What's the difference between fosse and moat?

Fosse


Definition:

  • (n.) A ditch or moat.
  • (n.) See Fossa.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The method by Fosse et al, for in vivo microhardness measurements can bring good results in practice according to the investigations.
  • (2) I asked Jon Fosse how close they were, and he said, 'I don't know, but in the period of time in the play they are very close.'
  • (3) Property sources said Asda was looking at reducing the size of as many as 10 stores including Pudsey in Leeds, Fosse Park in Leicester, and Watford in Hertfordshire.
  • (4) OS Map: Explorer OL4: The Lake District: north-western area Janet's Foss & Malham Cove Yorkshire Dales Janet's Foss waterfall at Malham, North Yorkshire.
  • (5) Changes in the vasomotion waveform were studied in transverse arterioles (TAs) and their first-order side branches (FOSs) in the tenuissimus muscle of 14 young, anesthetized rabbits during stepwise arterial pressure reduction and local application of adenosine using intravital video microscopy.
  • (6) Because the onsets of dilation always occur synchronously in TAs and FOSs, but the onsets of constriction do not, vasomotion seems to be a series of rhythmic dilations.
  • (7) Householders in York were warned their homes faced flooding after pumps failed on the river Foss, and train services were disrupted in West Yorkshire.
  • (8) Females scored significantly higher on the FOSS than did males; the FOSS was positively related to Horner's projective measure of fear of success, and negatively related to Mehrabian's measure of achievement motivation; subjects (both males and females) with high scores on the FOSS (a) performed less well on an anagram test, (b) attributed success more to external factors, and (c) attributed failure more to internal factors than subjects with low scores on the FOSS.
  • (9) Another new project, I Am the Wind , is every bit as multinational – a translation of a text by Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse , shortly to be staged at the Young Vic by veteran French director Patrice Chéreau.
  • (10) One such place was a grim-looking slag heap officially called Fosse No 4 in Ferfay, Nord–Pas-de-Calais.
  • (11) The authors studied by in vivo methods (Fosse et al.
  • (12) Although air studies remain useful, angiography of vessels of the posterior foss is assuming a dominant role in diagnosis and surgical planning.
  • (13) According to Stephens: "It imagines the possibility of turning back time, but Fosse creates a rather horrifying loop, whereby no matter how many times you turn back time you find you can't change it.
  • (14) The Crown Estate is also the fifth largest owner of retail parks outside of London and is the frontrunner to spend £350m buying the Fosse shopping park in Leicester, amid a recovery in consumer spending.
  • (15) The jewel in the crown is the waterfall at Janet's Foss and its secret cave, which local legend claims is home to the Fairy Queen.
  • (16) It would be the "lightest" film to win a Palme d'Or, maybe since Bob Fosse's All That Jazz in 1980, but the skill involved and the sheer brio of the execution merit the highest recognition.
  • (17) The play he is rehearsing is I Am The Wind, a spare, concentrated two-hander written by the Norwegian Jon Fosse and adapted for its English-language premiere by Simon Stephens , who wrote Pornography and Punk Rock.
  • (18) At greatly reduced pressure levels, the CL increase was more pronounced and in both TAs and FOSs was caused by plateau formation in the dilation phase.
  • (19) The path off the Pennine Way leading to Janet's Foss is signposted off the Pennine Way, and at Malham Cove a clear path leads back to the village.
  • (20) We’re certainly not scared,” said Ray Foss, a retired engineer.

Moat


Definition:

  • (n.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.
  • (v. t.) To surround with a moat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Khao Soi Khun Yai, Sri Poom Road, next to Wat Kuan Kama, Old City, North Moat; meal for two £1.60-£3 Warorot evening market Facebook Twitter Pinterest You could pick other food markets (Sompet, Thanin, Chiang Mai Gate, Chang Phuak Gate) and be as deliriously sated, but the night-time street food at Warorot remains special to me.
  • (2) When you read of such sentences, remember that this is the same country in which – just a few years ago – over 300 parliamentarians were found to have claimed expenses to which they weren’t entitled; hundreds of thousands handed over to some of the richest people in the country for duck houses, moat repairs and heating their stables.
  • (3) Bars and cages are out; moats and discreet electric fences are in.
  • (4) He stepped down from contesting the 2010 election after it emerged he had claimed £2,200 for the cleaning of the moat at his 13th-century manor house.
  • (5) It is believed that they went across the small moat to the north of the centre, and got as far as the car park, where they shouted "Our world is not for sale" before being arrested.
  • (6) An Englishman's home is his castle, and that castle now includes a moat to keep the peasants out.
  • (7) He informed the housing association retrospectively, and Moat says it "reluctantly" gave permission for the sub-let to run its two-year term, which ends on 13 February.
  • (8) It sits, forlorn, in a moat of open space, like a lone domino.
  • (9) Douglas Hogg , who was ordered by the Tory party leadership to repay the £2,200 cost of clearing his moat, politely declined.
  • (10) Missing correspondence between MPs and Commons officials must have given most of the game away regarding Tory expense claims for moat cleaning and duck houses.
  • (11) Yet I recall influential voices – including in cabinet – arguing that rather than confront the problem (under IMF supervision), Britain should pull up the drawbridge behind the moat of the English Channel.
  • (12) Facebook, which still has sites eulogising murderer Raoul Moat and Holocaust deniers, said it drew the line on groups that attack others, a bold move considering the site's WikiLeaks page boasts more than 1.3 million supporters.
  • (13) We get lost on our way out and end up standing in the darkness, trapped by a maze of brutalist architecture and a large moat, laughing at our inability to navigate one of the most iconic structures in London.
  • (14) Minimal bodily adjustment was necessary for free foraging, whereas discrete food presentations on land (DFP-land) and in a moat (DFP-moat) promoted a gross reorientation of the animal's entire body.
  • (15) "Is it really true that a Romanian side once built a moat filled with crocodiles to stop the crowd from invading the pitch?"
  • (16) And they have dug a legal moat around the charmed circle, criminalising, for example, the squatting of empty buildings and most forms of peaceful protest.
  • (17) Activists tried a variety of methods to enter the conference centre, approaching in large groups from several directions and, at one point, sending several hundred people running with seven giant lilos to bridge a moat next to the centre.
  • (18) Elizabeth Austerberry, the chief executive of Moat, said: “These people are not going to go away.
  • (19) The couple can't understand why Moat won't allow them to continue sub-letting for a further period.
  • (20) When he wasn't writing, he was usually swimming, most often in his moat, or wallowing in the massive cast-iron bath that lived at the back of the house.

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