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Wye vs Hye - What's the difference?

wye | hye |

As a proper noun wye

is a river of england and wales, the fifth-longest in the uk.

As an adjective hye is

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As a verb hye is

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wye

English

Alternative forms

* wy

Etymology 1

Attested as wi'' c. 1200. Of uncertain origin. Perhaps cognate with Old French ''ui'' or ''gui.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A wye-shaped object: a wye-level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of road or railroad track.
    • By going around the wye, a train can change direction.
    See also
    *

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) wiga .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (poetic, obsolete) A warrior or fighter.
  • (poetic, obsolete) A hero; a man, person.

    • Anagrams

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    hye

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1590, author=, title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, chapter=, edition=1921 ed. citation
    • , passage=On th' other side in all mens open vew Duessa placed is, and on a tree Sans-foy his[*] shield is hangd with bloody hew: Both those[*] the lawrell girlonds to the victor dew. 45 VI A shrilling trompet sownded from on hye , And unto battaill bad them selves addresse: Their shining shieldes about their wrestes they tye, And burning blades about their heads do blesse, The instruments of wrath and heavinesse: 50 With greedy force each other doth assayle, And strike so fiercely, that they do impresse Deepe dinted furrowes in the battred mayle; The yron walles to ward their blowes are weak and fraile. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1661, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 357, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The beauty and glory of it is yn two streetes, whereof the hye street goes from est to west, having a righte goodely crosse in the middle of it, making a quadrivium, and goeth from north to south." }}

    Verb

    (hy)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1594, author=Christopher Marlowe, title=Massacre at Paris, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=NAVARRE. And now Navarre whilste that these broiles doe last, My opportunity may serve me fit, To steale from France, and hye me to my home. }}