What's the difference between bede and bere?

Bede


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pray; also, to offer; to proffer.
  • (n.) A kind of pickax.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From St Bede's college , a Roman Catholic grammar school, he went to study for two years at Ushaw College in Durham, a seminary for trainee priests, and then at Birmingham Polytechnic, now Birmingham City University , where in 1976 he received a certificate in residential care of children and young people.
  • (2) "Do I really expect Americans to sit down with Adam Bede or Clarissa after all the professional and domestic hurly-burly of their day?
  • (3) You might just as well find a sharp contrast between the sexual standards in Shakespeare and the Venerable Bede.
  • (4) Those delights include a colony of puffins on the beautifully named Coquet Island ; powdery sand on a beach straight outta Bermuda via the North Sea, and not another soul to share it with; ancient fragments from the age of the Venerable Bede; craggy castles lorded over by the Percys of Northumberland; tight-knit towns of huddled stone cottages and Norman churches; and, best of all, Spurelli’s ice-cream parlour in Amble.
  • (5) CV Date of birth 27 October 1949 Education St Bede's Grammar, Bradford Career Joined Yorkshire Co-op as a management trainee in the food division, which included a stint stacking shelves.

Bere


Definition:

  • (n.) Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare).
  • (v. t.) To pierce.
  • (n.) See Bear, barley.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An epidemiological study of the prevalence of refractive errors was made of the Eskimo population of the Norton Sound and Bering Straits region of Alaska.
  • (2) The scientists said strong winds in mid-March finally helped push the ice out across the Barents and Bering seas.
  • (3) He began writing his first novel while on night watch in port, taking its title – Williwaw – from the sudden winds of the Bering Sea which create devastating tidal waves and can swamp a ship.
  • (4) The Pentagon has confirmed the presence of five Chinese naval vessels in the Bering Sea between Russia and Alaska, which Barack Obama is currently visiting .
  • (5) managing director of the Kamchatka-Bering Sea Ecoregion Program — are staunchly against drilling in biologically rich environments such as Bristol Bay.
  • (6) The helminthological investigations were conducted from May 6 to May 28, 1972 in the Karaginsk Gulf of the Bering Sea.
  • (7) The movement of one group can be traced across the Bering land bridge into North America and all the way to Chile.
  • (8) The implication was that there was a semi-regular exchange of animals between the two continents (across what is now the Bering Strait) resulting in multiple small radiations in each place.
  • (9) The seropositive animals were widely dispersed along the margins of the eastern Pacific basin, from the Bering Sea to the Santa Barbara Channel.
  • (10) A 4-year study of Northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) leptospirosis in the Bering Sea has shown that in newborn pups Leptospira pomona is associated with a multiple hemorrhage syndrome.
  • (11) We are aware of the five People’s Liberation Army Navy (Plan) ships in the Bering Sea,” said Commander Bill Urban, a Pentagon spokesman, confirming a story first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
  • (12) This could deliver schemes such as Uckfield-Lewes, Bristol-Portishead, Skipton-Colne, Statford-upon-Avon-Honeybourne, Southampton-Hythe, Bere Alston-Okehampton and at least a score of other long-desired reopenings, each of which would generate significant new journey opportunities around the country and be obvious vote-winners in the constituencies affected.
  • (13) Slingo told the MPs that there is "increasing evidence in the last few months of that depletion of ice, in particular in the Bering and Kara seas, can plausibly impact on our winter weather and lead to colder winters over northern Europe".
  • (14) Helminthiasis foci are localized in seaside biotopes on the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea.
  • (15) The route, which used to be known as the North-east passage, runs along the Russian Arctic coast from Murmansk on the Barents Sea, along Siberia, to the Bering Strait.
  • (16) The seropositive pinnipeds were dispersed widely along the margins of the eastern Pacific rim, from the Bering Sea to the Santa Barbara Channel.
  • (17) It is suggested that the route of migrations was across the Bering Land Bridge, and further, that the migrations occurred during the period from late Oligocene to middle Miocene, 20-25 million years ago.
  • (18) An epidemiological study of the occurrence of angle-closure glaucoma was made under the Eskimos population of the Norton Sound and Bering Straits region of Alaska.
  • (19) Margaret Williams is the Managing Director of World Wildlife Fund's Kamchatka-Bering Sea Ecoregion Program, which is working on an international conservation strategy for this region.
  • (20) They are intrigued, not by its cargo, but by its route – for the Yong Sheng is headed in the opposite direction from the Netherlands and sailing towards the Bering Strait that separates Russia and Alaska.

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