What's the difference between fact and lore?

Fact


Definition:

  • (n.) A doing, making, or preparing.
  • (n.) An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance.
  • (n.) Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.
  • (n.) The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
  • (2) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
  • (3) In addition, despite the fact that the differences constitutes an information bias, the bias occurs in the same direction and magnitude in all the various subgroups and thus is nondifferential.
  • (4) In fact, the addition of conditioned medium obtained by 48 hr preincubation of isolated monocytes with 10% PF-382 supernatant (M-CM2) or the concomitant addition of supernatant from PF-382 cells (PF-382-CM) and from unstimulated monocytes (M-CM1) are capable of fully replacing the presence of monocytes in the BFU-E assay.
  • (5) In fact, you might read it as a signal … that the president might well lose on this,” she said.
  • (6) I forgave him because I know for a fact that he wasn't in his right mind," she said.
  • (7) The fact that IL-3, GM-CSF, and IL-5 regulate basophil function and viability in vitro demonstrates possible mechanisms for the regulation of basophil function and viability in IgE-mediated reactions (especially in late-phase reactions) in vivo by these factors.
  • (8) This was due to the fact that stale bread was fed ad lib, rather than concentrates.
  • (9) In fact, the distribution of [3H]oleate between plasma membranes and unilamellar vesicles of lipids extracted from these membranes was in favor of the lipids, indicating the absence of a detectable amount of binding to a putative fatty acid binding protein in plasma membranes.
  • (10) The facts are that the vulnerable children of this country remain largely unprotected.
  • (11) That's, in fact, just what Reed Brody was thinking.
  • (12) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
  • (13) Results of detailed studies on tissue reactions to Cysticercus bovis in the heart of cattle, together with a comparison of findings in animals with spontaneous and experimental infection, and an evaluation of tissue reactions in relation to the location, morphology and morphogenesis of C. bovis provided evidence for the fact that in general, the response of the heart to the presence of C. bovis was an inflammatory reaction characterized by the origin of a pseudoepithelial border and a zone of granulation tissue.
  • (14) This fact suggested that TCTFP may be metabolized intensively by glutathione (GSH) conjugation and therefore, like hexachlorobutadiene, would be expected to be nephrotoxic.
  • (15) Gordon Brown believes that the fact of the G20 summit has persuaded many tax havens, such as Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to indicate that they will adopt a more open approach.
  • (16) These differences point to the fact that the mechanisms that regulate satellite cell mitotic and fusion behavior are also not the same in all muscles.
  • (17) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
  • (18) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
  • (19) The fact that proteolytic activity could be detected within 2 days at 7 degrees C is significant, since bulk cooled milk is normally held for 3 to 4 days at temperatures between 4 and 7 degrees C at farms or factories prior to processing.
  • (20) This, however will not result in normal lower leg bones, as can be concluded from the fact that spontaneous fractures have occurred partly even in the locomotor apparatus after the pseudarthroses had healed.

Lore


Definition:

  • (n.) The space between the eye and bill, in birds, and the corresponding region in reptiles and fishes.
  • (n.) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.
  • (obs. imp. & p. p.) Lost.
  • (v. t.) That which is or may be learned or known; the knowledge gained from tradition, books, or experience; often, the whole body of knowledge possessed by a people or class of people, or pertaining to a particular subject; as, the lore of the Egyptians; priestly lore; legal lore; folklore.
  • (v. t.) That which is taught; hence, instruction; wisdom; advice; counsel.
  • (v. t.) Workmanship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Currently, the US contains around 1,500 of the expansive “malls” of suburban consumer lore.
  • (2) Lib Dem MP Lorely Burt said the party was "stuck between a rock and a hard place".
  • (3) Start to care.” It has eight guides , most of whom give two-hour walks with a mix of local lore and their personal experience.
  • (4) In a country addicted to novelty and invention, he was proceeding to supply an instant lore of allegory, myth and fable.
  • (5) Bush's fantastical lyrics, influenced by children's literature, esoteric mystical knowledge, daydreams and the lore and legends of old Albion, seemed irrelevant, and deficient in street-cred at a time of tower-block social realism and agit-prop.
  • (6) Aboriginal people are obligated to maintain a connection to country to sustain spiritual beliefs, customary activities and traditional lore.
  • (7) It stamps into public lore an image that so fixates conservative opinion – that of the negligent parent, the one who might profess to care as much about their children as you or I, but is just waiting for society's back to be turned before smoking all over them.
  • (8) When we look at our favourite television shows, they've all stayed the same; stasis is part of television lore.
  • (9) Peak I stimulated and peak II inhibited the enzyme (Rodríguez de Lores Arnaiz and Antonelli de Gómez de Lima, Neurochem Res 11:933-947, 1986).
  • (10) Regardless, his 11-pitch at-bat against Clayton Kershaw in Game Six of the NLCS which set the stage for his implosion is now a moment of St Louis lore.
  • (11) Maz Kanata 'used telekinetic powers' in Star Wars: The Force Awakens Read more As a radical shift in Star Wars lore, such a change might have had the potential to make Han failing to shoot first in the “special edition” of 1977’s Star Wars look relatively inconsequential.
  • (12) The nature of feather inclusions was characterized in 32 psittacine birds (30 cockatoos, one peach-faced lovebird (Agapornis roseicollis), and one red-lored Amazon parrot (Amazona autumnalis autumnalis] with naturally-acquired psittacine beak and feather disease.
  • (13) Lorely Burt, parliamentary private secretary (PPS) to Danny Alexander, spoke out against military action in the debate and chose not to vote.
  • (14) SLAP HAFFEY said one, HAPLESS HAFFEY another - and in spite of such legendary predecessors in the lore as Harry Rennie, John Thomson and Jimmy Cowan, Scotland's reputation for insecure goalkeeping took root there and then.
  • (15) One version of tech lore has it that JVC's welcoming attitude towards adult content on VHS was the reason it won out in the end.
  • (16) Thus, contrary to popular myth and clinical lore, the overrepresentation of young adoptees in clinical settings is not attributable solely to the fact that adoptees are more troubled.
  • (17) Tips: Hook a mackerel and fry it for dinner just off the Cabot Trail, and learn to make Acadian potato pancakes for $22pp while savouring the cultural lore of Cape Breton.
  • (18) It made a most enduring impression upon my boyish mind which was my very first impulse to choosing chorea as my virgin contribution to medical lore.
  • (19) Jeter asks: “Why doesn’t he just shut up?” Rodriguez helped create a new phrase in Mets lore – “24 plus one” – which was the verbiage used by then Mets GM Steve Phillips to describe why the team had opted out of the Rodriguez free-agent sweepstakes in 2000.
  • (20) Once immersed in the scene, the lure and the lore of the tube proved hard to resist.