What's the difference between wey and whey?

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".

Whey


Definition:

  • (n.) The serum, or watery part, of milk, separated from the more thick or coagulable part, esp. in the process of making cheese.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Whey obtained by acid precipitation or by the application of rennin was devoid of bactericidal activity but was capable of slowing down proliferation of E coli.
  • (2) In respective curds 35.6, 47.1 and 57.7% of Aflatoxin M1 are recovered and 64.4, 52.9 and 42.3% in respective whey.
  • (3) Bovine colostrum whey and immunoglobulins were prepared.
  • (4) (v) Cells on all substrata examined lose virtually all mRNA for whey acidic protein despite the fact that this mRNA is abundant in the mammary gland itself; we conclude that additional, as-yet-unknown, factors are necessary for synthesis and secretion of whey acidic protein in culture.
  • (5) For obtaining protein isolates, water, whey, and waste effluents from a potato processing plant were used as extraction solvents.
  • (6) Concentrate rations during experimental period were: 1) control, 2) 14% dried whole whey, 3) 5.9% high mineral whey product, 4) 11.8% demineralized whey product, and 5) 9.8% lactose.
  • (7) Using a complex, but soluble supplement (whey powder) it is shown that reproducible incremental measurements can be made and that the supplement used gives increases in production of characteristic end-products only (carbon dioxide, methane, acetic and butyric acids).
  • (8) Whey acidic protein (WAP) is a major whey protein in mouse milk.
  • (9) S. aureus strains grown in TSB exhibited hydrophobic surface properties, whereas homologous strains grown in milk whey were hydrophilic.
  • (10) Different adsorption and chelating chromatographic methods were used to isolate immunoglobulins and lactoferrin from cheese whey.
  • (11) A milk protein, occurring in the whey fraction, has been characterized from camel milk.
  • (12) The alpha 2M preparation from mastitis whey migrated essentially as native alpha 2M, representing the 'slow' form of the molecule.
  • (13) It is suggested that this carbohydrate facilitates the adhesion of starter bacteria to the cheese-curd matrix and that during the initial stages of syneresis this serves to prevent their expulsion from the curd with the whey.
  • (14) This is the first documented case of an immunological reaction to the hydrolyzed whey protein, lactalbumin.
  • (15) Incubation of lymphocytes in whey that inhibited thymidine incorporation did not affect DNA synthesis in subsequent culturing of the same cells without whey.
  • (16) Addition of dried skim milk or dried whey to the diet resulted in higher values (P less than .05) for DMD and ED as compared with the basal or corn-soy and lard diet.
  • (17) Fifty to 500 microliter of whey were fractionated with a stepwise ionic strength gradient using water (buffer A) and increasing concentrations of .7 M sodium acetate (buffer B).
  • (18) The heating caused some whey proteins (beta-lactoglobulin) to enter the micelle fractions while the freeze-drying caused some of the largest micelles to disrupt.
  • (19) Most of the lactose of the whey had been utilized in all flask cultures after 168 hr at 29 C.
  • (20) The observed changes, after growth in milk whey, were not due to a mere adsorption of milk whey components.

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