(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.
Wey
Definition:
(n.) Way; road; path.
(v. t. & i.) To weigh.
(n.) A certain measure of weight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Double labelling with different sized gold particles for the ET-1 and beta 2R locations were performed on the hearts of young adult WEY, SHR, and SHRsp rats.
(2) Both IES and another Swedish company, Kunskapsskolan, have ambitions to manage chains of free schools on a similar basis, as does Wey Education – recently founded by Zenna Atkins, a former Ofsted chair.
(3) • The river Wey at Millmead, Surrey, is threatening to burst its banks.
(4) The first occurs very soon after reaching the Wey, just beyond the Manor Inn, and is a tiny patch of sandy beach where someone has placed poles, presumably to warn non-swimmers not to go on into deep water.
(5) Once the route joins the Wey Navigation, it follows the towpath right into Guildford and almost to the station.
(6) ■ The same firm, run by Zenna Atkins, the former chair of Ofsted, hopes to make an "impact in a positive way" on the lives of 250,000 children over the next five years, while Wey's broker forecasts a turnover of £17.5m by 2014 and a £9.9m "bottom line", through providing services in the UK and abroad.
(7) Iodine-125 and occasionally iodine-131 have been found in the thyroid glands of most of the swans that have died on the River Thames, the River Wey and the Grand Union Canal, and in algae and water samples from the Thames and many of its tributaries.
(8) Updated at 9.31am GMT 8.52am GMT Further east in Guildford, Surrey, which has an amber warning for heavy rain today and tomorrow , the river Wey at Millmead is threatening to burst its banks.
(9) Atkins, who earns £100,000 a year in her role at Wey Education, says she is working with seven potential founders of free schools and hopes to help them to manage their establishments once they are set up – at least in part because of the daunting nature of the task.
(10) As the groups of parents behind other free schools come to realise that managing schools is harder work than they imagined, a range of companies are lining up to offer help, including Zenna Atkins' Wey Education, who said last December that it saw an opportunity brought about by "the deconstruction of the education function within local authorities".
(11) Follow the North Downs Way along the river Wey, then join the Surrey Cycleway Link before your first swim in Tilford.
(12) Chilworth to Guildford, Surrey This eight-mile walk crosses heathland dotted with pretty villages before dropping down to follow the Wey Navigation , where there are many swimming places.
(13) ■ Wey Education, one of the unsuccessful bidders for the Breckland contract, told the stock exchange in December that a market opportunity brought about by "the deconstruction of the education function within local authorities" offers a clear potential to "make a substantial return to investors and improve education in the UK".