What's the difference between fox and moan?

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".

Moan


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a low prolonged sound of grief or pain, whether articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously.
  • (v. i.) To emit a sound like moan; -- said of things inanimate; as, the wind moans.
  • (v. t.) To bewail audibly; to lament.
  • (v. t.) To afflict; to distress.
  • (v. i.) A low prolonged sound, articulate or not, indicative of pain or of grief; a low groan.
  • (v. i.) A low mournful or murmuring sound; -- of things.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The voters don’t do gratitude, self-pitying politicians are wont to moan.
  • (2) "A lot of people think, 'you're in work, what are you moaning about?'
  • (3) I was moaning about something, he was moaning about something.
  • (4) His department has formally complained to the BBC head of news, Helen Boaden, about the broadcaster's "carping and moaning".
  • (5) She thinks it's simple sexism, though she is loth to spell this out: "You can say that, but if I do, I'm just seen as moaning, playing the woman card again.
  • (6) That pitted him against the Democrat Jack Conway in November as the Republican elite moaned that such Tea Party rebellions would cost them seats.
  • (7) Jeremy Corbyn sweeps to victory increasing his mandate as Labour leader - Politics live Read more MPs who refuse to sit on the frontbench do not need to sit around moaning about Corbyn nor limit their ambition to avoiding deselection.
  • (8) This man's lawyers say he was then severely beaten: they allege that the initial blows, and their client's moans, can be heard faintly at the end of the video.
  • (9) Most moans 1 The Wright Stuff, Channel 5 (2,220 complaints) Matthew Wright uses Taggart catchphrase when talking about a suspicious death in the Western Isles.
  • (10) Ilike to go on Facebook and moan to friends about how awful Twitter is these days.
  • (11) When he is out socially he sometimes tells people that he works for the Post Office (it stops them soliciting invitations to send him scripts, and moaning about the kind of comedies they hate).
  • (12) He waits, outside, hearing "piteous, animal moans".
  • (13) No doubt if she worked on the checkout in Tesco you’d be telling her to resign over the company’s financial fraud investigation or the moans about how it treats its suppliers.
  • (14) Elias said: "There was shouting, moaning – even screaming – coming from the TDF [temporary detention facility] from time to time during the detention, according to some witnesses."
  • (15) G4S staff are relaxed about this, noting simply: “Prisoners moan.
  • (16) For me that is one of the most important battles for fairness.” During the presidential campaign he was caught moaning about “intellectual women who think they are downtrodden”, or who talk about their “ compañera ” cleaning lady, “when she is really the servant”.
  • (17) The video showed at length the interactions between Ms Dhu and police in the station , including moments when she can be heard crying and moaning in pain and asking for medical attention.
  • (18) Would anybody have any sympathy for the casino manager if he then started moaning that he’d lost £25,000?
  • (19) Stop your moaning about equal-rights this, maternity that, childcare the other.
  • (20) This isn't a sub-Rhodesian moan about Britain going to the dogs.