What's the difference between allure and lure?

Allure


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract.
  • (n.) Allurement.
  • (n.) Gait; bearing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The character was wild and dangerous, psychotic but alluring.
  • (2) At this stage, however, the allure of big money Super Pacs has been much stronger on the GOP side, although their ineffectiveness in slowing Trump’s inexorable rise has spawned grousing and finger pointing.
  • (3) With climate risks high and profit margins low, Australian farms do not hold irresistible allure for the Chinese.
  • (4) Such myths were transformed by Renaissance artists such as Titian into alluring sensual painting.
  • (5) It’s worth resisting the allure of unnecessary online purchases, one banana at a time.
  • (6) The few alluring aspect of these patients would signify the derogatory imago of a destroyed body, that does not be the mediator of the relationship to the other.
  • (7) Philip Hammond, the chancellor, said that the deal showed that Britain “has lost none of its allure to international investors”, but industry leaders warned it was a setback for the country.
  • (8) The Starfire, Allure III, and Transcend brackets had the highest fracture resistance values.
  • (9) It is a finely-tuned sequence of level changes and alluring glimpses, more familiar to the world of shopping malls and airport terminals than a repository of knowledge.
  • (10) Rows of pleasing redbrick homes are cheap and potentially alluring for escapees from the unaffordable south.
  • (11) The very things that give small charities their allure can also be their greatest limitations Having been managed by a founder in three out of my four major jobs, and working closely with one in the fourth, I have lived out all the symptoms: ad-hoc practices with no systems and processes, unilateral decisions at the whim of the founder, a resistance to professionalising and losing the personal touch, and a way of working that revolves entirely around one person because the assumption is that this immortal personality will be around forever.
  • (12) The highest predictability and the highest bond strength were both found with the Allure bracket system.
  • (13) If he doesn’t want to lose his allure and go down as the man who oversaw euro exit, it is his only option.” The battle lines are being drawn – in and outside Greece.
  • (14) I think what we’re seeing in Australia is very much the focus on acquiring premium, highest quality, high-value brands that will enable a very significant mark-up or profit with the wealthiest element of Chinese society.” It is not that the Australian farms hold irresistible allure for the Chinese or come without hitches, as KPMG points out.
  • (15) We removed 122 ceramic brackets (A-Company Starfire, GAC Allure, and Unitek Transcend) from eight extracted teeth by grinding with high-speed diamond burs or low-speed green stones, both with and without air or water coolant.
  • (16) It's partial setting in the 50s deliberately echoes Frank Capra, and it would be daft to underestimate the reach of the allure of this peachy American dream.
  • (17) Otherwise we fail to understand the thinking of others, or to realize deep down that the brother or sister we wish to reach and redeem, with the power and closeness of love, counts more than their positions, distant as they may be from what we hold as true.” To emphasize the point he added: “Harsh and divisive language does not befit the tongue of a pastor, it has no place in his heart; although it may momentarily seem to win the day, on the enduring allure of goodness and love remains truly convincing.” The pope ended his speech with two recommendations.
  • (18) It seems likely that she has been influenced not only by Theron's choice of roles and but also by her determination not to allow her obvious allure to undermine her reputation.
  • (19) Kumamon is kawaii – the word is translated as “cute”, but the word has broad, multilayered meanings, encompassing a range of sweetly alluring images and behaviours.
  • (20) For all the alluring backstory, questions still remain.

Lure


Definition:

  • (n.) A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks.
  • (n.) Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; a decoy.
  • (n.) A velvet smoothing brush.
  • (n.) To draw to the lure; hence, to allure or invite by means of anything that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to attract.
  • (v. i.) To recall a hawk or other animal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Massive pay packets are being used to lure foreign coaches and players from footballing nations such as Brazil in order to beautify the still dismal Chinese game.
  • (2) Krell is also trying to lure Mothercare to the negotiating table.
  • (3) But will it be enough to lure the AstraZeneca board to the negotiating table?
  • (4) Cameron also believes the planned peace talks can lure Assad's acolytes to break with their leader by vowing that if he goes, the existing military and security services will be preserved, saying the aim was "to learn the lessons of Iraq".
  • (5) The wane in US power over the country it invaded eight years ago, coupled with a return to political prominence for Sadrists, seems to have been enough to lure Sadr back to Najaf, which he fled in 2004 after it was surrounded by US troops.
  • (6) I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking , which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
  • (7) Experiment 2 showed that between 1 week and 6 months, both kinds of responses declined at a similar, gradual rate and that despite quite low levels of performance after 6 months, both kinds of responses still gave rise to accurate discrimination between target words and lures.
  • (8) Many of its best practitioners are lured into management and education, where direct patient contact may be minimal or non-existent.
  • (9) O'Donnell said higher pay for procurement specialists would help departments retain staff who were otherwise lured to better paid posts in the private sector.
  • (10) Days after The Guardian broke the news (despite whatever Sky sources might think) that Arsenal want to lure Jamie Vardy away, now Arsène Wenger apparently wants to take Riyad Mahrez too.
  • (11) However, by 1994 the increasingly restless veteran jock was lured away again to Capital, where he could be heard crashing his way through Pick of the Pops Take Three at weekends, and to Virgin Radio, which took up his rock show.
  • (12) "Decisions are being rushed, communities are not consulted or compensated and the lure of money from cutting emissions is overiding everything," says Rosalind Reeve of forestry watchdog group Global Witness.
  • (13) In its defence, Luxembourg quickly pointed the finger at other jurisdictions — Belgium and Ireland among them — claiming they too offered attractive but confidential tax rulings in an effort to lure inward investment.
  • (14) It lured Harry Enfield from the BBC in a big-money deal in 2000, but Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show was a career low point.
  • (15) But he said others “are not necessarily deeply committed to and engaged with the Islamist ideology but are nonetheless, due to a range of reasons, including mental health issues, susceptible to being motivated and lured rapidly down a dangerous path by the terrorist narrative”.
  • (16) As for a more permanent solution, it’s now up to Cromartie and the Montreal Baseball Project to try to take advantage of the momentum, seek to form a would-be local ownership group, secure government stadium funding and begin the process of trying to lure the two teams with outstanding stadium issues, Tampa Bay and Oakland, over to Montreal.
  • (17) Honor Westnedge, a lead analyst at consultancy Verdict Retail, said: “ Mothercare must emphasise its needs-driven and essential product offer to new parents, as demand for this product is still there but price-led rivals will be luring shoppers away.
  • (18) Police say nothing at this stage identified the three girls as being at risk of falling for the lure of Isis propaganda.
  • (19) Russians lured by low taxes keep about €20bn in bank deposits in Cyprus.
  • (20) The rheotactism which appears as soon as the eyes are pigmented has been used for the presentation of lures, thus allowing the study of the stimuli releasing the feeding activity and the breeding of 913 individuals up to the alevin stage.