What's the difference between yer and yew?

Yer


Definition:

  • (prep.) Ere; before.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kömür santrallerinin yarattığı tehdit yerli yerinde duruyor ve çevre köylerden biri olan Tarlaağzı sakinleri derin kül çukurları kazılmasından ve hava kirliliğinden endişe ediyorlar.
  • (2) Along with Mark Ravenhill ’s Shopping and Fucking , Sarah Kane ’s Blasted , Jez Butterworth ’s Mojo and Jonathan Harvey ’s Beautiful Thing , Dealer’s Choice heralded the dawn of a loose dramatic movement which earned the title “in-yer-face” drama.
  • (3) During the day, I knew, Adam was Adam Shefki, a la w yer.
  • (4) "Make as much noise as yer like," he continues, leeringly, over the incessant crraaang of the mechanised looms.
  • (5) I am very emotionally moved Yer've come 'ere with a lorra heart and that From the start of this competition you have acquitted yourself very ably Hawaaaaayyyyy the girls!
  • (6) Yer man Ian McCourt wrote the rest, and here's one of his bits: Some people knock on wood.
  • (7) I think I heard Dennis Skinner growl: "On yer exercise bike!"
  • (8) "Yer all orphans and bastards," snarls dastardly foreman Charlie Crout (Craig Parkinson) as oppressed urchins gulp and clench their bumcheeks.
  • (9) Hilary is less than enthusiastic: "Yer know, I don't think I could live with me'self if something happened to you," she says, rather reasonably.
  • (10) hueandcry.co.uk On first listening, the Iran team’s national anthem “Soroud-e Melli-e Jomhouri-e Eslami-e Iran” sounds like yer standard pomptastic European 19th-century neo-classicism.
  • (11) Last month he told Newsnight that unemployed people in Merthyr Tydfil would be well advised to take the bus to Cardiff to look for work, an echo of Norman Tebbit's "On yer bike" remark from 1981.
  • (12) In others he introduces us to Joe Craddock, his school German teacher, lamenting that Craddock's insistence on excellence ("Yer utterly useless!"
  • (13) These are some of the clever adaptations Generation Yers have developed to cope with distance.
  • (14) MORON July 6, 2014 Here's the article that has vexed him so , and I'm not entirely convinced that yer man has read it properly.
  • (15) "Yer goin' ter be a gennelmun in Lunnun,' cried Joe.
  • (16) Yer's alreet on the sleur ones, but whatzza racket am I hearing noo, man?
  • (17) klebs, yers) can use several mechanisms to overcome tolerance in their host.
  • (18) While in office, Hawke signed off a testimonial video for his mate with the words "Good on yer, Kerry, you've been true blue [loyal]."
  • (19) Earlier this month, he made fun of the Sinn Féin culture minister in the Stormont parliament with the words: “curry my yoghurt can coca coal yer” – a send-up of the Irish for “thank you, speaker.” Despite complaints from Sinn Féin as well as the SDLP and Irish-language organisations, Campbell continued to mock Gaelic.
  • (20) That's yer lot from me, thanks for your time and your emails.

Yew


Definition:

  • (v. i.) See Yaw.
  • (n.) An evergreen tree (Taxus baccata) of Europe, allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. It frequently grows in British churchyards.
  • (n.) The wood of the yew. It is light red in color, compact, fine-grained, and very elastic. It is preferred to all other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from Spain.
  • (n.) A bow for shooting, made of the yew.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Kuan Yew with Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in 2009.
  • (2) The investigational antineoplastic agent, taxol, a natural product from the yew, Taxus sp.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Kuan Yew, right, and his wife, Kwa Geok Choo, second left, posing with the Japanese Emperor Hirohito and his wife Empress Nagako, in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in 1968.
  • (4) A 40-year-old patient attempted suicide by drinking an extract made from 120 g of yew needles.
  • (5) One feels alone but not lonely amid the tall centuries-old ash, beech, birch, oak and yew, and the woodland is well preserved and conserved.
  • (6) Christine Cole Northampton • I think Philip Bowring almost completely misses the point in his obituary of Lee Kuan Yew.
  • (7) Lee Kuan Yew’s grip on Singapore | Letters Read more Ethnic prejudice lurked just under Lee’s image of technocratic rationalism.
  • (8) Presently, taxol is derived from the bark of the Pacific yew, Taxus brevifolia, a small, slow-growing evergreen tree native to the northwestern United States.
  • (9) Standing in the shade of a 1,000-year-old yew tree at the front of St Mary's church in Harmondsworth, Ken Hughes says he knows how locals will react if the latest extension plans at Heathrow come to fruition.
  • (10) The whole “father of Singapore” image has often been taken far too literally, but Lee Kuan Yew’s governing style was nothing if not paternalistic.
  • (11) Four prisoners drank a decoction of yew (Taxus baccata) needles containing the toxic alkaloid taxine++ B.
  • (12) Taxol is a chemotherapeutic drug which acts by stabilizing microtubules, preventing normal mitosis and resulting in a block of the cell cycle at G2 and M. The drug is isolated from the yew, Taxus sp.
  • (13) Data from the literature concerning the toxicity of yew and some (traditional) uses of yew are reported.
  • (14) In Singapore, however, where a hodgepodge mix of ethnic Chinese, Malay and Indian residents actively aim to maintain what the nation's "founder", Lee Kuan Yew, has termed "racial harmony", supporters are hard to come by.
  • (15) Lee Kuan Yew’s grip on Singapore | Letters Read more Voting in Singapore is compulsory.
  • (16) To many Singaporeans, and indeed others too, Lee Kuan Yew was Singapore ,” he said.
  • (17) Songbirds chatter in the intertwining branches of a yew walk planted over 500 years ago.
  • (18) Singapore’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, who led the city-state for more than three decades, has died aged 91.
  • (19) Few have demonstrated such complete commitment to a cause greater than themselves.” This article was amended on Monday 23 March 2015 to correct a misspelling of Lee Kuan Yew’s name and to correct the time of the announcement of his death.
  • (20) The passing of a giant like Lee Kuan Yew is the end of an era,” Bishop told Sky News.

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