What's the difference between bait and prey?

Bait


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.
  • (v. i.) Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.
  • (v. i.) A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
  • (v. i.) A light or hasty luncheon.
  • (v. t.) To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull.
  • (v. t.) To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as, to bait horses.
  • (v. t.) To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook.
  • (v. i.) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment of one's self or one's beasts, on a journey.
  • (v. i.) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Features of barrier island physiography and ecology were studied relative to selective bait deployment and site biosecurity.
  • (2) After distribution, 81% of foxes inspected were positive for tetracycline, a biomarker included in the vaccine bait and, other than one rabid fox detected close to the periphery of the treated area, no case of rabies, either in foxes or in domestic livestock, has been reported in the area.
  • (3) Four of the eight arms were baited on all trials of a given session.
  • (4) Reasoning ability in crows was investigated by means of the Revecz-Krushinskiĭ test, in which the bird has to apprehend the rule of stimulus (food bait) displacement: "In each next trial the food bait is hidden in a new place--one step further along the row".
  • (5) Rats were trained to make various head movements to get water at a 3 x 3 array of holes, each with a recessed water-baited dipper.
  • (6) Direct cultivation of the clinical material in Czapek liquid culture medium without carbon source and containing a paraffin rod (pariffin-bait technic), as well as the routin T.B.
  • (7) Specific methods, utilizing thin-layer and high-performance liquid chromatography, were developed for determining the compound in stomach contents and corn bait.
  • (8) Fungi were isolated from the samples by the method of hair baiting (To-Ka-Va).
  • (9) Presence, absence, color and perforations of plastic bags did not alter bait acceptance.
  • (10) The toxicities of Raid Max Roach Bait (sulfluramid) and COMBAT Roach Control System (hydramethylnon) to susceptible and field-collected German cockroaches were examined.
  • (11) When battery operated CDC miniature incandescent and black light traps (with and without light bulbs) were operated with and without CO2, the rank of trap effectiveness for total numbers of female Culicoides variipennis caught was: black light plus CO2; CO2-baited trap without light bulb; black light without CO2; incandescent light plus CO2 and incandescent light without CO2.
  • (12) Diurnal human bait catches yielded 1,427 female mosquitoes in 27 species.
  • (13) And as a large number of schools did not take the bait, the government now says it will require all schools to become academies, regardless of the wishes of parents and communities.
  • (14) One of the chickens in the traps was positive for microfilariae of Cardiofilaria four weeks after exposure as bait.
  • (15) A s Michael Howard’s flag-waving, sabre-rattling, Madrid-baiting intervention made clear, Gibraltar can occupy an oddly atavistic place in some corners of Britain’s collective psyche.
  • (16) During 70 all night bait collections from January to December 1989, a total of 2290 An.
  • (17) By contrast, ticks were attracted to CO2 baits during daytime only between May and mid-December.
  • (18) These days, rat poison is not just sown in the earth by the truckload, it is rained from helicopters that track the rats with radar – in 2011 80 metric tonnes of poison-laced bait were dumped on to Henderson Island, home to one of the last untouched coral reefs in the South Pacific.
  • (19) Fluoroacetic acid from tissue (1 g) and bait (10 g) extracts was first partitioned into ethyl acetate and then into 0.5 M benzyldimethylphenylammonium hydroxide.
  • (20) After a 1-week dispersal period 69 baited blow-fly traps were placed in different habitat types and at varying distances around the release point.

Prey


Definition:

  • (n.) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.
  • (n.) That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.
  • (n.) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
  • (n.) To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
  • (2) The concentration of prey and the ciliate mean cell volume, dry weight, and number per milliliter were determined at known growth rates.
  • (3) This unusual pattern of unbalanced growth may represent an adaptation by bdellovibrios to maximize their progeny yield from the determinate amount of substrate available within a given prey cell.
  • (4) We have four Money Shops in Medway: they know they can prey on the vulnerable, and most residents can't pay back on time.
  • (5) Plethodontid salamanders capture prey by projecting the tongue from the mouth.
  • (6) About 2 weeks after metamorphosis, midwife toads Alytes obstetricans judge the size of a prey object mainly in scales of visual angle.
  • (7) As the outer wall was dissolved, outgrowth began with the elongation of the germinant as it emerged from the prey ghost as an actively motile cell.
  • (8) In the present study the chemical composition of the venom was examined in order to determine the presence of constituents that may have physiologically important actions on the prey.
  • (9) The fate of those black boys and men rested in the hands of a racist system that preys on the fear and vulnerability of their parents.
  • (10) Paradoxical sleep is associated with a factor related to predatory danger, which suggests that large amounts of this sleep phase are disadvantageous in prey species.
  • (11) The latency increase is not likely to be due to motor fatigue, since it can be partially reversed by dishabituation with an alternate prey species.
  • (12) Two cases are considered: mutualism with the prey and mutualism with the first predator.
  • (13) At the same time, cetaceans are under threat from a variety of pressures including direct and indirect takes, pollution, and competition for habitat and prey.
  • (14) A wide range of suggested functions found in the literature include food acquisition, prey attack, aggression and attack behavior, facial expression in intraspecies communications, dispersion of pheromones, maintaining head position in swimming, and a wide range of environmental monitoring (e.g., current detection in water, wind direction on land).
  • (15) We suggest that the first step of the prey-catching sequence is to adjust the accommodative state of the lenses and thus lock the visual apparatus on to a stimulus.
  • (16) They prey on the population, kidnapping and extorting in cahoots with criminal gangs, according to multiple complaints filed to the human rights commission.
  • (17) For much of the film, Deckard refuses to identify himself with his prey; after all, that might make him no better than an organic machine.
  • (18) Phage typing was performed on 795 strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from poultry, a turkey, pigeons, and birds of prey in Japan and 4 countries in Europe, using the avian phage set of typing phages plus 6 others.
  • (19) Functional morphologists commonly study feeding behavior in vertebrates by recording electrical activity from head muscles during unrestrained prey capture.
  • (20) The strong reactivity of the two positive yellow baboon sera with SIVagm proteins raises questions about whether these animals may have been infected by green monkeys in their native habitat; baboons occasionally prey upon and eat green monkeys.