What's the difference between bellow and bray?

Bellow


Definition:

  • (v.) To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull.
  • (v.) To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor.
  • (v.) To roar; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound.
  • (v. t.) To emit with a loud voice; to shout; -- used with out.
  • (n.) A loud resounding outcry or noise, as of an enraged bull; a roar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To give variations in the peak flow-rate (from pulsatile to intermediate to non-pulsatile), three types of blood pump (piston-bellows, screw, and centrifugal) were applied to dogs.
  • (2) Partition coefficients for anesthetic circuit components (masks, bellows, bags, airways, and circuit tubes) consistently ranked halothane greater than isoflurane greater than sevoflurane greater than I-653, suggesting a reverse order of washin and washout rates for an anesthetic circuit constructed from similar components.
  • (3) She tried to rescue him from accusations of an apparent comparison of Israel to Islamic State, but a Jewish MP leaving in tears after being bellowed at by a Corbynite is all anyone will remember of Labour and Jewishness.
  • (4) The performance was not without some good‑natured heckling, largely involving bellowed chants of "We want you to stay" from the assembled playing staff.
  • (5) Water-sealed spirometer (Harvard), dry bellow wedge spirometer (Vitalograph) and computerized pneumotachograph (Gould), all of them satisfying the ATS recommendations were compared.
  • (6) Chosen by impressive writers and critics – including Elizabeth Bowen, Philip Larkin, George Steiner, Saul Bellow, AS Byatt, Ruth Rendell, John Carey – these shortlists demanded, at least, some respect.
  • (7) Bellows is known for his powerful paintings representing the hardship and desperation and grittiness of life in New York as it emerged in to the 20th century.
  • (8) Each time the home secretary referred to numbers of extra staff being drafted in to sort out the backlog, there were bellows of "You sacked that many!"
  • (9) Fans bellowed “Beat The Heat!”, turning a summertime slogan into a mission statement and a double-entendre.
  • (10) Coquelin is relatively new to the side but at one point he could be seen bellowing at his team-mates, demanding they did not lower their standards.
  • (11) In the end the Chelsea players who had hoped to conquer the world were left slumped on the turf as the Brazilian drums pounded and the raucous hordes of Corinthians supporters bellowed their celebration into the night sky.
  • (12) All examinations were performed with a half--open dry bellows spirometer.
  • (13) It is, however, the perfect place in which to contemplate the bellowing horror of 19th-century rural-industrial injustice.
  • (14) Leicester survive late scare against Swansea to secure first win of season Read more Conte, wearing a black armband in memory of those who lost their lives in the earthquake which struck central Italy on Wednesday, never stopped bellowing instructions at any point, even when the game was clearly won.
  • (15) All parts subject to wear, such as filter, tubings, and bellows, are commercially available through the medical equipment market.
  • (16) Expiration occurs by opening the diaphragm bellows to the atmosphere.
  • (17) Allen cites a list of actors, including Jeff Daniels (Purple Rose of Cairo), Patricia Clarkson (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and Dianne Wiest (Hannah and Her Sisters), who Taylor persuaded him to use, as well as being able to convince already well-known personalities such as Saul Bellow, Marshall McLuhan and Susan Sontag to make cameo appearances.
  • (18) During the second period of IMO the level of AVP in plasma decreased even bellow the control values which was accompanied by water diuresis.
  • (19) In 1949, Saul Bellow went to a cocktail party hosted by Cyril Connolly, and found his preconceptions of literary England being undermined: “Although I don’t judge the inverted with harshness, still it is rather difficult to go to London thinking of Dickens and Hardy to say nothing of Milton and Marx and land in the midst of fairies.” Most of the people I’ve mentioned were living their lives more or less openly.
  • (20) After his death the obituaries proclaimed Bellows one of the greatest of all American painters – a man more famous at the time than his friend and contemporary Edward Hopper.

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.