What's the difference between sew and yew?

Sew


Definition:

  • (n.) Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy.
  • (v. t.) To follow; to pursue; to sue.
  • (v. t.) To unite or fasten together by stitches, as with a needle and thread.
  • (v. t.) To close or stop by ssewing; -- often with up; as, to sew up a rip.
  • (v. t.) To inclose by sewing; -- sometimes with up; as, to sew money in a bag.
  • (v. i.) To practice sewing; to work with needle and thread.
  • (v. t.) To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The affinity of human C1q subcomponent for IgM of normal human serum and Waldenström macroglobulins of patients Sew and Zuk were investigated by the polyethylene glycol 6,000 immune complexes precipitation test.
  • (2) Shapla has found a job at another factory but, due to her back injuries, as a sewing-machine operator, not a supervisor.
  • (3) The device can be used to locate a hypodermic needle at a distance of 50-90 mm, a sewing needle at 60-122 mm, a routine 7.62-mm bullet at 90 mm and a 5.6-mm bullet at 105 mm.
  • (4) The narrow lower part is sewed to the nasal mucous membrane with 3 atraumatic catgut sutures.
  • (5) The authors describe a simple Seldinger Catheter technique by which they removed a metallic sewing needle with attached thread from the esophagus of a 5 month old infant.
  • (6) Golby was raised in Hinckley, Leicestershire; his mother sewed knickers and his father worked in a factory, and there remains a matter-of-fact quality about him.
  • (7) A sewing needle, which penetrated the region of the wrist joint anteriorly, unknown to the patient, also penetrated the median nerve without causing any initial discomfort or neurological deficit.
  • (8) Angiography demonstrated the presence of an intra-aortic metallic foreign body that resembled a sewing needle.
  • (9) Even if you can't make a whole dress, little jazzy touches will make the blandest of clothing a billion times better: sewing on snazzy buttons, for example, or putting on some piping, or not going around in dresses covered in moth holes and decked with trailing hems, as some of us do because we never learned to bloody sew.
  • (10) At least that’s what one sewing blogger’s followers decided after an internet troll came out of nowhere to tell her she should “eat less cake”.
  • (11) It shows the costs in 1979 included £464 spent on replacing linen, £39 on "sewing carpet seams", £19 on an ironing board and £527 on cleaning carpets.
  • (12) You had a tumultuous tenure as editor of The Lady during which you got into trouble with the proprietors for carrying an interview with Tracey Emin in which she talked about sewing being a good distraction from masturbation.
  • (13) Three new cases of intracranial sewing needles are reported and are reviewed with 10 other published cases.
  • (14) First they sewed together their own Palestinian flags and hung them from trees near their school at a time when it was illegal to fly the flag.
  • (15) This paper was presented at the ICN SEW Resource Group meeting in Geneva.
  • (16) She learned to sew, and was also taught about personal health and hygiene.
  • (17) My brigade in the sewing shop works 16 to 17 hours a day.
  • (18) Jenny Rushmore, who blogs under Cashmerette , regularly shares her sewing plans and projects on her Instagram page – including her plans to make a swimsuit.
  • (19) BBC2's attempt to repeat the success of The Great British Bake Off – but with sewing – made a strong start with an average of 2.6 million viewers for The Great British Sewing Bee on Tuesday night.
  • (20) This technique was compared to transabdominal end-to-end anastomosis performed as low as possible, using the circular stapler and hand-sewing with a one-layer technique.

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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