What's the difference between wan and war?

Wan


Definition:

  • (imp.) Won.
  • (a.) Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.
  • (n.) The quality of being wan; wanness.
  • (v. i.) To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.
  • () of Win

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Human leukocyte antigens (HLA) were investigated in 200 healthy Taiwan inhabitants of Taiwanese (46 persons), Hakka (36), Tai-Ya Tribe (28) Pu-Long Tribe (30) Pai-Wan Tribe (30) and Lu-kai (30) descent.
  • (2) The results showed that the GI and PDI of the gu chi wan group decreased significantly than the control group (P less than 0.001).
  • (3) Experimental and clinical researches were done for the purpose of that to treat the hyperlipemia with Dahuang Zhechong Wan (DHZCW).
  • (4) We would love to continue to work with Gordon but it would be on a project-by-project basis.” Ramsay, said to be lining up a project for ITV , was among the C4 talent shoehorned into 2012’s reality flop Hotel GB, along with Gok Wan, Phil Spencer, Mary Portas (unlike Ramsay she remains on an exclusive C4 deal) and others.
  • (5) But Wan's decision means that those with HIV have lost another champion.
  • (6) The organisations signing the letter are: • The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press • American Society of News Editors • The Associated Press • The EW Scripps Company • The McClatchy Company • The New York Times Company • The New Yorker • Newspaper Association of America • ProPublica • The Seattle Times Company • Society of Professional Journalists • The Washington Post • World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) Updated at 2.28pm GMT 11.07am GMT You can watch the committee session here from 3pm GMT, and we'll also have a live stream at the top of this blog.
  • (7) Activists say the mine, a joint venture between China's Wan Bao mining company and a Burmese military conglomerate, causes environmental, social and health problems and should be shut down.
  • (8) A Chinese traditional patent medicine Xiaoyao Wan was analysed by three dimensional HPLC.
  • (9) and Xiaohuoluo Wan showed average recoveries of 98.5, 98.3 and 96.8% and relative standard deviations of 1.8, 2.4 and 3.5%, respectively.
  • (10) Nearly 90% of all eligible women are using some form of birth control; in Wan-Tou more than 60% are using IUDs and less than 10% have been sterilized while in Chang-Ching the proportions are reversed.
  • (11) He could also promote dialogue on family planning and the rights of people with disabilities," said Wan.
  • (12) A few weeks after our interview in Los Angeles, Idle was eating lunch in a midtown Manhattan sushi restaurant, and he looked a bit wan.
  • (13) Besides, the Good Friday agreement wan’t all it was cracked up to be.
  • (14) Was booked for game 6 in 2004 & 2007 but wan't needed!
  • (15) Wan said the priority at Copenhagen would be to establish a framework for transferring funds and money, rather than getting hung up on figures.
  • (16) Wan, a non-Communist member of the state council, said China has proved its ability to meet and often exceed its targets in the current five-year plan to improve energy efficiency by about 20%.
  • (17) Meanwhile, on Sunday, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) condemned the way the British government had threatened legal action against the Guardian newspaper unless it destroyed the copy of the Snowden files it had in London.
  • (18) This study was of a series of the evaluation of Hachimi-Jio-Gan (Rehmannia Eight Formula, pa-wei-ti-huang-wan or Bawei dihuang wan) to the various cataracts.
  • (19) The contents of the total flavones and volatile oils in huaijiao wan have been determined.
  • (20) "One rumour that keeps popping up on the fan forums is that the main character will be the long lost son or daughter of Obi Wan, though I really hope that isn't true as I don't see why everyone in the Star Wars universe has to be related."

War


Definition:

  • (a.) Ware; aware.
  • (n.) A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
  • (n.) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
  • (n.) Instruments of war.
  • (n.) Forces; army.
  • (n.) The profession of arms; the art of war.
  • (n.) a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.
  • (v. i.) To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.
  • (v. i.) To contend; to strive violently; to fight.
  • (v. t.) To make war upon; to fight.
  • (v. t.) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The result has been called the biggest human upheaval since the Second World War.
  • (2) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
  • (3) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
  • (4) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
  • (5) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
  • (6) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
  • (7) True, Syria subsequently disarmed itself of chemical weapons, but this was after the climbdown on bombing had shown western public opinion had no appetite for another war of choice.
  • (8) When war broke out, the nine-year-old Arden was sent away to board at a school near York and then on Sedbergh School in Cumbria.
  • (9) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
  • (10) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
  • (11) Among the guests invited to witness the flypast were six second world war RAF pilots, dubbed the “few” by the wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.
  • (12) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
  • (13) Beginning with its foundation by Charles Godon in 1900 he describes the growth of the Federation as an organization of the dental profession which continued despite the interruption of two world wars.
  • (14) Jack Straw, foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq war, took a less dramatic view.
  • (15) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stood among the graves on 4 August last year in a moving ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of war.
  • (16) Journalists should never be a propaganda arm of any government – not in peace and never in war.
  • (17) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
  • (18) To do so degrades the language of war and aids the terrorist enemy.
  • (19) Chadwick felt that Customs and Trading Standards needed to continue their war on illegal tobacco – if not, efforts to tackle smoking could be undermined.
  • (20) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.

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