What's the difference between wag and wig?

Wag


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head.
  • (v. i.) To move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate.
  • (v. i.) To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir.
  • (v. i.) To go; to depart; to pack oft.
  • (v.) The act of wagging; a shake; as, a wag of the head.
  • (v.) A man full of sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow; a humorist; a wit; a joker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In cell-free protein-synthesizing systems containing an S30 extract from liver and brain cortex tissues of 22-day-old fetuses and of male WAG rats (1-900 days old), the minimal rate of protein synthesis was observed in the fetuses, while the maximal one - in 7-day-old animals.
  • (2) And yet, when it comes to the Wag obsession, we seem to have regressed many decades.
  • (3) Kevin Rudd's election campaign in 2007 was dubbed "hurry up and wait" by some wags.
  • (4) Afterwards, the scourge of corrupt politicians wagged his own clean finger in front of the cameras.
  • (5) The wag added the line "these allegations are completely unsubstantiated and have no basis in reality," which was duly tweeted out by the account.
  • (6) The long-term surviving AUG rats from both the CsA alone group and the CsA plus 250 rads pretreated islets group were challenged with WAG dendritic cells (DC).
  • (7) The most active were oak bark, sage and St. John's wort grass WAG extracts, horse radish root and leaf AG extracts, celandine grass WA extract; bur marigold and yarrow grass WA extracts were active towards S. aureus.
  • (8) It is the media that has chosen to describe them as Wags and define them by their marital status.
  • (9) (There was the ­notorious Manchester United Christmas party in 2007, when the Wags were apparently told to stay at home, 100 handpicked women were brought in to party with the players, and the night ended with a rape allegation that was later dropped.)
  • (10) In her speech, Morgan conceded: “I’m a firm believer that, alongside ensuring the rigour of our assessments, we must never let the assessment tail wag the dog of what is taught in school.” Glenys Stacey, Ofqual’s chief regulator, has argued that practical work would not be ignored.
  • (11) Tempting though it is to lecture President Hu on human rights (and it is right to keep the spotlight on the persecution of the pro‑democracy group Charter 08 and the imprisonment of Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo), the wagging finger rarely works in diplomacy.
  • (12) – or, as it's known among production wags, The Eggs Factor .
  • (13) Using rats of the inbred BN and WAG strain, we tested the hypothesis that chronic dietary choline supplementation would especially affect the timing behavior of BN rats because of their lower cholinergic activity and their poor performance in aversively motivated learning and memory tasks.
  • (14) The coupling constant between the C11H and C12H wags as well as the C12H wag force constant are unusually low compared to those of retinal model compounds.
  • (15) There are three typical types of manicure: the regular polish; the gel or acrylic spatula-shaped talons beloved of the tabloid Wag; and the super-cool, bejewelled nail art more commonly seen in either east London or Japan.
  • (16) infusion) to WAG rats bearing hind limb solid colonic adenocarcinoma implants.
  • (17) At 30 to 40 minutes after injection, tail wagging was the only adverse reaction (EEG artifact) observed.
  • (18) Examination by use of WAG syngeneic female rats was made on 4 rat rhabdomyosarcoma sublines expressing different metastatic potentials for their abilities to degrade proteoglycans and glycoproteins of the extracellular matrix (ECM), deposited by corneal endothelial cells and metabolically labeled with [3H]glycosamine and [35S]sulfate.
  • (19) The low-wavenumber lines are enhanced in the resonance Raman spectrum by conformational distortion, and the uncoupling of the 11- and 12-hydrogen wags is caused by additional protein perturbations.
  • (20) "They're going into this world of glamour ­modelling ­because it's the only route they can see to wealth and success, and the Wag culture is bound up with that.

Wig


Definition:

  • (n.) A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or united by a kind of network, either in imitation of the natural growth, or in abundant and flowing curls, worn to supply a deficiency of natural hair, or for ornament, or according to traditional usage, as a part of an official or professional dress, the latter especially in England by judges and barristers.
  • (n.) An old seal; -- so called by fishermen.
  • (v. t.) To censure or rebuke; to hold up to reprobation; to scold.
  • (n.) A kind of raised seedcake.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effect of scalp hypothermia in connection with chemotherapy was evaluated as hair protection in 61 women with disseminated breast carcinoma, where earlier treatment routines had caused wig-requiring alopecia in nearly all patients.
  • (2) Which sounds fun, but not when you’re in fourth grade, doing homework Facebook Twitter Pinterest With his mother, wearing her chemotherapy wig, in New York, 1997.
  • (3) So, in The Devil Wears Prada , the ferocious magazine chief played by Meryl Streep is beset by secret misery: unfaithful husband, tricky kids, wig issues.
  • (4) Sitting opposite her as she eats croissants and fixes on espresso it is hard to equate the immaculate perfection of Guillem the performer, in bobbed wig and suspenders last night, with the awkwardly engaging and somewhat bed-headed Guillem in skinny jeans and T-shirt this morning.
  • (5) Police said they found wigs, glasses and other disguises in his room.
  • (6) British spies don wigs and makeup to testify at US trial of al-Qaida suspect Read more Abid Naseer was first arrested in 2009 in Britain on charges that he was part of a terror cell plotting to blow up a shopping mall in Manchester, England.
  • (7) One turns up for bums, rampant historical misrepresentation and a man in a wig roaring "spiritus sanctus" in a 13th-century CGI inferno.
  • (8) I was reflecting on Trump’s momentum partly because he went from a reality TV wig-joke, to an outspoken liar, to a Republican candidate who didn’t stand a chance of getting the nomination, to a Republican nominee who didn’t stand a chance of winning the election, to the winner of the election who doesn’t stand a chance of destroying the world.
  • (9) It is tempting to think of Sherman’s own face in among them as a 13th wig stand.
  • (10) "It's mainly about big government contracts, for the big wigs," he said.
  • (11) At least I think they're wigs – her hair changes colour and style quite often.
  • (12) Over the last eight days the ersatz wig has tumbled from his head.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Elizabeth Banks parodies Donald Trump’s entrance at DNC “Some of you know me from The Hunger Games, in which I play Effie Trinket – a cruel, out-of-touch reality TV star who wears insane wigs while delivering long-winded speeches to a violent dystopia,” she said.
  • (14) In his most famous self-image , as he sits, ill and emaciated, holding a cane with a carved skull, he is doing more than acknowledge mortality: he is claiming to be the new King Death, inheriting the title Andy Warhol whose fragile head he portrayed with a transcendental clarity, in a portrait so real you feel you could reach into it and hold it, stroke the silver wig.
  • (15) The resulting theatre work revolves around an attempt, also entirely true, by a Quebecois filmmaker called Yves Simoneau to make a movie about the murder, in which the script's homicidal leading character disguises himself with false eyebrows and a wig.
  • (16) Kearns, 26, performs his eccentric show in a monk's tonsure wig and Dick Emery-style protruding false teeth.
  • (17) Whether witnessed close-up, as in Mitchell's case, or from afar, in the exaltation of Sir Ranulph as he escorts his wig to the Antarctic, a narrow model of male prowess is actively damaging huge numbers of non-dominant, powerless or jobless men, who struggle, the charity explains, when they are unable to meet expectations.
  • (18) Sure, movies should be fun and a great deal of the fun – indeed, I would go so far as to say the primary fun – of American Hustle lies in the fact that it resembles, in Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's spot-on description, "an explosion in a wig factory".
  • (19) Excellent aesthetic results were obtained with the use of a wig.
  • (20) Many actors merely go on the principle of "being their age" and trusting to a wig.

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