What's the difference between baa and bray?

Baa


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To cry baa, or bleat as a sheep.
  • (n.) The cry or bleating of a sheep; a bleat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) AstraZeneca is likely to go the way of many other leading British firms such as Pilkington, Corus, BAA, Tarmac, Blue Circle, various utilities and Cadbury among many others.
  • (2) Previous studies [Fluit, A.C., Baas, P.D., van Boom, J.H., Veeneman, G.H.
  • (3) Sir Peter, 62, is believed to be backing BAA chief executive Mike Clasper to take over as chief executive.
  • (4) This suggests that the presence and position of the ether linkage, as it is in BAA, are critical for the development of hematotoxicity.
  • (5) Meanwhile, the owner of Heathrow, BAA, licences a small number of photographers who are allowed to be based airside, so they can get the first shots of whoever is coming from planes that day.
  • (6) This region is composed of 42 tandem repeating oligonucleotides, is 599 base pairs long and the sequence is 5' cdi jfa faa aba baa aaa fab aaa caa aac aca cba aaf ccb 3' (abbreviated as a = ACAGGGGTGTGGGG; b = ACAGGGGTCTGGGG; c = ACAGGGGTCCTGGGG; d = ACAGGGGTCCGGGG; f = ACAGGGGTCCCGGGG; i = ACAGGGTCCTGGGG; j = ACAGGGGTGTGAGG).
  • (7) The effect of beta-adrenoceptor antagonists (BAAs) differing in lipophilicity and partial agonist activity (PAA), and a full agonist, on the dissociation constant for [125I]-(-)- iodocyanopindolol binding to beta 2-adrenoceptors (KD) has been investigated.
  • (8) A source at one Heathrow airline acknowledged that BAA had been hit by "unprecedented" snowfall, but criticised the speed of the airport owner's response.
  • (9) In the reciprocal combination of native BaA as the immunogen and modified BaA as the eliciting antigen, the relationship of anti-BaA responses to DH was examined.
  • (10) However, whole blood amino acid (BAA) concentrations revealed significantly greater levels of methionine when methionine was administered via the jugular vein.
  • (11) If a politician or overpaid columnist reports that Baa, Baa, Black Sheep has been banned in primary schools (Phillips insists no such school has ever been identified) the chances are that they are just trying to stir up trouble rather than inform enlightened public debate.
  • (12) Land of the free Pity the BAA lawyers scratching their heads over how to buy out the owners of the acre of land at Heathrow that the company will need to build its third runway.
  • (13) Pretreatment of rats with pyrene decreased elimination of BaA.
  • (14) The mechanisms responsible are likely related to the fact that older cells are more susceptible to BE and BAA and that hemolysis of these cells during the initial exposure followed by their replacement with less susceptible younger cells may account for tolerance development.
  • (15) Such was the crush of people seeking information on their flights – or simply having nowhere else to wait – that airports operator BAA said no more passengers would be allowed into Terminals 1 and 3.
  • (16) There was no difference in short-cut, shank-off, semiboneless leg yield between control and BAA.
  • (17) These results indicate that, in rats, overall metabolism of BE to BAA, the hemolytic metabolite, was linearly related to the exposure concentration up to a concentration that caused severe toxicity (438 ppm).
  • (18) January 2012 BAA announces record traffic figures for Heathrow with 69.4 million passengers passing through its terminals in 2011.
  • (19) Dithiothreitol (DTT, 5 mM) enhanced proteinase activity threefold for UDH, fourfold for BAA, and fivefold for BANA.
  • (20) Butoxyacetic acid (BAA) was earlier identified as a urinary metabolite of BE.

Bray


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.
  • (v. i.) To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass.
  • (v. i.) To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise.
  • (v. t.) To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.
  • (n.) The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.
  • (n.) A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It would strike a blow against its excessively adversarial ways of working, the two sides of a divided house braying at each other across the floor.
  • (2) This is a gladiatorial display – that is what people go to see.” Bray added: “The popular knee-jerk reaction will be we should ban airshows, but it’s very rare for such a crash to take place.
  • (3) Indeed watching the prime minister singling out unemployed youngsters for uniquely punitive measures while pretending it is for their own good, cheered on by a gang of braying chums, it looks less like the behaviour of a national statesman and more like the petty vindictiveness of a schoolyard bully.
  • (4) Bray and other Carrier workers said that their union, the United Steelworkers, had repeatedly reached out to Pence in the weeks after the closings were announced and that he hadn’t responded to the union and had not helped at all.
  • (5) The objective of this study was to test the application of the system which incorporated the Bray concept to PVI measures in head injured patients.
  • (6) The computer incorporated the Bray concept for PVI estimation.
  • (7) Earlier he was seen leaving his riverside home in Bray, Berkshire, by boat.
  • (8) Rules like – for example – "no applause" have led to baying and braying to produce the same effect.
  • (9) Angie Bray, a loyalist who had threatened to resign as ministerial aide to the shadow cabinet office minister Francis Maude, was highly critical of the Lib Dems.
  • (10) The studies by Wever and Bray, as well as, Ruben's team of Baltimore underline the significance of potentials expressing electrical activity of cochlea and acoustic nerve fibres.
  • (11) Oxfam spokesman Ian Bray said the shortfall reflected the incipient nature of the crisis, adding that people and governments tend to respond more decisively after the event.
  • (12) On the way you could stop off at the seaside town of Bray (Dart train from Dublin Connolly, €6.85 return) as we did, then jump on a bus to Enniskerry (€2.70) and walk up to Powerscourt House.
  • (13) And anyway, I’d suffer many a braying account manager (and a truly terrifyingly fast lift) for that view: breathtaking at any time of day, but taking on a particular drama at sunset and sunrise when London’s skyline is framed by horizontal rays.
  • (14) The idea of England and Wales as some monochrome expanse, full of nostalgia and nastiness, is serially wrecked Looking back at the very real woes that preceded the party’s breakthrough, there seems to be some implicit suggestion that a huge crowd of true believers always knew things were on track but could not be heard above the hostile braying.
  • (15) Photograph: United Steel Workers “Trump talks a big game about Carrier, but I don’t support him,” said TJ Bray, an assembly line worker for 14 years at Carrier’s furnace factory here.
  • (16) According to David Bray, author of Social Space and Governance in Urban China , not only did the walled city “embody a complex array of cosmologically determined symbolic spaces, designed to reinforce the might of the emperor and his government, but also, in its simple grid design it provided the template for the ordering of everyday social life.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Night view of Changan Avenue, the 10-lane thoroughfare which slices east-west through the city.
  • (17) "If I were leader, I would breed sharks with lasers for eyes that play soccer," brays Bruce Cooper.
  • (18) It’s designed to mitigate traffic generation from new development,” says Bray.
  • (19) "It's important the international community gets together and starts pledging money for this crisis," added Bray.
  • (20) Data is also presented which indicates that liquid scintillation counting could be carried out by placing cut-off Ausria-125 test tubes in counting vials containing 10 ml of either Brays, Unogel, or Instagel solutions.