What's the difference between foe and fon?

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.

Fon


Definition:

  • (a.) A fool; an idiot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One of those was Fon, an independent retailer in Sheffield run by Steve Beckett and Rob Mitchell.
  • (2) The amounts of Fon acquired by the enamel surface (one application) rank as APF gel approximately Duraphat much less than Fluor Protector.
  • (3) Gramofon buyers will also become Fon members, able to access the company's network of hotspots – although as with Fon's existing routers, this means "sharing a bit of Wi-Fi at home" – allowing other Fon members within range to use their internet connection.
  • (4) This became so true that T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom and BT all became shareholders in Fon."
  • (5) "What we showed with Fon was that you would only share with those who share back," he says.
  • (6) Fossil fuel ticker Garanti Bankası Türkiye’deki yeni kömür santrallerine en büyük fon sağlayan kurum.
  • (7) The two forms were found in a fissure filling of Upper Eocene age (Fons 4) from Dielsdorf (Zürich region, Switzerland).
  • (8) Similarly, when Varsavsky launched Fon, it ran into determined opposition from telecoms businesses, which said that the company's vision of shared Wi-Fi was against their terms of service.
  • (9) However, when setting up Fon, Varsavsky became convinced that people needed a nudge or financial incentive before they'd happily share their assets.
  • (10) As delta FON tended to increase with the best frequency (BF) of units the lowest BRCF encountered among all units for a given BF also increased as a function of BF.
  • (11) "From a humanitarian perspective we are increasingly concerned about the situation," said Elias Fon, Islamic Relief's regional co-ordinator for west Africa .
  • (12) Fon has built a business running 13m Wi-Fi hotspots around the world.
  • (13) Fon and Fin data are presented after various F- treatments and after wearing enamel slabs in dentures for a period of 1 week.
  • (14) The lowest BRCF encountered among all units for a given isointensity ON-response bandwidth (delta FON) increased as a function of delta FON.
  • (15) delta FON was derived from the responses to tone bursts of various frequencies at 70 dB SPL.
  • (16) In this paper the role and importance of 'CaF2-like' material deposited on enamel (Fon) by means of an APF gel and the varnishes Duraphat and Fluor Protector are described and discussed.
  • (17) The results of this work show that if we compare the three fluoridating agents, APF gel, Duraphat varnish, and Fluor Protector varnish in situ, only Fluor Protector shows a measurable amount of Fon after 1 week.
  • (18) Fon says it has been working on the device for more than a year, initially in its New York office as a prototype based on the Raspberry Pi computer, before setting up dedicated engineering teams in Spain, rebuilding it with a chip from Qualcomm.
  • (19) One possibility, argued here by Fons UytdeHaag and colleagues, is that memory is imprinted in the somatically-mutated Ig expressed by certain CD5+ B cells.
  • (20) It was a mistake.” Owain-Fon Williams Williams Reserve goalkeeper Owain Fon Williams is a talented guitarist and artist whose oil paintings have been displayed in galleries throughout Wales.

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