first described in 1868 as "hyperostosis of the entire skeleton".
  • (3) Paula Higgins, chief executive of the HOA, said: "Although designed to protect homeowners, the new rules could be a disaster in the making.
  • (4) In 1890 HOA was named "osteoarthropatie hypertrophiante pneumique".
  • (5) Four of them (4.9%) presented the classical hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) described by Bamberger and Pierre Marie, i.e., finger clubbing, ossifying periostitis of the long bones, joint pains and swelling.
  • (6) A survey by the Homeowners Alliance (HOA), a lobby group for homeowners, indicates that more than 400,000 homeowners believe they will no longer be able to afford their mortgage payments when their current interest-only deals come to an end.
  • (7) Secondary HOA was initially called "hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy" because it is frequently associated with various malignancies or chronic infections of the lung and pleura.
  • (8) Discriminant analysis of eleven behavioral variables associated with feeding permitted the assignment of hyperosmotically-acclimating (HOA) toads (Bufo boreas) to six different behavioral states.
  • (9) The HLA-A, -B and -C antigens expressed by WI-L2-729-HF2 and its mutants HOA-1 and HOA-20 were identical.
  • (10) Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) may be defined as a syndrome of chronic proliferative periostitis of the long bones, clubbing of the fingers and toes, arthralgia and or arthritis, oligo- or polysynovitis.
  • (11) Cytochrome c oxidase forms tight binding complexes with the cytochrome c analog, porphyrin cytochrome c. The behaviour of the reduced and pulsed forms of the oxidase with porphyrin cytochrome c have been followed as functions of ionic strength; this behaviour has been compared with that of the resting oxidase [Kornblatt, Hui Bon Hoa and English (1984) Biochemistry 23, 5906-5911].
  • (12) This may range from the well known syndrome of HOA, heralding lung cancer, to a lesser known association of pyogenic arthritis due to an unusual enteric pathogen, signaling colon cancer.
  • (13) Bone scintigraphy has emerged as the most sensitive test for HOA; in fact, a bone scan may show evidence of periostitis in patients with no other signs, symptoms, or radiographic abnormalities of the disorder.
  • (14) (Debey, P., Hui Bon Hoa, G., Douzou, P., Godefroy-Colburn, T., Graffe, M., AND Grunberg-Manago, M. (1975) Biochemistry 14, 1553).
  • (15) This was the place to see Hoa Hakanini'a , one of the famous stone statues from Easter Island; or a Cree Indian tent.
  • (16) We agree with the theory which proposes that clubbing is the initial, and most conspicuous sing of a full syndrome, (HOA).
  • (17) Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) in association with primary bowel disease is rare, but is usually seen in patients with chronic diarrheal states, such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
  • (18) Most importantly, clubbing or HOA may provide the first clinical indication of a chronic infection or an intrathoracic neoplasm.
  • (19) Our results support the notion that platelet endothelial cell interaction may play a key role in the development of HOA.
  • (20) Dr. Duong Quynh Hoa's pediatric research institute, children's hospital, and new medical school are principally concerned with the development of socioeconomic conditions where the doctor is only 1 among many collaborating to improve the quality of life.

Hoy


Definition:

  • (n.) A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
  • (interj.) Ho! Halloe! Stop!

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jason Kenny's campaign in the match sprint will not end until Monday assuming all goes well, but he got off to the best possible start when he set a new Olympic record in qualifying over the flying 200m, bettering Sir Chris Hoy's 9.815sec from Beijing by over a tenth of a second.
  • (2) Baugé's body language afterwards indicated he had been on the receiving end of another severe psychological blow; both men progressed to the quarter-finals, but Kenny has already shown that he amply merits his selection ahead of the defending champion, Hoy.
  • (3) Hoy and others fear that the Kincora inquiry, which is based in Northern Ireland and taking hearings at the court in Banbridge, County Down, will not have access to sensitive MI5 intelligence files on the people who ran Kincora.
  • (4) That is why many Mexicans are very disconnected with the Galaxy,” said Eduard Cauich, sports editor for Hoy, a Spanish-language weekly published by the Los Angeles Times.
  • (5) "Governments must show all the energy and cunning of Chris Hoy and Mo Farah until they win [the fight]," he told the audience.
  • (6) plcS mapped approximately at 67 min on the 75-min chromosomal map (B. W. Holloway, K. O'Hoy, and H. Matsumoto, p. 213-221, in S. J. O'Brien, ed., Genetic Maps 1987, vol.
  • (7) As Hoy sees it, increasing the number of track cyclists boils down to one issue: access.
  • (8) The MPs must have felt they were being addressed by the Old Man of Hoy.
  • (9) Kenny was selected because he has a proven record of rising to the occasion for major championships and because it was believed that his youth would enable him to recover more quickly than Hoy between matches in a tournament where the first two legs in the final were separated by 15 minutes.
  • (10) Previous behavioral assays showed that crickets discriminate the low frequencies of the species calling song (4-5 kHz) from the high frequencies contained in the vocalizations of insectivorous bats (Nolen and Hoy, 1986a).
  • (11) British cycling team thrown into chaos by departure of Shane Sutton Read more The Australian, who mentored Sir Chris Hoy and Sir Bradley Wiggins to Olympic success before taking over the top role in British Cycling in 2014, was already under scrutiny after allegations of sexism made by the track rider Jess Varnish at the weekend.
  • (12) All right, maybe Bradley Wiggins, Chris Hoy and Jessica Ennis will sneak ahead of the mayor at the finish line.
  • (13) A unique source of ipsilaterally mediated inhibition, tuned to the calling song frequency, accounted for the poor response to calling song and hence the neuron's high-frequency selectivity, and the behavioral and physiological effects of 2-tone suppression of high frequencies by the calling song (Nolen and Hoy, 1986b).
  • (14) As a result, five of the best 10 qualifiers from the world championships were absent here, including Hoy, who took bronze at the world's behind Baugé and Kenny.
  • (15) Hoy now stands alone, a national hero, as the only man who has won three gold medals on two wheels in a single Olympic games, but countless other cyclists have felt the same as he did after five minutes whirling round the bankings: "There was a sudden acceleration, a burst of speed, and I was hooked.
  • (16) Part of the London gold rush was dependent on two riders at the end of their careers – Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton.
  • (17) Hoy is an enthusiastic proponent of his sport: "It's exhilarating as you fly down the bankings.
  • (18) The establishment of the fund represents the largest single injection of public money into cycling in England, and was due to be formally launched by Cameron alongside Britain's most successful Olympian, the track cyclist Chris Hoy.
  • (19) The 24-year-old's status as the stealth champion of British cycling – compared to the cover stars Hoy, Pendleton and Wiggins – looked set to change after the coaches made their unexpected call in June and it will certainly change now.
  • (20) Certainly the newspaper Hoy, Diario del Magdalena had little doubt who was to blame for their defeat.

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