What's the difference between wed and wee?

Wed


Definition:

  • (n.) A pledge; a pawn.
  • () of Wed
  • (n.) To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse.
  • (n.) To join in marriage; to give in wedlock.
  • (n.) Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly.
  • (n.) To take to one's self and support; to espouse.
  • (v. i.) To contact matrimony; to marry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.
  • (2) In the Proposition 8 legal action, the supreme court could decide: • There is a constitutional right, under the equal protection clauses, for gay couples to wed, in which case the laws in 30 states prohibiting same-sex marriages are overturned.
  • (3) The aim of this paper is to elucidate the process of identity formation with particular emphasis on how the 'work ego' of each analyst is formed through various experiences which help the practitioner wed theoretical knowledge with clinical experience.
  • (4) Indeed, the best that many wedding service liturgies can do to insist that Jesus himself supported the institution of marriage is to say that he once turned up at one.
  • (5) She said: “We felt it would be quite hypocritical [to have a church wedding] when it’s not really what we believe in.
  • (6) A brief courtship was followed by a surprise wedding.
  • (7) One couple made the point graphically: she wore a red-stained wedding dress and her partner wore a sign that read, “I am the rapist”.
  • (8) On the programme, the bakes begin to become divorced from their function as food; they become symbols, like the cardboard cakes that were sometimes used at British weddings during the war when shortages ruled out the real thing.
  • (9) I don’t think I’ve ever spent that much on anything apart from my wedding dress,” Morgan said.
  • (10) One commentator has labelled the Pitt and Jolie wedding “normcore” by comparison.
  • (11) More than 120 couples joined the mass on Sunday morning to renew their wedding vows and celebrate more than 1,700 years of marriage between them.
  • (12) They are doing it not because they believe the 66-year-old can win in 2020, but for the same reason people retweet images of same-sex wedding ceremonies.
  • (13) By design these plants are adjacent to the AEC's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and such a location would seem ideal for an experiment on the wedding of nuclear and fossil sources of energy.
  • (14) It’s the frontrunner, has the critics on its side and is certainly the Film to Tick Without Watching, but the academy have a track record of shotgun weddings with watchable wild cards in this category – see the wins for The Lives of Others and The Secret in Their Eyes .
  • (15) The best thing that happened to me was when David Gedge [lead singer of the Wedding Present] followed me on Twitter".
  • (16) magazine-contracted, half-million pound wedding, Posh and Becks sat on a pair of golden thrones.
  • (17) When Emma Horan and Sam Whitney get married next summer they will commit themselves to each other in a special place, surrounded by their family and closest friends, but, as things stand, the wedding ceremony will not be recognised in law because their belief system is not based on religion.
  • (18) He conducted his first mass wedding in Seoul in the early 1960s.
  • (19) She was often at Moon's side for the mass weddings.
  • (20) A newly wed Mohamed Amine Benmbarek passed away while his wife received 3 shots and is in critical condition at the hospital.” Francois-Xavier Prevost, 26, France La Voix du Nord reports Prevost was killed at the Bataclan.

Wee


Definition:

  • (n.) A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance.
  • (a.) Very small; little.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three brands of Ca supplement, a laboratory-reagent grade CaCO3 and a certified reference material (International Atomic Energy Agency H-5 Animal Bone) wee analysed for Cd and Pb by four different analytical techniques, viz., anodic stripping voltammetry inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, flame atomic absorption spectrometry and electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry.
  • (2) An alphavirus group-reactive hemagglutination (HA) site, a WEE complex-reactive HA site, and a WEE virus-specific HA site were identified.
  • (3) Paired sera from 20 humans with eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus infections and from 17 humans with western equine encephalitis (WEE) virus infections, all with previously demonstrated fourfold or greater rises or falls in hemagglutination-inhibiting, complement-fixing, or neutralizing antibody titers, were tested for immunoglobulin M (IgM) and IgG antibodies by an enzyme immunoassay.
  • (4) Studies were undertaken to develop an amplified ELISA for the rapid detection of WEE virus from mosquitoes.
  • (5) The SNP MP John Nicolson said of Daley’s case: “His poster sales have gone up and now there are wee girls and wee boys putting his poster up on the walls.
  • (6) He’s spat on and has wee thrown at him.” Rutherford is also concerned about the governance of the sport.
  • (7) dorsalis also demonstrated some alterations in response to WEE viral infection that were unique relative to Cx.
  • (8) Antibodies specific for three epitopes were able to passively protect mice from WEE virus challenge.
  • (9) Current monitoring systems to detect western equine encephalitis (WEE) virus in mosquitoes involve isolation in suckling mice or cell culture followed by serological identification of the isolates obtained.
  • (10) The Toon, on the other hand, are in a wee spot of temporary bother.
  • (11) These viruses are the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), Western Equine Encephalitis (WEE), St. Louis Encephalitis (SLE), Mucambo (MUC) and Pixuna (PIX).
  • (12) 8.08pm BST 6 min: Baines goes on a wee jog down the left, and guides a cross-cum-pass into the area for Rooney, arriving late level with the left-hand post, ten yards out.
  • (13) The postoperative changes in condylar position wee assessed in terms of direction and amount.
  • (14) In our dog days this was a favoured spot, a conifer plantation where he could do no harm, a springy floored place without seasons where a wee up a tree was all he could leave behind.
  • (15) I hope she is alluding not to a head-butt but to John Barrowman’s cheeky wee snog with a male dancer during the opening performance of the Commonwealth Games, which has led to a revised definition of the term – one that reflects the modern, friendly and tolerant city that Glasgow really is.
  • (16) Flocks of sentinel domestic pigeons (Columbia livia) detected increases in St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) and western equine encephalomyelitis (WEE) virus activity in southern California concurrently with flocks of sentinel chickens.
  • (17) The infection and morphogenetic events associated with the replication of Western equine encephalomyelitis (WEE) virus within the mesenterons of Aedes dorsalis and three strains of Culex tarsalis are compared and contrasted.
  • (18) Two species of ticks that are ectoparasitic on rodents in Kern County were evaluated as vectors of WEE virus.
  • (19) Plaque-neutralizing antibody responses to VEE virus in the EEE virus- and WEE virus-seropositive equids were similar in time of onset and titer to the antibody responses of nonimmunized equids.
  • (20) IgM antibody declined but persisted for at least 3 months after the onset of illness in one individual each with EEE and WEE.

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