What's the difference between new and yew?

New


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having existed, or having been made, but a short time; having originated or occured lately; having recently come into existence, or into one's possession; not early or long in being; of late origin; recent; fresh; modern; -- opposed to old, as, a new coat; a new house; a new book; a new fashion.
  • (superl.) Not before seen or known, although existing before; lately manifested; recently discovered; as, a new metal; a new planet; new scenes.
  • (superl.) Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now commencing; different from has been; as, a new year; a new course or direction.
  • (superl.) As if lately begun or made; having the state or quality of original freshness; also, changed for the better; renovated; unworn; untried; unspent; as, rest and travel made him a new man.
  • (superl.) Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient descent; not previously kniwn or famous.
  • (superl.) Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed.
  • (superl.) Fresh from anything; newly come.
  • (adv.) Newly; recently.
  • (v. t. & i.) To make new; to renew.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
  • (2) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
  • (3) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
  • (4) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
  • (5) Neuropsychological testing is a relatively new field in the area of clinical neuroscience.
  • (6) says Gregg Wallace opening the new series of Celebrity MasterChef (Mon-Fri, 2.15pm, BBC1).
  • (7) A new balloon catheter has been developed for angioplasty.
  • (8) A new and simple method of serotyping campylobacters has been developed which utilises co-agglutination to detect the presence of heat-stable antigens.
  • (9) These results suggest the presence of a new antigen-antibody system for another human type C retrovirus related antigens(s) and a participation of retrovirus in autoimmune diseases.
  • (10) The combined analysis of pathogenesis and genetics associated with the salmonella virulence plasmids may identify new systems of bacterial virulence and the genetic basis for this virulence.
  • (11) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
  • (12) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
  • (13) This new observation offers good possibilities to study the metabolism of tryptophan at the cellular level.
  • (14) Graft life is even more prolonged with patch angioplasty at venous outflow stenoses or by adding a new segment of PTFE to bypass areas of venous stenosis.
  • (15) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
  • (16) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
  • (17) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
  • (18) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
  • (19) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
  • (20) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.

Yew


Definition:

  • (v. i.) See Yaw.
  • (n.) An evergreen tree (Taxus baccata) of Europe, allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. It frequently grows in British churchyards.
  • (n.) The wood of the yew. It is light red in color, compact, fine-grained, and very elastic. It is preferred to all other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from Spain.
  • (n.) A bow for shooting, made of the yew.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Kuan Yew with Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in 2009.
  • (2) The investigational antineoplastic agent, taxol, a natural product from the yew, Taxus sp.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Kuan Yew, right, and his wife, Kwa Geok Choo, second left, posing with the Japanese Emperor Hirohito and his wife Empress Nagako, in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in 1968.
  • (4) A 40-year-old patient attempted suicide by drinking an extract made from 120 g of yew needles.
  • (5) One feels alone but not lonely amid the tall centuries-old ash, beech, birch, oak and yew, and the woodland is well preserved and conserved.
  • (6) Christine Cole Northampton • I think Philip Bowring almost completely misses the point in his obituary of Lee Kuan Yew.
  • (7) Lee Kuan Yew’s grip on Singapore | Letters Read more Ethnic prejudice lurked just under Lee’s image of technocratic rationalism.
  • (8) Presently, taxol is derived from the bark of the Pacific yew, Taxus brevifolia, a small, slow-growing evergreen tree native to the northwestern United States.
  • (9) Standing in the shade of a 1,000-year-old yew tree at the front of St Mary's church in Harmondsworth, Ken Hughes says he knows how locals will react if the latest extension plans at Heathrow come to fruition.
  • (10) The whole “father of Singapore” image has often been taken far too literally, but Lee Kuan Yew’s governing style was nothing if not paternalistic.
  • (11) Four prisoners drank a decoction of yew (Taxus baccata) needles containing the toxic alkaloid taxine++ B.
  • (12) Taxol is a chemotherapeutic drug which acts by stabilizing microtubules, preventing normal mitosis and resulting in a block of the cell cycle at G2 and M. The drug is isolated from the yew, Taxus sp.
  • (13) Data from the literature concerning the toxicity of yew and some (traditional) uses of yew are reported.
  • (14) In Singapore, however, where a hodgepodge mix of ethnic Chinese, Malay and Indian residents actively aim to maintain what the nation's "founder", Lee Kuan Yew, has termed "racial harmony", supporters are hard to come by.
  • (15) Lee Kuan Yew’s grip on Singapore | Letters Read more Voting in Singapore is compulsory.
  • (16) To many Singaporeans, and indeed others too, Lee Kuan Yew was Singapore ,” he said.
  • (17) Songbirds chatter in the intertwining branches of a yew walk planted over 500 years ago.
  • (18) Singapore’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, who led the city-state for more than three decades, has died aged 91.
  • (19) Few have demonstrated such complete commitment to a cause greater than themselves.” This article was amended on Monday 23 March 2015 to correct a misspelling of Lee Kuan Yew’s name and to correct the time of the announcement of his death.
  • (20) The passing of a giant like Lee Kuan Yew is the end of an era,” Bishop told Sky News.

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