What's the difference between hoar and roar?

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.

Roar


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To cry with a full, loud, continued sound.
  • (v. i.) To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast.
  • (v. i.) To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger.
  • (v. i.) To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like.
  • (v. i.) To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
  • (v. i.) To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes.
  • (v. i.) To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2.
  • (v. t.) To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
  • (n.) The sound of roaring.
  • (n.) The deep, loud cry of a wild beast; as, the roar of a lion.
  • (n.) The cry of one in pain, distress, anger, or the like.
  • (n.) A loud, continuous, and confused sound; as, the roar of a cannon, of the wind, or the waves; the roar of ocean.
  • (n.) A boisterous outcry or shouting, as in mirth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When, against Real Madrid, Nani was sent off, Ferguson, jaws agape, interrupting his incessant mastication, roared from the bench, uprooting his assistant and marched to the touchline.
  • (2) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
  • (3) As Llewellyn and others reached for their briefcases Ashdown roared that nobody was going anywhere.
  • (4) A spine-tingling roar rolled off the Kop after an eighth consecutive league win lifted Liverpool above Manchester City and Chelsea with perfect timing.
  • (5) As Mo Farah charged down the home straight, 80,000 people roaring him on to his second gold medal of these Games, his eyes wide, teeth bared, the whole stadium knew they were witnessing history in the making.
  • (6) Before things get out of hand, the trophy is presented to Steven Gerrard, who hoists it skywards with a loud roar.
  • (7) I thought it was like [Joe] DiMaggio’s hit streak.” The arena was covered in blue and gold and roaring for the home team, cheers that were even louder for each of Curry’s 10 three-pointers.
  • (8) One turns up for bums, rampant historical misrepresentation and a man in a wig roaring "spiritus sanctus" in a 13th-century CGI inferno.
  • (9) Shortly afterwards normal service was very briefly resumed when, with Cardiff overcommitted to attack, a customary roar greeted Newcastle's third goal, a header from the popular, Geordie-reared substitute Steven Taylor.
  • (10) By day, the whooshing of skis and scratching of poles and the roar of wind past their ears dominate the explorers' world.
  • (11) Xinhua, Beijing’s official news service, said Micius, a 600kg satellite that is nicknamed after an ancient Chinese philosopher, “roared into the dark sky” over the Gobi desert at 1.40am local time on Tuesday, carried by a Long March-2D rocket.
  • (12) Mexican striker Matias Vuoso and Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal both scored twice in a game that roared from end to end and never let up in intensity.
  • (13) Inside, vendors sold balloons, candyfloss and posters of Sisi with Nasser, Sisi with a roaring lion, Sisi with his trademark sunglasses.
  • (14) A little roar went up, just for a moment, and then died away almost as quickly.
  • (15) He performed his debut show , Dicing with Dr Death, as part of the Edinburgh fringe comedy festival, described in its synopsis as “a rip-roaring ride through his 20 years working with life’s one certainty: death”.
  • (16) Stock markets roared ahead and sterling tumbled after the Bank of England and European Central Bank took unprecedented steps to quash investor fears that they were preparing to reduce monetary stimulus.
  • (17) Those fed Pb only developed pharyngeal and laryngeal paralysis ("roaring") whereas those fed Zn only and Pb and Zn together developed the same clinical syndrome which included swelling at the epiphyseal region of the long bones, stiffness and lameness.
  • (18) Analysis of official statistics by the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (Cresc) at Manchester University backs up Martin's hunch: London and the south-east have come roaring out of the crash, and now account for a greater share of growth than they did even during the boom.
  • (19) Price remembers a parliamentary Christmas party where Jo and the children raced through parliament, their faces painted as tigers as they roared at each other.
  • (20) The roar was equally loud when Victor Moses had the first shot two minutes in.