What's the difference between dram and dray?

Dram


Definition:

  • (n.) A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains.
  • (n.) A minute quantity; a mite.
  • (n.) As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison.
  • (n.) A Persian daric.
  • (v. i. & t.) To drink drams; to ply with drams.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You’d think he’d just performed a one-man am-dram re-enactment of the Saving Private Ryan trailer.
  • (2) There were no significant differences between the groups in reduction in alcohol consumption, but patients in the DRAMS group showed a significantly greater reduction in a logarithmic measure of serum gamma-glutamyl-transpeptidase than patients in the group receiving advice only.
  • (3) Aspects of dram shop imposed by 27 states and the District of Columbia are described, with emphasis on recent developments in California.
  • (4) Just down the road is the Talisker Whisky Distillery, while if you fancy a dram and a tune, the inn in Carbost has regular live music.
  • (5) At these two wooden one-bedroom cottages on the shores of Loch Tay, you can listen to the gently lapping water as the sun goes down or snuggle up with a dram in front of the woodburning stove.
  • (6) The visiting manager duly looked almost as disappointed as Taylor after Afobe’s rather am-dram tumble in the area under Colback’s challenge but, despite slight contact, the referee failed to buy the resultant penalty appeals.
  • (7) Differences among states in observed intervention were not related to dram shop law, but did appear to be related to prior level of intervention, type of establishment and business volume.
  • (8) The assay was performed by adding 50 microliters of cell concentrate of an overnight culture of TA98 resuspended in the appropriate buffer; 50 microliters of the same buffer or S9 mix; and 2 microliters of mutagen or dimethyl sulfoxide to a 1-dram vial or 13 x 150-mm test tube.
  • (9) Fahey teamed up with Marcella Detroit to mix industrial techno with bright funk (think Zola Jesus), while styled like Siouxsie Sioux starring in an am-dram Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
  • (10) The scheme was evaluated by randomly assigning 104 heavy or problem drinkers to three groups - a group participating in the DRAMS scheme (n = 34), a group given simple advice only (n = 32) and a non-intervention control group (n = 38).
  • (11) The procedure utilized virus-infected human fetal diploid cells or brain tissue smears in the bottom of 1-dram glass vials, antigen was detected through the use of intermediate HVH antisera produced in rabbits or hamsters and cross-absorbed with the HVH heterotype, and (125)I-labeled anti-species (rabbit or hamster) globulins produced in goats were used for detection of immune complexes.
  • (12) Monoclonal antibody, specific for the adenovirus group-reactive hexon antigen, was used for the detection of this agent by immunofluorescence 24 and 48 hours after inoculation of HEp-2 cell monolayers in 1-dram shell vials after low-speed centrifugation (700 X g, 30 minutes).
  • (13) He doesn't paint, draw or sculpt so people tend to call him a curator but what he does seems both more spirited and more human than that dusty word suggests (in the watery fantasy of Venice it is tempting to think of him as an inspired am-dram Prospero).
  • (14) Only 14 patients in the DRAMS group completed the full DRAMS procedure.
  • (15) Mating occurred readily in this strain, even when the adults were confined in 8-dram glass shell vials.
  • (16) Afterwards have a celebratory dram at Maxwell's erstwhile local, the Glenelg Inn ( glenelg-inn.com ).
  • (17) A monoclonal antibody was used to detect an early antigen of cytomegalovirus (CMV) by fluorescence 16 h after inoculation of MRC-5 monolayers in 1-dram (ca.
  • (18) Art, am-dram, film-making and comedy are catered for by societies.
  • (19) Recommendations include broadening the focus of dram shop liability to include the prevention of alcohol-related problems.
  • (20) Please don't make it one' Read more Demonstrators are furious over reports such as Transparency International Armenia’s, which claimed that the company spent 450 million-drams (about £600,000) on luxury cars.

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.