What's the difference between truly and wis?

Truly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a true manner; according to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to state things truly; the facts are truly represented.
  • (adv.) Exactly; justly; precisely; accurately; as, to estimate truly the weight of evidence.
  • (adv.) Sincerely; honestly; really; faithfully; as, to be truly attached to a lover; the citizens are truly loyal to their prince or their country.
  • (adv.) Conformably to law; legally; legitimately.
  • (adv.) In fact; in deed; in reality; in truth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While we cannot administer aid indiscriminately, our ability to provide swift, effective humanitarian aid is one way in which we can demonstrate that we are truly relevant in the Third World.
  • (2) Her speech suggested the kind of Republican who would truly "raise the conversation", and if it seems like settling to want an opposition party to simply not be so utterly vindictive, well, yes, I will settle for that.
  • (3) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
  • (4) I went to see the Who recently, which was fantastic, but the band I truly love has to be the one I first got into, Guns N' Roses.
  • (5) Families like these are being abandoned to their fate and, as Steve Hynes of the Legal Action Group says: "These are often truly desperate people."
  • (6) However, a truly aberrant intrathoracic thyroid represents a rare and anatomically different entity that requires appropriate modifications in approach and surgical technique.
  • (7) "We truly are living through a tale of two Britains; while those at the top of the tree may be benefiting from the green shoots of economic recovery, life on the ground for the poorest is getting tougher."
  • (8) It is clear that a truly spectacular increase in our understanding of the biliary circulation has occurred during the past 5 years.
  • (9) However, clinicians may be concerned that patient refusal of treatment is not truly informed.
  • (10) KR: She was truly in a conundrum because without the app, she felt too worthless to try and fix it by installing an update.
  • (11) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.
  • (12) She continued: "The scale of his suffering was truly horrific.
  • (13) The persona that emerged during day two of Breivik's 10-week trial was a rambling, repetitive obsessive, fixated on a threat he never truly managed to articulate, but which involved "cultural Marxists", whom he claimed had destroyed Norway by using it as "a dumping ground for the surplus births of the third world".
  • (14) Eric King, deputy director of PI, said: "More than a year after Snowden, the British government continues to dodge the question of just how integrated the operations of GCHQ and NSA truly are.
  • (15) There are questions over whether the testing authorities commissioned by motor manufacturers are truly independent.
  • (16) Kelly and KR continued to toil in the Wembley heat to no avail and after the forward Brad Singleton charged over for Leeds’ next, their race was well and truly run.
  • (17) These three antiviral drugs, however, are not truly selective in their action and interfere with normal cellular functions as well as virus synthesis.
  • (18) The computer program has teaching and scoring capabilities, making it a truly interactive system.
  • (19) Daniel Levy, the chairman, was, according to sources, incandescent and there is the firm belief at Tottenham that Chelsea did not truly want Willian.
  • (20) This was done recognizing that no deformity, like no normal human face, is truly symmetrical.

Wis


Definition:

  • (adv.) Certainly; really; indeed.
  • (v. t.) To think; to suppose; to imagine; -- used chiefly in the first person sing. present tense, I wis. See the Note under Ywis.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the Marshfield Clinic, however, a group practice in Marshfield, Wis., physicians did not know the source of payment for the vast majority of their patients (79.3 percent).
  • (2) Forested areas adjacent to Milwaukee, Wis., and Chicago, Ill., were investigated for rodents and ticks infected with Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease.
  • (3) Because of our slightly younger average age and city location, we were supposedly one of the "new wave" WIs that had started springing up in the years before – groups that rejected crochet and did more modern activities, often with more than a tinge of irony.
  • (4) Eimeria tenella strain Wis-F is known to develop in chickens with a significantly shortened prepatent period and its pathogenicity is virtually completely attenuated.
  • (5) The inhibitory effect of L-lysine on penicillin biosynthesis by Penicillium chrysogenum has been compared in a low-producing strain (Wis. 54-1255) and a high-producing strain (ASP-78).
  • (6) The first-round demonstration at Marshfield, Wis, was operational for 28 months.
  • (7) The immunizing abilities of the attenuated line and its parent were compared by priming groups of chickens with numbers of oocysts of WisF96 or Wis, designed to produce infections of equal magnitude in terms of oocysts production (standard inocula), and then challenging with oocysts of Wis.
  • (8) We prospectively studied all transfers from community hospitals to the Zablocki Veterans Administration Medical Center in Milwaukee (Wis) between May 28, 1986, and January 1, 1987.
  • (9) This family of retroelements (termed WIS-2) occurs in the genomes of barley, wheat, rye, oats, and Aegilops species.
  • (10) There are around 6,600 WIs, with 520 new groups forming in the last four years alone – many of which have been in cities (until relatively recently, the WI was restricted to rural communities).
  • (11) The life-cycle of a precocious and attenuated line (WisF96) of Eimeria tenella, derived from the Wisconsin (Wis) strain, contained only the first of the three generations of schizogony undergone by the parent strain.
  • (12) Few sporozoites from the WIS strain developed into schizonts, but numerous sporozoites from the FS139 strain developed into normal first and second generation schizonts.
  • (13) A total of 147 preterm pregnant women at Orlando Regional Medical Center were screened for group B streptococci by using Lim Group B Strep Broth (GIBCO Laboratories, Madison, Wis.) and the Phadebact Strep B Test (Pharmacia Diagnostics, Piscataway, N.J.).
  • (14) Subacute hematomas had peripheral hyperintensity on T1-WIs and then on T2-WIs.
  • (15) The WARF Institute, Inc. (Madison, Wis) has been preparing most of the crude plant extracts for antitumor screening for the past 14 years.
  • (16) The Wis-F-96 strain did not adequately immunize chickens in these experiments.
  • (17) Despite antibiotic therapy, four developed WIs caused by these organisms.
  • (18) This concept was examined in cultured, aortic VSMCs (passages 6-10) from SHR, Wistar-Kyoto (WKY), and American Wistar (Wis) rats.
  • (19) Bond recalls Baroness Kennedy QC speaking at the Women of the World festival in 2012 and remembering how instrumental WIs had been in getting recognition of rape within marriage on to the political agenda.
  • (20) Clones of P. chrysogenum Wis 54-1255 transformed with the ips gene showed a five-fold higher isopenicillin N synthase activity than the untransformed cultures.

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