What's the difference between syne and tyne?

Syne


Definition:

  • (adv.) Afterwards; since; ago.
  • (adv.) Late, -- as opposed to soon.
  • (conj.) Since; seeing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Earlier, in scenes that evoked Singapore’s colonial past, Lee’s coffin stopped in front of the complex’s main building, where British administrators once worked, as a piper from Singapore’s Gurkha Contingent – the city-state’s special guard force – played Auld Lang Syne.
  • (2) 8.30am GMT Preamble Hello and welcome to coverage of Jim White Day which, with any luck, will see him suffer the same fate as Frasier Crane on Frasier Crane Day, stuck in a tube overlooking Sky Towers while someone else leads the rendition of Auld Lang Syne or whatever else it is we're supposed to be doing at 11pm tonight.
  • (3) The strains of Auld Lang Syne just reach the Little Tramp's hut, where the table lies set and the candles are burnt down.
  • (4) I never thought I'd really care much about Scotland opting out of Auld Lang Syne and all that.

Tyne


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lose.
  • (v. i.) To become lost; to perish.
  • (n.) A prong or point of an antler.
  • (n.) Anxiety; tine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
  • (2) Heights, weights and head circumferences were obtained from two groups of primary school children: 1016 children from throughout Oxfordshire, a rural county with few areas of deprivation, and 219 children from an economically deprived part of the city of Newcastle on Tyne.
  • (3) I have no quarrel with the overall thrust of Andrew Rawnsley's argument that the south-east is over-dominant in the UK economy and, as someone who has lived and worked both in Cardiff and Newcastle upon Tyne, I have sympathy with the claims of the north-east of England as well as Wales (" No wonder the coalition hasn't many friends in the north ", Comment).
  • (4) The English pilot, which is being run in the Tyne Tees and Borders region, will be produced by News 3, a consortium of Trinity Mirror, the Press Association and the TV production company Ten Alps.
  • (5) While Osborne’s pitchbook was heavy on projects in the major northern cities of Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds and Newcastle upon Tyne, Hammond will attempt to secure investment for other urban areas including Sunderland, Stockport and Ellesmere Port.
  • (6) Football Weekly Extra: City through, Arsenal out, and the biggest Tyne-Wear derby for decades Read more Chelsea and Arsenal were outplayed by superior teams in the knockout rounds.
  • (7) One objective of the Kroc Study was to develop methods that would allow valid amalgamation of results from laboratories at the six clinical centers and a central biochemical laboratory at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
  • (8) The England pilot – which is being run in the Tyne Tees and Borders region – will be contested by ITN's consortium, which is backed by Melvyn Bragg , which includes Johnston Press, Newsquest, Metro Radio and ITV Tyne Tees and Borders news staff.
  • (9) A survey of the nutrition labelling of 880 varieties of foods on sale in three stores in Newcastle upon Tyne was undertaken in May-July 1989.
  • (10) UTV, the Northern Ireland ITV franchise holder, is to bid to run a replacement ITV news pilot in the Border and Tyne Tees region, having already thrown its hat into the ring for Wales .
  • (11) (Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear) Miss Dianne Cynthia Gibbons.
  • (12) Referee: Mark Clattenburg (Tyne & Wear) 5.10pm BST Team news ... Liverpool line up as they did against Stoke, while Aston Villa make two changes from the eleven who started against Chelsea.
  • (13) Maternity units and community in Newcastle upon Tyne.
  • (14) virus in Newcastle upon Tyne 13 children developed R.S.
  • (15) The FMB will pilot an adult training scheme with Gateshead college, near Newcastle upon Tyne, starting in March, where 15-20 former military and unemployed people will be retrained using funds from the Local Enterprise Partnership and the Skills Funding Agency.
  • (16) Patients were identified from the records of the Regional Neurological Centre and Muscular Dystrophy Group laboratories, Newcastle upon Tyne, and by writing to local doctors.
  • (17) Trinity Mirror has also launched a bid for the English news pilot in the Tyne Tees and Border ITV regions, with Ten Alps and the Press Association.
  • (18) A silence descended on Greenock and Belfast, the Mersey, the Wear, the Tees and the Tyne, and very few people beyond those localities made a fuss.
  • (19) The deal adds Meridian and Anglia to Granada's portfolio, joining Yorkshire, Tyne-Tees and LWT.
  • (20) The antibody with the greatest sensitivity in radioimmunoassay was one raised against human CRF, Ab-code R1 (provided by Dr E. Hillhouse, University of Newcastle upon Tyne).

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