What's the difference between menace and menage?

Menace


Definition:

  • (n.) The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
  • (n.) To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; -- usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war.
  • (n.) To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.
  • (v. i.) To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The menace we’re facing – and I say we, because no one is spared – is embodied by the hooded men who are ravaging the cradle of civilization.
  • (2) But when in mid-October two of the artists received death threats, the menaces were widely reported and rekindled debate, prompting vicious, anti-Muslim comments on Danish talk shows.
  • (3) We will together face the terrorist menace,” said Jean-Claude Juncker , president of the European commission, whose headquarters lie just a few hundred metres from the metro.
  • (4) Aneurysmal occlusion with an extrafocal shunt can allow one-stage surgery when aneurysm and neoplasm are equally menacing.
  • (5) It is a gripping read from the opening, with the Ku Klux Klan menacing his pregnant mother, through to the troubled last months of his life: we follow Malcolm Little, common thief, on his journey to Malcolm X , inspirational leader.
  • (6) After her release, she confirmed that she had been pressured by threats and menaces to confess to criminal acts that she had never perpetrated.
  • (7) Although chronic total coronary occlusions are no clinical menace in contrast to stenoses, they frequently deserve revascularization and are the reason to select bypass surgery over angioplasty.
  • (8) Zimmerman was charged with an offence of sending by public communication network an offensive, indecent, obscene, menacing message or matter.
  • (9) The former Conservative chief whip Andrew Mitchell was a Jekyll and Hyde character who employed a mixture of charm and menace, his libel trial against the Sun newspaper over the Plebgate affair heard.
  • (10) The family member was one of five men executed by Isis in the terror group’s latest propaganda video, shot in the head as they submitted to their tormentors while a new English-speaking frontman made menacing threats to Britain.
  • (11) The bill should authorize stiff fines for unruly dog behavior – to include noise violations from sustained barking and lunging – and misdemeanor criminal penalties for menacing waitstaff and patrons.
  • (12) Maged understands better than most the menace of coastal erosion, which is steadily ingesting the edge of Egypt in some places at an astonishing rate of almost 100m a year.
  • (13) Now the focus seems to be on new geographic menaces rather than new technological ones.
  • (14) Authorities were preparing for a "worst-case scenario" on Thursday as a blaze dubbed the "Springs fire" menaced the 101 freeway along Camarillo, a city in Ventura County, and raced towards the coast.
  • (15) But if you do, yet still allow your editors to use inciteful over insightful language, then far from standing up for Britain, you're a menace against all things that make it great.
  • (16) The club’s new president, Bruno de Carvalho, has denounced as a “menace” and “monster” the funds to whom majority stakes in almost the club’s entire squad were sold before he was elected in March 2013 and he vowed to end the practice.
  • (17) 2.32pm BST Blimey... Tom Williams (@tomwfootball) Menacing sight en route to the Maracanã.
  • (18) It's an extraordinary, sprawling world, powered by magic and steampunk technology, populated by humans, cactus-people, insectoid, amphibian and avian races, dripping with myths and monsters and menaced by repressive regimes.
  • (19) For days, BBC reporters on the spot repeated the words panic, threat and menace by the hour.
  • (20) (A little later, I watch director Foley ask a genially menacing professor Capaldi to lift, and lift, and lift, the needle from a record in, I think it was, 12 different ways, to get it just so; I think "stickler" is fair.)

Menage


Definition:

  • (n.) See Manage.
  • (n.) A collection of animals; a menagerie.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For the media, it was Bonnie and Clyde and Clyde – offering the salacious possibility of a murderous menage a trois Rather than investigating how far-right killers could have operated undetected for so long, most of the German media opted for lurid coverage of the NSU, insisting that it consisted of only three people.
  • (2) The comparison between operative and conservative menagement was done by analysis of final results which included duration of the treatment and period necessary for the restitution of the function.
  • (3) After the hostile reception to Les Bonnes Femmes, Chabrol was forced to make a series of potboilers until he was given the chance to direct Les Biches (The Does, 1968), a cool, callous and witty menage à trois tale, which put him firmly back on the "art cinema" circuit.
  • (4) We found some connection between the two experiments, even though, not always are very easily to menage.
  • (5) Therefore, I am prepared to grapple with geometry in order to create my own menage a trois involving three wonderful works, by Gogol, Kafka and Grossmith.
  • (6) Thomas Venning, an expert with the auction house Christie's, said the document offered an insight into the "most famous artistic menage in history".
  • (7) But then in 1997, Araki committed the ultimate transgression: he began a relationship with a woman, Kathleen Robertson, formerly of Beverly Hills 90210, whom he'd cast in Nowhere and his 1999 film Splendor, a menage-a-trois screwball comedy.
  • (8) The introduction of bromocriptine has heralded a major change in the menagement of the hyperprolactinaemia-hypogonadism syndromes and resulted in safer and easier treatment of many cases of infertility, menstrual disorders and, to a lesser extent of impotence.
  • (9) Cunningly, perhaps cynically, it stresses the links between her 18th-century menage and the Charles, Di and Camilla love triangle (Georgiana was an ancestor of Lady Diana Spencer).
  • (10) Falling back on the attitudes of a "poor little woman" only when it suited her, Emma Hornett, in fact, hardly allowed the menfolk in her menage to get a word in edgeways.
  • (11) For the media, it was Bonnie and Clyde and Clyde – offering the salacious possibility of a murderous menage a trois.
  • (12) Together, the marine menage-a-trois make a very effective building site, with dead corals leaving their calcium skeletons behind as limestone.

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