What's the difference between bray and wray?

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.

Wray


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To reveal; to disclose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But the question of what Wray will do after his tenure as FBI director may prompt some skepticism, the former agent said.
  • (2) There are all sorts of permutations here, not least that founders Ed Wray and Andrew "Bert" Black – who still own 19% of the company – could retain their shares in a company CVC takes private.
  • (3) The youngest challenger, 42-year-old Norman Wray , represents the Ruptura de los 25 movement, which also encompasses many former government supporters who are now unhappy with the president.
  • (4) Professor Geoffrey Wood, University of Sheffield Beverley Woodburn, Ruskin College, Oxford David Wray, University of Northumbria Caroline Wright, University of Bristol Tessa Wright, London Metropolitan University Aylwin Yafele, Bournemouth University Olly Zanetti, Open University
  • (5) The WRAY live-vaccine strain gave no aro+ recombinants in crosses with aroA point mutations to one side of the insertion, indicating a deletion from Tn10 through the sites of these point mutations.
  • (6) A review of the historical development of oral contraceptives saw Pincus in the 50's revolutionizing steroid chemistry by using his weapons, eloquence and persuasion, to persuade the Searle Company; Syntex; John rock;, and Edris Rice-Wray to carry out research and clinical studies in the field of contraceptives.
  • (7) 55, 357 (1983)] and later expanded upon by Tofts and Wray.
  • (8) Wray’s choice to leave public service for a much more lucrative job as a criminal defense attorney will probably be viewed as a typical decision for many federal prosecutors, the former FBI agent who served in Philadelphia said.
  • (9) Wray worked as an assistant US attorney in Georgia and spent two years as the assistant attorney general in charge of the justice department’s criminal division, before returning to private practice.
  • (10) Wray was raised in New York and attended Phillips Academy, the same posh New England boarding school as the former presidents George Bush and George W Bush.
  • (11) As the search for Comey’s replacement kicked off, one former FBI official, Ron Hosko, said: “What some reasonable people might fear is that this might become a game of FBI Apprentice.” In a statement on Wednesday, Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, said America was “fortunate” that Wray had decided “he is willing to make this personal commitment to serve”.
  • (12) We previously hypothesized (L. V. Wray, M. M. Witte, R. C. Dickson, and M. I. Riley, Mol.
  • (13) comey cover up Further questions about Wray’s suitability for the FBI job may arise because a partner at the law firm he is poised to depart, King & Spalding, currently serves as an ethics counsel to the trust that holds Trump’s business assets.
  • (14) Jake Poinier, Wray’s high school friend, college roommate and best man, said Wray was a serious-minded student who was conservative but not politically active.
  • (15) In a statement Wednesday morning, Thomas O’Connor, the association’s president, did not endorse or oppose Wray’s nomination, but said the group “looks forward to meeting with Mr Wray” and that it was “critically important that the FBIAA understands his views on the FBI, special agents, and the criminal and national security threats that agents combat daily”.
  • (16) An infant girl with chronic eczema, recurrent infections, elevated IgE and impaired neutrophil chemotaxis appeared to belong to the group of patients described by Buckley, Wray & Belmaker (1972).
  • (17) But former FBI agents played down the significance of Wray’s link to a Trump associate.
  • (18) White called Wray “smart, independent” and “widely regarded as a strong leader”.
  • (19) Who is Christopher Wray, Trump's pick to replace Comey as FBI director?
  • (20) We have less freedom," says protester Carlotta Wray.

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