What's the difference between fox and mores?

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".

Mores


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
  • (2) Family policies, together with changes in corporate labour practices, can reinforce changing mores, leading to greater (and more effective) female workforce participation.
  • (3) The mores that encouraged consanguineous marriages had the lowest final lethal-gene frequencies.
  • (4) "Social mores have moved on from the way in which we were brought up, with the values that we had.
  • (5) Peter Hyman, Blair's former speechwriter turned teacher and the coalition's most high-profile convert yet, plans to open a non-selective, all-ability, innovative comprehensive in the East End of London in 2012; while Sajid Hussain, the Oxford-educated son of a Kashmiri-born bus driver, hopes his King's Science Academy in Bradford will enable students to navigate their way through the strange mores of the English elite .
  • (6) Deep changes in mores and in the way infants are cared for occurred in the second half of the XXth century.
  • (7) At first Sabry was just talking to his friends, posting idiosyncratic yarns or musings that gently push at social mores.
  • (8) Charney has long defended risque advertising and a promiscuous lifestyle, with both his design aesthetic and his sexual mores harking back to the California of the mid-1970s.
  • (9) Because of the licence fee, the BBC has always had to think more profoundly than commercial broadcasters about how its output fits with contemporary mores.
  • (10) But she is against this law, because if a woman is raped, she will be treated worse than the man who raped her.” The intensity of the so-called “black protests” has proved tricky for Law and Justice, which presents itself as the guardian of traditional values in a country beset by liberal notions of multiculturalism, relaxed social mores and restrictive political correctness, but which remains mindful of the risks of alienating mainstream public opinion.
  • (11) Eight mores officers under investigation have been placed on administrative leave and have had their security clearance suspended.
  • (12) Normalising the more hardcore activities of pornography is a danger of the access, affordability and the anonymity of online sexual content, she says, but it's impossible to extract the internet's unique impact on the changing sexual mores when so many other media and corporate factors are at play.
  • (13) In peacetime, however, they resonated with a new generation of radicals – though he was not at ease with all the mores of the 1960s.
  • (14) Another Nigerian admirer of the novel spoke of its depiction of sexual mores and asked if there was any hope for progress in the assumptions about "gender relations" in Nigeria.
  • (15) Follow-up analyses of variance (ANOVAs) revealed a difference between anesthetists and community health nurses on one factor (parental sexual mores).
  • (16) The knowledge which geneticists have gained and will gain in future will raise numerous legal and ethical problems which will have to be debated and resolved within the parameters of the prevailing boni mores.
  • (17) A drug-oriented society promotes drug treatment of illness but responds with restrictive legislation and mores when faced with serious drug abuse by the populace.
  • (18) And, if we're being blunt, Peggy is a considerably more sophisticated, funnier and insightful about comparative social mores.
  • (19) Although just 100 miles from Delhi, the village is cut off from the hustle and mores of modern life.
  • (20) Educational efforts must address women and bisexual men who do not perceive themselves to be at risk for HIV infection and should be specifically designed for the mores of different racial and ethnic groups.