What's the difference between lore and lorn?

Lore


Definition:

  • (n.) The space between the eye and bill, in birds, and the corresponding region in reptiles and fishes.
  • (n.) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.
  • (obs. imp. & p. p.) Lost.
  • (v. t.) That which is or may be learned or known; the knowledge gained from tradition, books, or experience; often, the whole body of knowledge possessed by a people or class of people, or pertaining to a particular subject; as, the lore of the Egyptians; priestly lore; legal lore; folklore.
  • (v. t.) That which is taught; hence, instruction; wisdom; advice; counsel.
  • (v. t.) Workmanship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Currently, the US contains around 1,500 of the expansive “malls” of suburban consumer lore.
  • (2) Lib Dem MP Lorely Burt said the party was "stuck between a rock and a hard place".
  • (3) Start to care.” It has eight guides , most of whom give two-hour walks with a mix of local lore and their personal experience.
  • (4) In a country addicted to novelty and invention, he was proceeding to supply an instant lore of allegory, myth and fable.
  • (5) Bush's fantastical lyrics, influenced by children's literature, esoteric mystical knowledge, daydreams and the lore and legends of old Albion, seemed irrelevant, and deficient in street-cred at a time of tower-block social realism and agit-prop.
  • (6) Aboriginal people are obligated to maintain a connection to country to sustain spiritual beliefs, customary activities and traditional lore.
  • (7) It stamps into public lore an image that so fixates conservative opinion – that of the negligent parent, the one who might profess to care as much about their children as you or I, but is just waiting for society's back to be turned before smoking all over them.
  • (8) When we look at our favourite television shows, they've all stayed the same; stasis is part of television lore.
  • (9) Peak I stimulated and peak II inhibited the enzyme (Rodríguez de Lores Arnaiz and Antonelli de Gómez de Lima, Neurochem Res 11:933-947, 1986).
  • (10) Regardless, his 11-pitch at-bat against Clayton Kershaw in Game Six of the NLCS which set the stage for his implosion is now a moment of St Louis lore.
  • (11) Maz Kanata 'used telekinetic powers' in Star Wars: The Force Awakens Read more As a radical shift in Star Wars lore, such a change might have had the potential to make Han failing to shoot first in the “special edition” of 1977’s Star Wars look relatively inconsequential.
  • (12) The nature of feather inclusions was characterized in 32 psittacine birds (30 cockatoos, one peach-faced lovebird (Agapornis roseicollis), and one red-lored Amazon parrot (Amazona autumnalis autumnalis] with naturally-acquired psittacine beak and feather disease.
  • (13) Lorely Burt, parliamentary private secretary (PPS) to Danny Alexander, spoke out against military action in the debate and chose not to vote.
  • (14) SLAP HAFFEY said one, HAPLESS HAFFEY another - and in spite of such legendary predecessors in the lore as Harry Rennie, John Thomson and Jimmy Cowan, Scotland's reputation for insecure goalkeeping took root there and then.
  • (15) One version of tech lore has it that JVC's welcoming attitude towards adult content on VHS was the reason it won out in the end.
  • (16) Thus, contrary to popular myth and clinical lore, the overrepresentation of young adoptees in clinical settings is not attributable solely to the fact that adoptees are more troubled.
  • (17) Tips: Hook a mackerel and fry it for dinner just off the Cabot Trail, and learn to make Acadian potato pancakes for $22pp while savouring the cultural lore of Cape Breton.
  • (18) It made a most enduring impression upon my boyish mind which was my very first impulse to choosing chorea as my virgin contribution to medical lore.
  • (19) Jeter asks: “Why doesn’t he just shut up?” Rodriguez helped create a new phrase in Mets lore – “24 plus one” – which was the verbiage used by then Mets GM Steve Phillips to describe why the team had opted out of the Rodriguez free-agent sweepstakes in 2000.
  • (20) Once immersed in the scene, the lure and the lore of the tube proved hard to resist.

Lorn


Definition:

  • (a.) Lost; undone; ruined.
  • (a.) Forsaken; abandoned; solitary; bereft; as, a lone, lorn woman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clodia Metelli The epitome of the chic, sexy, scandalous aristocrat of 1st century BC Rome, Metelli was supposedly the "Lesbia" to whom the love-lorn poems of Catullus are addressed (and if so, a total ball-breaker).
  • (2) But given that Che followed his fringe run with a year where he got hired first by Jon Stewart for The Daily Show, and then by Lorne Michaels to become a cast member on Saturday Night Live (he had originally been one of the show’s writers), it’s possible that those judges knew less about comedy than they thought.
  • (3) Louis (Herbert Lorn) is the dangerously unassimilated foreigner.
  • (4) Lorne Craner, president of IRI, said that Egyptian officials quizzed about the no-fly policy had told the institute that they were still completing their investigations following the December raids and that they might "go to trial soon".
  • (5) He has had access to Pete Cowan for coaching advice at home, moreover, and it was that link which provided him with his caddie for the week, Lorne Duncan, who has more than 30 years' experience on the European Tour.
  • (6) Lorne Campbell, artistic director, Northern Stage In 2005, when I was an assistant director at the Traverse, my fringe consisted of chewing my way through a very long list of shows that needed to be seen "just in case".
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lorning Cornish shouts after Baltimore authorities released a report on the death of Freddie Gray while police in riot gear stand guard.
  • (8) Angry citizens, for their part, must acknowledge the dangers police face on the job, the president said at an interfaith memorial service for Michael Smith, Lorne Ahrens, Michael Krol, Patrick Zamarripa and Brent Thompson, the officers killed by Micah Johnson at a rally against police violence on Thursday night .
  • (9) Easdale, off Seil Island, Argyll & Bute Size: 0.08sq miles In its mid-19th century heyday, this apparently inconsequential island in the Sound of Lorn had a population of around 450 and was exporting up to 19m roofing slates every year, laying the basis for the boast that Easdale's was "the slate that roofed the world".
  • (10) That brought them to the attention of legendary Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels.
  • (11) Information was gathered from patients presenting to the surf club, hospital, surgery and pharmacy with injuries sustained on or around Lorne beach, Victoria.
  • (12) Having Trump not just make a guest appearance but actually host the show validates that SNL, executive producer Lorne Michaels, NBCUniversal and its sponsors don’t really care at all about “respect and dignity for all people”.
  • (13) He has found out the lines that seem to dignify his own love-lorn feelings.
  • (14) Michael Lorne, a Rastafarian lawyer, has vowed not to include Jamaican universities in plans for cultivation and research, for fear that middlemen will swipe the profits.
  • (15) The Congressional Hispanic Caucus calls upon NBCUniversal, Broadway Video, and SNL Executive Producer Lorne Michaels to disinvite Mr Trump from hosting Saturday Night Live because racism is not funny.” Representative Xavier Becerra, who is chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, is among the politicians who have criticised Trump’s appearance.