What's the difference between aware and beware?

Aware


Definition:

  • (a.) Watchful; vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
  • (a.) Apprised; informed; cognizant; conscious; as, he was aware of the enemy's designs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lebedev says he is aware that he is under investigation.
  • (2) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (3) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
  • (4) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
  • (5) Grisham said she and other aides had not been aware of the trip and “appreciate everyone’s understanding”.
  • (6) Clinicians should be aware of this new and unusual association of a cerebral glioma and acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
  • (7) Second, the nurse must be aware of the wide range of feeling and attitudes on specific sexual issues that have proved troublesome to our society.
  • (8) From a clinical standpoint, it is clear that psychiatrists caring for anxious patients must be aware of the possibility of secondary alcohol abuse.
  • (9) Yves was the vulnerable, suffering artist and Pierre the fiercely controlling protector: a man who, in Lespert's film, is painfully aware of his public image – "the pimp who's found his all-star hooker".
  • (10) As opposed to the other tests for LPD, awareness of the usefulness of the biopsy has increased as we have learned more about CL physiology.
  • (11) This project resulted in a decrease in the number of patient falls and increased staff awareness of the risk factors associated with falls among adult neuroscience patients.
  • (12) It is important to be aware of the histological characteristics of this essentially benign condition so that unnecessary radical therapies can be avoided.
  • (13) As a university student in the early 1980s and a political journalist for most of the 1990s and beyond, I was aware of the issues surrounding Britain's continental occupation.
  • (14) Indian women are aware of our tenuous grip on our rights.
  • (15) The teacher said his school believed it was aware of all the pupils who had been present, and that Nuttall was not among them.
  • (16) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
  • (17) Five hundred sixty grandmultiparous women were interviewed as to their contraceptive awareness, desirability and use in the three major hospitals in Benin City, Nigeria, between October 1, 1980 and September, 1981.
  • (18) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
  • (19) Physicians caring for children should be aware of the possible effects of day care on their patients and should be able to make recommendations to parents.
  • (20) This causes a time lag, with money continuing to be taken until the SLC is made aware that the debt has been settled.

Beware


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be on one's guard; to be cautious; to take care; -- commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is to be avoided.
  • (v. i.) To have a special regard; to heed.
  • (v. t.) To avoid; to take care of; to have a care for.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) James Hornsby Abington, Northampton • Every 1 April, Guardian readers need to beware of the spoof story.
  • (2) But beware, if you choose to travel from a different departure point or to a different destination than your original booking, the airline will not cover any expenses for travel between these or any other consequential expenses such as car hire or parking.
  • (3) His collection of poems Beware Soul Brother (1971) and the volume of short stories Girls at War and Other Stories (1972) drew on the experiences of the war.
  • (4) If you buy your tarragon from a garden centre, beware of that rather bitter, dragonish impostor, A. dracunculoides, or Russian tarragon, which is a much less refined and tasty thing.
  • (5) And this is the mainspring of so many of his stories, novellas, and his one novel, Beware of Pity : the clash between propriety and desire.
  • (6) "We have avoided the collapse, let's beware of relapse, it's no time to relax," Lagarde said.
  • (7) More and more people contacting us are expressing fear of criminal prosecution,” she said, adding that women should beware of online scammers when searching for abortion pills.
  • (8) The media fascination with IVF was intense, and the literature given to patients included advice about publicity; women were warned not to talk to the media, to "beware of telephone enquiries" and to avoid mentioning the names of any other women they'd met at the clinic.
  • (9) But beware: the tone of voice used, the look on your face and the intention in your heart is even more important than the words used.
  • (10) The government should beware radicalising the cleverest, most dedicated, most popularly admired people in the public sector.
  • (11) Poppers users beware, a draconian and discriminatory law is on its way | Chris Ashford Read more Amid controversy and impassioned debate, the psychoactive substances bill passed its final stages in parliament this week and is expected to be signed into law by the Queen in April.
  • (12) • 27 common scams to avoid • Beware the courier scam: an express way to lose your money
  • (13) (1966), worked with Simpson, Arnold Wesker and John Arden , and, having staged Howard Barker ’s Cheek in 1970, collaborated with him in 1986 on the audacious Women Beware Women, adapting Middleton’s Jacobean original with poisonous puritanism.
  • (14) He was tempted back then, he has said, as Left and Right alike heaped scorn on him for his unstatesmanlike choice of clothing, to seek solace in one of his favourite quotes from Thoreau: 'Beware of all enterprises which require new clothes.'
  • (15) • Kim Dotcom: 'I'm not a pirate, I'm an innovator' • Crispin Hunt slams Kim Dotcom as 'chubby Che Guevara' • Beware, copyright holders: the Kim Dotcom copyright saga isn't over Megaupload may be defunct, but Dotcom has since launched a successor cloud storage service called Mega, before moving on to work on other projects including digital music service Baboom, recording and releasing his own albums, and launching a political party in New Zealand, where he is fighting extradition to the US to face the criminal charges.
  • (16) Beware corporate executives posing as social visionaries.
  • (17) It has yielded many a “parents beware” blog post.
  • (18) They are just telling [foreign journalists]: ‘Beware!
  • (19) In the past you didn’t need to fight for attention in the same way and now all kinds of media are converging and competing with each other, so really you’re in an attention economy.” Blank-Settle says that journalists should beware of attempting to do too much in six seconds: “In journalism there’s always the tradeoff between what you want to say in the story and the time you have to say it.
  • (20) "Beware lest amidst men the flame of foolish ignorance overpowers you."