What's the difference between won and wong?

Won


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Win
  • () imp. & p. p. of Win.
  • (v. i.) To dwell or abide.
  • (n.) Dwelling; wone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
  • (2) "We have a good reputation, so this won't affect us at all.
  • (3) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
  • (4) They had learned through hard experience what Frederick Douglass once taught -- that freedom is not given, it must be won, through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith.
  • (5) The impact of ending 500 years of shipbuilding in Portsmouth won't be seen in the data for a while.
  • (6) Another Guardian podcast, Days in the Life, won silver in the same category.
  • (7) Hollywood legend has it that, at the first Academy awards in 1929, Rin Tin Tin the dog won most votes for best actor.
  • (8) Our campaign has been going for some time and each step in our progress has been hard won, by campaigners paid and volunteer alike.
  • (9) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
  • (10) We repeat our call for them to do so at the earliest opportunity, and to share those findings so that we can take any appropriate actions.” In the BBC programme the 29-year-old Rupp, who won 10,000m silver at the London 2012 Olympics behind Farah, was accused of having taken testosterone and being a regular user of the asthma drug prednisone, which is banned in competition.
  • (11) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
  • (12) It just means there won't be any money when another child is in need.
  • (13) When the election comes, we won’t be campaigning for a coalition... ...we will be fighting heart and soul for a majority Conservative Government – because that is what our country needs.
  • (14) "We won't cancel any of our agreements," a senior Israeli diplomatic official told reporters.
  • (15) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
  • (16) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
  • (17) If you’ve escaped the impact of cuts so far , consider yourself lucky, but don’t think that you won’t be affected after the next tranche hits.
  • (18) He won the Labour candidacy for the Scottish seat of Kilmarnock and Loudon in 1997, within weeks of polling day, after the sitting Labour MP, Willie McKelvey, decided to stand down when he suffered a stroke.
  • (19) It won't be worth putting away his travel bags after returning from Perth as the G20 summit in Cannes, France, beckons.
  • (20) As cryptographer Matthew Green told the New York Times, 'If we could get $500,000 kicked back to OpenSSL and teams like it, maybe this kind of thing won't happen again."

Wong


Definition:

  • (n.) A field.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) AT1 receptors appear to mediate the major cardiovascular effects of angiotensin II, whereas no known physiological properties appear to be coupled to AT2 binding sites (Wong PC, et al, J Pharmacol Exp Ther 1990;255:584-592).
  • (2) Boey and Wong suggested that omental patch closure is indicated for "acute ulcers associated with drug ingestion or acute stress" in addition to those that occur in patients who are considered to be poor risk, while proximal gastric vagotomy should be added in the remaining patients with perforations of acute ulcers.
  • (3) People are criticising what we are doing as pointless and saying we won’t achieve anything, but history has shown us that is not the case,” student leader Joshua Wong told the crowd last week.
  • (4) Labor’s Senate leader, Penny Wong, argued it was up to the Senate to act because of the failure of the prime minister, Tony Abbott, to act.
  • (5) I only think it’s inevitable if people who support marriage between a man and a woman don’t speak up.” Labor’s Penny Wong said the “open warfare” inside the Liberal party had the potential to “damage the cause of equality that so many Australians care about”.
  • (6) Binding of fluorescent labeled anti-HMG-T to these subunits clearly supports the notion that this protein is associated not with the nucleosome core but rather with the internucleosomal linker regions, and previously suggested (Levy W., B., Wong, N.C.W., and Dixon, G. H. (1977) Proc.
  • (7) Joshua Wong, the teenage activist who was one of the most recognisable faces of Hong Kong’s umbrella movement protests, has been found guilty of “illegal assembly” by a court in the former British colony.
  • (8) A., Ma, D.-P., Wilson, R. K., and Wong, J.F.-H. (1985) J. Biol.
  • (9) Wong says he has been shocked by its silence at critical moments and is scathing overall: “It just focuses on trade deals.” And that, perhaps, is the subtext of the new documentary’s title.
  • (10) The meeting ended in chaos after even longer periods of sleeplessness than Kyoto, with then climate change minister Penny Wong looking close to collapse at a 4am press conference.
  • (11) Joshua Wong, a 17-year-old student in Hong Kong , had a problem.
  • (12) Two of the pro-democracy leaders Benny Tai, a co-founder of Occupy Central, and 17-year-old student activist Joshua Wong urged their supporters as the clashes broke out to leave Mongkok for their own safety and concentrate on the protests around the government complex in Admiralty.
  • (13) It is understood Robb and Wong have already had talks.
  • (14) Refusing to enter trade agreements will allow our competitors to gain market share at Australia’s expense.” Wong uses the example of the Korean free trade agreement (Kafta), which will cut tariffs on beef, now projected to increase Australian beef exports by 57% in real terms by 2029.
  • (15) 11.28pm GMT Kolten Wong As mentioned in the preamble, Wong apologised on twitter after the game, after holding back tears describing how he slipped getting back to first base.
  • (16) Wong, 19, and fellow activist Alex Chow, who is 25, had been convicted last month of unlawfully entering a fenced off area outside Hong Kong’s government headquarters on 26 September 2014.
  • (17) I’m working up to the second I go to sleep.” Law says – with affection – that Wong is a robot, without a second life: “His growing-up time was in politics.
  • (18) Mr Newman’s public comments go well beyond what would be regarded as acceptable debate in this country,” Wong said.
  • (19) Prof John Wong of the University of Sydney, an expert on Sun's life, said he had no knowledge of such wards.
  • (20) So, I hope this doesn’t preside some kind of understanding about preferences in House of Representatives elections between the Coalition and the Greens.” On Tuesday Labor’s leader in the senate, Penny Wong, spoke vociferously against the changes.

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