What's the difference between dory and gory?

Dory


Definition:

  • (n.) A European fish. See Doree, and John Doree.
  • (n.) The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also dore. See Pike perch.
  • (n.) A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal Read more Ennals’ son, Sir Paul Ennals, told the Guardian: “It was hardly surprising that the secret services establishment found them all [there were three Ennals brothers, Martin, David, and John] of interest throughout their lives – their careers focused upon defending the rights of minority groups, setting up organisations to combat injustice, founding the Anti-Apartheid Movement and speaking out for what they believed.” He added: “I don’t think such ideas and activities were extreme after the war, and they shouldn’t be now.” MI5 justified its targeting of individuals and organisations, including the Anti-Apartheid Movement, the National Council for Civil Liberties, and CND, on the grounds either that some individual members were members of the Communist party, or that the party was suspected of trying to infiltrate them.
  • (2) I had a week in New York before going out to Indiana and, as everybody did in those days, I went to Radio City Music Hall, and the movie playing was The Pajama Game , which had one of my favourite stars in it – Doris Day.
  • (3) While Auden and Britten are much grander characters than, say, Maggie Smith's nervy vicar's wife in Bed Among the Lentils or Thora Hird's Doris in A Cream Cracker Under the Settee trying to stave off the care home, they share the same disappointments – loneliness, self-doubt, age.
  • (4) Recent reports from this laboratory indicate that exposure of cholesterol-loaded macrophages to high density lipoprotein 3 (HDL3) stimulates not only cholesterol efflux, but also results in a two- to threefold increase in apoE accumulation in the media (Dory, L., 1989.
  • (5) "I have always been of the mind that the idea somehow Google had got through everything and now it was hunky-dory was a bit hopeful.
  • (6) • Mara And Dann, An Adventure, is published by Flamingo at £16.99 Life at a glance Doris May Lessing Born: October 22, 1919; Kermanshahan, Persia (now Iran).
  • (7) How she does it I have no idea.” Karen Kay, events fundraiser at the Rowans hospice, said: “Doris is an amazing lady and a huge inspiration.
  • (8) But I’m sorry, Mr Mayor, you have lied to us about enough other things that we are not going to take your word for it that things are just hunky dory in the building behind us.
  • (9) In Alfred and Emily (2008), Doris imagined different outcomes for them.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Doris Davis, eyewitness to the shooting of another man in the St Louis area.
  • (11) MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal Read more Born Edith Suschitzky in Vienna, she first came to the UK in 1927 to train as a Montessori teacher.
  • (12) At the G4G there were talks on how to envisage a Rubik's cube in four dimensions (which drew a huge round of applause), new methods of making shapes fit together, the launch of a puzzle game called Doris, and demonstrations of how laser cutting is changing wooden mechanical puzzles.
  • (13) Doris Lessing has always been a writer interested in the future, so I doubt this would come as any surprise to her at all.
  • (14) I never thought that we would end our days like this.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pippa Clewer, right, at her 92-year-old mother Doris’s bed.
  • (15) He and Doris Lessing will be discussing The Golden Notebook on Wednesday January 17 at the Newsroom, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1 at 7pm.
  • (16) As the prime minister used to do as chancellor when he was conning us that everything was hunky-dory and tickety-boo, we were constantly told how lucky we were to be in Britain, and not one of those other benighted countries such as Germany, where there is no growth.
  • (17) She is one of the voices in the new Disney Pixar film, Finding Dory , the sequel to Finding Nemo, due for release in 2016.
  • (18) They had a wonderful time at Cannes, were widely feted, and everything seems hunky dory today.
  • (19) Small angle x-ray diffraction patterns were recorded from isometrically contracting Limulus (horseshoe crab) telson levator muscle using a multiwire proportional-area detector on the storage ring DORIS.
  • (20) M. scoleciformis was found in the biliary bladder of the John dory, Zeus faber (on 1 from 4 fishes), M. formosus was found in the urinary bladder of the whiting Merlangius merlangus (on 2 from 9 fishes).

Gory


Definition:

  • (a.) Covered with gore or clotted blood.
  • (a.) Bloody; murderous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And Bannon may well get voted off this gory reality show entirely before long (or maybe, given current legal troubles , it will be Kushner).
  • (2) Now, 11 weeks on from the change in the Liberal leadership, it’s becoming the Coalition’s turn to decide whether staging a gory revenge tragedy is more important than being in government.
  • (3) The Georgian authorities said the town of Gori, 40 miles north of Tbilisi, had, in effect, fallen to the Russians, who were also advancing from the breakaway province of Abkhazia in the west into territory previously under Georgian control.
  • (4) Some internet users clearly find the unrelenting goriness of it all captivating – stonings, decapitations, throwing people off tall buildings, sticking severed heads on spikes.
  • (5) At the time, corridistas told their stories in the playful tone of a comic book or action movie, but he revelled in the savage reality of the underworld, peppering his songs with gory details of torture and execution.
  • (6) One of Propeller's most famous productions, its gory 2002 adaptation of the Henry VI plays , came with a tongue-in-cheek title, Rose Rage, and revelled in the works' murderous violence.
  • (7) A remarkable swirl of events at Fiorentina included a dawn police raid on the Florentine mansion of corrupt owner Alessandro Cecchi Gori.
  • (8) In particular the methodology proposed by Gori (1976) and Gori and Lynch (1978) for constant intervals, doses and rate may greatly overestimate the length of the "low-risk" interval for carbon monoxide concentration.
  • (9) "You may find some of these images distressing," the BBC announcer intones each night, before another orgy of gory propaganda to "do something" and not "stand idly by".
  • (10) Russian planes today bombed the Georgian city of Gori, near the South Ossetian border, leaving apartment buildings ruined and ablaze.
  • (11) As if to reinforce the image of "plucky Georgia" fighting against the odds, there have been TV images of the Georgian president, wearing a flak jacket, bundled away by his security guards during a visit to Gori as Russian aircraft buzzed overhead.
  • (12) Tomás lived up to his reputation as a hero to Barcelona bullfight fans with his first bull – being awarded the gory trophy of the bull's ears as cheering fans waved white handkerchiefs to express admiration.
  • (13) Scots wha hae wi’ Wallace bled, Scots wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome tae your gory bed, Or tae victorie.
  • (14) Scared and unhappy, Winterson went to collect her mother's books from the library – including Murder in the Cathedral, which her mother had assumed was "a gory story about nasty monks".
  • (15) The best diagnostic criterion proved to be the normalized increase of LVEF proposed by Goris.
  • (16) A fter the endless ramifications of the Lance Armstrong saga, cycling could happily have done without another insight into the gory details of doping from a few years back, but that is what has been on offer in a Madrid courtroom this week as the Operation Puerto trial – centred on Dr Eufemiano Fuentes, who faces charges of damaging public health by his activities in doping cyclists – has featured some key witnesses.
  • (17) Gori, a close friend of De Falco's, said his colleague was "really tired" after his midnight battle on the phone with Schettino, who is under arrest and accused of manslaughter and abandoning ship by prosecutors.
  • (18) They tweet about their experiences in the field, and publish their own private pictures – sometimes gory images of severed heads, sometimes mundane snaps of food and cats – often to appreciative audiences.
  • (19) Gory US magicians Penn (the tall one) and Teller (the silent one) are back with a new series of Penn & Teller: Fool Us.
  • (20) The Dawn app pumps out news of Isis advances, gory images, or frightening videos like Swords IV – creating the impression of a rampant and unstoppable force.