Hay vs. Hey: What's the Difference?
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Hay
Hay is grass, legumes, or other herbaceous plants that have been cut, dried, and stored for use as animal fodder, particularly for grazing animals such as cattle, horses, goats, and sheep. Hay is also fed to smaller animals such as rabbits and guinea pigs. Pigs may be fed hay, but they do not digest it as efficiently as fully herbivorous animals.
Hay can be used as animal fodder when or where there is not enough pasture or rangeland on which to graze an animal, when grazing is unavailable due to weather (such as during the winter) or when lush pasture by itself is too rich for the health of the animal. It is also fed during times when an animal is unable to access pasture, such as when animals are kept in a stable or barn.
Hay (noun)
Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.
Hay (noun)
Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.
Hay (noun)
Cannabis; marijuana.
Hay (noun)
A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.
Hay (noun)
A hedge.
Hay (noun)
A circular country dance.
Hay (noun)
The letter for the h sound in Pitman shorthand.
Hay (verb)
To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.
Hay (verb)
To lay snares for rabbits.
Hey (interjection)
An exclamation to get attention.
“Hey, look at this!”
“Hey! Listen!”
Hey (interjection)
A protest or reprimand.
“Hey! Stop that!”
Hey (interjection)
An expression of surprise.
“Hey! This is new!”
Hey (interjection)
An informal greeting, similar to hi.
“Hey! How’s it going?”
Hey (interjection)
A request for repetition or explanation; an expression of confusion (see also eh, huh).
“Hey? How’s that?”
Hey (interjection)
A meaningless beat marker or extra, filler syllable in song lyrics.
“The chorus is nana na na, nana na na hey hey hey, goodbye”.”
Hey (noun)
A choreographic figure in which three or more dancers weave between one another, passing by left and right shoulder alternately.
Hey (noun)
alternative spelling of heHebrew letter
Hey (interjection)
used to attract attention, to express surprise, interest, or annoyance, or to elicit agreement
“hey, what’s going on here?”
Hey (interjection)
used as a friendly greeting
“I just called to say hey”
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