What's the difference between lore and sore?

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.

Sore


Definition:

  • (n.) Reddish brown; sorrel.
  • (n.) A young hawk or falcon in the first year.
  • (n.) A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.
  • (superl.) Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; -- said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.
  • (superl.) Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
  • (superl.) Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity.
  • (superl.) Criminal; wrong; evil.
  • (a.) A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil.
  • (a.) Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
  • (a.) In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.
  • (a.) Greatly; violently; deeply.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the HCD group, 66 (86.8%) pressure sores improved compared with 36 (69.2%) pressure sores in the wet-to-dry dressings group.
  • (2) Both beds are excellent in preventing Pressure Sores.
  • (3) Most infections have flu-like symptoms including fever, coughing, sore throat, runny nose, and aches and pains.
  • (4) Plastic surgeons have contributed to the understanding of pressure sore pathophysiology and prophylaxis.
  • (5) A review of 103 surgically closed pressure sores shows unsatisfactory results.
  • (6) A 50-year-old woman with a 27-year history of ankylosing spondylitis developed cricoarytenoid joint arthritis that was indicated by hoarseness, sore throat, and vocal cord fixation.
  • (7) As the metaphors we are using to conduct it show, the migration debate in Britain is sorely in need of some perspective.
  • (8) Subjects with cancer were paired with subjects without cancer based on age (mean = 78), sex, and pressure sore risk.
  • (9) The pressure sore resulted from the commonly practised habit of grasping the upright of the wheel chair with the upper arm in order to gain stability.
  • (10) I was sorely tempted but in the end I simply paid the fine.
  • (11) Sore arm after vaccination was reported most frequently in younger female participants; however, sore arm was accepted as part of the process of vaccination and not considered a reaction by most.
  • (12) Systematic, prospective epidemiological studies of these agents in well-defined populations of various age groups are sorely needed for definition of the relative importance of each agent in human disease.
  • (13) Instead of pulling off a rapprochement, the Brown ended up opening a new sore and he is, in all likelihood, on another collision course with his backbenchers, who have already recoiled from attempts to attach conditions to other welfare reforms.
  • (14) The proportion of culture sore-throat patients returned to the original 55% level after an initial period of enthusiasm.
  • (15) Experts have said that Apple sorely needed to produce a phone with music capabilities as long-term protection for the lucrative iPod, which has helped boost the company's profits to record levels.
  • (16) The least severe sore (type 1) can be protected using polyurethane film dressings.
  • (17) Two ten-minute rapid tests for diagnosing Group A streptococcal pharyngitis in 147 emergency department patients with a complaint of sore throat were evaluated using positive throat cultures as the marker for disease.
  • (18) A few minutes after sucking a lozenge for a sore throat a 68-year-old man developed an anaphylactic shock.
  • (19) The general election result was, of course, crushing for Labour MPs south of the border as well as north, and the wounds are still very open and very sore.
  • (20) We discuss some epidemiological aspects and diagnostic difficulties resulting from a changing clinical pattern of the disease, and emphasize the need for streptococcal sore throat treatment and continuous secondary prophylaxis to prevent recurrences.