What's the difference between nay and ney?

Nay


Definition:

  • (adv.) No; -- a negative answer to a question asked, or a request made, now superseded by no. See Yes.
  • (adv.) Not this merely, but also; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition or substitution of a more explicit or more emphatic phrase.
  • (n.) Denial; refusal.
  • (n.) a negative vote; one who votes in the negative.
  • (v. t. & i.) To refuse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although NaY and NaG are effective heavy metal chelators and renal function is spared and kidney platinum levels are substantially reduced by the dithiocarbamates, no parallel loss of antineoplastic activity by Cis-Pt on the rat Walker carcinoma was observed.
  • (2) "She was jealous of the past, but she'd have done better being jealous of the future," political commentator Catherine Nay said this week.
  • (3) By contrast, the latter mutants designated mafB were defective in replication of nay of these plasmids at a high temperature.
  • (4) But at other times it's fine – nay, fantastic – to just let the saltiness shine, as in these olive choux buns.
  • (5) In doing so, we must learn to acknowledge- nay embrace- its innate goodness, decency and beauty.
  • (6) The National Review's Robert Costa says it looks good: Robert Costa (@robertcostaNRO) Leadership sources: no snags right now on informal whip count, legislation continues to move twd floor, vote coming later October 15, 2013 Except: Robert Costa (@robertcostaNRO) Pressure mounts on conservatives to vote nay RT @Heritage_Action Key Vote: “NO” on House Spending and Debt Deal October 15, 2013 The failure of the latest Boehner initiative could make a strong argument for the terminal paralysis of the House and the return of the legislative initiative to the Senate.
  • (7) What's insulting is that despite decades, nay centuries, of women's political activism, and despite years of hard work aimed at opening politics up to those from less privileged backgrounds, in 2010 we're still being presented with the same old same old.
  • (8) Renal damage, as estimated by blood urea nitrogen (BUN) values and serum creatinine levels, was less at all times up until sacrifice in animals given NaY or NaG than in those given DDTC.
  • (9) The nay-sayers argue that it will waste billions of pounds when a straightforward upgrade of the west coast line would do just as good a job without tearing up idyllic parts of Buckinghamshire, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire.
  • (10) It's not that they say, yea or nay regarding your right to speech, but can this be handled that it doesn't dramatically and drastically impact the rest of society?"
  • (11) The nay-sayers insist loudly that they're "climate sceptics", but this is a calculated misnomer – scientific scepticism is the method of investigating whether a particular hypothesis is supported by the evidence.
  • (12) Back in 2012, Sunder Katwala of the thinktank British Future (talking of the pre-Olympic opening ceremony whinging), said that for those nay-saying: “their cynicism is a performative act of Britishness.” In a country that prefaces a litany of complaints with “mustn’t grumble”, we don’t need gene science to tell us how much we take pleasure in our role.
  • (13) The results of Study 1 suggested the existence of six MHLC clusters: pure internal; double external; pure chance; yea sayer; nay sayer, and believer in control.
  • (14) Two vaccinations by the conjunctival route, as in group D, would be simpler, more economical and at least as effective as the standard system of vaccination, and would have the advantage that vaccination could be done at nay age without risk of serological response.
  • (15) Wily David Carney chalked one up for the nay-saying ageists by outfoxing youngster Thomas Deng to execute a superb run and finish, one which was harder than it may have seemed.
  • (16) On Thursday, however, one could hardly imagine a more emollient, nay flattering, figure, than Dame Liz.
  • (17) Even contestants no one picks are showered, nay tsunami-ed, with praise.
  • (18) Elizabeth Warren on the presidency: Fifty shades of nay Read more “To be sure, Warren – and grassroots economic populism more broadly – was already a rising force well before our efforts began,” the group’s organizers wrote in preparation to fold last week.
  • (19) In the future, when it has two cameras for fully featured video conferencing, GPS and who knows what else built in (1080 HD TV reception and recording and nano projection, for example) and when the iBook store has recorded its 100-millionth download and the thousands of accessories and peripherals that have invented uses for iPad that we simply can't now imagine – when that has happened it will all have seemed so natural and inevitable that today's nay-sayers and sceptics will have forgotten that they ever doubted its potential.
  • (20) And if you listen well, you can tell if she is likely to play or nay.

Ney


Definition:

  • (n.) A fabric of twine, thread, or the like, wrought or woven into meshes, and used for catching fish, birds, butterflies, etc.
  • (n.) Anything designed or fitted to entrap or catch; a snare; any device for catching and holding.
  • (n.) Anything wrought or woven in meshes; as, a net for the hair; a mosquito net; a tennis net.
  • (n.) A figure made up of a large number of straight lines or curves, which are connected at certain points and related to each other by some specified law.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Temperature adjustment of INFRARED (NEY Co.) is to use Powerlevel, and of BEAMWERDER (YOSHIDA Co.) is adjusting the height of the turn table.
  • (2) The results indicated that gold alloys responded slightly better than Ney 76 alloy, but similar to Albacast alloy with adequate correlation between the four criteria evaluated.
  • (3) The proposed clasp corresponds to two Ney type I clasps acting on one tooth.
  • (4) For those not familiar with the Big-Phil-Little-Ney dynamic in the flesh, Brazil’s first press conference on the eve of the tournament was intriguing, so gurglingly affectionate are the pair of them in public.
  • (5) (2) The Ney G-3 as-welded samples had no ductility, but heat treating greatly increased their yield stress.
  • (6) As well as announcing the funding, Eric Pickles , the communities secretary, on Thursday said the commissioners who would take over the running of crisis-hit Rotherham council were Sir Derek Myers, Stella Manzie, Malcolm Newsam, Mary Ney and Julie Kenny.
  • (7) The lead Labour member on the Metropolitan Police Authority, Joanne McCart ney, tonight wrote to the Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, asking for details of senior officers whose voicemail may have been intercepted by Mulcaire.
  • (8) The authors remind the original principles having led Akers, Roach and Ney in the conception of their "retentive complexes" and analyse the main biomechanical concepts included in their propositions.
  • (9) As a congressional aide in the late 1990s to former Ohio congressman Bob Ney, he brought an unloaded gun into a House of Representatives building on Capitol Hill.
  • (10) The alloy Ney Cast III is superior in performance to the other low golds and approximately equivalent to the high-gold alloy Firmilay.
  • (11) The authors describe the different "retentive complexes" proposed by the Akers, Roach and Ney schools and analyse their biomechanical validity.
  • (12) Speaker Ryan is giving a green light to congressional corruption.” The OCE was created in March 2008 after the cases of former Representative Randy “Duke” Cunningham, a Republican from California, who served more than seven years in prison on bribery and other charges; as well as cases involving former Representative Bob Ney, a Republican from Ohio, who was charged in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal and pleaded guilty to corruption charges, and former Representative William Jefferson, a Democrat from Louisiana, convicted on corruption in a separate case.
  • (13) In curating the collective, co-producers Miles Jay and Mina Girgis sought to highlight the unique timbres of these instruments, while also surrounding them with complementary sounds from their respective traditions, including the Ethiopian saxophone, Egyptian ney, oud, and violin, and the bass guitar.
  • (14) (5) The Ney B-2 as-welded specimens produced satisfactory joints which did not benefit from heat treatment.
  • (15) Myers will be lead commissioner and be paid £800 a day; Manzie will have the title of managing director commissioner, with a salary of £160,000; Newsam will be children’s social care commissioner; and Ney and Kenny will be supporting commissioners.
  • (16) A 5-year clinical comparison between silver palladium alloys (Albacast and Ney 76) and gold alloy (Firmilay) was conducted.

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