What's the difference between vine and yam?

Vine


Definition:

  • (n.) Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes.
  • (n.) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
  • (2) It is Vine who initiated this latest assault on Ed’s character.
  • (3) Vine's short-notice inspection report on border security checks at Heathrow's terminals 3 and 4, published on Thursday ,says that many of those who are being drafted in are ex-UK Border Agency employees who are being rehired, or staff who have been working elsewhere in the Home Office but have only been given basic training to work on the airport passport desks.
  • (4) I consider that lengthy delays in publishing reports risk reducing the effectiveness of independent inspection, which depends to a large extent on timely publication of findings, and it is contributing to a sense that the independence of my role is being compromised.” Vine disclosed in his letter that he was so perturbed by the proposals that he sought a legal opinion.
  • (5) John Vine, the chief inspector of immigration, who is conducting the official inquiry into who, including ministers, knew what when in a row which has put the home secretary's political reputation on the line, is to publish an interim report as early as next week.
  • (6) These may involve either nutrition, as in calcium deficiency in some lettuce varieties, tomato, and bell peppers, or direct toxicity (chloride or sodium toxicity, or both) in tree and vine crops.
  • (7) Vine also criticises the searching priorities of the Border Force and HM Revenues and Customs by highlighting that 68% of freight consignments targeted for checks at the border are actually undergoing a physical examination while 43,000 low-risk cargoes were being checked.
  • (8) Sources said that some of Vine’s previous reports had been delayed for months by May and then released en masse.
  • (9) Photograph: Rex Feeding into this narrative, an email from Sarah Vine, Gove’s wife, was accidentally sent to a member of the public, leaking details of her reservations about Johnson’s popularity with members and media bosses.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Vine about the Scottish independence referendum.
  • (11) Mr Vine said: "Some time ago I decided I would have to leave Newsnight if I went to Radio 2 and that's a wrench, but no journalist could turn down such a magnificent offer from what is the UK's most successful radio station.
  • (12) I first had stuffed vine leaves at my grandad's guesthouse in Southend, and deeply regret not pilfering his recipe before he passed away.
  • (13) You're like Tarzan, swinging from vine to vine" – Pete Campbell Sterling Cutler Cooper Gleason Draper Holloway Chaough Campbell.
  • (14) Vine says the files in these "complex" cases, which go back to 2003, were discovered in boxes that had been transferred last March from a UKBA unit in Croydon to their offices in Sheffield where they had not been dealt with at the time of the inspection.
  • (15) • He listed journalists who were close friends , including the Times's Daniel Finkelstein and Sarah Vine, the wife of education secretary and former Times journalist Michael Gove.
  • (16) House Democrats’ Vine British politics has been much slower to get involved.
  • (17) It has been a principle of successive governments that under-subscribed state schools should wither on the vine, so why not apply the same principles to the private sector?
  • (18) Add your own advisory lines from Shakespeare on the comment thread below – or share them on Instagram, Vine or Twitter with the #gdnbard hashtag.
  • (19) ― A Fatal Inversion, as Barbara Vine (1987) Our children, when young, are part of ourselves.
  • (20) I’ve got vines of them going all up my other arm and round my shoulder,” he says proudly.

Yam


Definition:

  • (n.) A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly natives of warm climates. The plants have netted-veined, petioled leaves, and pods with three broad wings. The commonest species is D. sativa, but several others are cultivated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The staples of the poor consisted of one or two bulky carbohydrate meals (derivatives of different species of cocoyam, cassava, yam and maize) eaten with vegetable soup in palm oil, melon seeds, snail, occasional meat and fish.
  • (2) Yam 1B SN also inhibited DNA synthesis by human T and B lymphocytes and immunoglobulin generation by normal B cells as well as by Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B lymphoblastoid cell lines.
  • (3) The inhibitory activity of Yam 1B SN was inactivated at 56 degrees C and at pH 10 but was relatively stable at pH 2.
  • (4) TBTA exhibited a significant effect in vitro and in vivo on four yam rot fungal isolates tested.
  • (5) Fake meat diet Facebook Twitter Pinterest Impossible Foods’ plant-based mixture of potato and wheat, coconut fat, Japanese yam, vegetable broth, xanthan gum, sugars and amino acids is a dead ringer for the real thing.
  • (6) Yam, the staple food in several tropical countries, is a good source of the steroid used in the manufacture of the pill and other sex hormone preparations -- saponin diosgenin.
  • (7) In the early days of production of oral contraceptives (OCs), most yams were gathered from the wild in Mexico.
  • (8) In China, where Western corticosteroids are regarded as too expensive for the barefoot doctors, several species of yam are used.
  • (9) The classification of the YaM-55 strain with HAV was verified by specific serological studies and by molecular hybridization with cloned cDNA of HAV.
  • (10) To our knowledge only five cases have been reported (Chang-Lo, Yam & Rubenstone 1967; Chang-Lo et al.
  • (11) The complete amino acid sequence of acidic chitinase from yam (Dioscorea japonica) aerial tubers was determined.
  • (12) On July 25, the Jamaican Ministry of Health (JMH) contacted CDC for assistance in investigating the continued occurrence of THS; the collaborative JMH and CDC epidemiologic investigation focused on characterizing the epidemiology of THS in Jamaica and assessing the role of ackee fruit, renta yams, and other factors.
  • (13) A staphylolytic F2 enzyme from S. griseus S-35 and a chitinase [EC 3.2.1.14] from yam, both of which were completely inert toward M. lysodeikticus cell wall, passed through the adsorbent column.
  • (14) Zinc protoporphyrin levels, low in non-anemic infants, were slightly higher in 1st graders from all three neighborhoods; higher levels were found in both 3rd and 6th graders from Kiryat Yam, but only in 6th graders from Neve Shaanan.
  • (15) At the conclusion of mortuary ceremonies, the two sectors engage in competitive feasts in which the successful control of fertility is symbolized by the presentation of finished products of male vitality: yams and children, especially boys.
  • (16) The difference between London and a lot of other places is that London has been through it.” Neighbouring the Olympic stadium is Stratford indoor market, where West Indian yams sell alongside Polish sausages, cockles and whelks.
  • (17) The buffering capacity of some Nigerian local food substances was investigated using a modification of Toveys method (1974), Beans (red, and white), maize, rice (unprocessed with hull) and rice (unpolished) appeared to have high buffering capacity while yam, cassava and polished rice all showed weak buffering capacity.
  • (18) The First Section is a review of available data on molecular properties of the purified inhibitors from cereals, legumes, colocasia and yam.
  • (19) Yam glue was applied on the subjects' dorsal forearm.
  • (20) In Kiryat Yam, Pb(B) was higher in 31 children with ZPP greater than or equal to 40 micrograms dl-1 compared with 13 with ZPP less than 40 micrograms dl-1.

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