What's the difference between wang and whang?

Wang


Definition:

  • (n.) The jaw, jawbone, or cheek bone.
  • (n.) A slap; a blow.
  • (n.) See Whang.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is possible that the high level of radiolabeled phospholipid found in the plasma membrane arose via the de novo pathway following the cleavage of an acyl group as we have found cytidine diphosphocholine phosphotransferase in the plasma membrane fraction (Wang, P., DeChatelet, L.R., and Waite, M. (1977) Biochim.
  • (2) "That won't be for another 10 years or more," said Wang.
  • (3) The remaining four crossbench senators – Jacqui Lambie, Bob Day, Dio Wang and Glenn Lazarus – are still in negotiations and have not yet reached a position on the bill.
  • (4) Wang said Taiwan’s people wanted the peaceful development of ties, wanted Chinese tourists and business relations, and wanted to live in a climate of peace.
  • (5) Wang Yongchen, who runs Green Earth Volunteers, one of China’s oldest environmental groups, cautioned that while the decision to scrap plans for dams on the Nu was a significant triumph, it was not necessarily a permanent one.
  • (6) • 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.
  • (7) The effects of chloramine-T, a substance which partially and irreversibly inhibits inactivation of the Na current (Wang 1984), on the on and off charge movement (Qon and Qoff) and on the relative position of the Qon-E and F-E curves were studied on voltage clamped frog nodes of Ranvier.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest China dismisses Trump call with Taiwan as ‘small trick’ However, Beijing’s public response has so far been measured, with the foreign ministry lodging a “solemn representation” with Washington and the foreign minister, Wang Yi, downplaying the development as “a petty move” by Taiwan.
  • (9) When dealing with Tsai, we should bear in mind important factors such as her experience, personality and mindset,” added Wang, from the association for relations across the Taiwan strait.
  • (10) The oligonucleotide binding data imply that the tertiary hydrogen bonds between G18 and psi55, G19 and C56, T54 and m1A58, and A21 and the ribose of U8 (Quigley, G. J., Wang, A. H. J., Seeman, N. C., Suddath, F. L., Rich, A., Sussman, J. L., and Kim, S. H., (1975) Proc.
  • (11) More from Behind the joke • James Acaster: 'Normal people perv solo' • Phil Wang: impossibly wise or offensively stupid • Holly Walsh: 'I build my comedy block-by-block like Lego'
  • (12) We have found that the cloned fission yeast TOP2 gene can complement the budding yeast top2 mutation, although the fission yeast TOP2 protein sequence is only 50% homologous to the recently determined sequence of budding yeast (J.C. Wang, personal communication).
  • (13) And I'll be catching several buzzy acts who I contrived to miss last year – Ivo Graham, Ursula Burns, Trygve (Squidboy) Wakenshaw, Phil Wang, Paul Currie.
  • (14) Perhaps the recession will finally put the kibosh on all this vulgar Jimmy Choo-ing and Vera Wang-ing.
  • (15) Although numerous possible functions of eukaryotic DNA methylation have been proposed (Ehrlich and Wang, 1981), current evidence suggests an association between hypomethylation of specific gene regions and transcriptional activity (Doerfler, 1983; Riggs and Jones, 1983).
  • (16) On Saturday, after a week of escalating protests over Twitter's response to the threats, Tony Wang, Twitter's UK general manager, and Del Harvey, director of trust and safety, posted a promise of action on the Twitter UK blog , including instant report buttons for abuse to be gradually introduced on different platforms.
  • (17) Wang is now under investigation by Chinese officials.
  • (18) Wang Yue was more matter-of-fact: "After 520 days, we are finally back."
  • (19) "A peace deal has advantages for both sides," Tony Wang, a spokesman for Ma, said today.
  • (20) 'Your only right is to obey': lawyer describes torture in China's secret jails Read more Separate reports have said two other civil rights attorneys, Li Heping and Wang Quanzhang, have also been tortured while in custody.

Whang


Definition:

  • (n.) A leather thong.
  • (v. t.) To beat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The peptides obtained from CNBr digests of N2 were subjected separately to automated amino acid sequencing, and the results indicate that N2 is distinct but closely related to the protein encoded by the human Mu-class cDNA clone GTH4 [DeJong, Chang, Whang-Peng, Knutsen & Tu (1988) Nucleic Acids Res.
  • (2) A cytogenetic deletion in chromosome 3 (p14-p23) was reported in small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) by Whang-Peng et al.

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