What's the difference between stye and tye?

Stye


Definition:

  • (n.) See Sty, a boil.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clegg rejected the suggestion that the riots were the fulfilment of his prediction, made prior to the election, that there would be Greek-stye riots over the Tory cuts plans.
  • (2) Surgical trauma preceded the development of two lesions in one patient and a second patient presented with a positive history of recurrent styes, a chalazion, and a questionable history of trauma to the lid.

Tye


Definition:

  • (n.) A knot; a tie.
  • (n.) A chain or rope, one end of which passes through the mast, and is made fast to the center of a yard; the other end is attached to a tackle, by means of which the yard is hoisted or lowered.
  • (n.) A trough for washing ores.
  • (v. t.) See Tie, the proper orthography.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tye came to the State Department in 2011 after a former Yale law teacher turned assistant secretary of state, Michael Posner, recruited him.
  • (2) The prevalences of alpha-1 antitrypsin protease inhibitor (Pi) tyes were the same for bothe groups and similar to prevalences in a random population.
  • (3) The electron microscope study discloses evidence of degeneration of Wallerian tye and regeneration is also indicated by quantitative studies.
  • (4) Dennis Publishing Total average circulation per issue: 437,519, up 1.5% year on year Star performers: Octane up 9.9%, The Week up 6.7%, Evo up 3.2% (all year on year) Disappointments: Auto Express down 9.9%, Health & Fitness down 7.8% (both year on year) They say: "Now posting its 24th consecutive increase, it is easy to take the relentless growth of the Week for granted," said the Dennis Publishing chief executive, James Tye.
  • (5) Three kinds of the cholinoceptive neurons, nicotinic depolarizing (D)-, nicotinic hyperpolarizing (H)-, and muscarinic H-tyes, as well as two other kinds of neurons, GABA H- and dopamine H-types, were identified in Aplysia abdominal ganglion, and the effects of disulfide bond reduction and reoxidation on their postsynape acetylcholine-induced responses of both nicotinic types (D- and H-) were depressed by reducing the disulfide bonds with dithiothreitol (DTT) and restored by reoxidizing with 5, 5' -dithiobis-(2-nitrobenzoic acid): (DTNB), whereas the responses of the muscarinic H-, GABA H-, and dopamine H-cells were not affected at all by either DTT or DTNB.
  • (6) Tye IV tympanoplasty was performed on 72 patients having advanced suppurative disease of the middle ear and mastoid with total loss of the middle ear sound transmission system.
  • (7) Type A common ventricle occurred in 63 percent of the cases and tye C occurred in 37 percent of the cases.
  • (8) Tye said "basically the last thing I did" at the State Department was to take his concerns about the privacy threat represented by 12333 to the inspector general of the State Department and the congressional committees overseeing intelligence.
  • (9) In direct support of this is the finding from plating the different cell types at sub-confluent density on hydrophilic substrata that limb bud is the cell tye having the weakest lateral cohesion in monolayer.
  • (10) These findings suggest that TYE gene products influence transcription of many genes rather than specifically Ty and Ty-mediated transcription.
  • (11) The right ventricle showed two tyes of changes: a) A distinctive lesion of the myocytes, more diffuse after lethal enbolism and different from the "zonal lesion" of shock.
  • (12) Posner declined to give his own perspective on 12333 or Tye's op-ed, but commented: "I am broadly concerned that there needs to be a broader public debate about the scope of US surveillance, the consequences for privacy, and the way information is both collected and used."
  • (13) Tye specific T antigen formation has been demonstrated in primary and secondary chick embryo cells (CEC) infected with adenovirus type 12.
  • (14) Tye 2 adenovirus DNA was divided into 14 fragments by sequential use of BamI, HsuI, SmaI, anc EcoRI endonuclease.
  • (15) Tye said he would not talk about actual intelligence operations, but said: “To the extent US person information is either stored outside the United States, routed outside the United States, in transit outside the United States, it's possible for it to be incidentally collected under 12333."
  • (16) Like Snowden, Tye means to spark a debate on the proper boundaries of NSA authorities.
  • (17) There was no correlation between the serum C3 levels and the morphologic diagnosis: nine (4 MPGN Type I, 5DDD) had persistently low C3 levels, two (1 MPGN Tye I, 1DDD) were normocomplementemic, and in 16, the C3 levels varied.
  • (18) "Many officials in the US government have said that he [Snowden] should have gone through these legal channels, he should have filed these complaints, and the complaint that I've filed is a chance for the government to show that these are meaningful channels," Tye said.
  • (19) As a print magazine, it was at the forefront of the UK lifestyle market and as a website it will continue to inform and entertain thousands of readers every day," Tye added.
  • (20) Tye A, the most common form of subdivided left atrium, is the classic cor triatriatum with its multiple variations of partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage; the fossa ovalis can be related to the proximal left atrial chamber (type A, a) or the distal left atrial chamber (type A, b).

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