Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The letter y.
- noun An object shaped like a Y.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
wie . - noun The letter Y, or something resembling it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The letter Y.
- noun A kind of crotch. See
Y , n. (a).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The name of the
Latin script letterY /y . - noun A wye-shaped object: a wye-level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of track.
- noun poetic, obsolete A
warrior orfighter . - noun poetic, obsolete A
hero ; aman ,person .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the 25th letter of the Roman alphabet
Etymologies
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Examples
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The trains reversed direction on what American railroaders called a wye-Europeans called it a turning triangle-which allowed trains to back up to any one of ten offloading ramps, and the Russians were doing it with skill and aplomb.
The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000
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I really just need the "wye" to be displayed in profile view, but if it part of the vertical structure so be it.
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How bout you take your poisonous drivel and F off. wye
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For my purposes, I prefer to call those words “Slandernyms”. wye says:
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He has plenty to smile about while the rest of us have to eat the wreckage he helped create. wye
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MABERRY: You were at the forefront of the against development by Imperial College at Wye, Kent, starting the web-site save-wye. org.
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Dunno wye – Ai haz maed dem in2 lols, so dey shud be biziblol naow!
Can you direct me - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Ai wanna be x stinkt – dass wye Ai yooze a ghud dee odrunt!
If you’re gonna be one of us - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Ai haz bean der sebrul tiems – Puddy_tat yoost 2 lib dere an we got inbolbd wiv teh transport myoozeeum – dere iz a speshul fing at teh myoozeeum an dat iz wye Ai ser goin dis tiem.
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June 7, 2010 at 9:07 am wye ai nawt git dis in mai seriell?
Free kitteh wif every box* - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
hernesheir commented on the word wye
(n): a young cow, or young heifer. Yorkshire dialect. Cf. Old Norse kvíga.
June 27, 2009
dontcry commented on the word wye
For a long time, the Wye Oak was a famous and very, very old oak tree in Maryland. It survived from sometime in the 1500's until a storm took it down in 2002.
June 27, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word wye
They have since made it into the Governor's desk.
Where in MD do you live, dc?
June 27, 2009
dontcry commented on the word wye
W. Howard County
June 27, 2009
sionnach commented on the word wye
The governor of Maryland has a heifer on his desk? Shades of Spamalot.
June 27, 2009
bilby commented on the word wye
Y.
June 27, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word wye
Sweet! I live in Ellicott City! I had no idea the porch was so close!
June 27, 2009
dontcry commented on the word wye
Oh yes, the porch is close. You can almost see EC from the porch!
June 27, 2009
rolig commented on the word wye
I had no idea that the Wye Oak was gone. *Wiping a tear away* Why, O Wye?
June 28, 2009
dontcry commented on the word wye
I know. But ours is not to wonder Wye...
June 29, 2009