What's the difference between fox and gripe?

Fox


Definition:

  • (n.) A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulvus), the American gray fox (V. Virginianus), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox (V. lagopus) are well-known species.
  • (n.) The European dragonet.
  • (n.) The fox shark or thrasher shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.
  • (n.) A sly, cunning fellow.
  • (n.) Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats.
  • (n.) A sword; -- so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
  • (n.) A tribe of Indians which, with the Sacs, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin; -- called also Outagamies.
  • (n.) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
  • (n.) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
  • (n.) To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
  • (v. i.) To turn sour; -- said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fox was 30 years old - 70% of Parkinson's sufferers are over 50.
  • (2) Alec played a role in the resignation of the UK defence secretary Liam Fox last year over his close ties to his friend Adam Werritty.
  • (3) When Fox woke up one morning in 1990 and noticed his little finger shaking, he thought it was a side effect of a hangover.
  • (4) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
  • (5) Cable news channels like Fox News and CNN carried the address, and some of the networks carried it on their digital platforms, but a network insider told Politico on Thursday the speech’s content was too “overtly political” to broadcast.
  • (6) After distribution, 81% of foxes inspected were positive for tetracycline, a biomarker included in the vaccine bait and, other than one rabid fox detected close to the periphery of the treated area, no case of rabies, either in foxes or in domestic livestock, has been reported in the area.
  • (7) Asked if France had “jumped the gun and didn’t tell us”, Fox said he was notaware of anyone in government who knew about the impending airstrikes.
  • (8) Whenever Fox meets someone for the first time, he slips on this look as instinctively as others shuck on a jacket when they leave the house.
  • (9) Educated at Imperial College London, he trained at the contractors Freeman Fox, but in 1978 he turned freelance as a transport consultant, setting up his own firm: Steer Davies Gleave.
  • (10) Sanders, the Vermont senator and self-described democratic socialist, first answered questions from Fox News anchor Bret Baier over his comments in Sunday’s debate that white people “don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto”.
  • (11) These results combined with absorption studies suggested a close relationship between fox and dog, but different number and morphology of chromosomes, immunoelectrophoretic patterns of serum proteins, and disparities of the transplantation antigens proved that the fox is a species quite separate from the dog.
  • (12) 4.28pm ET: Oh hey, Fox News finds time in its busy schedule to cover the rally.
  • (13) Fox will be accompanied by the sporting director, Hendrik Almstadt, on the back of the 1-1 draw against Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup on Saturday, when their failure to beat a League Two side culminated in angry scenes involving the away supporters.
  • (14) Fox met his wife, Tracy, on the set of Family Ties, the 80s sitcom that launched his career and in which she played his on-screen girlfriend.
  • (15) Werritty, 33, a Scottish Tory who first met Fox when the defence secretary went to speak at Edinburgh University – where Werritty was a student of public policy – had arrived in the emirate a few days earlier to set up meetings for his "boss".
  • (16) Kelly reportedly spoke with lawyers investigating claims of sexual harassment by former Fox chairman Roger Ailes, who left the network following allegations by several women of years of abuse.
  • (17) The highest 3H-thymidine incorporation in cultures of dog lymphocytes was observed at day 3, while in those of fox at day 2, incubated either at 37 degrees C or at 39 degrees C. Lymphocytes cultured at 39 degrees C incorporated more tritiated thymidine than did cells cultured at 37 degrees C. The stimulation index (SI) of dog peripheral blood lymphocytes to both mitogens concanavalin A (Con A) and leucoagglutinin (LA) was in a similar range, while pokeweed mitogen (PWM) showed a weaker but significant stimulatory action.
  • (18) The Republican presidential candidate then told Fox News that Amazon is “getting away with murder tax-wise” and has a “huge antitrust problem because he’s [Bezos] controlling so much”.
  • (19) Although antibodies against selected pathogens were present, no clinical indications of disease were observed in these fox populations.
  • (20) In a speech to Atlantic Bridge members in New York in November 2002, Fox warned "the natural desire to avoid conflict has been reinforced by an innate pacificism in many sections of western society, especially in continental Europe".

Gripe


Definition:

  • (n.) A vulture; the griffin.
  • (v. t.) To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.
  • (v. t.) To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.
  • (v. t.) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
  • (v. i.) To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.
  • (v. i.) To suffer griping pains.
  • (v. i.) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm.
  • (n.) Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.
  • (n.) That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip; as, the gripe of a sword.
  • (n.) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
  • (n.) Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.
  • (n.) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.
  • (n.) The piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
  • (n.) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
  • (n.) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His gripe is with Jeremy – as far as I’m concerned, he will play for West Brom again,” Pulis told the Daily Mail .
  • (2) Like many, I assumed that the accumulated gripes about ticketing (thoroughly justified in this case), Zil lanes, G4S failures, McDonald's sponsorship and over-heavy security would have ensured healthy levels of Olympic alienation and even hostility.
  • (3) Where d’you live, let’s have this out in person, shall we?’” But these are small gripes.
  • (4) Or is it someone who takes 10 minutes of going on about their bunions and general gripes before revealing that they had an episode of crippling chest pain last night, by the way?
  • (5) This is one of my pet gripes about modern society: the way in which serious issues and events are converted into bizarre forms of celebrity,” he wrote.
  • (6) This is one of my pet gripes about modern society: the way in which serious issues and events are converted into bizarre forms of celebrity.” Efforts to contact Latham have been unsuccessful.
  • (7) Along with the City, they've all got a gripe with Miliband.
  • (8) Large numbers of babies are given gripe water for no valid reason or for only trivial symptoms, write Cynthia Illingworth and John Timmins.
  • (9) Simultaneous tenesmic gripes, some of the patients had also suffered from, disappeared completely, with the exception of two cases where, however, normalization of the stools was obtained by means of the loperamide therapy.
  • (10) Hannah Fletcher, a single mum who works part-time but would like more hours, said her main gripe was that the majority of politicians “are white, middle-aged men who are not in tune with society”.
  • (11) Lamont's further gripe is a council tax freeze launched as a stopgap measure in 2007-08 by the then minority SNP administration, pending the introduction of a local income tax.
  • (12) My main gripe is that there’s no flexibility about when my work gets done.
  • (13) HS That is absolutely not my gripe: if anyone is potty (and rich) enough to spend a grand on a handbag, that’s fine by me— and you’re right, all power to the craftsmen and everyone else involved.
  • (14) Premier League 2015-16 review: gripe of the season | Tom Davies Read more David Hytner For some reason, I hate it when the league is referred to as ‘The Barclays Premier League,’ either in copy or on TV.
  • (15) Wilkie says: "The main gripe is that all the music we play is crap.
  • (16) And for all my gripes, many of my most intense experiences of art happen here.
  • (17) Indeed, McClaren’s only possible gripe would have been regret that some of his side’s sharp midfield incision could have done with being replicated in the penalty area.
  • (18) Small gripes include the grading of games leading to tiered pricing, and having to buy tickets for two games if you want to go to Palace versus the likes of Arsenal and Chelsea.
  • (19) But the militant gays and thinning hair and gluteal amnesia are small gripes.
  • (20) But bias is not my gripe; the good Muslim v bad Muslim game is an old one.