What's the difference between cray and dray?

Cray


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Crayer

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Habituation, one of the simplest behavioral paradigms for studying memory, has recently been examined on the cellular level in the gill-withdrawal reflex in the mollusc Aplysia and in the escape response in cray-fish.
  • (2) Two groups of old-age pensioners in St. Paul's Cray were screened for physical illness, social and family connexions, and personal activities.
  • (3) In fact, the efficiency of this new method allows us to assess structures on the VAX as well as the CRAY.
  • (4) Timothy Cray, prosecuting, asked the serviceman, who was known only as Soldier Y: "In your unit was there any statement for exception or turning a blind eye to these orders as far as ammunition is concerned?"
  • (5) The previous media manager at the ABC was Sally Cray, who now works as a senior adviser to the communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull.
  • (6) The classification is fast (i.e., 0.1 Cray CPU second per sequence), as it only involves a forward-feeding through the networks.
  • (7) In these systems, near-Cray compute power is combined with ultrahigh-speed 3-dimensional graphics for unparalleled visualization of molecular processes and other complex events.
  • (8) Timothy Cray, prosecuting, suggested that Nightingale would not have been able to do his job in Afghanistan in 2009 had he been susceptible to memory losses.
  • (9) The gigabit network would be used to tie the dose calculations done with the Cray Y-MP at the Research Triangle to the graphics engine at the Department of Computer Science (Pixel-Planes 5) and the medical workstation at Radiation Oncology.
  • (10) You could run that through a Cray computer for hours without working out what it means.
  • (11) "No soldier, no matter what his experience or what unit he is attached to, is above the law," prosecutor Timothy Cray told the court.
  • (12) Membrane currents in calcium type muscle membrane of the cray-fish Astacus fluviatilis were analysed by a method in which a membrane microarea was isolated by circulating sucrose rings contacting the fibre perpendicular to the fibre surface.2.
  • (13) 12.50am BST Predictions The Kings played what was one of the most insane 30 minutes of hockey I have ever witnessed on Wednesday, and somehow it wasn't enough - how we are here tonight is just cray cray.
  • (14) But Cray said Nightingale seemed to be saying that someone else might have put the gun and ammunition in his room.
  • (15) The prosecution barrister, Tim Cray, said the crown had no reason to counter the accusation that Mahmood lied and did not oppose the judge's decision.
  • (16) Damian Cray sucked into the engines of a jumbo jet on a tea trolley.
  • (17) The pharmacology of Avena sativa has been investigated in laboratory animals following a report that tincture of Avena sativa reduced the craying for cigarettes in man.
  • (18) After a total training time of seven Cray central processing unit (CPU) hours, the system has reached a predictive accuracy of 90%.
  • (19) gm accepts sequence data, organism-specific consensus matrices and codon asymmetry tables, and a set of parameters as input; it returns a set of models describing the structures of candidate genes in the sequence and a corresponding set of predicted amino acid sequences as output, gm is implemented in C, and has been tested on Sun, VAX, Sequent, MIPS and Cray computers.
  • (20) Cray asked: "Given the nature of your unit was there any special exemptions in terms of members of the unit having firearms for their own use that had not been issued by the unit?"

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.

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