What's the difference between woke and wyke?

Woke


Definition:

  • () of Wake
  • (imp. & p. p.) Wake.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When Fox woke up one morning in 1990 and noticed his little finger shaking, he thought it was a side effect of a hangover.
  • (2) I woke up yesterday morning with an inbox, in full capacity of love and compassion,” she wrote.
  • (3) The pair woke up early and gathered their birth certificates, social security cards and passports before making the roughly three-hour commute.
  • (4) This surely represents a new chapter in the European debt crisis, and it could be headlined The Day The Eurozone Finally Woke Up.
  • (5) Speaking through an interpreter, she said: We woke up from the screams.
  • (6) After seeing the film, I woke up thinking, I’m just like Daniel.
  • (7) Dunham, who was on holiday with her parents in Sweden, woke up to 50,000 emails linking to the discussion on the site, where a lively debate was taking place about the size of her thighs and just how shit she was.
  • (8) Hagere Selam remains a modest place of mudwalled shops with corrugated roofs, cows, donkeys and sheep wandering unpaved streets and children idling away an afternoon at table football – a generation with no memory of the famine that killed hundreds of thousands and woke up the world.
  • (9) Immediately after the verdicts two Surrey-based charities, Shooting Star Chase and the Woking & Sam Beare Hospices, said that Clifford would no longer be their patron.
  • (10) Judith woke to see David standing at the far right-hand corner of the bed, his light turned on.
  • (11) At about 10.15pm, he woke and saw Michael hanging from the top rail of the double bunk.
  • (12) I don't think much of what I'm wearing I had a long day at work yesterday so put whatever was around when I woke up!
  • (13) It woke people up who might have been sleeping," he said.
  • (14) Sometimes I woke up screaming at night, covered in sweat.” As a Dalit, she always faced humiliation.
  • (15) Some woke up long before dawn to travel hundreds of miles to be here in an estimated 2,000 buses and 28 trains.
  • (16) Woking also built a series of combined heat and power (CHP) stations - one of which powers council buildings, some sheltered housing and the bulk of the town centre, including the civic offices, a leisure complex, a hotel, bingo hall and exhibition centre.
  • (17) Then, one day, I woke up and heard the sad news that she had died.
  • (18) I woke up lying on my back in the emergency room, looking up at the faces of the doctors and nurses surrounding me.
  • (19) I had cooked, sometimes, with difficulty, yet woke one day to find I had somehow assembled a bizarre array of crockery on my floor, like a gnomes' tea party but with much scurf; I daily grew too fatigued to lift things and spent increasing hours abed.
  • (20) It’s as though you went out one warm evening – an evening fizzing with delicious potential – you went out for just one drink… and woke up two days later in a skip.

Wyke


Definition:

  • (n.) Week.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Children and their parents are concerned that these conditions will interfere with schooling, taking examinations and their employment (Rees et al 1983, Wyke et al 1988).
  • (2) Terry Wyke teaches social and economic history at Manchester Metropolitan University Today is the final day to submit your plan for tackling climate change to the Manchester report
  • (3) The findings seem to support the idea, as suggested by Freeman & Wyke (1967b), that the joint receptors may contribute to the 'co-ordination of muscle tone in posture and movement' via the gamma-loop.
  • (4) Past innovation winners have included Wyke Farms , the UK’s largest independent cheesemaker who won the 2014 waste innovation award; and online investment company Abundance Generation , who won the 2014 net positive innovation award.
  • (5) Wyke (1949) was of the opinion that haemangiomas accounted for only 10 per cent of primary benign neoplasms of skull bones.
  • (6) For services to the community in Wyke, Bradford through the Earlswood Community Group.
  • (7) The present study was undertaken in order to establish whether or not similar regional differences existed in cat knee menisci, structures previously believed to lack a corpuscular mechanoreceptor system (Freeman and Wyke, '67).

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