What's the difference between nye and pye?

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”?

Pye


Definition:

  • (n.) See 2d Pie (b).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Closed circular pYe(ARG4)411 DNA was detected in transformant DNA preparations by hybridization to pBR322 DNA and by transformation of E. coli to ampicillin resistance.
  • (2) The substrates have been used in a spectrophotometric assay of PyEs and in a staining method to locate PyEs on polyacrylamide electrophoresis.
  • (3) "The bass really vibrates along the floorboards at Pye and one night we were in the middle of a take and it was really moving, going home.
  • (4) Deputy clerk of the Senate, Richard Pye, has kindly given a translation.
  • (5) Poets laureate were given sherry until Henry Pye, in 1790, relinquished his butt in exchange for a £27 yearly fee.
  • (6) Senior G4S personnel, including McCaffrey and centre manager Kevin Pye, who were present on both nights of violence, repeatedly denied that G4S had handed over management of the centre on the evening of 17 February, an allegation reported by ABC TV , based on a guard’s accounts.
  • (7) A hybrid ColE1 plasmid [pYe(trp5)1], containing a yeast DNA segment that complements auxotrophic point mutations and deletions in the Escherichia coli tryptophan synthetase gene (trpAB), has been isolated.
  • (8) Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Candida maltosa and Pichia guilliermondii have been transformed by the plasmid pYe(ARG4)411, which contains the S. cerevisiae ARG4 gene inserted into pBR322.
  • (9) Southern blotting assay of transformant chromosomal DNA indicates that reconstitution of ade2 defective gene is related with its "correction", owing to integration of pYE(ADE2)2 sequence in the vicinity of the mutant locus.
  • (10) A PYE UNICAM spectrophotometer was used, with KBr pellet technique.
  • (11) Extracts were evaporated to dryness, whereupon the residues were dissolved in 5 ml of acetone or petroleum ether, and were analysed by gas chromotography (series 104 Pye Unicam gas chromotograph fitted with ECD and TID detectors).
  • (12) MB • Aberdeen move to within a point of Celtic after comeback at Partick Thistle • Steven Pye: when Aberdeen ruled Scottish football Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mathias Pogba moved from Crawley Town to Partick Thistle last summer but has found goals hard to come by north of the border.
  • (13) In 1954 he married a teacher, Margaret Pye, from Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and moved with her to London.
  • (14) In particular the experimental work which has been modelled is that of Lanyon, Goodship, Pye and McFie.
  • (15) The red adenine-dependent mutants ade1 of the yeast Pichia pinus blocked in the VI step of adenine biosynthesis (lack of AIR-carboxylase) and ade2 mutants blocked in the VII step of adenine biosynthesis (lack of SAIKAR-synthase) were transformed with the plasmid pYE(ADE2)2 containing ADE2 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae encoding AIR-carboxylase.
  • (16) Red adenine-dependent mutants of Hansenula polymorpha, Pichia guilliermondii, Williopsis saturnus yeasts have been transformed by the plasmid pYE (ADE2) 2 DNA containing ADE2 gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
  • (17) But the commission was careful to include a wide range of views, including Pye Jakobsson , who has worked in the Swedish sex industry for several years and has actively campaigned against the criminalisation of punters, and other pro-prostitution activists.
  • (18) The ionic concentrations were determined using a Pye Unicam SP atomic absorption spectrophotometer.
  • (19) Since yeast cells transformed by this plasmid poorly secreted RNase into the medium, the plasmid pYE RNAP-Rh was constructed, in which the signal sequence of RNase Rh was replaced by the prepro-sequence of aspartic proteinase-I, one of the extracellular enzymes secreted by R. niveus.
  • (20) Prepared standards of halothane in oxygen were analysed using a Pye Series 104 gas chromatograph equipped with a heated head flame ionization detector and gas sampling valve.

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