What's the difference between wye and yay?

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.

Yay


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s a gentler symbolism than: ‘Yay, we’ve all left the BBC!’ Because we all love the BBC.” At an estimated cost of £160m for three series, the Grand Tour is also symbolic of the changes in the global TV industry.
  • (2) The iconic show that gave Americans Chico Escuela (“baseball’s been berry berry good to me”) in the 1970s (yay, stereotypes!)
  • (3) Yay me, I cheered, only for my cheer to catch in my throat and turn into a scream of horror when someone innocently showed me a magazine feature about Ms Deschanel’s style.
  • (4) When asked by the Hollywood Reporter how the Chinese film industry had reacted to that speech, Feng said: "Within the Guild everyone was like, 'Yay!
  • (5) In these and all other species for which there are data, 5' termini map to sequences that contain the trinucleotide YAY.
  • (6) As Michael Bloomberg, the New York mayor who has been a formative voice on gun controls , put it this week: "Everyone is going to have to stand up and say yay or nay.
  • (7) Out of the many stories in this collection my top two would HAVE to be The World’s Greatest Teen Detective by Derek Landy (Yay Skulduggery Pleasant!)
  • (8) • As brilliant as the Channel 4 presentation of Die Hard will be, for me the definitive version is the first version I saw, on ITV in the early 1990s – the one where Bruce Willis says "Yippee-ki-yay, kimosabe."
  • (9) Just yay!” tweeted Douglas Carswell , the Ukip MP when news of Corbyn’s polling result broke, while rightwing commentators urged Conservatives to register as Labour supporters to get him elected, under the banner #ToriesforCorbyn.
  • (10) 12.26am BST Erica (@ebrandt41) @GdnUSsports @NotCoachTito @LengelDavid yay!
  • (11) The scantily clad, aggressive, barbecuing narcissists will head indoors allowing us to – yay!
  • (12) So now you can grind your teeth in frustration, or go "yay!
  • (13) Would one want perhaps to look at some sort of judicial figure who might say yay or nay?"

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