What's the difference between floe and foe?

Floe


Definition:

  • (n.) A low, flat mass of floating ice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The passengers were then flown to an Australian icebreaker, the Aurora Australis, which had cracked through ice floes and was now sailing towards Australia's Casey research base.
  • (2) Small, sporadic floes grow larger, the great Atlantic swells flatten out, the bitter polar winds are stronger and the utter stillness begins.
  • (3) Left to the market, this infrastructure could melt away and leave UK language programmes stranded, like a polar bear on a lonely ice floe.
  • (4) The ship, Xue Long – or Snow Dragon – signalled that it might need to be rescued from ice floes off the coast of Antarctica, where 24 hours earlier its crew had helped free passengers from the Shokalskiy .
  • (5) You saw David Attenborough , hunkered down on an ice floe somewhere near Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic.
  • (6) "Only this time can we have Sam looking pathetic on an ice-floe while a whole school of whales attacks him?"
  • (7) Last March and April – typically the time of year when the ice floes are at their thickest – there was just 15,000 cubic km of ice.
  • (8) Some drilling had to be halted abruptly after it emerged that an ice floe 30-miles long and 12-miles wide appeared to be heading towards the drill ship.
  • (9) She will have to swim across ice-cold stretches of open water, walk on ice floes and climb snowy ridges.
  • (10) Originally a 1940s eco-concept by modernist architect Luis Barragán, the district was an exercise in plumbing clean architectural lines through the nature of lava floes that bubbled and rolled here as rock.
  • (11) Creating a habitat compatible with each creature's original home would have been impossible; for example, bamboo plantations for the pandas, eucalyptus groves for the koala bears, ice floes for the penguins and polar bears, tanks for the freshwater creatures at risk from flood conditions, plus the filtering and pump systems necessary to maintain hygiene standards.
  • (12) The average thickness of the ice floes measured by the team was 1.8m, a depth considered too thin to survive the next summer's ice melt season.
  • (13) On the short walk to Insurgentes it becomes clear that people have made with concrete what Barragán made of the lava floes.
  • (14) First it will be glassy, thin "shuga", "grease" or "pancake" ice, unable to bind the floes together.
  • (15) Duncan said that the idea of consolidating UK advertiser-funded broadcasters was like "penguins crowding together for safety on a rapidly melting ice floe".
  • (16) Antarctic ice floes extended further than ever recorded this southern winter, confounding the world’s most-trusted climate models.
  • (17) Meanwhile, the NSIDC said ice floes surrounding Antarctica reached a relatively high summer minimum on 20 February.
  • (18) At shear rates less than 1 sec-1, flow occurred by the relative movement of irregular, roughly ellipsoidal actin domains 40-140 microns long; the appearance was similar to moving ice floes.
  • (19) In the north, the ice-floes have melted considerably since we were here a few years ago to make what was basically the same film about polar bears and stuff: incontrovertible proof, if any more were needed, that global warming is having a devastating effect on the region's fauna.
  • (20) The floes are piled up and compressed in fantastic shapes and shades of grey and blue; they crack, rumble and groan as we nudge them aside or climb over them.

Foe


Definition:

  • (n.) One who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against another; an enemy.
  • (n.) An enemy in war; a hostile army.
  • (n.) One who opposes on principle; an opponent; an adversary; an ill-wisher; as, a foe to religion.
  • (v. t.) To treat as an enemy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mohammed Salama, 23, an Al Ahly ultra whose leg was broken in the stadium riot, said it became clear at half-time in the match between the two historical foes that trouble was brewing.
  • (2) Pandas have long been an important symbol of Chinese diplomatic overtures to both allies and former foes.
  • (3) In toxicological studies, the test compound FOE 3440 A, a [(3,5-dichloro-2-pyridyl)oxy]phenoxypropanoate with herbicidal properties, produced a severe increase in weight and an intensive induction of monoxygenases activity in the mouse, but not in the rat.
  • (4) For example, when Baghdad recently moved to revise an earlier version of an oil and gas law to the detriment of the Kurds, the Kurdistan regional government recalled Kurdish officials in Baghdad and, at the same time, invited Maliki's foe, Allawi, to Erbil for emergency talks.
  • (5) Instead, Trump targeted a familiar foe, the media, whom he characterized as responsible for spreading “fake news” about the ACA.
  • (6) As a previous Guardian piece said, the two organisations are foes ( Why ban Hizb ut-Tahrir?
  • (7) Add to that a dangerous nuclear deal with Iran (as Republicans and Israel’s government see it) and the apparent impotence in the face of Islamic State and the Afghanistan volte-face looks, to political foes at least , like clinching proof of serial failure by the commander-in-chief.
  • (8) Someone close to the trust told me in the autumn, "Both parties are bashing the BBC – it used to alternate – but the Tories may have done a bigger deal with [longstanding BBC foe Rupert] Murdoch than Labour did in the mid-90s.
  • (9) But in addition to providing clearer guidance to doctors, the change could have the effect of undermining several state laws, supported by abortion foes, that force clinicians to administer mifepristone according to the old regimen that the FDA approved in 2000.
  • (10) A puppet Government set up at Vichy which may at any moment be forced to become our foe; the whole western seaboard of Europe, from the North Cape to the Spanish frontier, in German hands; all the ports, all the airfields upon this immense front employed against us as potential springboards of invasion.
  • (11) In one way they were right to state the obvious – because Celtic were utter plod at the back – but hubris is best not displayed until you are beyond the reach of vengeance, as opposed to being about to walk into the fortress of the foe you have just mocked.
  • (12) A simple rocket immunoelectrophoresis method foe mu-CD screening is also shown.
  • (13) Syria • President Barack Obama is meeting Senator John McCain at the White House today hoping his foe in the 2008 presidential election will help sell the idea of a US military intervention in Syria .
  • (14) Isis’s violence is far from being nihilistic – a charge usually levelled by those who are wishfully blind to the attraction of their foes.
  • (15) It is useful foe evaluating the effect of antacids after stimulation of acid secretion with a test meal.
  • (16) Then Murray goes on the front foot, jabbing away a volley to make it 40-15, but Federer then wrong-foots his foe with a feathery forehand at the net to hold.
  • (17) But even as Turkey is increasingly drawn into the firing line of Syria’s civil war and the region-wide struggle against Sunni Muslim extremism, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s combative and choleric president, remains stubbornly fixated on a wholly different foe – the Kurds .
  • (18) Have they shamed intransigent foes into seeking a political solution?
  • (19) He concedes that there are several Russians who have annoyed Putin more but says “among foreigners” he’s probably the President’s biggest foe.
  • (20) But on Wednesday morning the eyes of the Russian elite – from ministers to Kremlin critics – will be on an unassuming courthouse in the centre of this city, where Alexey Navalny, Vladimir Putin's loudest foe, will go on trial charged with embezzlement.

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