What's the difference between buccaneer and prey?

Buccaneer


Definition:

  • (n.) A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries.
  • (v. i.) To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Buccaneers 17-42 Saints When Drew Brees runs in for a touchdown in the fourth, that's pretty much end of the game.
  • (2) Later, Lord Birt said he admired the "bold, buccaneering spirit" of Rupert Murdoch but warned that Sky was "a financial behemoth now dwarfing other players, including the BBC, financially".
  • (3) The FBI investigated threats of violence made against Malcolm Glazer and his family around the time the late owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was acquiring Manchester United, according to newly released documents.
  • (4) Anderson, the perennial new-season hope of the United faithful, was the midfield pivot who also made buccaneering runs at goal, while Zaha's pace, and his natural inclination to drift into the area whenever play shifted away from him, nearly yielded the former Palace man a goal.
  • (5) Mr Glazer’s long-established estate succession plan has assured the Buccaneers will remain with the Glazer family for generations to come.
  • (6) The Patriots gave up a seventh-round pick plus the rights to Jeff Demps, the Olympic sprinter who claimed a silver medal in the 4x100m relay at London 2012 , in order to obtain Blount from the Buccaneers in April of last year.
  • (7) He bought the National Football League's Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1995, paying a then record sum of $192m, even though the Bucs were a dismal team.
  • (8) A third-round pick from the 2002 draft is set to start for the Buccaneers this year.
  • (9) NFC Wildcards: San Francisco 49ers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers .
  • (10) They were of questionable vintage but against a backdrop of spongy-white plaster and dark wood beams, their buccaneering credentials appeared unimpeachable.
  • (11) Buccaneers 17-42 Saints But, as they say, it wasn't as close as that score indicates.
  • (12) At Seattle, Steven Hauschka kicked a 27-yard field goal with 8:11 left in overtime as the Seahawks overcame a 21-point deficit to beat the Buccaneers.
  • (13) In the postwar period he argued passionately for western Europe to come together, to promote free trade, and to build institutions which would endure so that our continent would never again see such bloodshed.” Vote Leave campaigners frequently paint themselves as making a patriotic argument for a buccaneering, free-trading Britain to cut itself loose from the ties of the EU.
  • (14) Several current and former Sky Sports employees claim Keys and Gray were a double act who were emblematic of a Sky Sports culture that characterised the broadcaster's buccaneering early days but which had failed to move with the rest of the company as it grew to become the biggest media force in Britain.
  • (15) Buccaneers to win And the rest Here are the rest of this week's games.
  • (16) Manchester United swept into the EFL Cup semi-finals with the kind of buccaneering display missing from their recent history.
  • (17) Some of the same buccaneering spirit is at work in Company Theatre .
  • (18) 6:37 3rd Qr Denver Broncos 31-0 Oakland Raiders, 0:15 3rd Qr Buffalo Bills 3-16 New England Patriots 2:33 3rd Qr Tampa Bay Buccaneers 17-28 New Orleans Saints 28, 6:35, 3rd Qr San Francisco 49ers 17-7 Arizona Cardinals, 6:13, 3rd Qr Kansas City Chiefs 24-14 San Diego Chargers, end of 3rd Qr St Louis Rams3-13 Seattle Seahawks, 5:00 3rd Qr Updated at 11.35pm GMT 11.28pm GMT TOUCHDOWN!
  • (19) He told a conference of the National Association of Pension Funds that shareholders, including pension funds, would need to take their place alongside regulators as a check on the excesses of buccaneering managers.
  • (20) 2) Tampa Bay Buccaneers Last season: 7-9 What next for the Muscle Hamster?

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.

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