What's the difference between lye and nye?

Lye


Definition:

  • (n.) A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc.
  • (n.) A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding.
  • (n.) A falsehood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The success of conservative treatment has been higher in patients younger than 8 years of age, and in strictures due to caustics other than lye involving upper third portion and less than five cm of an esophageal segment.
  • (2) They may be used to irrigate oropharyngeal burns, but are contraindicated in the face of respiratory compromise, shock, liquid lye ingestion, and perforation of the esophagus or stomach.
  • (3) In the small number of patients with a nodular lye than in the other two histiocytic type, associated with diffuse areas, the prognosis is less favorable than in the other two histologic groups.
  • (4) In view of these findings, it can be postulated that LSD may be diagnosed and prognosed through LYE changes in the serum.
  • (5) Hypopharyngeal strictures, either isolated or in conjunction with laryngeal and esophageal strictures, can occur following lye ingestion.
  • (6) Mechanical homogenization of sputa before making the smear, carried out by shaking the sputum with glass beads, had a significant effect on the number of detected mycobacteria while homogenization using soda lye did not influence the positivity in any direction.
  • (7) It is well known, that in the group of high- supralevator deformities, the lower rectum, anal canal and internal sphincter are absent, and the terminal pouch lyes above the puborectalis sling.
  • (8) In a 16-year-old female, complete stenosis of the larynx and hypopharynx developed as a consequence of the ingestion of lye cristals.
  • (9) Clinical findings and lysosomal enzymes (LYE) in eight lumpy skin diseases (LSD) cows and same number of healthy ones were reported in Tal-El Baker village and Tal Alkabir centre, Ismailia province, Egypt.
  • (10) Forty-eight had gastroesophageal reflux disease and 2 had chronic lye strictures.
  • (11) Upon ingestion of lye and its compounds severe corrosive lesions may develop not only in the oesophagus but also of the stomach.
  • (12) The 5-year survival rate was 34% for the patients with a local tumour at operation and 44% for those in whom the carcinoma developed at the site of a previous lye stricture.
  • (13) Paediatric microstomia may occur congenitally in the whistling face syndrome but is more often acquired after accidental thermal injuries such as biting an electrical extension cord or ingesting household lye.
  • (14) Ten patients had ingested lye and one had an esophageal atresia.
  • (15) The inferiorly based platysma myocutaneous flap was used in two of our patients with lye burns, and bilateral superiorly based flaps were used in one.
  • (16) Treatment of lye ingestions by antidotes recommended on product labels includes the use of acid neutralizers.
  • (17) The most common indications for operation were esophageal strictures that developed after lye ingestion and reflux strictures not responding to other treatment.
  • (18) Herein, we report our experience with sucralfate in the treatment of a case of lye-induced esophagitis.
  • (19) Among 77 dogs surviving standardized transmural esophageal lye injury for at least 2 weeks and as long as 12 weeks, 24 were untreated, 26 received corticosteroids and bougienage (S&B), and 27 received only the lathyrogen beta-aminoproprionitrile (BAPN).
  • (20) Lyes claimed that 10 minutes after she returned to her seat a steward told her to surrender the flag and that, when she refused, she was told to leave the stadium.

Nye


Definition:

  • (a. & adv.) Nigh.
  • (n.) A brood or flock of pheasants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alcohol and drug use were measured by means of the Delinquency Checklist (DCL), a self-report measure of delinquent behavior first developed by Short and Nye.
  • (2) Welsh, but London-based, Jones's real offence to leftwingers - heirs to Nye Bevan - was to be a Blairite, "parachuted" into Blaenau Gwent.
  • (3) Science has always been political but we don’t want science to be partisan,” Bill Nye, a prominent engineer and TV personality, told the Guardian .
  • (4) Retreating to your lab and hoping it will all go away is not going to be the best strategy Andrew Rosenberg, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration In March, Bill Nye , the bow-tied embodiment of science for many Americans, and Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician who alerted the world to soaring levels of lead in the blood of children in Flint, Michigan, were named as honorary co-chairs.
  • (5) He’ll get Cristiano Ronaldo, no problem.” Cymru v Gwlad Belg – fel digwyddodd Read more There are already some striking statues in Cardiff – the architect of the NHS, Nye Bevan, musician Ivor Novello and rugby star Gareth Edwards to name but three.
  • (6) In a real sense it not only pits 36-year-old Smith, a former BBC producer and lobbyist, against Dai Davies, former shop steward at the down defunct steel works, but Blairism against Bevanism and Nye's ghost.
  • (7) Nye Bevan famously said that "the religion of socialism is the language of priorities" and there were echoes of this in David Cameron's recent remark while responding to the flooding crisis – "Money," he declared, "is no object in this relief effort.
  • (8) When it comes to North Korea, I tend to be a little bit sceptical about these sorts of things,” Nye said, recalling the much-heralded trip that the New York Philharmonic made to Pyongyang in 2008 , which did nothing for US-North Korea relations.
  • (9) It was seen in Nye Bevan's shift from "no first use" to deriding disarmament as an "emotional spasm" that would send Britain " naked into the conference chamber ".
  • (10) Last year, Austin Mitchell MP, a member of the Commons public accounts committee, accused the prince's private secretary, William Nye, of " dodging around for tax purposes ".
  • (11) In this article, Anthony Pinching and Keith Nye suggest that HIV or HIV proteins can sabotage transmembrane signalling and that this is of primary importance to the alterations in immune responsiveness.
  • (12) Soft power, a term first coined by the academic Joseph Nye, is the ability to harness international alliances and shape the preferences of others through a country’s appeal and attraction.
  • (13) I really have no other purpose than to make life interplanetary.” Bill Nye, chief executive officer of the Planetary Society and host of the popular TV show Bill Nye the Science Guy, was in the audience and described the energy of the crowd as “extraordinary”.
  • (14) Then came Nye Bevan at the Labour conference in 1957, attacking a unilateralist resolution as “an emotional spasm” that threatened to send British statesmen “naked into the conference chamber” .
  • (15) Zak Kelly says that many of his friends, in what is Nye Bevan’s old constituency, voted Ukip.
  • (16) Never forget the Labour party's passion for unity, Nye Bevan famously said.
  • (17) More than once I catch her throwing winning glances at the massed ranks of newspaper sketch writers – they're all here, sniffing the air for jokes – and she does an awful lot of snickering behind her hand, something that makes her seem complacent and a little rude (especially given Nye's exquisitely courtly manner).
  • (18) A modified version of the Nye-Short self-reported delinquency scale and measures of normative oreintation which we constructed were used in a mail-out questionnaire to public school students (N = 351).
  • (19) It was inaugurated when Aneurin “Nye” Bevan, the health minister who was its far-sighted creator, visited Park hospital in Davyhulme, Manchester.
  • (20) I often feel that some of the oddest questions faced by our arguments now would be like listening to Nye Bevan outline the case for the NHS, healthcare for all free at the point of need regardless of means, would have been challenged by the politics of now with questions like: “That’s all very well Mr Bevan but how many bedpans will you need in Wishaw and who is going to pay for them”?

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