What's the difference between cateran and marauder?
Cateran
Definition:
(n.) A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the day it is only humans tap-tapping away with their hammers, building a hide above the Cateran trail to allow walkers to catch a glimpse of the creature that engineered this bog.
Marauder
Definition:
(v.) A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who pillages.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Di Matteo has made bold selections before, not least when he asked Ramires to play on the left of midfield against Barcelona in an attempt to nullify the threat posed by the marauding Daniel Alves down the flank.
(2) Despite the marauding excellence of the captain, Philip Lahm, and the reflexes and calmed poise of the goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, Germany's weakness is defence.
(3) The rhetoric that sees innocent people labelled “marauding,” “swarms” and “cockroaches” is what makes it permissible for society to imprison them, and it should come as no surprise that women and children are at particular risk from punitive immigration laws.
(4) Only seconds before, he had bailed out the left-back José Holebas after another marauding Antonio run.
(5) As the distinguished Guardian editor CP Scott said: “Comment is free but facts are sacred.” Hammond actually used the word “marauding” when commenting about those “desperate” migrants whom we have seen on television threatening safety and security near the Channel Tunnel.
(6) These are the people some of our political leaders have in mind when they talk of swarms , plagues and marauders.
(7) His parents were immigrants from Europe - his Jewish father escaped the Nazis, his Polish mother escaped the marauding Russians after they pushed back from Germany.
(8) 1.35pm GMT 4 mins: This has been a pretty passive start by Newcastle and Jack Wilshere has already had two opportunities to maraud forward and he nearly wins a corner on the second occasion.
(9) There was a note of desperation from the Indonesian foreign affairs minister, Retno Maraud , when she was interviewed just before last month’s Bali round of regional ministers on how to manage the movement of the human tide.
(10) Soldiers went on looting sprees, and 1 victim of their marauding became a 12-year old boy who got shot for refusing to part with his bike.
(11) Its exhibition on the marauding Scandinavians will showcase the new gallery in the most spectacular way – with a real longship.
(12) On the other is Isis, a marauding force of global jihadists, who have claimed a homeland from the ruins of the once feared police states of Iraq and Syria.
(13) Luke Harding was the Guardian's correspondent in India at the time: at one village, he reported that policemen actively co-ordinated the attacks, accompanying marauders as they torched fields and shooting at the Muslim farmers who tried to stop them.
(14) Mark Noble had darted through the centre and his pass ricocheted off Chester and Tom Huddlestone before the ball reached the marauding Mohamed Diamé in front of goal, the Senegalese controlling it with his arm as he careered forward and poked his shot over the advancing goalkeeper.
(15) Ariel was barely a year old when Bedouin marauders threatened their home.
(16) Aran Khanna’s app – called Marauder’s Map in tribute to the Harry Potter books – showed that users of Facebook Messenger could pinpoint the exact locations of people they were talking to.
(17) It was the first of two such marauding first-half runs from the industrious midfielder and 10 minutes later he did much the same again.
(18) The Ivorian had a couple of marauding forward runs but defensively he looked like he was treading water and his substitution said it all.
(19) The fourth season of Game of Thrones is looming like an armour-clanking phalanx, ready to maraud into your social life from 7 April onwards.
(20) The statement said there was no evidence that the police had caused Ian's sudden and untimely death and that he had been caught in a crowd of marauding protesters.