What's the difference between nye and wye?

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”?

Wye


Definition:

  • (n.) The letter Y.
  • (n.) A kind of crotch. See Y, n. (a).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results are broadly consistent with a more homogeneous environment for the Wye base in the presence of Mg2+.
  • (2) Then, in October 1998, as the newly appointed foreign minister, he astounded his acolytes by signing the Wye River agreement, facilitated in Maryland by President Bill Clinton, which granted Palestinians control over another 13% of the West Bank.
  • (3) After attending Rose Hill school, Tunbridge Wells, and Durham school, he dropped out of Wye Agricultural College in Kent in order to study acting at the Old Vic.
  • (4) They knew they had to go west, because the storm-troopers would be coming from the east; they got as far as Ross-on-Wye, where their passports and cameras were taken away.
  • (5) By way of escape, David headed for a hotel in Ross-on-Wye with an old lover, George Lassalle.
  • (6) An examination of the frameshift signals or proposed signals within published sequences of retroviruses and other genetic elements from higher animals shows that each site utilizes a tRNA which normally contains Wybutoxine (Wye) base or Queuine (Q) base in the anticodon loop.
  • (7) Work undertaken within the Wye basin, central Wales, demonstrates a complex distribution of fallout at the catchment scale, with the bulk of the deposition concentrated in a narrow north-south band, situated in the west central areas of the basin, which contained in excess of 1500 Bq m(-2) of (134)Cs.
  • (8) The complex conformational states of the anticodon loop of yeast tRNA(Phe) which we had previously studied with relaxation experiments by monitoring fluorescence of the naturally occurring Wye base, are analyzed using time and polarization resolved fluorescence measurements at varying counterion concentrations.
  • (9) Sky Arts has made a number of profile-raising deals, including sponsoring the Hay on Wye festival since 2007, backing English National Opera, and giving coverage last year to people occupying the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.
  • (10) Rodney Mace Hay-on-Wye, Brecknockshire • With the new wall being built in Hungary ( Work begins on border fence to block migrants , 14 July), I am reminded of a conversation I had with a woman whose family has owned, since the 1920s, the apartment where I spent the night a few years ago.
  • (11) Phenylalanine transfer RNA (tRNAPhe) of mammalian tissues contains the hypermodified guanine derivative Y (Wye) adjacent to the 3'-end of the anticodon and two O-methylated bases in the 5' portion of the anticodon loop.
  • (12) Under pressure from the Clinton administration, he signed the Wye River Memorandum in October 1998, which included a pledge for an Israeli withdrawal from 13% of the West Bank as a step towards a final status agreement with the Palestinians.
  • (13) When [methyl-3H5methionine is added in the presence of actinomycin D, which blocks new RNA synthesis, label appears in the wye base of tRNA2Phe.
  • (14) Measurements of the Wye base fluorescence demonstrate that the isolated anticodon loop of tRNA(Phe) (15 nucleotide residues) has a binding constant K = 75 M-1 for Phe-amide, which is only slightly lower than that observed previously for the complete tRNA(Phe) (K = 100 M-1).
  • (15) Although the reactions of lithiated 7 with electrophiles gave the 2-substituted derivatives 14, 15, 17, 20, 21, and 22, lithiation of 1-benzyl-7-bromo-2-chlorowye (23) followed by treatment with Me2CHCH2CHO (13) successfully introduced a side chain at the 7-position to afford 1-benzyl-2-chloro-7-(1-hydroxy-3-methylbutyl)wye (24).
  • (16) It could generate up to 8GW - 5% of the UK's energy needs • Shoots barrage - a scheme further upstream which would generate around 1GW, equivalent to a large fossil fuel plant • Beachley barrage - an even smaller scheme, just above the Wye River, which would generate around 625MW • Bridgwater Bay lagoon - a proposal which would impound a section of the estuary on the coast between east of Hinkley Point and Weston-super-Mare, which could generate 1.36GW • Fleming lagoon - a similar scheme which would generate the same amount of power from a section of the Welsh shore between Newport and the Severn road crossings.
  • (17) A fluorescent base wye (Yt base) was isolated from Torulopsis utilis tRNAPhe.
  • (18) Marks & Spencer, however, which claims to be the only UK supermarket selling only British asparagus, says it has 100% availability in all its stores, grown in Herefordshire in the Wye Valley under polytunnels .
  • (19) The NHS's Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) on Wednesday said that those three, plus Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS foundation trust, Aintree University Hospital NHS foundation trust in Liverpool and Wye Valley NHS trust in Herefordshire, all had unusually high death rates in 2012-13, as judged by the summary hospital-level mortality indicator ( SHMI ).
  • (20) A relaxation effect with a time constant of approximately 100 microseconds, indicated by the Wye base fluorescence, is attributed to a conformational change of the anticodon loop and is very similar to a corresponding transition observed previously for the whole tRNAPhe molecule.

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