What's the difference between yang and yank?

Yang


Definition:

  • (n.) The cry of the wild goose; a honk.
  • (v. i.) To make the cry of the wild goose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One of the things Yang has said he wants to investigate is: "This state we're in ... a moment when we have to negotiate our past while inventing our present."
  • (2) This conception of the city as an expression of both regal power and social order, guided by cosmological principles and the pursuit of yin-yang equilibrium, was unlike anything in the western tradition.
  • (3) However, it will be at least two weeks before Tian Tian and Yang Guang are unveiled properly to the public.
  • (4) Mungkin lebih baik untuk meletakkan harapan pada prakarsa dari bawah ke atas yang dilakukan oleh berbagai individu dan komunitas.
  • (5) The silence about Ji's fate was broken by his former boss, Nanjing party secretary Yang Weize.
  • (6) Yang says incentives to boost the supply of clean energy are no longer enough.
  • (7) Yang Feng Glan is accused of smuggling 706 elephant tusks worth £1.62m from Tanzania to the far east.
  • (8) Four months after she was artificially inseminated after shunning the attentions of her prospective mate, Yang Guang, Tian Tian appears to have lost her appetite and is showing signs of moodiness and "nesting" behaviour.
  • (9) • Detainees’ families have suffered further persecution: for example, the wives of Li Heping, Wang Quanzhang, Xie Yang and Xie Yanyi have been subjected to police monitoring and harassment; the children of Li Heping and Wang Quanzhang have been denied enrolment at state schools due to police pressure; and the authorities have put pressure on the landlords of Wang Quanzhang’s and Xie Yanyi’s families to evict them from their homes.
  • (10) Tian Tian, the female, whose name means sweetie, and Yang Guang, meaning sunlight, travelled from China on board a Boeing 777F flight dubbed the FedEx Panda Express, with a vet and two animal handlers.
  • (11) The first classification of epilepsy, probably by Cao Yuan Fang in A.D. 610, listed five types of epilepsy: "Yang Dian," "Yin Dian," "Feng (Wind) Dian," "Shih (Wet) Dian," and "Lao (Labor) Dian."
  • (12) Detained rights lawyer Xie Yang detailed his treatment in detention last week, where he was allegedly beaten, forced into stress positions, denied medical care and deprived food, drink and sleep by police.
  • (13) It also showed that the sensitivity of progenitor cells to androgenic hormones of Yang deficiency group was preferential to all (P less than 0.005 and P less than 0.05).
  • (14) These peptides and proteolytic enzymes might have physiologic significance in the "Ying-Yang" balance in one hand between lipoxygenase and cyclooxygenase metabolites and on the other between the proaggregatory and antiaggregatory substances released from platelets.
  • (15) • Additional reporting by Cui Zheng, Liu Yang and Han Cheng
  • (16) Arsitek Marco Kusumawijaya adalah Direktur Rujak Center for Urban Studies dan mantan ketua Jakarta Arts Council Apa yang akan membuat Jakarta lebih baik dan perubahan apa saja yang mendesak diperlukan?
  • (17) This article reports on the respective determinations, which employ RIA and AAS, of superoxide dismutases (SOD-I) and serum Zn, Cu from 40 cases of senile patients with Yang deficiency.
  • (18) Like Yang's characters, the audience are lost in the middle of whatever narrative there is.
  • (19) Cycling the city: 'I have a dream that Jakarta should be like Copenhagen' Read more “Jalanku sekarang lebih bersih,” ujar orang-orang, tanpa memedulikan fakta bahwa 6,000 ton sampah dikumpulkan untuk kemudian dipindahkan tanpa tindak berkelanjutan ke bagian kota yang lain.
  • (20) This study was based on the data collected through personal interviews by the Yang-Ming Crusade, organized by students of National Yang-Ming Medical College, during the summer vacations in 1983-1985.

Yank


Definition:

  • (n.) A jerk or twitch.
  • (v. t.) To twitch; to jerk.
  • (n.) An abbreviation of Yankee.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) First, I recapped Die Hard 2 – the insane cross-eyed Gizmo of the Die Hard world – a few months ago, and now I'm secretly determined to do the whole series before the Guardian film editors wise up and yank this feature from my warm, live hands.
  • (2) The Bombers have scored seven runs in four games, all losses, prompting manager Joe Girardi to answer “I don’t know” to the question of why the Yanks can’t hit.
  • (3) And as Neymar has begun to prosper at this World Cup he has been busy yanking things back.
  • (4) He yanks a few times on the starting cord of the outboard engine, and we sputter off into the bay towards our target – our progress in these sensitive waters observed by a police motorboat.
  • (5) he squeals as he yanks the calendar out of my hands.
  • (6) But the most worrying problem with rank and yank is it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  • (7) "A guy comes near my seat, shoves a badge that had some sort of a shield on it, yanks the Google Glass off my face and says 'Follow me outside immediately'," said the man, who was taken into a room for interrogation.
  • (8) The video, which was published by the New York Daily News , shows an officer putting his arm around Garner's neck and yanking him to the ground.
  • (9) Two years ago, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained was yanked from cinemas after censors claimed it showed scenes too violent for Chinese audiences.
  • (10) None of this means you should yank your cash out of your stock and bond investments and stick it into your bank account or under your mattress.
  • (11) "Can you explain to the Whining Yanks that they didn't have a goal disallowed in the match against Slovenia, since the referee clearly blew for what he perceived to be a foul before the ball had reached Edu and ended up in the back of the net," lectures Matt.
  • (12) Improper insertion techniques, unintentional yanking of the tail, or genital touching during sexual foreplay accounted for the 4 expulsions.
  • (13) He is toughest of all on himself: nearly 50 years on he is still mortified by his rhyming of "woman" with "human" in a song that got yanked from Anyone Can Whistle .
  • (14) Every day in the studio, Li’s untutored legs were yanked into stretches that tore his hamstrings.
  • (15) A curtain is yanked back and we get an insight into the chaos normally presented with supreme confidence.
  • (16) But you can't yank their reins half-heartedly, out of politeness; you can't kick them into action without their noticing.
  • (17) "USA are visibly growing in confidence and I wouldn't be surprised to see the Yanks score again before the night is out."
  • (18) Then, suddenly, a hand reached from within the carriage and yanked me inside.
  • (19) By yanking on the string, the pair were able to pull the trigger from 20ft away, successfully discharging a .380 caliber bullet.
  • (20) The Trump campaign has yanked advertising and staff out of Virginia, and major donors are pulling the plug.

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