What's the difference between sigh and sike?

Sigh


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to lament; to grieve.
  • (v. i.) To make a sound like sighing.
  • (v. t.) To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
  • (v. t.) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
  • (v. t.) To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
  • (v. i.) A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.
  • (v. i.) Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan/ent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "But this is not all Bulgarians and gives a totally wrong picture of what the country is about," she sighed.
  • (2) Whoever is Tory leader then may breathe a sigh of relief.
  • (3) Sighs provide an opportunity to study the interaction and the maturation of the autonomic nervous system.
  • (4) An adviser to the Sultan of Aïr, the town’s ceremonial leader , sighs.
  • (5) To all the college grads out there, sighing over their student loan payments, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has a message: it was all worth it.
  • (6) | Hugh Muir Read more Wherever Labour people gather to discuss how to break out of the vice tightening around the party, answers fail amid sighs of utter despair.
  • (7) However, the over-riding view is that with Global's plan to buy GMG Radio outright all but thwarted, senior executives at German-owned Bauer will be breathing a sigh of relief.
  • (8) "I wanna rearrange that bit," he sighs, "because I feel I'm just doing what's expected of an R&B artist to take your shirt off.
  • (9) I think it should be a huge sigh of relief for EADS shareholders."
  • (10) "It's hard," sighed Royal, asked how she was faring.
  • (11) As for Botha, he breathed a sigh of relief that his ordeal was over.
  • (12) "Some even call me her pet," he sighs, raising his eyebrows in exasperation.
  • (13) He sighs, though whether this is out of weariness and regret, or impatience at my line of questioning, is difficult to tell.
  • (14) "Oh Lynn," she sighs, "you can't seriously expect me to answer that."
  • (15) Thus, promoter switching during the early stationary phase resulted not only in expression from SigH promoters but also in differential expression of the genes in the sigA operon.
  • (16) Jason Conibear, market analyst at forex specialists, Cambridge Mercantile, argues that Obama will be breathing a sigh of relief, even though US economic growth is slowing: American consumers are getting skittish again, but with the giant economy's output still creeping upwards, politicians and policymakers will find the perfect excuse to do nothing.
  • (17) Because this is due in part to variability in the way the information is obtained to make the various rating distinctions, the Structured Interview Guide for the HDRS (SIGH-D) was developed to standardize the manner of administration of the scale.
  • (18) Rumours,” Baddour sighed once more, as he returned from the platform.
  • (19) Clash of the sofas: BBC v ITV An age-old rivalry with plenty of previous, gone are the days where you'd sigh when you found out a match was on ITV not BBC.
  • (20) – but Russell happily slips in and out of voices and lines from the movie, his recollections punctuated by wistful sighs.

Sike


Definition:

  • (a.) Such. See Such.
  • (n.) A gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer.
  • (n.) A sick person.
  • (v. i.) To sigh.
  • (n.) A sigh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sikes also explained that he had continued to depress the brakes until "finally they started smelling really bad and I had metal sounds coming in the car".
  • (2) The driver, 61 year-old James Sikes, called Highway Patrol officers on his mobile phone after the 2008 Prius suddenly began to accelerate of its own accord while he was driving down the Interstate 8 freeway outside San Diego.
  • (3) Earlier models, such as Sikes's, were not included in this recall.
  • (4) "I pushed the gas pedal to pass a car, and it just did something kind of funny … and it just stuck there," Sikes told a news conference outside a Highway Patrol office following the incident.
  • (5) The Antibody Binding Test, a new technique for the evaluation of inactivated Rabies vaccines, developed by Arko, Wiktor and Sikes, was compared with the NIH- and Habel Test.
  • (6) Slaty Sike is a catchment that copes well under normal weather conditions but when the area is hit by bigger storms experiences a rapid flow of water down the steep hillsides, washing debris and stones into Haltwhistle Burn.
  • (7) Sikes said the accelerator pedal was stuck, and that the car would not stop even though he was pressing the brake with all his force.
  • (8) Sikes told reporters that he had taken his car to a local Toyota dealership about two weeks ago for a service, and was told his car was not on the recall list.
  • (9) Located at Slaty Sike, a tributary of Haltwhistle Burn, the scheme stems from research being carried out by Newcastle University into natural flood management (NFM) - natural engineering which works with the landscape to slow, store and filter water after heavy rainfall.
  • (10) Once the car slowed to 50mph Sikes was able to turn off the engine.
  • (11) The highway patrol team drove alongside the Prius, and instructed Sikes to engage the hand brake while simultaneously holding down the foot brake.