What's the difference between foray and moray?

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.

Moray


Definition:

  • (n.) A muraena.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Viscera (48.3 kg) from moray eels (Lycodontis javanicus) collected in a ciguatera endemic area were extracted and the ciguatoxins characterized.
  • (2) More are dotted about the isle and were used by the Romans in the past to breed moray eels.
  • (3) Some wintry precipitation is expected for most areas too, mostly in the form of scattered showers, leading to lying snow and icy stretches.” The coldest temperature of -11.2C was measured at Loch Glascarnoch, in Scotland, beating the previous record low this winter of -9C, set on 27 December in Cromdale, Moray.
  • (4) Changes in abundance at haul-out sites were followed, and data on the number of deaths collected, to describe the pattern and extent of mortality resulting from the 1988 phocine distemper virus outbreak in the Moray Firth common seal population.
  • (5) The other is closely similar to (or identical with) ciguatoxin from the moray eel Gymnothorax javanicus.
  • (6) moray eel burger – crispy, umami and rich, it’s the bacon of the sea.
  • (7) Ciguatoxin, the agent responsible for ciguatera, a disease produced in humans from ingestion of certain fishes, has been isolated from specimens of the moray eel, Gymnothorax javanicus.
  • (8) The Earl of Moray is thought to get about £2m a year in rent from a 49-turbine windfarm on his Doune estate in Perthshire, while the Duke of Roxburghe stands to make more than £1.5m a year from his 48-turbine Fallago Rig development in Lammermuir Hills.
  • (9) 1.7m, and the 664MW Beatrice windfarm in the Outer Moray Firth in Scotland.
  • (10) It was just: get out and make a difference.” Moray: 'We are fed up with the SNP.
  • (11) I’m dismayed, frankly, because, with all the hard work that we put into trying to reform the fisheries industry and trying to get sustainable fishing back on the agenda, and trying to save fish stocks from their inevitable collapse they were heading towards, all that work is being traduced.” Richard Lochhead, the former Scottish fisheries minister who represents Moray, north-east Scotland, said: “Our fishermen will be gobsmacked by the irony of [Michael] Gove’s belated concerns for the fishing industry, given it was the Tories that negotiated such a poor deal for our fishermen in the first place while other nations got better deals.
  • (12) Central Edinburgh will be awash with the blue and white St Andrew's cross, the dramatic yellow and red of the erect lion rampant and Yes Scotland placards from the Highlands, urban Glasgow and the prosperous farmlands of Moray and Aberdeenshire.
  • (13) Ciguatoxin, as characterized from moray eels, was not detected in any of the strains examined.
  • (14) While many parts of Scotland voted heavily in favour of the EU, Moray came within 122 votes of backing leave at the referendum.
  • (15) She wanted to be a journalist, and, after leaving school, worked for the now-defunct magazine, Scotland, but soon discovered a passion for social work, and decided to study for a degree on the subject at Moray House School of Education, now part of Edinburgh University.
  • (16) We conclude that moray eel bites can be managed successfully with aggressive, local wound care and antibiotic coverage that targets Vibrio and Pseudomonas species.
  • (17) A Tesco spokesman, Michael Kissman, admitted: "Having asked for confirmation from our lawyers, the covenants affecting the titles in Trowbridge [Wiltshire], Leytonstone [east London] and Elgin [Moray] have been released as per our instructions.
  • (18) I know it’s going to be hard and will take a long time to get established in the EU again, but I totally believe that eventually an independent Scotland will thrive.” Lazenby is equally adamant that immigration was not an issue for voters in Moray.
  • (19) They include the Queen, the Duke of Westminster, the Duke of Northumberland, Sir Richard Sutton, the Earl of Moray, Baron Phillimore and family, and the Earl of Plymouth.
  • (20) A spokesman for the rail company said: “For safety reasons it will be necessary for Network Rail to inspect rail lines across the network for damage this morning before allowing passengers to travel on routes.” Meanwhile, Aberdeen police said a number of trees were down on Aberdeenshire and Moray roads.

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