What's the difference between wey and wye?

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".

Wye


Definition:

  • (n.) The letter Y.
  • (n.) A kind of crotch. See Y, n. (a).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results are broadly consistent with a more homogeneous environment for the Wye base in the presence of Mg2+.
  • (2) Then, in October 1998, as the newly appointed foreign minister, he astounded his acolytes by signing the Wye River agreement, facilitated in Maryland by President Bill Clinton, which granted Palestinians control over another 13% of the West Bank.
  • (3) After attending Rose Hill school, Tunbridge Wells, and Durham school, he dropped out of Wye Agricultural College in Kent in order to study acting at the Old Vic.
  • (4) They knew they had to go west, because the storm-troopers would be coming from the east; they got as far as Ross-on-Wye, where their passports and cameras were taken away.
  • (5) By way of escape, David headed for a hotel in Ross-on-Wye with an old lover, George Lassalle.
  • (6) An examination of the frameshift signals or proposed signals within published sequences of retroviruses and other genetic elements from higher animals shows that each site utilizes a tRNA which normally contains Wybutoxine (Wye) base or Queuine (Q) base in the anticodon loop.
  • (7) Work undertaken within the Wye basin, central Wales, demonstrates a complex distribution of fallout at the catchment scale, with the bulk of the deposition concentrated in a narrow north-south band, situated in the west central areas of the basin, which contained in excess of 1500 Bq m(-2) of (134)Cs.
  • (8) The complex conformational states of the anticodon loop of yeast tRNA(Phe) which we had previously studied with relaxation experiments by monitoring fluorescence of the naturally occurring Wye base, are analyzed using time and polarization resolved fluorescence measurements at varying counterion concentrations.
  • (9) Sky Arts has made a number of profile-raising deals, including sponsoring the Hay on Wye festival since 2007, backing English National Opera, and giving coverage last year to people occupying the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.
  • (10) Rodney Mace Hay-on-Wye, Brecknockshire • With the new wall being built in Hungary ( Work begins on border fence to block migrants , 14 July), I am reminded of a conversation I had with a woman whose family has owned, since the 1920s, the apartment where I spent the night a few years ago.
  • (11) Phenylalanine transfer RNA (tRNAPhe) of mammalian tissues contains the hypermodified guanine derivative Y (Wye) adjacent to the 3'-end of the anticodon and two O-methylated bases in the 5' portion of the anticodon loop.
  • (12) Under pressure from the Clinton administration, he signed the Wye River Memorandum in October 1998, which included a pledge for an Israeli withdrawal from 13% of the West Bank as a step towards a final status agreement with the Palestinians.
  • (13) When [methyl-3H5methionine is added in the presence of actinomycin D, which blocks new RNA synthesis, label appears in the wye base of tRNA2Phe.
  • (14) Measurements of the Wye base fluorescence demonstrate that the isolated anticodon loop of tRNA(Phe) (15 nucleotide residues) has a binding constant K = 75 M-1 for Phe-amide, which is only slightly lower than that observed previously for the complete tRNA(Phe) (K = 100 M-1).
  • (15) Although the reactions of lithiated 7 with electrophiles gave the 2-substituted derivatives 14, 15, 17, 20, 21, and 22, lithiation of 1-benzyl-7-bromo-2-chlorowye (23) followed by treatment with Me2CHCH2CHO (13) successfully introduced a side chain at the 7-position to afford 1-benzyl-2-chloro-7-(1-hydroxy-3-methylbutyl)wye (24).
  • (16) It could generate up to 8GW - 5% of the UK's energy needs • Shoots barrage - a scheme further upstream which would generate around 1GW, equivalent to a large fossil fuel plant • Beachley barrage - an even smaller scheme, just above the Wye River, which would generate around 625MW • Bridgwater Bay lagoon - a proposal which would impound a section of the estuary on the coast between east of Hinkley Point and Weston-super-Mare, which could generate 1.36GW • Fleming lagoon - a similar scheme which would generate the same amount of power from a section of the Welsh shore between Newport and the Severn road crossings.
  • (17) A fluorescent base wye (Yt base) was isolated from Torulopsis utilis tRNAPhe.
  • (18) Marks & Spencer, however, which claims to be the only UK supermarket selling only British asparagus, says it has 100% availability in all its stores, grown in Herefordshire in the Wye Valley under polytunnels .
  • (19) The NHS's Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) on Wednesday said that those three, plus Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS foundation trust, Aintree University Hospital NHS foundation trust in Liverpool and Wye Valley NHS trust in Herefordshire, all had unusually high death rates in 2012-13, as judged by the summary hospital-level mortality indicator ( SHMI ).
  • (20) A relaxation effect with a time constant of approximately 100 microseconds, indicated by the Wye base fluorescence, is attributed to a conformational change of the anticodon loop and is very similar to a corresponding transition observed previously for the whole tRNAPhe molecule.

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