What's the difference between hoar and oar?

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.

Oar


Definition:

  • (n) An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom.
  • (n) An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar.
  • (n) An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates.
  • (v. t. & i.) To row.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To determine which dimensions of the Older Americans Resources and Services (OARS) would best predict the status of the medically disabled elderly, veteran inpatients, outpatients, and nonpatient volunteers were administered the multidimensional functional assessment portion of the OARS.
  • (2) Although the vast majority (83.2%) of subjects were fully independent on the Katz Activities of Daily Living Scale, a broader scope of functional difficulty was reported on the Spector-Katz, five-item OARS, and Rosow-Breslau scales.
  • (3) In the simpler method, used for rotation techniques, the off-axis ratio (OAR) is calculated from the equation.
  • (4) 5.41pm BST 38 min: Now it's Oar terrorising the Netherlands!
  • (5) Recent refinements in the OARS methodology include new information about validity and reliability, computerized summary ratings for the five dimensions of functional status, and eleven scales that measure specific aspects of functioning within the five dimensions.
  • (6) From a midfield freekick, Oar drops the ball on the penalty spot and the only player there to welcome it is Spiranovic!
  • (7) The differences at the finish were a result of the lifting of the oar from the water not exhibited in ergometer rowing.
  • (8) 6.20pm BST 62 min: Janmaart takes Oar's legs from him but he retrieves them to curl in a freekick towards the gold shirts lining up along the edge of the Dutch penalty area.
  • (9) Oar exploded into space and, really, should have taken the opportunity to shoot.
  • (10) Kinetics for the base-catalyzed hydrolysis of compounds 9--13 were investigated by UV and NMR methods and are considered in connection with service of these compounds as pro(phosphorodiamidic acid mustards) [MP(O)(NHR)OAr leads to MP(O)(NHR)OH] via an E1cB mechanism involving the intermediacy of a mustard-bearing metaphosphorodiimide [MP(O)=NR].
  • (11) Kobach, who took a doctorate in politics from Brasenose college, Oxford, has a rowing oar from his 1991 Isis crew on the wall of his state office, along with the heads of two deer that he shot, he says, with a bow.
  • (12) Athletes in Rio test events have tried many tricks and treatments to avoid falling ill, including bleaching rowing oars, hosing off their bodies the second they finish competing, and preemptively taking antibiotics which have no effect on viruses.
  • (13) Inpatients showed significantly more impaired ratings on all five of the OARS subscales than the outpatients and nonpatients, while outpatients were more impaired than nonpatients on two of the subscales (mental health and activities of daily living).
  • (14) An approximate calculation of the ratio of the power put into the boat's motion to the power lost as water movement in the oar "puddle" suggests that increasing the blade area of the oar will result in improved efficiency.
  • (15) Measures included assessments of social network using components of the OARS, family satisfaction using the APGAR, family cohesion and adaptability using the FACES II, alcohol abuse using the CAGE, and indicators of health-protective behaviors.
  • (16) The oar-like crossbridge cycle, developed up to the mid-1970's, was shown to be inconsistent with more recent biochemical results.
  • (17) Davidson and Oar combine wonderfully on the left with a one-two and Oar almost gets clear in the Dutch box, which is an unfortunate combination of words, but what can you do?
  • (18) Axopods of the planktonic protozoan, Sticholonche, are used as oars to propel the organism through seawater.
  • (19) A measurement model of mental health for the Older Americans Resources and Services (OARS) questionnaire is described.
  • (20) 5.11pm BST 7 min: Leckie, then Oar, give Cillessen something to think about.

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