What's the difference between hoar and horde?

Hoar


Definition:

  • (a.) White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.
  • (a.) Gray or white with age; hoary.
  • (a.) Musty; moldy; stale.
  • (n.) Hoariness; antiquity.
  • (v. t.) To become moldy or musty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hoare was subsequently interviewed under caution by the Metropolitan police.
  • (2) Only one country – China – could apply serious leverage – because it is North Korea's major supplier of oil and food and main trading partner, Hoare said.
  • (3) You could fire a rocket or two somewhere near Incheon airport, just to show you could do it … or push ships south of the [disputed] Northern Limit Line ," said Dr James Hoare, the former British chargé d'affaires in Pyongyang.
  • (4) • Philip Hoare will be speaking at the Bournemouth Natural Sciences Society on 8 October at 7.30pm.
  • (5) [The call] is encouraging people to break their country’s laws, with no consideration of the possible consequences,” said James Hoare, a former British Charge D’affaires to Pyongyang.
  • (6) He had been in Iraq for just 36 hours when he shot dead two colleagues , Scottish security guard Paul McGuigan and Australian Darren Hoare, after a night of heavy drinking.
  • (7) Dr J E Hoare was Britain’s first diplomatic representative in North Korea from 2001-2002 Facebook Twitter Pinterest North Korean workers pack vitamin-and mineral-enriched biscuits at a factory in Sinuiju city.
  • (8) Today assistant commissioner John Yates took to the airwaves to defend the force but said the new allegations in the New York Times from a former tabloid reporter, Sean Hoare, would be examined.
  • (9) One former journalist, Sean Hoare, has said Coulson "actively encouraged" phone hacking and an executive, Paul McMullan, claimed that the former editor must have been aware of it.
  • (10) Exposures previously suspected of being associated with CLL were examined using a job-exposure matrix developed by Hoar et al and a linkage between observed occupational exposures and specific occupations, by industry, based on data collected in the National Occupational Hazard Survey (NOHS).
  • (11) In a BBC radio interview, Hoare accused Coulson of lying.
  • (12) The piece in the New York Times quoted a former News of the World reporter, Sean Hoare, who said Andy Coulson, the former editor, was aware of the practice.
  • (13) But one of his former reporters, Sean Hoare, reignited the row last week by publicly claiming his boss had been aware of the activities.
  • (14) But former reporter Sean Hoare reignited the row last week by publicly claiming his boss was aware of the activities.
  • (15) Labour peer Baroness Morgan was removed as chair of Ofsted in May to be replaced by David Hoare , a trustee of the UK's largest academy chain, AET.
  • (16) Police and the Crown Prosecution Service will have to decide whether Hoare is interviewed as a witness, or under criminal caution as a potential suspect.
  • (17) Someone went a bit too far," said James Hoare, a former British charge d'affaires in Pyongyang.
  • (18) Hoare claimed Coulson "actively encouraged" him to hack into people's voicemail messages.
  • (19) Sprouting broccoli, the thin-stemmed variety with the deep purple heads, will withstand the winter cold, a hoar frost or even deep snow.
  • (20) Danny Fitzsimons, 31, a former paratrooper from Middleton, Manchester, shot dead Briton Paul McGuigan and Australian Darren Hoare, colleagues at the UK security firm ArmorGroup, now part of G4S, and injured an Iraqi security guard 36 hours after arriving in Iraq in 2009.

Horde


Definition:

  • (n.) A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Manager Claudio Ranieri, captain Wes Morgan and goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel were spotted at the airport, where hordes of local media and fans waited for their arrival.
  • (2) Among the horde assembled outside City Hall was teacher Lydia Harris, 27, who urged Boris to start “putting people before profits.” Harris, a member of the anti-capitalist collective Feminist Fightback added: “Boris has got to start helping others but then he’s lied before about rape crisis centres when he promised us money that never came.” Why march for homes?
  • (3) "It all started when hordes of natives surrounded the police station.
  • (4) Quite rightly, the appearance of the rampaging hordes of women whom David Cameron has promoted has been criticised.
  • (5) Understandably so, since we’re talking about ice demons who can command zombie hordes.
  • (6) Too distracted by "having it all", western women are failing to breed enough to repel the amassing hordes.
  • (7) The city appeared, according to a report in the Daily Mirror, “like a battlefield with blazing houses, hordes of refugees, dead cattle and horses and the rattle of automatic weapons”.
  • (8) I can think of hordes of politicians who look worse and "weirder", with wet little pouty-mouths, strange shiny skin, mad glaring eyes, deathly pale demeanour, blank gaze and an unhealthy quantity of fat (I can't name them, because it's rude to make personal remarks), and I don't hear anyone calling them "weird", or mocking their looks, except for the odd bold cartoonist, but when it comes to Miliband , it's be-as-rude-as-you-like time.
  • (9) The hordes poured in to defend her, the story went global and by lunchtime on Friday the leader of the council was having to recant and apologise, live on BBC Radio 4.
  • (10) From there, the Guardian's Paul Harris has filed this: As they trickled into the church – far outnumbered by the hordes of lunchtime office workers and eagerly shopping tourists outside – few expressed anything but acceptance at the once-in-the-last 600 years event.
  • (11) He suspects Hannibal did not intend to come this way, but was forced to avoid the lower cols to the north because of the hordes of Gauls massing there.
  • (12) In the end the Chelsea players who had hoped to conquer the world were left slumped on the turf as the Brazilian drums pounded and the raucous hordes of Corinthians supporters bellowed their celebration into the night sky.
  • (13) When he arrived at the venue and was confronted by a motley horde of fans, tipped off by a tweet, instead of sidling in the back to pace about alone in a corridor, like a normal human would, Fry blithely faced the crowd, chatting and signing autographs.
  • (14) The mood changes when a robot messenger controlled by Ultron arrives and mocks the superheroes, moments before a horde of raiders smashes into the building.
  • (15) He pointed out that, contrary to popular belief, Brussels is not manned by a gigantic horde of bureaucrats.
  • (16) And then, out of the distance rush the intricately detailed hordes, like lushly painted Games Worshop figures.
  • (17) In Kim Jong-il he found a producer who shared his enthusiasm for the subject of invading hordes.
  • (18) Who knows what the country house crowd will make of the invading horde of over 2,300 ceramic river crabs?
  • (19) Yet this fabrication goes to the heart of the film's mission, which is to depict the German people as the last victims of Nazism whose true defenders were a band of brave German soldiers, including SS men, who fought until overwhelmed by the Bolshevik hordes.
  • (20) Journalists have been beaten at demonstrations and opposition gatherings have been intimidated by hordes of ruling party supporters.