What's the difference between spay and sway?

Spay


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal).
  • (v. t.) The male of the red deer in his third year; a spade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The cAMP-dependent protein kinase (ATP:protein phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.37), has been studied in the vaginal epithelium, vaginal stroma, endometrium, and whole uterus of spayed mice treated with oestradiol-17 beta, and in the vaginal epithelium and uterus of spayed mice.
  • (2) Sequential P treatment reduced the degree of nuclear staining in the oviduct and endometrium below that found in spayed animals; however, such treatment only lowered the amount of cytosolic, not nuclear, ER significantly below spayed levels in those same tissues.
  • (3) Therefore, the effect of E on GH in spayed monkeys cannot be accounted for by a direct action on somatotrophs.
  • (4) Its concentration was maximal at proestrus and after administering 2-20 microgram of estradiol to spayed rats.
  • (5) The mean age of dogs with urinary bladder neoplasia was 9.5 years; 6 were males, 13 were females, and 2 were spayed females.
  • (6) Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus canis were the most frequently isolated bacteria in specimens collected from the vagina (in the area of the urethral orifice) of 20 normal intact bitches and 20 spayed bitches.
  • (7) However, when calculated on the basis of the DNA content of the myometrium, which was 8 times higher in the spayed than in the pregnant animals, the specific activities were lower in the tissue from spayed animals.
  • (8) Scedosporium inflatum Malloch et Salkin was found to cause osteomyelitis in a 6-year-old spayed female beagle.
  • (9) Mating during a period of 40 min at the beginning of hormonally induced estrus in spayed female rats resulted in a rapid decrease in receptivity as measured hourly by the lordosis response.
  • (10) Cerebral phaeohyphomycosis was diagnosed in a 9-year-old spayed dog that had a series of epileptic convulsions a day before death.
  • (11) Spayed animals were given progesterone for 4 days and then an injection of BCG serum or vaccine in 1 uterine horn.
  • (12) If the spayed beagle dam can be considered a model in which one may equivalate bone changes occurring in the ovarian hormone-deficient human female, we reach the following conclusions: The presence or absence of quasi-physiological levels of single ovarian hormones do affect the status of trabecular bone.
  • (13) Resorptive and formative characteristics on the periosteal and corticoendosteal bone envelopes were assessed on the ribs of intact, spayed and medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA)-supplemented Beagle dams.
  • (14) A 5-y-old spayed female Corgi dog was dipped with a d-limonene-based compound for flea infestation.
  • (15) A correspondence between the appearance of vaginal smears and the layers of the epithelium from which the cells had desquamated was established in untreated rats during the estrous cycle, in control ovariectomized rats and in spayed rats injected with either estrogen or progesterone.
  • (16) Thirteen adult cycling female cynomolgus monkeys were ovariectomized and treated for 28 days with 1) an empty Silastic capsule (Spay), 2) a 2-cm E-filled capsule (E), or 3) a 2-cm E-filled capsule for 14 days plus a 6-cm P-filled capsule implanted for an additional 14 days (E + P).
  • (17) A 6-year-old, obese, spayed female Doberman pinscher dog was presented for clinical examination with a 1-day history of repeated seizures and a long-term history of periodic bouts of ataxia, circling, and head tilt.
  • (18) Treatment of carcinomas in spayed (hormone-independent), nonspayed (hormone-dependent) rats, and of tumors which were refractory to treatment with estradiol dipropionate caused regression of the tumors.
  • (19) The report cites the results of three experiments designed to determine the effect of estrogen treatment on spayed and entire ewes.
  • (20) When small amounts of this compound were applied to the vulvas of anestrous or spayed females, males placed with these females became sexually aroused and attempted to mount them.

Sway


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.
  • (v. i.) To influence or direct by power and authority; by persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide.
  • (v. i.) To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion.
  • (v. i.) To hoist; as, to sway up the yards.
  • (v. i.) To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.
  • (v. i.) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.
  • (v. i.) To have weight or influence.
  • (v. i.) To bear sway; to rule; to govern.
  • (n.) The act of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon.
  • (n.) Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side; as, the sway of desires.
  • (n.) Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
  • (n.) Rule; dominion; control.
  • (n.) A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
  • (2) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
  • (3) The influence of vestibular dysfunction upon the vestibulospinal reflex (VSR) in two common peripheral syndromes was investigated by two types of posturographic examination: "static" posturography, recording and analyzing the postural sway in stance, and "kinetic" posturography, recording the stepping in place test.
  • (4) A sweet-talking man in a suit who enlists the most successful barrister in town holds remarkable sway, I’ve learned.
  • (5) Few in Moscow are likely to be swayed by that explanation, however.
  • (6) His balancing pole swayed uncontrollably, nearly tapping the sides of his feet.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump ‘sways malevolently’ behind Hillary Clinton Instead, he began the night by assembling a group of women in a press conference to revisit alleged sexual assaults by Bill Clinton, before confronting his opponent hardest on her private email server.
  • (8) Diane Abbott , part of Ed Miliband's senior team, has accused Labour of being swayed by populist Tory attacks on immigration instead of standing up for diversity.
  • (9) In analogy to tip-toeing movements, it is concluded that the coactivation pattern is typical for stance conditions with a restricted area of support in order to reduce body sway.
  • (10) In these phases, it was necessary to compensate for sway induced by body inertia.
  • (11) If any donor held such sway over the Tories as Unite has over Labour, there would deservedly be an outcry.
  • (12) A sine wave current stimulus, applied between electrodes placed about one ear and an indifferent electrode, produced a cyclical sway predominantly in the coronal plane.
  • (13) When we meet him again in the film, he’s still working at the police station, still able to be swayed by a good slice of pizza.
  • (14) However, an important relationship between sway and falls was revealed.
  • (15) Despite spending a record amount of money to sway the mid-term US elections, environmental groups and high-profile donors failed to avert a sweeping Republican victory last week, in which candidates opposing the regulation of greenhouse gases and championing the expansion of tar sands pipelines won big.
  • (16) (c) Motion aftereffect had no direct and immediate influence on sway path, but rather a latent and long-term effect.
  • (17) The results showed unstable body sway in the condition with eyes closed until at least 4 months after the operation.
  • (18) On the other hand, information on the direction of the expected body sway given in the visual fixation condition resulted in a considerable and approximately equal decrease of the two components (by 70-80 percent).
  • (19) Neuropsychologic and postural sway test performance improved following Ca(++)-EDTA chelation in a bridge worker with persistent central nervous system (CNS) symptoms 2 years after an episode of subacute lead intoxication.
  • (20) Sway activity was found to be significantly higher in the CCI group as compared with that of the normal controls.