What's the difference between lire and lyre?

Lire


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Lira

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Animals exposed to chronic toluene inhalation also presented higher values of latency in both LIRE and LE when compared to non-exposed to toluene (controls) of the same age.
  • (2) In 1983 the load per machine was 400 patients and the cost per patient was 1 milion lire.
  • (3) As far as the latter is concerned a daily cost reduction of 70000-16000 lire is foreseeable.
  • (4) The mean cost was 48,000 lire in the manual, and 200,000 lire in the mechanical group.
  • (5) Adult rats both exposed to chronic toluene inhalation and non-exposed showed higher values of LIRE and LE with respect young rats.
  • (6) Convertibility risk This refers to the risk that you will buy bonds denominated in euros but could ultimately be paid back in lire or drachma (or deutschmarks) if the country taking out the debt leaves the eurozone before the end of the bond's life.
  • (7) It's such a fantastic figure that it can't be met in any currency unless they are expecting Turkish lire or [old] Italian money, which is a million-note job."
  • (8) every lira spent on vaccination has resulted in a direct saving of 12.98 lire with respect to cases prevented and the cost of their treatment and patient rehabilitation.
  • (9) The expenses for the amortization of the cost of the bunker, for ordinary and extraordinary maintenance, for the employed staff and for the electric power respectively, represent the 22%, 5%, 43% and 2% of the total management cost (395 milions lire per year).
  • (10) « Voici venir votre rayon de soleil », peut-on lire sur une pancarte à l’entrée de la première centrale solaire d’envergure en Afrique de l’Est.
  • (11) After his appearance on La Ruota della Fortuna , Renzi went home with 48m lire (about £20,000) in his pocket.
  • (12) The average purchase cost of an accelerator was 1113 milions lire and the amortization cost is 111 milions lire per year.
  • (13) Latency of initial response to escape (LIRE) and latency of escape (LE) were measured in seconds.
  • (14) A new study of Keynes’s attempts to make money out of movements in the pound against five major currencies of his day – the dollar, French franc, German mark, Italian lire and Dutch guilder – comes to a stark conclusion.

Lyre


Definition:

  • (n.) A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.
  • (n.) One of the constellations; Lyra. See Lyra.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Aswan, the lyre is represented by the Sudanese masenkop, Ugandan adungu, and Egyptian simsimiya and tamboura, while the spike fiddle manifests as the Ethiopian masenko and Ugandan endingidi.
  • (2) Orpheus, the great musician of myth, sits at its centre strumming a lyre, while a fox leaps at his feet.
  • (3) Similarly, for the isthmus, an anterior lyre, a pallial crest, a pallial peduncle, and a posterior lyre are described.
  • (4) The plucked harp (lyre) and spike fiddle have been at the heart of the Nile's musical identity since ancient times.
  • (5) The impulse seemed archaic, quaint, but as the weeks of these Olympics have progressed, you could argue that Hannah Cockcroft and Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis and Ellie Simmonds, Bradley Wiggins and David Weir have not been done justice even by the vivid enthusiasm of Clare Balding and Michael Johnson – they require lyres and heroic couplets.
  • (6) The article shows the results of study of the causes of these complications, which formed the basis for improving the methods and techniques of the operation the principal differences of which consisted in: (1) colostomy, except for the final formation of the opening at the level of the skin, was conducted before mobilization of the rectum; (2) retroperitoneal passing of the intestine was accomplished through the upper angle of a lyre-shaped incision of the pelvic peritoneum to the left of the sigmoid colon; (3) the use of a "closed" method of flat stoma formation by cutting the intestinal wall at the level of the skin down to the mucosa and attaching it to the skin by the musculoserous coat with interrupted catgut sutures, and only after that is the excessive mucosa cut off and the intestinal lumen opened.

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