What's the difference between web and wex?

Web


Definition:

  • (n.) A weaver.
  • (n.) That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom.
  • (n.) A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.
  • (n.) The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb.
  • (n.) Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.
  • (n.) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.
  • (n.) A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
  • (n.) The blade of a sword.
  • (n.) The blade of a saw.
  • (n.) The thin, sharp part of a colter.
  • (n.) The bit of a key.
  • (n.) A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object.
  • (n.) The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail.
  • (n.) A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.
  • (n.) The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
  • (n.) The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot.
  • (n.) Pterygium; -- called also webeye.
  • (n.) The membrane which unites the fingers or toes, either at their bases, as in man, or for a greater part of their length, as in many water birds and amphibians.
  • (n.) The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feather.
  • (v. t.) To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Experts on the red web share their views Read more Earlier this year student Ruslan Starostin posted an image poking fun at Putin on VKontakte.
  • (2) The latest annual report from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has revealed that there was 582,727 requests for phone, web browsing and location data – commonly known as “metadata” – that can reveal detailed information about a person’s personal lives and associations.
  • (3) One of the reasons for doing this study is to give a voice to women trapped in this epidemic,” said Dr Catherine Aiken, academic clinical lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the University of Cambridge, “and to bring to light that with all the virology, the vaccination and containment strategy and all the great things that people are doing, there is no voice for those women on the ground.” In a supplement to the study, the researchers have published some of the emails to Women on Web which reveal their fears.
  • (4) Effects of 4-aminomethyl-1-benzylpyrrolidin-2-one-hemifumarate (WEB 1881 FU), a novel pyrrolidinone nootropic, on acetylcholine (ACh) receptors and adrenoceptors were investigated using crude membranes of the rat brain.
  • (5) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
  • (6) The terminal web was prominent and the lateral plasma membranes were highly interdigitated.
  • (7) The rank order of potency was WEB 2086 congruent to L-652,731 greater than BN 52021 and was the same for the two cell types.
  • (8) Both responses were blocked by the PAF receptor antagonist WEB 2086.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Taylor Swift: Shake It Off Taylor Swift – 1989 Live web streams!
  • (10) One of my favorites, on the mission's "Participate" web page , is the "Be a Martian" virtual reality apps (web and mobile).
  • (11) The new development, which the Californian technology giant dubs "real-time search", aims to bring users more up-to-date information as they scour the web for information.
  • (12) The iPad is a 9.7in tablet computer with a virtual keyboard which can surf the web, do email, display ebooks and play video.
  • (13) The forms of lutein in the toe web were diester (66%0, free alcohol (26%), and monoester (8%) and their sensitivity to aflatoxin followed the same order.
  • (14) Cooper said the Guardian had led the field with the Web We Want series, but said it wasn’t just journalists who were targeted.
  • (15) The former Friends star Lisa Kudrow won the Webby for outstanding comedic performance as the star, co-writer and co-producer of online show Web Therapy.
  • (16) Turkey arrests 1,000 and suspends 9,100 police in new crackdown Read more It cited a law that allows it to block access to individual web pages or entire sites for the protection of public order, national security or the wellbeing of the public.
  • (17) There is a tangled web between Salazar, Nike, Farah and the Nike Oregon Project on one hand, and the British Athletics performance director, Neil Black, and head of endurance, Barry Fudge, on the other.
  • (18) The lung eosinophilia was not prevented by the cyclooxygenase inhibitors, indomethacin or PAF antagonists (WEB-2086 and L-652731) but was inhibited by methylprednisolone, the 5-LO inhibitor, U-66858 and a series of structural analogs of LTB4, U-75302, U-77692, U-75485 and U-78489.
  • (19) If a web has a low apex angle and the skin is elastic, the length-width ratio may be as great as 1.5:1.
  • (20) Signing up Round-robin emails encouraging web users to sign e-petitions have attracted hundreds of thousands of signatures.

Wex


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To grow; to wax.
  • (imp.) Waxed.
  • (n.) Wax.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By cross-neutralization, all the viruses were shown to be distinct; only BRD and WEX showed slight cross-reaction.
  • (2) 4, 331-336, 1986) and Wexford (WEX) viruses, two serotypes in the Kemerovo serogroup of orbiviruses.
  • (3) Comparison of the polypeptides precipitated by homologous AF revealed close similarities between BRD and WEX viruses but obvious differences between these two viruses and KEM and CNU viruses.
  • (4) Jones, and D. Carey, 1989, Virology 172, 428-434), whereas segment 5 of Wexford (WEX) virus and segment 6 of GI virus are the major determinants of serotype specificity (S.R.
  • (5) The observed dependence of Wex on the Ca2+ concentration could be interpreted quantitatively on the basis of a two-cluster model.
  • (6) This bacteriocin and one indicator strain (Wex) were chosen for further study.
  • (7) The ESR spectra were analyzed in terms of the spin exchange frequency, Wex.
  • (8) Kemerovo (KEM subgroup), Broadhaven (BRD) and Wexford (WEX) [Great Island (GI) sub-group], Chenuda (CNU sub-group), and Wad Medani (WM sub-group) viruses cross-reacted in immunofluorescence tests.
  • (9) Reassortant viruses were isolated following dual infections of cell cultures with a spontaneous temperature-sensitive (ts) mutant of WEX virus, and either NUG wild-type virus or a ts mutant of GI virus.
  • (10) In Vero cells infected with either KEM, BRD, WEX, or CNU viruses, 10 major (p1 to p10) and a variable number of minor virus-induced 35S-labelled polypeptides were detected.
  • (11) In studies with reassortants isolated following dual infection of cell cultures with WEX and GI viruses, the gene combination W4G6 (i.e., viruses deriving segment 4 from WEX virus and segment 6 from GI virus) resulted in nonpathogenic reassortants.
  • (12) In cross-reactions, p6 of KEM and CNU viruses, and p7 of BRD and WEX viruses were immunoprecipitated.
  • (13) By measuring Wex as a function of the molar percentage of labelled lecithin a distinction between a random and a heterogeneous lipid distribution could be made.
  • (14) The results indicate that segment 6 of GI virus is able to modulate the phenotypic expression of segment 4 of WEX virus, but not vice versa.
  • (15) Reassortant viruses derived from a cross between two KEM-related viruses, Great Island (GI) and Wexford (WEX), that had the heterotypic gene combination W4G6 (segment 4 of WEX virus and segment 6 from GI virus) were nonpathogenic in mice.
  • (16) Complement fixation tests (CFT) revealed that KEM virus was more closely related to BRD and WEX viruses than to either CNU or WM viruses.

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