What's the difference between alias and writ?

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.

Writ


Definition:

  • (obs.) 3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth.
  • () imp. & p. p. of Write.
  • (n.) That which is written; writing; scripture; -- applied especially to the Scriptures, or the books of the Old and New testaments; as, sacred writ.
  • (n.) An instrument in writing, under seal, in an epistolary form, issued from the proper authority, commanding the performance or nonperformance of some act by the person to whom it is directed; as, a writ of entry, of error, of execution, of injunction, of mandamus, of return, of summons, and the like.
  • (Archaic imp. & p. p.) of Write

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To hear the former chief of staff of the Provisional IRA being depicted as a man whose job as Northern Ireland's deputy first minister is "to administer the Queen of England's writ in Ireland" is, to say the least, ironic.
  • (2) This we can see writ large in the prime minister’s skirmishes with Philip Hammond , the only member of government visibly considering the national interest.
  • (3) Abuses thet do exist should be handled through writs of habeas corpus and malpractice suits, remedies much more available now than in the past.
  • (4) Australia needs urgent legislation which strengthens the rules around government spending once the writs are issued.” As opposition leader in 2007, Kevin Rudd railed against the Howard government’s political advertising, which he called a “cancer on democracy”.
  • (5) In a letter to Infantino accompanying a draft writ that could be lodged in the Swiss courts, lawyers call on Fifa to “acknowledge that it has acted wrongfully by awarding the World Cup 2022 to Qatar without demanding the assurance that Qatar observes fundamental human and labour rights vis-à-vis migrant construction workers whose work is related to the 2022 World Cup”.
  • (6) The prime minister's tactics failed, raising questions about how far his writ runs in the party.
  • (7) In London, the courts ruled his detention unlawful and ordered a writ of habeas corpus to be issued so he could be freed, but this was ignored by the US military authorities.
  • (8) It is a sense of his own god-like importance, as opposed to Holy Writ, that persuades him that his convictions on the moment a new life begins – "it is just my view" – should prevail over women's choices.
  • (9) The challenge faced by the incoming Asda chief executive was writ large today as Waitrose posted sales figures that showed it growing at a far faster rate than its larger rivals.
  • (10) Historically, about 7% of activity occurs each day in the week after the governor-general issues the writs.
  • (11) His job is to administer the Queen of England's writ in Ireland ...
  • (12) Wrapping the existing building with a grungy cocktail of corrugated metal sheeting, raw plywood and chain-link fencing, through which angular glazed structures burst open, it was his maverick manifesto writ large.
  • (13) This was writ large at the outset, when Rose fired a flame thrower without batting an eyelid while Sheeran was handed a glitter canon and very nearly fell backwards with shock at the force of the “explosion”.
  • (14) Notices were pinned to windows of the building saying that a writ of possession was obtained from the high court on 24 November giving Camelot permission to remove the “unlawful occupants” on 1 December.
  • (15) Wednesday's decision by the UK supreme court in the case of Yunus Rahmatullah , a man detained by the British in Iraq, might seem to be about the hallowed writ of habeas corpus .
  • (16) We want it first because we lodged our writ long before the others."
  • (17) July 2012 Two high court judges dismiss Qatada's application for judicial review and a writ of habeas corpus.
  • (18) Does a vague law from 1789 – the so-called All Writs Act – give courts authority to make tech companies remake their products in times of duress?
  • (19) Keogh, whose campaign strategy has been to shelve his lengthy CV and focus on the fact that he, unlike Hastie, was born in Canning, but whose campaign events have been largely centred around the swing voting suburbs of Armadale and Kelmscott, was asked if he had made the trip down to Wagerup, 90km from Armadale, on the southern fringe of the electorate, since the writs were issued.
  • (20) It’s a place where American issues play out writ small, in ways that can affect governance on a grand scale.