What's the difference between whit and whiz?

Whit


Definition:

  • (n.) The smallest part or particle imaginable; a bit; a jot; an iota; -- generally used in an adverbial phrase in a negative sentence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Whit regard to different time of normalisation of immunoglobulin values in infants with acute obstructive bronchitis associated with bronchopneumonia it was concluded that the longitudinal determination of immunoglobulin values has clinical significance since it can be found which of these two diseases is dominant.
  • (2) The first survey conducted the long 1988 Whit Sunday week-end by the National police, has reviewed 800 accidental injuries, 9% of which concerning 134 children: 23 children only were restrained, and the comparison with the others allows to estimate the value of the protection insured by various systems of child restraint.
  • (3) Black males and whit males had similar patterns of intercourse, but any males from 2-parent families had sex less frequently than from 1-parent families.
  • (4) I think we’re likely to have the largest turnout ever of Latino voters to stop Donald Trump,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster who has argued that the party’s 2016 nominee would need at least 40% of the Latino vote to secure victory.
  • (5) The ultrastructure of the myoneural junctions in the body wall muscles has been studied in Branchiobdella pentodonta Whit.
  • (6) Surgery was performed with insertion of a modified type of Safian's solid silicone implant with triangular wedges that were removed on the posterior surface, and the spaces that were created were replaced with soft, pore-closed, whit silicone sponge.
  • (7) During this time the [2H]VLB in both the plasma and whit blood cell fraction of the blood declined markedly and continuously to very low levels.
  • (8) From the point of view of liberals, most of the appointments are abhorrent,” Whit Ayres, a top Republican political consultant and pollster, told the Guardian, “but they would have been with any Republican president.” Trump's cabinet picks: here are all of the appointments so far Read more Despite the eyebrows raised by his early appointment of Steve Bannon – a top adviser during the president-elect’s campaign and the former CEO of the far-right news site Breitbart – to be a close White House aide , the Trump administration’s personnel picks have stayed within the Republican mainstream.
  • (9) Nevada is a land that does not care a whit for humans.
  • (10) Based on dose response curves, Cyt and MTX dose modifications were individually adjusted to the whit blood cell counts and platelet counts over a 3-week period.
  • (11) Many will not have heard a whit about this band – named, by the way, after a pencil scrawl Healy once found in a borrowed book.
  • (12) In CD, side by side whit the maintenance treatment of the disease with anti-inflammatory drugs, the symptomatic treatments of diarrhoea play an important role and must be tailored to the responsible physiopathological mechanisms; some patients need artificial feeding.
  • (13) However, ethanolic extract of Momordica charantia Linn plant and Coccinia indica Whit and Arn root significantly lowered blood sugar in fasted model and depressed the peak value in glucose loaded model.
  • (14) Whit older children, one may add the Bernstein test and pressure and pH readings.
  • (15) The encounter promises to be contentious, with one activist Whit Jones (@whitjones) tweeting that the Occupy Wall Street movement had come to the state department.
  • (16) This turned out to be especially important for him, because it was taught by Whit Burnett, the highly regarded editor of Story, a magazine that specialised in publishing short fiction.
  • (17) Irecently discovered that the “Whit walks” I watched as a child were specific to the north of England, and to Manchester in particular.
  • (18) The results indicate diathermy to be perfectly safe in women whit copper-bearing IUDs.
  • (19) We show our experience in 12 patients treated during a year with weekly intermittent dialysis whit a rigid catheter for 36 hours a week.
  • (20) Brian Whitaker (@Brian_Whit) Ahmad Chalabi for prime minister?

Whiz


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound.
  • (n.) A hissing and humming sound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In April, Trump told Chris Wallace on Fox News: “It’s not like, gee whiz, nobody has them.
  • (2) Finally we’d be in the hands of a pro, someone who knows how to tell a whiz-bang action yarn with a big budget.
  • (3) Updated at 10.57am BST 10.35am BST Here's a graph showing how 10-year Greek bonds have rallied in value in recent months (via fund manager and general financial whiz @pawelmorski ).
  • (4) Maturity, social skills and being a team player are meaningless, as long as you're a whiz coder or can invent that app people didn't know they needed.
  • (5) 16 - JJ Abrams Surely the busiest man in Hollywood, and indeed TV, production whiz Abrams returns to directing with a sequel to his massively fun reboot of Star Trek .
  • (6) Editing a Keynote slide: guide lines show when you have proportions correct (photo downsampled from 4MB screenshot) If you're a Powerpoint whiz (everyone thinks they are; very few are) then this won't satisfy you.
  • (7) It’s the close of another Broadway season, which means we have another chance to pit jukebox musicals against original compositions, real narratives against invented ones and showbiz whiz-bang against low-key cool.
  • (8) In black jeans and charcoal grey crewneck, tucking his phone and white earbuds into a pocket, bouncing boyishly on his sneakers, you might at first peg him as, say, a Silicon Valley whiz-kid rather than a top-flight fashion designer.
  • (9) Beyond archeology there are other Gaza surprises, like surfers hanging ten, documented in the film God Went Surfing With the Devil, and an English language tourism website , designed by internet whiz Mohammed Alafranji.
  • (10) You could call Goddard a bog-standard head, too, since he couldn't be further removed from one of those Teach First whiz-kids fresh out of Balliol.
  • (11) The whiz and blur of projectiles flying past us, ricocheting of the street.
  • (12) A solid device beneath a layer of whiz-bang frippery - New York Times Digging beneath the gimmicky features the New York Times's Farhad Manjoo found a solid, basic smartphone .
  • (13) It also completes a miserable few weeks for Facebook's 26-year-old founder Mark Zuckerberg , the whiz-kid who lists "openness", "revolutions" and "making things" in the interests section of his own Facebook page.
  • (14) There’s always been an element out there that valued the ‘gee whiz’ factor rather than the economics,” says Moore.
  • (15) A front-page interview in the Wall Street Journal in May ("How Wall Street whiz finds niche selling books on the internet") proves a watershed moment.
  • (16) They know it is irrational but the money, the language, the whiz-bangs, the uniforms turn their heads and dazzle their minds.
  • (17) However, can the same company then also look over its shoulder at the upcoming digital whiz-kids, often emerging from unexpected places, such as Japanese social media platforms?
  • (18) His potential candidacy’s momentum began with a speech at the Iowa Freedom Caucus this January that many columnists and pundits described as “fiery” because Walker – a man who, to steal a phrase from Albert Burneko , is essentially wet bread – indicated emotions stronger than gee-whiz optimism for America or performative empathy for the struggling folks whose lives he labored to make more difficult.
  • (19) Everything about them - that they were the children of mixed-marriage vaudevillians, and performers themselves as genius whiz kids on a radio game show - was absolutely right; of course they were too perfect, with all their sensitivities, their Buddhism, their philosophical despair and their family bondings, but that's why we responded as we did.
  • (20) The film, an adaptation of Don DeLillo's 2003 novel set mostly in Packer's limousine, concerns a financial whiz-kid who is either having sex, having a finger inserted into his bottom (an on-the-move prostate exam), engaging in lengthy overblown monologues, losing vast sums of money, dodging an assassin, seeking a haircut, or all of the above.