What's the difference between excursion and foray?

Excursion


Definition:

  • () A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.
  • () A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country.
  • () A wandering from a subject; digression.
  • () Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Increased ventilatory excursions with constant inspired CO2 levels did not cause any elevation of IOT, but a minimal compensatory drop in IOT below resting values occurred when increased ventilatory excursions were discontinued.
  • (2) The LVOR in the presence of visual targets (VLVOR) was tested by recording human vertical eye and head movements during self-generated vertical linear oscillation (averaging 2.7 Hz at peak excursion of 3.2 cm) while subjects alternately fixated targets at D = 36, 142, and 424 cm.
  • (3) During five separate excursions (1989-90), observations were made of occurrence, harvesting, use, and marketing of psychoactive fungi by local Thai natives (males and females, adults and children), foreign tourists, and German immigrants.
  • (4) Angiographic features felt to indicate valve tearing were present following 17 of 25 procedures and included increased excursion or straightening of leaflets, localized change in leaflet motion (flail leaflet), and the presence of an additional contrast jet through the valve.
  • (5) Before and one, two, three, and seven days after the experiment, the following measures were made: (1) superficial masseter and anterior temporalis muscle tenderness (pain threshold), (2) jaw movement (opening and lateral excursion), and (3) current pain level for the right and left sides of the jaw.
  • (6) In 10 dogs with acute posterior wall ischemia the B-C excursion (aneurysmal bulging) increased (P less than 0.01), but the mean systolic posterior wall velocity and posterior wall excursion decreased (P less than 0.01).
  • (7) As a user changes the position of the joints of the simulated hand, the simulation displays the new tendon path and the excursion of the tendon for the new position of the hand.
  • (8) Inspiratory and expiratory chest X-rays in children often appear to show a very similar diaphragmatic excursion and, unless the object is radiodense, the determination of foreign body aspiration is frequently not possible.
  • (9) We measured pressure excursions at the airway opening and at the alveoli (PA) as well as measured the regional distribution of PA during forced oscillations of six excised dog lungs while frequency (f[2-32 Hz]), tidal volume (VT [5-80 ml]), and mean transpulmonary pressure (PL [25, 10, and 6 cm H2O]) were varied.
  • (10) Comparing with formerly reported data for adults, it was thought that the lateral excursions of children with primary dentition shifted more forward and more horizontally.
  • (11) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
  • (12) We conclude that the observed change in circulating metabolite or hormone concentration is independent of the size of meal eaten, but the duration of the excursion depends on meal size.
  • (13) The box means he does not have to be hooded for his excursions.
  • (14) The position of both working and non-working side molars during chewing tended to be inferior to that during lateral excursion.
  • (15) The recordings from an earlier study regarding the respiratory depth and rate changes induced by exposure to 4% CO2 in air in 13 babies with PM age varying between 32 and 43 weeks were reexamined with regard to the pattern of thoracic abdominal breathing excursion in breathing immediately prior to the CO2 exposure and the type of response induced.
  • (16) All three types of bar attachment show the least value of lateral excursion.
  • (17) In both excursion magnitudes and directions of initial rotation, the elderly showed greater variability than the young.
  • (18) At both 16 and 20 weeks of age, however, preferences for motion were determined exclusively by the velocity of the movement and were unaffected by the excursion of the bar.
  • (19) The aortic root dimension and aortic valve excursion of 43 normal fetuses were recorded with M-mode echocardiography and the measured dimensions correlated with noncardiac measurements (biparietal diameter, head circumference, abdominal circumference, and femur length) and cardiac measurements (diastolic biventricular inner dimension, diastolic left ventricular internal dimension, and mitral valve excursion).
  • (20) The proximal end of the TEC system consists of a mechanical housing which controls the vacuum, the rotating cutter (750 RPM) and the cutter excursion (4 cm).

Foray


Definition:

  • (n.) A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.
  • (v. t.) To pillage; to ravage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The pope, whose foray into diplomacy helped spur negotiations between the US and Cuba , is expected to address the topic in a speech before the UN in New York in September.
  • (2) But the bedeviled foray also works as a potent allegory on the slow, vice-like workings of conscience, as guilt hunts down the protagonists with the shrieking remorselessness of Greek furies.
  • (3) So too does the new, smartly packaged version that forms part of the organisation's first foray into food retail.
  • (4) The Likud leader has the power, and possibly the inclination, to fatally undermine Obama's Middle East foray.
  • (5) The two women have worked together pretty much throughout their careers, from Saturday Night Live (highlights include Poehler playing Hillary Clinton to Fey's Sarah Palin) to their forays into film, Baby Mama and, of course, Mean Girls .
  • (6) Ghana’s first foray into opposition territory did not arrive until the seventh minute, when Asamoah Gyan surged away down the right and swung a cross in towards Jordan Ayew.
  • (7) Alexander's foray from the beltway to address hackers at Caesar's Palace had been compared to entering the lion's den.
  • (8) What can we infer from Lidl's foray into everyday British life – that something once a source of ignominy has become normalised?
  • (9) Arsenal's solitary foray into the transfer market during the January window was reserved for the final evening, when Arsène Wenger completed the £8.5m signing of the Málaga left-back, Ignacio "Nacho" Monreal.
  • (10) This brief foray into the Sixes is a new departure for Cavendish, who was a regular on the circuit as an amateur; until Ghent he had never raced a Six-Day as a professional.
  • (11) 6.54pm BST Neymar has company as he goes on a foray into the Chilean half.
  • (12) Those long enough in the tooth will remember that the Standard's former owner, Associated Newspapers , made a financially disastrous foray into TV back in the mid-1990s with the launch and closure of Channel One, a cable station it then futuristically billed as its "electronic newspaper" for the capital.
  • (13) Cleland has worked for the Bank of England for nearly 20 years having studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford and after a brief, abortive foray into accountancy.
  • (14) Sunderland boost survival hopes with late win over Manchester United Read more Two minutes later the Bournemouth winger Ritchie, having seen Imbula and Afellay’s forays into goal of the month territory, filed his very own contender.
  • (15) This was Clinton’s first direct foray into politics since she stood down as secretary of state, and her first visit to Iowa since the state’s Democrats delivered a devastating political blow to her campaign nearly seven years ago.
  • (16) The proposal, which has echoes of a policy recently espoused by Labour, was contained in an address that marked one of Justin Welby's most significant forays into public policy since be was enthroned last month as the new leader of the Church of England.
  • (17) ITV has made forays into building its production capability under Crozier – earlier this year deals were struck to buy Norwegian firm Mediacircus and a £17m agreement was reached to buy Graham Norton's So Television – however it is growth in the massive US market that is considered critical.
  • (18) And the groundbreaking forays into popular culture - his examinations of the British seaside postcard and boys' comics - and the revered polemical essays appeared in periodicals such as Horizon and Polemic.
  • (19) •As a tireless worker for community relations, Akbar Dad Khan felt well qualified to take issue with Nick Clegg's foray into the minefield of immigration.
  • (20) One of our first forays, I Live with Models , is produced by The Office’s Ash Atalla.