What's the difference between dory and rory?

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).

Rory


Definition:

  • (a.) Dewy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The local MP, Rory Stewart, a mover and shaker on the broadband project, told me that he was desperate to get telehealth into Cumbria, but regretfully felt that it was not immediately doable, because the local council and healthcare community did not yet have the necessary expertise.
  • (2) Nushra Mansuri , professional officer at the British Association of Social Workers Vasilios Ioakimidis , secretary of the European Association of Schools of Social Work and programme director of MA international social work and community development at the University of Durham Rory Truell , secretary-general of the International Federation of Social Workers Discussion commissioned and controlled by the Guardian, hosted to a brief agreed with Cafcass.
  • (3) Rory Kinnear is captivating as the journalist covering a massacre.
  • (4) After expressing frustration with Stoke City's style of play, the dreadful standard of the game and the lack of width available on a pitch narrowed to exploit Rory Delap's throw-ins, Tony Mowbray finally realised that a sixth defeat in seven matches might also owe something to West Bromwich Albion's shortcomings.
  • (5) Gray said he and his brother, Rory, who lives in Germany, had met Wood and been in contact by email during her investigation.
  • (6) He tweeted on Wednesday: “I did not pull out of presenting the Rory Peck Awards - they dropped me.” The awards were set up in 1995 in memory of freelance cameraman Rory Peck, who was killed in Moscow in 1993.
  • (7) When Rory McIlroy is hitting hole-in-ones and Carl Frampton is swinging knock-out punches, we cheer together.
  • (8) Rory Stewart in Iraq in 2004 during his time as deputy governorate co-ordinator of Maysan province.
  • (9) Things are different now: wonks observe that we’ve got lucky with the chairs – Margaret Hodge on the public accounts committee (PAC), Rory Stewart on defence, Sarah Wollaston on health – but committee work is flattered mainly by comparison with everything else.
  • (10) Rory Cooper, a Republican strategist who served as an aide to former House majority leader Eric Cantor, also said the rest of the field should distance itself from Trump “early and often”.
  • (11) Ringo Starr, Elton John, Ronnie Wood, Rory Gallagher and Brian May were among the extraordinary cast who joined him for his come-back album, Puttin' On The Style, which was launched in grand style with a party in the south of France.
  • (12) Fittingly, for an actor playing a TV news reporter who is called to the scene, it is Rory Kinnear who best articulates the conflicting emotions around such an event.
  • (13) We’ll leave you with this live stream of a rally in Miami: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 10.14pm GMT Santa Monica The Guardian’s Rory Carroll (@ rorycarroll 72) has been at an event in Santa Monica, California: After lighting up a Hollywood boulevard earlier in the day, dozens of women are dancing through downtown Santa Monica under glorious sunshine, drawing cheers, applause and curious glances.
  • (14) A former economics editor of the Independent who is married to the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones , Coyle was tipped as a leading contender for the job earlier this month .
  • (15) The MoD needs to understand better the links between deployment, alcohol misuse and violent behaviour, especially domestic violence.” Rory Stewart MP, the committee chairman, said: “The armed forces is perhaps the most impressive and effective institution in Britain today, and an inspiration to the rest of the country.
  • (16) Rory Stewart, a minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, said in a statement released over the weekend: “There are clear benefits of EU membership for our natural environment, both at home and abroad.
  • (17) In Cumbria, the new Tory MP for Penrith and the Borders, Rory Stewart, is trying to improve the provision of broadband.
  • (18) Southcliffe, a Channel 4 drama about the aftermath of a series of shootings in a small town, also picked up supporting actor and actress nods for Rory Kinnear and Shirley Henderson and is in the running in the mini-series category.
  • (19) Rory Albanese (@RoryAlbanese) I only wish I was there so I could tongue kiss @StephenAtHome the way he deserves.
  • (20) Rory Carroll reports: Asked whether this launch is a response to pressure to monetize, Zuckberg laughs it off.