What's the difference between ambush and stalking?

Ambush


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare.
  • (v. t.) A concealed station, where troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise.
  • (v. t.) The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; liers in wait.
  • (v. t.) To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy.
  • (v. t.) To attack by ambush; to waylay.
  • (v. i.) To lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise; to lurk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Prince began ambushing fans in February this year, playing his first big shows since 1995 as he took over arenas in Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and Leeds as well as intimate venues in London and Manchester.
  • (2) The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games ordered the campaign be taken down for breaching strict rules on ambush marketing of the event by brands that are not official sponsors.
  • (3) Excess military equipment – such as Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles (MRAPs) and other weapons – get transferred to police departments, to communities large and small across the country, for free.
  • (4) Even after being ambushed by anti-terror cops when panicked Londoners reported "a bloke pretending to be a Muslim woman", I didn't complain.
  • (5) Then the people of Karamoja turned on each other, transforming the area into a wild west of cattle raids and ambushes.
  • (6) Or perhaps this latest ambush is just an excuse to resume the government’s internal warfare, which has been roiling away since January.
  • (7) • Sign up to play our great Fantasy Football game • Stats centre: Get the lowdown on every player • The latest team-by-team news, features and more • Follow the Guardian's Fans' Network now "We view ambush marketing in a very serious light and we urge people not to embark on these ambush campaigns," police said in a statement.
  • (8) "Jundollah uses a variety of terrorist tactics, including suicide bombings, ambushes, kidnappings and targeted assassinations."
  • (9) I take you very, very seriously.” Pretzell and Petry are like Bonnie and Clyde, pursuing a course of ambush through the German public Jakob Augstein, Der Spiegel Not for a long time has so much been written and said about a single German politician (other than Merkel).
  • (10) When the Seemanchal Express that had been ambushed in Katihar finally pulled into Delhi, traffickers rounded up the children who had remained on the train and shepherded their cargo towards the doors.
  • (11) The government’s Senate leader, Eric Abetz, said: “As I understand it, Kathy Jackson complained that she felt that she had been ambushed by the royal commission and had been treated very harshly.” Labor had postponed debate on the Senate motion several times amid negotiations with crossbenchers.
  • (12) It is understood that between 35 and 40 tickets allocated to Earle ended up in the hands of the marketing company said to have orchestrated the ambush marketing effort on behalf of the beer brand Bavaria via a third party.
  • (13) After the apparently radical notion of “fairness” ambushed its first budget, the Abbott government seemed to go through four stages of grief.
  • (14) Stalker began to think that special branch, supported by MI5, might be using informants to lure terrorism suspects into pre-planned ambushes, mounted by police officers who were indeed shooting to kill.
  • (15) The acting commander of border police in Kandahar, Abdul Razzaq Achakzai [Raziq], has acknowledged killing the victims, but has claimed (claims now proved false) that the killings took place during an ambush he conducted against Taliban infiltrators,” a report by the office of the EU envoy to Afghanistan said then.
  • (16) Fine – if they were going to ambush me, I would ambush right back.
  • (17) Many are streaming towards the Tunisian border crossing, with Egypt having already closed its own frontier after 21 of its border guards were killed in an ambush.
  • (18) Private Morales Matthews, from the same regiment, received a mention in dispatches for risking his own life to protect a colleague, apparently wounded, during an ambush.
  • (19) They were met by a police ambush on the outskirts of town.
  • (20) Hamas fighters hid in apartment buildings ready to ambush the IDF.

Stalking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stalk

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Regeneration and reorganization of the proximal cut end of the pituitary stalk is demonstrated in Ompok bimaculatus with the aid of in situ staining technique.
  • (2) Thus, the long stalks of Sk1 or phosphate-starved caulobacters are not merely a function of their longer doubling times.
  • (3) The mesenchyme surrounding the stalk stains positively for fibronectin.
  • (4) Do know how much stalking is too much stalking Seven pages into Google is too much.
  • (5) A rich network of fibers was observed in the median eminence coursing towards the pituitary stalk.
  • (6) ECF1 is separated from the membrane-embedded F0 by a narrow stalk approximately 40 A long and approximately 25-30 A thick.
  • (7) Hormone secretion was increased by electrical stimulation of the pituitary stalk at different frequencies.
  • (8) Furthermore, there were differences between anterior and posterior regions of both slime sheaths and stalk tubes.
  • (9) Five minutes from time a fat red shirt stalked past making the tosser sign and, for emphasis, yelling: "Fucking wankers!"
  • (10) Septal release slightly decreased during pituitary stalk stimulation, whereas it did increase during stimulation of the supraoptic region.
  • (11) It is hemispherical in shape and is located at the end of a 1.5 mm long eye stalk.
  • (12) Since such rats supposedly have a normal pigment distribution and a normal pattern of decussation at the optic chiasm, this finding appears to undermine the suggested role played by stalk melanin in establishing the laterality of retinal fibre projections in other mammalian species.
  • (13) As culmination proceeds, pstA cells transform into pstB cells by activating the ecmB gene as they enter the stalk tube.
  • (14) Other steps, such as the introduction of a national stalking helpline and national revenge pornography helpline have assisted victims.
  • (15) And we know once they leave, men will follow and stalk them.
  • (16) The ultrastructure of some aggregating microorganisms, including fungal hyphae and sheath-forming and stalked bacteria, was studied in detail, and several modes of aggregation were suggested.
  • (17) George, a loner who was said to have stalked and photographed hundreds of women, always maintained his innocence.
  • (18) • One in 10 women have been stalked by a previous partner.
  • (19) Police investigating the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University massacre, which left 33 dead, mainly students, blamed Cho, a fourth-year English student who lived on the campus, for earlier incidents ranging from stalking women to setting fire to a dormitory.
  • (20) The editor of the Spectator stalks the corridors reminding all and sundry that the national debt will have risen far faster and higher under Cameron than under Labour in 13 years.