What's the difference between alias and moniker?

Alias


Definition:

  • (adv.) Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.
  • (adv.) At another time.
  • (n.) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
  • (n.) Another name; an assumed name.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The interdisciplinary evaluation of risks from carcinogens utilizes, inter alia, data on the activities of the compounds in short-term assays.
  • (2) Mandela then returned to Liliesleaf farm, the secret base of the ANC's military wing in Rivonia, Johannesburg, where he wore blue overalls to pose as a caretaker under the alias David Motsamayi.
  • (3) The method was specific and enabled brucella infection to be differentiated, inter alia, from Q-fever infection.
  • (4) The US Drug Enforcement Administration had offered a $5m reward for his capture, saying he was wanted on drug-trafficking charges, but listed “Omar” as an alias and his given name as Alejandro.
  • (5) Caribou soon became a surprisingly hard-gigging unit, supporting Radiohead on their 2012 arena jaunt at the same time as Dan was touring the world’s premier techno clubs under his dance alias Daphni.
  • (6) Evidence for this sequence of events comes, inter alia, from angiograms of patients with unstable angina and developing myocardial infarction.
  • (7) Repressive responses to inter alia drug use, rural crop production and non-violent, low-level drug offences pose unnecessary risks to public health and create significant barriers to the full and effective realisation of the right to health, with a particularly devastating impact on minorities, those living in situations of rural and urban poverty, and people who use drugs,” he says.
  • (8) 2. WHO has a constitutional mandate inter alia to "develop, establish and promote international standards with respect to biological, pharmaceutical and similar products."
  • (9) It may also be used, inter alia, to denote the primary content of unconscious mental processes, as the mental representative and corollary of instinctual urges, and as based on or identical with Freud's postulated 'hallucinatory wish-fulfillment' and his 'primary introjection', which reflects Melanie Klein's extension of Freud's concept.
  • (10) This fact is indicated (inter alia) by studies of identical twins demonstrating that the degree of efficiency with which the body uses excess dietary energy for fat storage is, to a considerable extent, inherited.
  • (11) Inter alia pregnant women and children are advised wholly to refrain from the consumption of liver and liver products.
  • (12) This is demonstrated, inter alia, by the manner in which the duty schedule is handled and how the team deals with the sickness of a team member.
  • (13) Last year documents revealed by the Guardian showed that Miskiw had signed a contract with Mulcaire, using an alias, offering him £7,000 to bring in a story about the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, Gordon Taylor, whose voicemail was then intercepted; and that one of Coulson's news reporters, Ross Hindley, had emailed transcripts of 35 intercepted voicemails involving Gordon Taylor for the attention of the chief reporter, Neville Thurlbeck.
  • (14) The increased concern about the quality of medical services evidenced by, inter alia, the growing attention to quality of Peer Review Organizations.
  • (15) The State Department alleges that some of the passports were issued fraudulently, sometimes claiming the individual had another name or alias before coming to the US.
  • (16) Protein X alias complement S-protein was isolated by dissociation from purified XC5b-9 (fluid-phase terminal C5b-9) complexes with 250 mM deoxycholate and subsequent sucrose density gradient centrifugation and Sephacryl gel chromatography.
  • (17) One main pathway from the parent macrocycle involves oxidative transformations and leads eventually to protohaem required inter alia for haemoglobin and myoglobin.
  • (18) Health research (applied), in turn, addresses the nature and occurrence of phenomena of health (their frequency)--in relation to type of health care, inter alia.
  • (19) One case reflects the development of left bundle branch block due to bilateral post-divisional block which inter alia permits the study of left bundle branch block in the presence of acute myocardial infarction.
  • (20) S-Adenosylmethionine is involved in, inter alia, the methylation of a small percentage of cytosine bases of DNA.

Moniker


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And United are also thought to be close to signing Ajax’s Daley Blind – the “deluxe O’Shea”, to give him his catalogue moniker.
  • (2) The “three percenter” moniker alludes to the small percentage of colonials such groups claim fought in the American revolutionary war.
  • (3) Their attacks previously knocked out the websites of top US banks, under the moniker Operation Ababil, but the Cyber Fighters’ gaze has shifted to events closer to home in recent months.
  • (4) The blogger, who goes by the moniker Mosul Eye, also said the three girls who had escaped, were being hunted by Isis militants.
  • (5) Seen as a warm and witty liberal, he founded the parliamentary bicycle pool and has earned the moniker the "bicycling baronet" (the Youngs featured on a British Rail poster promoting the transport of bicycles by rail in 1982).
  • (6) He has shown himself consistently unwilling to bend his beliefs in favour of political expediency, even where that leaves him alone and in the wilderness, earning himself the moniker "Dr No" in Congress.
  • (7) Wall Street traders impressed with his cut-throat tactics prefer the moniker "swamp alligator".
  • (8) Of all the songs we cut, we were enamoured of the ones we chose for the album that portrayed this attitude.” Unreleased David Bowie album to come out in new box set ‘My name is Michael Caine’ – legally After more than 60 years in showbiz, and frustrated by increased airport security checks, the legendary British actor, born Maurice Micklewhite, has decided to replace his birth name with his showbiz moniker for good.
  • (9) Maybe that will come later, although Merkel never did warm to l'art de la bise , the art of kissing introduced to her by Nicolas Sarkozy which helped to earn them the joint moniker "Merkozy".
  • (10) As for the tenuous future of the OWC in Singapore, the club may very well have to open under a different moniker.
  • (11) Broccoli does help the liver out but, unlike the broad-shouldered, cape-wearing image that its superfood moniker suggests, it is no hero.
  • (12) Updated at 5.31pm BST 5.02pm BST Eliot Higgins, who blogs the Syrian conflict under the moniker Brown Moses, has been collecting footage today of an aircraft reportedly downed inside Syria, near Latakia, in the north – within 50 miles of the Turkish border.
  • (13) The unofficial “city” moniker seeks to big them up but Letchworth and Welwyn, no matter how pleasant to some, unequivocally remain towns.
  • (14) He also disclosed the existence of a department of the Secret Intelligence Service‚ now known as MI6 but then known as section "M.I.i.c" of the War Office.7 Worst of all, Mackenzie revealed that the first head of MI6, the one-legged Captain Sir Mansfield Cumming, was referred to as C. It is a moniker that his successors, including the incumbent, Sir John Sawers, maintain.
  • (15) David Lengel (@LengelDavid) Wacha shed the moniker of being a good young pitcher to being a good pitcher in that inning.
  • (16) His first solo show at the Edinburgh festival followed shortly after; it was in a tiny room and sold out in minutes (I was there one night and heckled under the moniker of Trevor Danger.
  • (17) But others complain that Udall’s campaign has been dull, uninspiring and one-dimensional, earning him the moniker “Senator Uterus”.
  • (18) Meanwhile .su has become an increasingly notorious corner of the internet, an online echo of the "evil empire" moniker assigned to the Soviet Union by Ronald Reagan 30 years ago.
  • (19) He adopted the un-Serb middle name of David and used it increasingly as a professional moniker.
  • (20) Other Republican candidates have not drawn explicit connections between the movement’s organizers and violence against police, but they have stumbled all the while on whether or not to accept its moniker.