What's the difference between yah and yak?

Yah


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Powell told the Association of Teachers and Lecturers’ annual conference in Liverpool on Monday: “I think my approach to these issues in parliament is going to be about making and winning the argument rather than a sort of ‘yah-boo’ traditional political discourse, because I don’t think that is going to enable us to develop that broader alliance.
  • (2) He had to do more than opt out of the yah-boo , smug sixth-form wordplay of the House of Commons.
  • (3) And as the only one in my flat of eight without a 'gap yah' behind me or a private school on my personal statement, perhaps I would have fitted in better in the cheaper halls – the boys were better looking there anyway... "Also, freshers' fairs are there to steal your student loan.
  • (4) You’d perhaps expect such a long trip to attract kids on a gap “yah”, funded by wealthy parents.
  • (5) What’s worst, however, is the bit when our girl and her boyfriend, a waistcoated, blond lump of “Yah”, go shopping for vinyl.
  • (6) It is this that will help restore confidence – not a sterile yah-boo about statutory this, that or the other.
  • (7) Hostile comments are mostly of the “yah boo sucks” abuse variety which are just water off a duck’s back.
  • (8) Log and timed reactivities corrected by baseline Grs did not differentiate the YAL from the YAH but showed a significant difference between the YAH and OAH.
  • (9) Switching back into that plummy voice again: "'Yah, you're very, very clever, mate, but there's more to life than being clever.'
  • (10) You’re not Jamaican.” Indeed he is not, but Morgan knew enough to reply referencing an old Jamaican proverb : “Mi cum ya fi drink milk, mi no cum yah fi count cow” – or mind your own business.
  • (11) "My intelligence is like a machete in the jungle," yahs PhD toff Jason.
  • (12) Two rat tumors, Morris hepatoma 7777 (MH) and Yoshida ascites hepatoma AH130 (YAH) were compared, and the influence of systemic inhibition of prostaglandin (PG) synthesis on muscle protein metabolism was evaluated.
  • (13) Treatment of rats with naproxen inhibited tumor PGE2 production and muscle protein loss in rats bearing YAH.
  • (14) The marquess – AKA Jamie Blandford, AKA notorious, rambunctious, formerly disgraced and once nearly disinherited heir apparent to the dukedom of Marlborough – is the cheeringly gristly knot at the heart of the first episode of The Aristocrats, a sprightly new two-parter that takes a surprisingly even-handed gander at the lives of the monumentally privileged as they yah and blah around their often endangered country piles.
  • (15) But beneath the yah-boo froth of politics, what is the truth of comparisons across the UK , and what does it mean for the future of the NHS?
  • (16) He hopes that the voters will "strip away the yah-boo" and see AV for what he believes it to be: "a pretty simple and relatively modest change" that offers an evolutionary improvement.
  • (17) For the sake of a brief partisan victory, for the chance to shout: "Yah boo sucks" at the hated tabloids, they are inviting political regulation of the press at a time when the web revolution allows not only newspapers but also large blogs and the websites of campaign groups to be "significant news publishers", to use the ominously vague phrase Labour and the Liberal Democrats are offering to the Commons tomorrow.
  • (18) A study is reported in which simple YAH maps were used to test the hypothesis that errors with misaligned maps would fall into categories predictable from the application of inappropriate cognitive operations to the misaligned maps, as demonstrated earlier by Rossano and Warren.
  • (19) "Late night politics, and the yah boo that goes with it, puts off a lot of potential women candidates, and the wider public.
  • (20) Patricia Hewitt, the women's minister in cabinet, yesterday warned that pressure was building across government and among Labour MPs to revert to what she describes as a form of late-night, hard-drinking "yah boo" politics that would leave the public even more disengaged from parliament.

Yak


Definition:

  • (n.) A bovine mammal (Poephagus grunnies) native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered with long, flowing, fine hair. Its tail is long and bushy, often white, and is valued as an ornament and for other purposes in India and China. There are several domesticated varieties, some of which lack the mane and the long hair on the flanks. Called also chauri gua, grunting cow, grunting ox, sarlac, sarlik, and sarluc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The difference in oxygen affinities between yak Hbs A1 and A2, which have identical beta chains, suggests the existence of yet unknown mechanisms determining oxygen affinity.
  • (2) Morphological and structural rearrangement of resistant pulmonary vessels and alveolar capillaries was assessed in lowland animals (rabbits) during high-altitude adaptation, in aboriginal high-altitude species (yaks, mountain goats) and on native highlanders.
  • (3) A caravan comprising 300 yaks, 50 mules and 100 porters wound through the Himalayan valleys, carrying 900 boxes of food, all because 13 white men wanted to reach the summit.
  • (4) His live shows begin with a skit mocking the pipsqueak talents of Jimi Hendrix: what price expanding the vocabulary of the rock guitar in a way unseen before or since when compared to a man from Penarth singing Yakety Yak?
  • (5) The Street View project takes viewers into the heart of the Sagarmatha national park, home to the world’s highest mountain, where icy blue rivers run below snow-capped peaks, monks play traditional music and yak-herders navigate precipitous stone-strewn trails.
  • (6) Chewbacca took nearly 1,000 hours to make by 10 hair inserters, who used yak hair.
  • (7) If the same-sized valves of this two kinds are used, the hemodynamic parameter of cambered bileaflet valve would be better than those of yak pericardiac valve.
  • (8) It is concluded that the yak has adapted genetically to high altitude by largely eliminating the hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstrictor response.
  • (9) Korean cattle (Hamhung, Pyongyang, Chinju Suwon, and Kwangju), Mongolian cattle, Hainan Tao cattle, northeastern Chinese cattle (Shuangliao, Shenyang, Tongliao, Lüta, and Chilin), Astatic Water Buffalo, Yak, Bos Banteng, American Bison, and Holstein-Friesian.
  • (10) Meanwhile, new apps like current US college buzz Yik Yak or recent novelty-buzz Yo are popping up all the time with new spins on messaging.
  • (11) Data are presented on yak platelet ultrastructure (in comparison with human platelets), and on acetylsalicylic acid influence on the platelet ultrastructure and function.
  • (12) Non-Mendelian distribution of some such nucleotide blocks has been obtained for interspecies crosses of cattle and yak.
  • (13) Acetylsalicylic acid influences the yak platelet plasma membrane inducing fragmentation, which is attended by a rise in the total number of platelets, by the appearance of a great number of microforms, and by the reduction of functional activity.
  • (14) Pyrrolizidine alkaloid poisoning seriously affects the livelihood of the local population which depends almost entirely on the yak.
  • (15) In yak, zebu and in hybrids (yak x cattle, zebu x cattle) a new AMY-1 allelic variant (AMY-1D) has been found using the same method.
  • (16) However, the difference has been found by blot hybridization between genomic organization of satellite IV in cattle and yak chromosomal DNA.
  • (17) The numbers, morphology and distribution of pulmonary endocrine cells in goats, sheep and the yak and its interbreeds with cattle, dzos and stols, were studied after their demonstration by means of the peroxidase-antiperoxidase technique with a polyclonal antiserum raised in the rabbit to human neuron-specific enolase, a marker for neuroendocrine cells.
  • (18) In the experiments on dogs inoculated intracerebrally with the "paralytic rabies" variant of the "Yak" strain of street rabies virus we observed spontaneous recovery of 1 out of 5 sick animals.
  • (19) Textile analyst Liqin Zhang gave evidence saying she identified wool and yak in the scarf samples.
  • (20) Naturally acquired antibody to H3N2 human influenza antigens was found in a yak-zebu crossbred in Nepal.

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