What's the difference between lorn and worn?

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.

Worn


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Wear
  • () p. p. of Wear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
  • (2) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
  • (3) Many leave banking after three to five years, not because they are 'worn out', but because now they have financial security to start their own business or go on to advocate for a cause they are passionate about or buy a small cottage in the West Country for the rest of their lives."
  • (4) The development of a shear transducer, small enough to be worn comfortably under a normal foot, is described, along with a microcomputer controlled data logger.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A sticker worn on the shirt an attendee at a New York City landmarks commission meeting.
  • (6) The police spokesman said the evidence considered included a testimony from a member of the public who witnessed the incident, footage supplied by the media, an interview with the man who was Tasered, footage from the video cameras worn by the attending officers and a statement from a safety trainer.
  • (7) At the present time, the following parameters can be recommended for "early diagnosis" of phosgene overexposure: Phosgene indicator paper badges, to be worn by all persons involved in handling phosgene (these badges permit immediate estimation of the exposure dose in each individual case); Observation of the initial irritative symptoms of the eye and the upper respiratory tract after phosgene inhalation can provide a rough indication of the inhalation concentration and dose; X-ray photographs of the lungs make it possible to detect incipient toxic pulmonary edema at an early stage, during the clinical latent period.
  • (8) Every time he felt the futility of his work for the NAACP, he’d finger the well-worn pages, and it would strengthen his resolve.” This is how classics of this calibre work their way into the literary bloodstream.
  • (9) In order to evaluate the usefulness of gamma-ray-irradiation to improve the tolerance to wear of the sockets, the worn surface of the 2.5 M rad gamma-ray-irradiated HDP sockets after total hip arthroplasty has been quantified by a newly-developed 3 dimensional (3-D) image analysis method in combination with scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
  • (10) Gloves were the barrier worn most frequently when appropriate (74%), followed by goggles (13%), gowns (12%), and masks (1%).
  • (11) The Pucci Saturday night show was a fairly typical glamorous display with op art prints, 70s shapes and jetset-worthy wafty dresses – all the things Dundas has done so successfully – worn by supermodels including Eva Herzigova, Karie Kloss, Joan Smalls and Natasha Poly.
  • (12) The etched porcelain laminate veneer is a new conservative treatment that offers a solution to fractured, discolored, and worn anterior teeth.
  • (13) The two reformists Mr Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have sought to portray themselves as the true heirs of the Islamic revolution's spiritual leader, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, but this tactic has since worn thin and Khomeini's successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stepped up his drive to paint Mousavi and Karroubi as western-run heretics.
  • (14) The case is described of a 26-year olf woman, gravida 2, para 1, who presented with failure to conceive 18 months after revomal of a Lippes Loop IUD worn for 12 months.
  • (15) Designs weren’t limited to abayas (a long tunic traditionally worn by Muslim women in the Middle East).
  • (16) Partly for this reason, writers like Jeremy Rifkin have been saying that information privacy is a worn-out idea.
  • (17) Conventionally fitted Paraperm O2plus contact lenses were worn for 44 months by 23 myopic children, who discontinued lens wear for 2.5 months and then resumed lens wear with Fluoroperm 30 lenses for a period of 8 months.
  • (18) As the weirdly brilliant TV show Fashion Police – hosted by the late, great Joan Rivers, who, along with various randoms, passed judgment on clothes worn by celebrities that week – demonstrated, people have different takes on clothes.
  • (19) Like 90% of the population, all I knew about him was that he was that bloke who’d worn a dress to the Baftas.
  • (20) More than half of 18- to 30-year-olds say they’re worried about the future, 47% report that they lack self-confidence, and 42% that they feel worn down.

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