What's the difference between wap and war?

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.

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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