What's the difference between pied and pried?

Pied


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Pi
  • () imp. & p. p. of Pi, or Pie, v.
  • (a.) Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Other Christmas favourites, including stollen, organic mince pies and Schweppes tonic will also be included among 100 seasonal products on the list of 1,000 items which shoppers can choose from over the next few months.
  • (2) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
  • (3) This technique is compared with calculated outline and ring source attenuation correction techniques in a pie phantom.
  • (4) We describe a premature infant with progressive worsening of unilateral PIE, which was successfully treated by selective bronchial balloon catheterization after failure of conservative management.
  • (5) Studied were the composition and the technologic properties of the milk of Dutch Black pied cattle under this country's conditions.
  • (6) Superfusion with 10(-6) to 10(-4) M arachidonic acid resulted in a slow developing positive inotropic effect (PIE) in a concentration-dependent manner.
  • (7) The 2 Fat Butchers in Walmer offers high-quality free-range meat and excellent pork pies and scotch eggs.
  • (8) A Staphylococcus strain was inoculated on the top and cut surfaces of freshly baked Southern custard pies which were then packaged in a pasteboard carton and held at 30 C. Daily plate counts of surface sections 0.3 inch (0.76 cm) in thickness were made.
  • (9) She almost wills her biscuits to dry out and her pies to sink.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The big difference is that I’ve got my finger in all the pies, whereas Lord Farquaad only thought he did.
  • (11) A total of 33 strains of staphylococci, isolated from Black Pied cows with subclinical mastitis (conformed by the brom-thymol test), were studied to establish their biochemical properties and resistance to antibiotics as well as the occasional correlation between enzyme activity and resistance.
  • (12) An increase in eosinophils carrying surface IgE was demonstrated in alveolar cells from PIE Syndrome particularly with hypodense eosinophils from CEP patients.
  • (13) The appearance of PIE and its complications, i.e., pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum, occurred over a wide range of mean airway pressures and positive end-expiratory pressures; there was no direct relationship between barotrauma and mean airway pressure or positive end-expiratory pressure.
  • (14) MCI-154 (10(-7) to 10(-4) M) produced a concentration-dependent PIE amounting to 75% of the maximal effect of isoproterenol.
  • (15) The killer's taste in movies stretches from westerns to gangster thrillers to Elvis Presley musicals: apple-pie imports that were boycotted by socialist president Sukarno's coalition before the coup.
  • (16) A case of PIE syndrome induced by Saiboku-To (TJ96) is reported.
  • (17) She had a history of PIE syndrome induced by disodium cromoglycate 4 years previously (Jpn.
  • (18) It will be streamed live here: Monetary Policy Committee August 2013 Inflation Report My colleague Andrew Sparrow will be live-blogging the whole session here: Mark Carney gives evidence to the Commons Treasury committee: Politics live blog 9.52am BST This graphic shows how most of the Royal Mail's revenues come from its parcels and letters divisions, although its European parcels business, GLS, makes a decent contribution (with revenue of £1.5m, out of a total pie of over £9bn.
  • (19) Safdie himself still maintains a pied-à-terre in the 13-storey building, which stands on a narrow, man-made peninsula just south of the Old Port section of Montreal.
  • (20) I got it wrong on PIE and I apologise for having done so.

Pried


Definition:

  • () imp. & p. p. of Pry.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Pry

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Affinity-purified human placental ribonuclease inhibitor (PRI) was digested by trypsin.
  • (2) I used to tease him with the suggestion he had chosen me as walking companion because I had no mathematics at all and so he was safe from prying questions, but in fact now and then he did used to tell me about what he was doing – and how clear it all seemed when he spoke!
  • (3) Human placental ribonuclease inhibitor (PRI), a 50-kDa tight-binding inhibitor of angiogenin and pancreatic ribonuclease, consists predominantly of 7 internal repeats, each 57 residues long.
  • (4) Deep in the taiga, the Mordovian colonies are well away from prying eyes.
  • (5) Peña Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, suffered a severe reverse in regional elections last month as voters punished the party for failing to crack down on corruption, impunity and brutal drug gang violence.
  • (6) Open the phone just enough to reveal the metal bracket covering the home button cable, remove it with tweezers, and pry the connector up from its socket.
  • (7) Similarly, the development of ventriculomegaly may depend upon cerebral elastic properties besides the pri mary disturbance of CSF dynamics.
  • (8) Before Vicente Fox became president in 2000, the Institutional Revolutionary party (PRI) had won every election since 1929.
  • (9) Thirty DES-exposed women aged 17-30 years and 30 control women with a history of abnormal Pap smear findings were interviewed with the SADS-L and completed the SCL-90-R and the PRI-Q.
  • (10) However, the PrI sera of these horses showed reactivity at various intensities with one to seven of the component antigens.
  • (11) The pantographic reproducibility index (PRI) has been developed to quantitate incoordinated mandibular movements; one of the signs and symptoms of TMJ dysfunction.
  • (12) Data from this study suggest that the MGPQ-PRI might be useful for the assessment of fibromyalgic pain in a clinical setting and during follow-up of the disease.
  • (13) The arrangement of overlapping genes at the pri locus of IncP alpha plasmids also appears to be present in the IncP beta group.
  • (14) So pry between the boards of the housing recovery and the termites start crawling out.
  • (15) The delay in the postcastration increase in plasma level of LH in the OVX hens was not associated with anorexia of incubating hens, since plasma levels of LH were not affected by force-feeding unless plasma levels of PRI were suppressed by nest deprivation.
  • (16) Some people are also afraid that prying eyes might spot Prep, which can also be used for HIV treatment, in a person’s medicine cabinet and assume that they are positive.
  • (17) Alec says 2,000 legislators and business lobbyists are expected to attend, participating in numerous meetings where new model bills will be privately crafted – away from the prying eyes of the media .
  • (18) Compared with the control group, statistically significant increases of SCE and HFC, as well as decreased cell kinetics (PRI) were observed for both occupationally and environmentally exposed groups.
  • (19) Banks have far more to fear from the prying of other financial companies than they do from any data provider.
  • (20) The stability of the angiogenin-PRI complex was assessed by cation-exchange HPLC quantitation of free angiogenin.