wye
Appearance
See also: Wye
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈwaɪ/
- Rhymes: -aɪ
- Homophones: y, Y; why (wine–whine merger)
Etymology 1
[edit]Attested as wi c. 1200. Of uncertain origin. Perhaps borrowed from Old French ui or gui.
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]wye (plural wyes)
- The name of the Latin-script letter Y/y.
- 1984 Waite, Prata & Martin, C (Computer Program Language), p. 190
- Thus first C checks to see if ex and wye are equal. The resulting value of 1 or 0 (true or false) then is compared to the value of zee.
- 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:
- It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, "Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh."
- 1984 Waite, Prata & Martin, C (Computer Program Language), p. 190
- A Y-shaped object: a wye level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track.
- A wye is used to split a single line [hose or cable] into two lines.
- By going around the wye, a train can change direction.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]name of the letter Y, y
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See also
[edit]- (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed
Verb
[edit]wye (third-person singular simple present wyes, present participle wyeing or wying, simple past and past participle wyed)
- (transitive) To make something into a wye (letter Y) shape.
- When a hose line is divided into two or more lines, these lines are known as wyed lines.
- (transitive, rail transport) To reverse the direction of a train using a wye.
- Since the train didn't have a control cab at the other end, they wyed the train to turn it around for the trip back to the city.
- Committee contend that when these trains are wyed at Springfield, the road passenger crews are performing yard work at that point to eliminate switching by yard crews.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Old English wiga.
Noun
[edit]wye (plural wyes)
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Daakaka
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]wye
- (West Ambryn) water
References
[edit]- Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Yola
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English wey, from Old English weġ, from Proto-West Germanic *weg.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]wye (plural wyse)
- way
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 34:
- Na dicke wye, nar dicka.
- Neither this way, nor that.
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 55:
- Maake wye.
- Make way.
References
[edit]- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 79
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