What's the difference between fard and faro?

Fard


Definition:

  • (n.) Paint used on the face.
  • (v. t.) To paint; -- said esp. of one's face.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is in Fard’s memory that Saviour’s Day is held.
  • (2) Fard Muhammad, the founder of the Nation Of Islam, sold silk and salvation in Paradise during the Great Depression.
  • (3) The experimental data collected in previous studies on experienced (industrial) and inexperienced (non-industrial) materials handlers (Mital 1984a, Mital and Fard 1986) and the patterns of responses between the two populations (Mital 1985, 1987) were used to generate this database.
  • (4) But according to Karl Evanzz, author of The Messenger: The Rise And Fall Of Elijah Muhammad, his real name was Wali Dodd Fard, “a mulatto who immigrated to the United States from New Zealand in the early 1900s”.
  • (5) The fact that Fard had set up a religious institution for black people is not remarkable.
  • (6) For Fard was not a theorist but a fantasist: a man of many disguises, an uncertain background and some very idiosyncratic ideas.
  • (7) And it is from Fard’s legacy that Farrakhan is desperate to distance himself.
  • (8) Fard’s message proved so potent it woke her husband from his inebriated state and made him Fard’s most devoted student.
  • (9) When Fard disappeared a few years later (the last anyone heard from him was a postcard from Mexico), Elijah Poole claimed his mantle.

Faro


Definition:

  • (n.) A gambling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If the scenes in Faro are anything to go by he has the Tartan Army’s backing to do precisely that.
  • (2) Algarve map Sophie Cooke The drive west from Faro airport was easy and we sped along the fast toll-road.
  • (3) An uncle of one of the crew members from the El Faro says the ship was equipped with modern lifeboats.
  • (4) But the Faroes deserved to win as they created more chances to score.
  • (5) Estimates are given of the mean contents of 90Sr and 137Cs in the human diet in the Faroes in 1976.
  • (6) Birthweights in the Faroe Islands are among the highest in the world.
  • (7) Large numbers of the mammals are slaughtered each year on the Faroe Islands, an autonomous territory within the kingdom of Denmark .
  • (8) It wasn’t always comfortable against the Faroe Islands .
  • (9) Claudio Ranieri Leicester City manager A year ago his candidacy would have felt laughable given he had just lost to the Faroe Islands during a four-game spell with Greece.
  • (10) The other suspects, all confirmed to be Portuguese citizens, were seen entering the police building in Faro on Tuesday morning.
  • (11) Detectives led by Redwood will meet with their Polícia Judiciária counterparts in Faro on Tuesday to discuss the request.
  • (12) "I was is the outskirts of Tórshavn, the Capital of the Faroe Islands earlier today with my 13 year old son - a devoted Liverpool fan," writes Sjúrður Skaale.
  • (13) At Faro airport there's a scrum of resort reps ready to meet and greet new arrivals.
  • (14) Estimates are given of the mean contents of 90Sr and 137Cs in the human diet in the Faroes in 1974.
  • (15) The average work load of the three Faroe Island deckhands was rather moderate; it corresponded to 26--33% of the heart rate reserve (HRR).
  • (16) The high mercury and selenium values may be explained by the high consumption of pilot whales by the Faroe Islands population.
  • (17) The Faroes have never qualified for a major tournament but climbed above Finland into fourth place in the six-team Group F, five points behind Hungary in third place.
  • (18) There's been a red one and, of course, the trademark cream-and-black one, a cardigan version of which was created by its Faroe Islands designers and presented to the duchess.
  • (19) The commitment rate on the Faroe Islands was 19.2 per 100,000 and 24.2 per 100,000 in Denmark.
  • (20) A less active elective delivery in the Faroes could not explain this considerable difference.

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