What's the difference between bray and dray?

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.

Dray


Definition:

  • (n.) A squirrel's nest.
  • (n.) A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens.
  • (n.) A kind of sledge or sled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mokyr and S. Dray, Cancer Res., 43: 3112-3119, 1983), namely: (a) the drug does not directly eradicate all tumor cells; (b) host T-cell-dependent antitumor immunity is also required for the curative effect; (c) the therapy of tumor bearers leads to the rapid appearance of an augmented antitumor immune potential in their hitherto immunosuppressed spleen; and (d) the cured mice are resistant to a subsequent challenge with at least 300-fold the minimal lethal tumor dose.
  • (2) Dray is suing the hospital and doctors for malpractice.
  • (3) Her right to bodily integrity and freedom was taken away with a swipe of a pen – the director of maternal and fetal medicine, Dr James J Ducey, wrote in Dray's medical records , "I have decided to override her refusal to have a C-section."
  • (4) (Treating women as criminals for what they do during pregnancy is not uncommon – Dray was told that refusing the C-section was child abuse and that her child would be taken away from her.)
  • (5) We present here a mathematical model that accounts for the various proportions of plasma membrane constituents occurring in the lysosomal membrane of rat fibroblasts (Draye, J.-P., J. Quintart, P. J. Courtoy, and P. Baudhuin.
  • (6) We have recently described the effects of riboflavin deficiency on the metabolism of dicarboxylic acids (Draye et al.
  • (7) 170: 395-403; Draye, J.-P., P. J. Courtoy, J. Quintart, and P. Baudhuin.
  • (8) But thanks to American policy that trumps "fetal rights" over women's personhood, Dray's case may not be as clear cut as it seems.
  • (9) Wise, M. B. Mokyr, and S. Dray, Cancer Res., 49:3613-3619, 1989).
  • (10) I hope Dray wins her case, and that our country will start to recognize the humanity of pregnant women, instead of just cutting them open when we disagree with their personal medical decisions.
  • (11) Yet that's just what happened to 35-year-old Rinat Dray when a doctor at Staten Island University Hospital performed a C-section on the Brooklyn mother, against her will and verbal protests.
  • (12) As late as 2006 when the brewery closed, horses and drays were still used to deliver beer to pubs a mile or two away and the site was home to a live ram and a flock of geese.
  • (13) PGE2 was measured by radioimmunoassay using Dray antiserum prior to and 1 week after starting a fast supplemented by 320 cal derived from 30 g of carbohydrate, 45 g protein, and 2 g essential fatty acids.
  • (14) But it's not just implicit pressure that women feel: explicit violations like the one that happened to Dray have been happening for decades.