What's the difference between atoll and cay?

Atoll


Definition:

  • (n.) A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Proof that the atoll was used as a black site would be hugely damaging for British-American relations.
  • (2) But this later proved contentious because the reserve appeared to preclude any resettlement of the atolls by islanders whose families had been evicted in 1965 to make way for a giant US air force base.
  • (3) It offers package holidays which are also Atol-protected.
  • (4) These findings are used as reference standards for three groups of Tokelauan children, atoll residents, migrants in NZ, and NZ-born Tokelauan children.
  • (5) With this decrease however there has been lately a marked reduction in the percentage of wells with fish in some atolls.
  • (6) International court rules for Philippines in South China Sea dispute The international tribunal in the Hague has ruled against China in a key international legal case over strategic reefs and atolls in the South China Sea.
  • (7) To assess the influence of the environment on blood pressure levels in children, the patterns of blood pressure in Tokelauan children resident in the isolated atolls of Tokelau and in New Zealand are compared.
  • (8) What the rest of the world considers acceptable climate change is, quite simply, a disaster for atoll dwellers.
  • (9) Already 1,200-1,400 people are reported to have moved from rural atolls to district centres – exacerbating overcrowding and making flooding in the capital Majuro more damaging.
  • (10) If you have booked the different parts of your holiday independently and are not covered by Atol you will have to stump up any difference in price yourself.
  • (11) All customer orders are protected by the ATOL protection scheme and equivalent programmes, she added.
  • (12) The prevalence and 14 year incidence of clinical gout and its precursors were investigated in the Polynesian population of Tokelauans living in the Pacific basin, non-migrant Tokelauans living in their isolated atoll homeland being compared with migrant Tokelauans living in urban New Zealand.
  • (13) The CAA said: “All UK companies selling holidays involving flights must hold an Atol licence from the CAA, which is renewed annually.
  • (14) The three Tokelau atolls are 8 degrees south of the equator.
  • (15) If Tony Abbott was here, facing the situation we are facing now, what kind of an answer would he expect from me as prime minister of Australia?” Tong said that Abbott should visit Kiribati, a nation of 102,000 people living on 33 mostly pancake-flat coral atolls, to witness the potential damage that climate change will cause.
  • (16) An Atol – which requires an operator to show it has the financial resources to operate for three months – provides compensation to customers when travel companies go bust.
  • (17) As with the Tuvalu, talk of back-channel negotiations for future mass migrations to Australia, has long buzzed among residents of this chain of 26 atolls.
  • (18) It could not be much further from Cuba, nor more different from the men's homeland in the deserts of western China, but the government of the South Pacific atoll said today that it would accept the detainees, opening the way for the biggest transfer of inmates since Barack Obama promised to close Guantánamo prison.
  • (19) The recovery rate (Rr) in the Atole villages was 12% higher than in the Fresco villages (P less than 0.05).
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ailuk atoll, Marshall Islands.

Cay


Definition:

  • (n.) See Key, a ledge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The increase in blood FFA level correlated with the increase in body weight on both KK-CAy mice and the controls.
  • (2) The PR and BP alteration in diabetic KK-CAy mice were significantly different from the PR one in alloxan-mice and from the BP one in STZ-mice, respectively.
  • (3) The neuromuscular junctions of genetically diabetic KK-CAy mice are reported to be hypersensitive to succinylcholine (SuCh) but not to d-tubocurarine (d-TC).
  • (4) SuCh in diabetic KK-CAy muscles inhibited ACh potentials to a greater extent than in normal ddY muscles.
  • (5) The dishonest media can continue to make this part of their agenda, while the president will focus on his, which includes tax reform that will benefit all Americans.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The envelope in which pages from Donald Trump’s 2005 federal tax return were sent to the journalist David Cay Johnston.
  • (6) In the experiments reported here, UV-B-induced photoproducts (cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers) have been quantified in DNA molecules exposed to solar UV at the surface and at various depths in clear, tropical marine waters off Lee Stocking Island (23 degrees 45' N, 76 degrees 0.7' W), Exuma Cays, Bahamas.
  • (7) Insulin-stimulated glucose uptake was the same at higher glucose levels (25 mM) as at 8.3 mM glucose for 1 h, despite an increase in basal glucose uptake (without insulin) in KK-CAy mice.
  • (8) The gastrocnemius Mg was also 9.0 and 5.5% greater in the KK-CAy and the alloxan-mice.
  • (9) Two strains were isolated from ticks of the species Ornithodoros capensis Neumann 1901 collected from the nests of Sooty Terns, Sterna fuscata Linnaeus 1766 on coral cays off the east coast of Queensland, Australia.
  • (10) The myopathy in skeletal muscles of genetically diabetic male KK-CAy mice or alloxan-induced diabetic mice was investigated.
  • (11) "The government's treatment of Dieu Cay appears to be inconsistent with Vietnam's obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as well as the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights relating to freedom of expression and due process," it said in a statement.
  • (12) Islands such as San Salvador, Cat Island and Rum Cay were expected to experience the most significant effects later in the day and Friday as the storm begins an expected shift toward the north, forecasters said.
  • (13) The skeletal muscles of alloxan-induced diabetic mice and genetically diabetic KK-CAY mice are hypersensitive to a depolarizing blocker, succinylcholine (SuCh) but not to the competitive antagonist, d-tubocurarine (d-TC).
  • (14) The experiments were carried out in Les Cayes, Haiti.
  • (15) The wedding precedes a larger event to be held this weekend on Depp’s private island, Little Hall’s Pond Cay in the Bahamas, which has islands named after his two children, Lily-Rose, 15, and Jack, 12.
  • (16) They turned up in the mailbox of David Cay Johnston , a tax expert and author of a book on Trump, without explanation.
  • (17) Guests paddle through the South Water Caye Marine Reserve, exploring mangrove channels and reefs, watching out for stingrays, manatees and pelicans.
  • (18) In regards to the inhibition of ACh potentials, KK-CAy myotubes were not hypersensitive to both SuCh and d-TC when compared with ddY myotubes.
  • (19) The island that took the top spot in the best in the world category was Ambergris Caye in Belize, a tiny island beside the second largest coral reef on the planet, which attracts divers and snorkellers.
  • (20) She was going to her father's house near the town of Les Cayes, four hours south of Port-au-Prince.

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