What's the difference between hoar and mouldy?

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.

Mouldy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Overgrown with, or containing, mold; as, moldy cheese or bread.
  • () See Mold, Molder, Moldy, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lung diseases in farmers attributable to their occupation include (a) farmer's lung, caused by exposure to mouldy hay, (b) the asthma caused by exposure to grain dust and (c) silo-filler's disease.
  • (2) Before a diagnosis of farmers' lung due to mouldy hay is made in any patient whether or not precipitins to Micropolyspora faeni are present, skin tests for storage mite should be made.
  • (3) He has left the gas on in the past and accumulates mouldy fruit.
  • (4) The biggest challenge in today’s society is to smile tightly and explain yet again to your mum that yes, your friend from school married a banker and bought a three-bedroom house in Surrey, but no, you can’t afford to move out of your mouldy flatshare just yet.
  • (5) The difference in the mean titre was not due to the differences between the study groups in age, sex, smoking habits, atopic background, frequency of handling of plant materials, or time interval from the most recent handling of visibly mouldy hay.
  • (6) There was no quantitative association between the proportion of bright green-yellow fluorescent, purple or mouldy kernels and the mycotoxin contents of the composite samples.
  • (7) With the aid of the electron microscope, a number of histopathological changes in the liver of mice caused by mycotoxins from mouldy hay were examined and studied.
  • (8) Thus, zygomycetes are the main cause of macroscopically apparent mycotic lymphadenitis, a sporadic disease most probably caused by feeding with mouldy food stuffs.
  • (9) Two patients with allergic alveolitis due to mouldy hay antigens (farmer's lung) were shown to have malabsorption due to coeliac disease.
  • (10) They lived in crowded, mouldy tents, where guards conducted regular, prison-like searches, and limited their showers to two minutes, before forcing them out.
  • (11) Histopathology of lungs from animals exposed to mouldy hay demonstrated the presence of alveolar cell infiltrates and early granulomas, that were similar to allergic alveolitis (AA).
  • (12) The material was usually described as extremely mouldy and the episodes were usually provoked by unusual work tasks such as cleaning grain bins or removing mouldy feed.
  • (13) He was magnificent as the mouldy old white-haired janitor, master of the mop and bucket, supervising an invisible gathering to hear the very last message for humanity.
  • (14) The hazards involved through the consumption of individuals to such mouldy bread, is accumulation of possible deleterious effects from both long and short term exposure to these toxic metabolites.
  • (15) A number of findings testify that the mass occurrence of mucormycosis followed the feeding of mouldy bakery wastes on the basis of acidosis.
  • (16) Evaluation of biological activity and toxicity of the extractives and the effects of prolonged ingestion of the mouldy seeds by animals suggest that the infected seeds may present high toxin-risk to humans.
  • (17) Eleven of the patients had farmer's lung and two had been exposed to other mouldy dust.
  • (18) The presence of precursor compounds for the formation of nitrosamine in the mouldy maize flour and their significance in respect to the etiology of esophageal cancer in high-risk areas have been discussed.
  • (19) The bread will go mouldy, and I'll come home at night and instead of making a meal for someone who doesn't want it and prefers instant noodles, I can have Ryvita and cheese, and eat apples.
  • (20) After 30 months in mouldy tents and now in the community where we are not accepted, some of us now have travel papers which give us the freedom to leave.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A letter signed by refugees on Nauru asking for the New Zealand government to consider them for resettlement.