What's the difference between noy and toy?

Noy


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To annoy; to vex.
  • (n.) That which annoys.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Noye claimed the way the press had reported his acquittal in the Fordham case was "absolutely scandalous".
  • (2) Heather Titley said she saw Cameron grab the collar of Noye's shirt and scuffle with him at the Swanley interchange of the M25.
  • (3) Police tracked down Noye to his hideout in Spain in August 1998.
  • (4) This analysis completes the primary structure of the whole protein by over-lapping the sequence of the 23 residues from the NH-2 terminus previously published (Kistler, W. S., Noyes, C., and Heinrikson, R.L.
  • (5) At the Macpherson inquiry the Lawrence lawyers claimed Noye had a criminal associate, Clifford Norris, whose son, David Norris, was a prime suspect in the murder of Lawrence.
  • (6) On the night of 26 January 1985, Reader was present at the Kent home of Kenneth Noye , who, like Reader, was suspected by the police of receiving the stolen bullion from the 1983 £26m Brink’s-Mat robbery at Heathrow airport .
  • (7) A brilliant sequence to this simple idea followed through Poynting, Arrhenius, Noyes and culminated with Hulett, who in 1901 formulated the "solvent tension theory" of osmosis, stating in essence that the thermal motion of the solute molecules by impact with the free solvent surface put the solvent under tension.
  • (8) Some of the allegations against Adams centred on his relationship with Kenneth Noye, a major criminal and police informant.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kenneth Noye, left, and Brian Reader.
  • (10) One, carrying a shotgun, shouted: “Right, we’ll blow your fucking head off!” He was Kenneth Noye.
  • (11) polymerization of the hormone, steric or electrostatic hindrance due to ligand-ligand interactions, or unstirred (Noyes-Whitney) layers are considered unlikely in the case of insulin receptors on both experimental and theoretical grounds.
  • (12) The strides made in the last decade, such as contributions of Noyes and colleagues (secondary restraints), and Cabaud and coworkers (augmentation), Arnoczky and associates (microvascularity), and Peterson (elimination of the cross-body block), are enormous.
  • (13) PC John Fordham was stabbed in the front and back as he kept watch on Noye.
  • (14) Adult female Long-Evans rats with direct-current electrolytic or radio-frequency thermocoagulatory lesions of the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) lived on pellet fragments or a powdered chow containing as much as 1.2% quinine sulfate by weight or lived in Skinner boxes with 45-mg Noyes pellets delivered contingent on fixed ratios (FR) of lever pressing up to FR 128.
  • (15) In returning their decision, the eight women and four men rejected Noye's argument that he had stabbed the 21-year-old electrician in self-defence.
  • (16) Noye said he had never been convicted of violence - but in July 1986, after the Dc Fordham stabbing, he was jailed for 14 years for dishonestly handling stolen Brinks Mat gold.
  • (17) But the family had suspicions, detailed in Macpherson's report, which refers to "a notice of allegations and issues" delivered to Adams by the Lawrence legal team, which says: "A potential channel for such influence arises from Commander Adams's previous links with Kenneth Noye who in turn has links with Clifford Norris."
  • (18) Schedule-induced polydipsia occurred during initial magazine training to Noyes pellets (45 mg), disappeared when lever-pressing was acquired on a continuous reinforcement schedule (CRF), and reappeared when the food contingency was changed to a 1-min variable interval schedule (VI 1 min).
  • (19) Noye, who is also claiming he killed Stephen Cameron in self-defence during a fight on the M25 in Kent in 1996, told the jury in his Old Bailey murder trial that he had found the camouflaged officer in his garden at 6.10pm on January 26, 1985 after his dogs had barked.
  • (20) Within minutes of the attack, Mr Bevan said, Noye set about covering his tracks before fleeing the country with a suitcase full of cash.

Toy


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A plaything for children; a bawble.
  • (v. t.) A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle.
  • (v. t.) A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.
  • (v. t.) Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime.
  • (v. t.) An old story; a silly tale.
  • (v. t.) A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch.
  • (v. i.) To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.
  • (v. t.) To treat foolishly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
  • (2) The "Dream Toys" for Christmas list includes a few old favourites alongside some new, and sparkly, additions.
  • (3) In a statement, Fisher Price said: “We recently learned of a security vulnerability with our Fisher-Price WiFi-connected Smart Toy Bear.
  • (4) Pretty much every major toy brand, as well as apps like Angry Birds and Talking Friends, are spawning “webisodes” on YouTube as well as traditional ads, which often sit side-by-side within the same channel.
  • (5) An observational study was made of 1-2-year-old children, and of mentally handicapped children functioning at a similar level, to determine the extent to which they involved themselves in play with toys and other objects and the extent to which their day was "empty".
  • (6) The only 2 significant sex-of-parent x sex-of-child effects occurred at 18 months; fathers gave fewer positive reactions to boys engaging in female-typical toy play, and mothers gave more instruction to girls when they attempted to communicate.
  • (7) Incidental teaching and traditional discrete-trial procedures were used to teach two children with autism the expressive use of two color adjectives to describe preferred toys and food items.
  • (8) You can use absolutely anything - an unwanted T-shirt, some old curtains, something you picked up in a charity shop ... Garish 70s-style prints you probably wouldn't dream of wearing work surprisingly well in soft toys: they are cute, they can pull it off.
  • (9) In both experiments, videotapes of model monkeys behaving fearfully were spliced so that it appeared that the models were reacting fearfully either to fear-relevant stimuli (toy snakes or a toy crocodile), or to fear-irrelevant stimuli (flowers or a toy rabbit).
  • (10) Soft organic material (meat, cucumber peels) was found in four patients, chicken bones in six, pins and needles in six, other nonorganic materials (toys, stone, broken thermometer) in six.
  • (11) There are signs that Disney intends to respect its expensive new toy.
  • (12) However, when toys were absent, there were no significant differences in visual attention between ADHD and normal boys.
  • (13) White is doing his own bit to turn back the clock: at his gigs, he enforces a strict ban on the audience shooting pictures or video; at home, he only allows his children – Scarlett, eight, and Hank, six – to play with mechanical toys.
  • (14) Cars, furniture, books, dishes, TVs, highways, buildings, jewellery, toys and even electricity would not exist without water.
  • (15) Although it remains unclear why he chose to place the muddled woman in a kitchen – clinging to her mug and surrounded by children's toys – as opposed to say, in a laboratory or a truck, he claims all the words were authentically spoken by "women in dozens of focus groups around the country", prior to being stitched together in this latest triumph for the fashionable, verbatim school of drama.
  • (16) Many parents think hard about what kind of books to buy for their children; mull over the suitability of various TV shows and films; and compare the educational and entertainment value of different toys.
  • (17) That found parents play an important role in the choice of toys and “they consider construction toys to stimulate creativity and can be used differently each time a child plays with them”, the ONS said.
  • (18) The provision of structure in the form of thematically related toy sets, instructions, and modeling did not reduce the discrepancy between demonstrated play behaviors of toddlers with SLI-E and their normally developing peers.
  • (19) Now they’re having to downsize, changing cities and dispose of all their toys, like their big trucks and Ski-doos, but nobody wants to buy that stuff because they can’t afford it either.” “It’s very depressing,” says Seibel, who’s still unemployed despite sending several hundreds of resumes, including to McDonalds, where he was told he was overqualified.
  • (20) Parents' initial nonverbal responses to the toys, however, were more positive when the toys were stereotyped for the child's and parent's gender than when they were not.

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