What's the difference between waive and wive?

Waive


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A waif; a castaway.
  • (v. t.) A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
  • (v. t.) To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
  • (v. t.) To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
  • (v. t.) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
  • (v. t.) To desert; to abandon.
  • (v. i.) To turn aside; to recede.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The HSE wants to streamline the assessment of new reactor designs by waiving certain aspects through a series of "exclusions".
  • (2) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
  • (3) The chief executive has already waived his bonus for 2012 following the furore surrounding the £1m he was to be handed for 2011 before the political outcry forced him to hand it back.
  • (4) Under Spanish law, anyone who has more than €120,000 in undeclared income automatically faces a jail sentence, but this is generally waived if the offender agrees to pay.
  • (5) Ost claims that patients cannot make informed rational decisions without full information and that, therefore, the right to waive information also involves the right to waive one's responsibility to act as an autonomous moral agent.
  • (6) It directs agencies to “waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay” other penalties, fees, taxes and costs.
  • (7) The business secretary will instead back a voluntary scheme in which employers and staff can sign settlement agreements that would allow an employee to leave a company with a good reference providing they waived their right to pursue unfair dismissal proceedings at a tribunal.
  • (8) Lavery has waived his right to make an argument in court.
  • (9) But the Kumamoto governor was a fan, and cannily waived licensing fees for Kumamon, encouraging manufacturers to use him royalty-free.
  • (10) 2010 February: Waives £1.6m bonus after coming under pressure from ministers over his pay.
  • (11) Those who should never have been given loans and have fallen more than 30 days behind with repayments will have their debts wiped entirely, while a further 45,000 who are up to 30 days in arrears will have their interest and charges waived.
  • (12) Each day, he waived his right to a lawyer and his right to remain silent every day in writing, the affidavit states.
  • (13) Past fines ranged from €35,000-€50,000, against which organisers successfully appealed and had reduced or waived.
  • (14) The decision to waive the preferential treatment for the bailout fund on the Spanish rescue was a one-off that would not be repeated in any further programmes, Merkel said.
  • (15) They were, therefore, never “in law” and so could not be “oulawed”, hence they were “waived” instead.
  • (16) US telecommunications companies such as AT&T and T-Mobile are waiving the cost of texts offering donations.
  • (17) The assistant commissioner told MPs colleagues had written to the NYT again to urge them to waive that privilege because of the "quite exceptional circumstances" surrounding the case, but admitted he was "not hopeful".
  • (18) The EU agreed in September to waive tariffs on Pakistani textiles, but only temporarily.
  • (19) Vacant buildings are being pressed into service, and the usual high standards set by the immigration service are being waived.
  • (20) It has waived the administration fee for the duplicate ticket and sent you £50 in travel vouchers.

Wive


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To marry, as a man; to take a wife.
  • (v. t.) To match to a wife; to provide with a wife.
  • (v. t.) To take for a wife; to marry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The wives and girlfriends who were originally invited to accompany their playing partners on the World Cup tour have had their invitations formally rescinded.
  • (2) Semen quality was improved in 70 per cent, and 53 per cent of the wives became pregnant.
  • (3) Two years later, the Guardian could point to reforms that owed much to what Ashley called his "bloody-mindedness" in five areas: non-disclosure of victims' names in rape cases; the rights of battered wives; the ending of fuel disconnections for elderly people; a royal commission on the legal profession; and civil liability for damages such as those due to thalidomide victims.
  • (4) Emphasis was placed on the wives who ranked low on the preventive health orientation continuum, since it is people like these who are of most concern to health educators and health care providers.
  • (5) However, the wives of men with no dependent children consulted at a significantly higher rate than the wives of men with dependent children in the period when their husbands faced and then underwent job-loss.
  • (6) Other results indicated that there was a relatively low response concordance between husbands and wives, and that couples who had pregnancies with the method or had abandoned the method had more liberal sexual attitudes than those who did not have pregnancies and continued the method.
  • (7) Equally important however, even among better educated urban wives, breastfeeding continues longer than is typical of western countries.
  • (8) Attention is given to reasons for limited discussion of work events with wives and for the control of emotion and its expression.
  • (9) Of 225 patients followed, 52% rebounded to fertile levels followed by pregnancy in the wives of 25%.
  • (10) • Detainees’ families have suffered further persecution: for example, the wives of Li Heping, Wang Quanzhang, Xie Yang and Xie Yanyi have been subjected to police monitoring and harassment; the children of Li Heping and Wang Quanzhang have been denied enrolment at state schools due to police pressure; and the authorities have put pressure on the landlords of Wang Quanzhang’s and Xie Yanyi’s families to evict them from their homes.
  • (11) The electorate is furious - from members getting wives, partners and relatives on the parliamentary payroll to expense claims for duck houses, flipping and servants quarters."
  • (12) The study showed also that 69.8% of the mothers were "common-law wives", 13.2% were married and 16.9% were single.
  • (13) To evaluate the risk of heterosexual transmission of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, lymphadenopathy, and infection with human T-lymphotropic virus type III (HTLV-III), we studied 42 hemophiliacs and their wives.
  • (14) It was to keep men more committed and less likely to abandon their wives and children – and I doubt that we have become so flawless that this no longer matters,” he said – as part of an explanation as to why marriage is not necessary for same-sex couples to express their love, or the “fidelity and permanence” of their relationship.
  • (15) Crossed in vitro sperm-cervical mucus penetration test, evaluated in 277 couples with CM of patients' wives and additionally with CM and semen of fertile donors, revealed that the male factor contributed to a significantly higher extent to deficient sperm-mucus interaction than the cervical factor.
  • (16) A questionnaire was given in 1989 by male interviewers to 106 husbands whose wives indicated were opposed to FP or religious grounds.
  • (17) The 1985 Jordan Husband's Fertility Survey (JHFS) was established to analyze husband's attitudes to birth spacing, breastfeeding, and family planning; compare husband's attitudes to family planning to their wives' attitudes; and to analyze husband's contraceptive usage.
  • (18) In all these cases the husbands' jealousy adversely influenced their wives' response to treatment, and improvement in wives was associated with increased morbidity in their husbands.
  • (19) Wives of male survivors had no apparent excess risk for problem pregnancies.
  • (20) 7) After urethroplasty, two patients married and their wives became pregnant.