What's the difference between wah and wap?

Wah


Definition:

  • (n.) The panda.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lau Kong-wah, undersecretary for constitutional affairs, said he had agreed to multiple rounds of discussions conducted on a basis of equality.
  • (2) The meaty melodies are provided by John Squire, pinning down the guitar surging from caustic feedback to ecstatic wah-wah chugging – all in the space of a song.
  • (3) The buzz : "Skull-crushing repetition, menacing walls of nuanced guitar noise, feedback magick wah'd from hell to the sky, a sprawling kraut backbone, evil melodies" .
  • (4) Furthermore, the ratios of N-glycosylations at the three positions are identical in IgD WAH [Takahashi, N. et al.
  • (5) Even though there was a lot of politically committed music during the late 70s and early 80s, there was also New Romanticism, which was essentially people putting their fingers in their ears and going 'Wah-wah-wah-wah'.
  • (6) The summit activities of the WAHs (wives and one husband, the German chancellor Angela Merkel's husband, Joachim Sauer, who was absent today) are now as much a media circus as the key political meetings.
  • (7) The London branch, run by students Julia Gray, 23, and Bryony Beynon, 25, launched last April in conjunction with nail salon WAH (which stands for We Ain't Hoes) in Dalston.
  • (8) The music chosen for the event seemed poignantly appropriate – Ole Bull's piece for a solo violin entitled In Moments of Solitude, and the performance by Burmese harpist Nei Wah of Aung San Suu Ki's favourite piece, Loving Kindness and the Golden Harp.
  • (9) Since vitellogenins of chicken and Xenopus have been shown to be structurally similar and evolutionarily related (Nardelli, D., van het Schip, F. D., Gerber-Huber, S., Haefliger, J.-A., Gruber, M., AB, G., and Wahli, W. (1987) J. Biol.
  • (10) The mean increase in systemic temperature during WAH was 6.4 degrees C for the saline-infused group and 5.1 degrees C for the non-infused group.
  • (11) Some properties of 21 of these cloned DNAs, ranging in size from 1 to 3.7 kb, have been reported by Wahli et al.
  • (12) It appears that elevation of the systemic temperature to 40.5 degrees C or more can be safely achieved under conditions where the temperature in the peritoneal cavity is kept below 43.5 degrees C during WAH.
  • (13) The effects of whole-abdominal hyperthermia (WAH), using an 8 MHz radiofrequency capacitive-heating system, on the intraperitoneal and extraperitoneal distribution of heat and on the functions of visceral organs were studied.
  • (14) Lai Wah Co, the head of economic analysis at the CBI, agreed that rates were unlikely to rise in the short term, adding that "economic indicators still suggest the UK recovery is on track, although we expect it to be bumpy and slow".
  • (15) The coda is a total wah-wah freak-out and makes us imagine Jim Morrison in deranged preacher mode shrieking along with Faust.
  • (16) In one of the songs on the exercise DVD released on Kumamon’s birthday, as he leads his fans through their exertions, they grunt, “Toh-MAY-toes … straw-BEAR-ies … wah-TER-melons” – all agricultural products that are specialities of Kumamoto.
  • (17) "Better sales growth continued in the high street in early August, and retailers are upbeat about prospects in the coming three months," said Lai Wah Co, head of economic analysis at the CBI.
  • (18) The effects on the liver of WAH were very marked, as analysed by biochemical and histological techniques.
  • (19) Visceral organs tolerated heating to less than 43 degrees C by WAH alone.

Wap


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To beat; to whap.
  • (n.) A blow or beating; a whap.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Wap-ras gene was stably introduced into the mouse germ line of five transgenic mice (one male and four females).
  • (2) A parent who took his anti-Page 3 campaign to Legoland and Wapping is claiming victory after the Danish toymaker announced the end of its two-year partnership with the Sun.
  • (3) In contrast, the WAP mRNA was then rapidly accumulated.
  • (4) The expression of WAP appears to be dependent upon the formation of the alveoli-like spheres: prevention of sphere formation by fixation or drying of the matrix abolishes the expression of WAP.
  • (5) Even so, Dinsmore, known to colleagues in Scotland for being very cool and disciplined, was soon drafted down to Wapping to become the Sun's managing editor in London as new senior staff were brought in after the sudden closure of the News of the World.
  • (6) There was no announcement, however, of any other management changes at Wapping where speculation of a wider reorganisation and possible cost saving had surfaced after it emerged on Sunday that Mockridge was leaving.
  • (7) Contact between the owner of the Times and the Sun and Ofcom in the run-up to Christmas left insiders at News Corp's Wapping headquarters braced for a referral.
  • (8) Whey acidic protein (WAP) is a major whey protein in mouse milk.
  • (9) Position independence was restored following reinsertion of the WAP 3' UTR into the deleted construct at the same location, but only when the insertion was in the sense orientation.
  • (10) In addition the WAP gene must share, with other milk protein genes, elements that target gene expression to the mammary gland.
  • (11) Induction of the genes for WAP and beta-casein during development of mammary glands requires the synergistic action of insulin, hydrocortisone, and prolactin.
  • (12) These data indicate that the well-established amplificatory effect of glucocorticoids on casein gene expression is a slow process whereas their effect on the WAP gene is rapid.
  • (13) The whey acidic protein (WAP) gene is expressed in mammary epithelial cells at late pregnancy and throughout lactation.
  • (14) James is said to have asked Lachlan to accompany their father on his Wapping visit as he had other commitments.
  • (15) The UK has the chance to lead the way on this as we did in the 80s with the Wapping move but if we block it our media sector will suffer for years.
  • (16) That alone – the Wapping dispute – was enough to cause the entire newspaper industry to tear itself apart.
  • (17) A WAP-chloramphenicol acetyltransferase construct containing 2.5 kilobases of the 5'-flanking sequence of the WAP gene was stably transfected into HC11 cells.
  • (18) The whey acidic protein (WAP) is a major milk protein.
  • (19) Prolactin alone induced rapidly asl-and b-casein gene but not WAP gene.
  • (20) Replacement of 3' sequences, including the WAP poly(A) addition site, with simian virus 40 late poly(A) sequences resulted in an approximately 20-fold reduction in the expression of WAP mRNA in the mammary gland during lactation.

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