What's the difference between moan and roan?

Moan


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a low prolonged sound of grief or pain, whether articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously.
  • (v. i.) To emit a sound like moan; -- said of things inanimate; as, the wind moans.
  • (v. t.) To bewail audibly; to lament.
  • (v. t.) To afflict; to distress.
  • (v. i.) A low prolonged sound, articulate or not, indicative of pain or of grief; a low groan.
  • (v. i.) A low mournful or murmuring sound; -- of things.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The voters don’t do gratitude, self-pitying politicians are wont to moan.
  • (2) "A lot of people think, 'you're in work, what are you moaning about?'
  • (3) I was moaning about something, he was moaning about something.
  • (4) His department has formally complained to the BBC head of news, Helen Boaden, about the broadcaster's "carping and moaning".
  • (5) She thinks it's simple sexism, though she is loth to spell this out: "You can say that, but if I do, I'm just seen as moaning, playing the woman card again.
  • (6) That pitted him against the Democrat Jack Conway in November as the Republican elite moaned that such Tea Party rebellions would cost them seats.
  • (7) Jeremy Corbyn sweeps to victory increasing his mandate as Labour leader - Politics live Read more MPs who refuse to sit on the frontbench do not need to sit around moaning about Corbyn nor limit their ambition to avoiding deselection.
  • (8) This man's lawyers say he was then severely beaten: they allege that the initial blows, and their client's moans, can be heard faintly at the end of the video.
  • (9) Most moans 1 The Wright Stuff, Channel 5 (2,220 complaints) Matthew Wright uses Taggart catchphrase when talking about a suspicious death in the Western Isles.
  • (10) Ilike to go on Facebook and moan to friends about how awful Twitter is these days.
  • (11) When he is out socially he sometimes tells people that he works for the Post Office (it stops them soliciting invitations to send him scripts, and moaning about the kind of comedies they hate).
  • (12) He waits, outside, hearing "piteous, animal moans".
  • (13) No doubt if she worked on the checkout in Tesco you’d be telling her to resign over the company’s financial fraud investigation or the moans about how it treats its suppliers.
  • (14) Elias said: "There was shouting, moaning – even screaming – coming from the TDF [temporary detention facility] from time to time during the detention, according to some witnesses."
  • (15) G4S staff are relaxed about this, noting simply: “Prisoners moan.
  • (16) For me that is one of the most important battles for fairness.” During the presidential campaign he was caught moaning about “intellectual women who think they are downtrodden”, or who talk about their “ compañera ” cleaning lady, “when she is really the servant”.
  • (17) The video showed at length the interactions between Ms Dhu and police in the station , including moments when she can be heard crying and moaning in pain and asking for medical attention.
  • (18) Would anybody have any sympathy for the casino manager if he then started moaning that he’d lost £25,000?
  • (19) Stop your moaning about equal-rights this, maternity that, childcare the other.
  • (20) This isn't a sub-Rhodesian moan about Britain going to the dogs.

Roan


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse.
  • (a.) Made of the leather called roan; as, roan binding.
  • (n.) The color of a roan horse; a roan color.
  • (n.) A roan horse.
  • (n.) A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) BBC sports editor Dan Rowan tweeted: Dan Roan (@danroan) Action of US sponsors also raises issue of whether broadcasters (who bring more £ into FIFA than corporates) should make a stand too... October 3, 2015
  • (2) Buffalo and roan antelope were also selected for food but, because of their behavioural characteristics, neither was continually available to the tsetse population and they had no influence on its distribution.
  • (3) One roan antelope was anaemic, but the other animals had haemoglobin levels within the normal range and appeared to be in a good state of health.
  • (4) In reply to the BBC sports editor, Dan Roan, Armstrong said: “My answer is not a popular answer.
  • (5) Although this reduces the power of fingerprints for linkage analysis substantially, we were able to demonstrate genetic linkage between fingerprint bands and at least three of the classical markers, to exclude the roan locus from 4.5 Morgans of the bovine genome with the DNA fingerprints and for an additional 2.5 Morgans with the classical markers, and to identify a solid candidate marker for the bovine muscular hypertrophy gene, yielding a lod score greater than or equal to 2.84 without any obliged recombinant.
  • (6) Cloned DNA fragments of AHV-1 and OHV-2 cross hybridised with DNA prepared from cells infected with the roan antelope virus and the intensity of reaction suggested that this virus was more closely related to AHV-1 than is OHV-2.
  • (7) A herpesvirus was recovered in culture from the cells of a roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus) following cryopreservation in DMSO and it is thought that the DMSO may have been involved in reactivation.
  • (8) A clinical diagnosis of chronic renal failure associated with nephron atrophy and fibrosis was made in 4 blue roan Cocker Spaniels.
  • (9) The concentrations of 8 variables in the blood of impala and roan antelope exposed to acute stress were investigated.
  • (10) Two of the pedigrees were informative for segregation at the 'muscular hypertrophy' locus, and one was informative at the coat colour determining 'roan' locus.
  • (11) The leopard complex of white spotting patterns in horses consists of the leopard, few-spot leopard, blanket, blanket with spots, varnish roan (or marble), snowflake, frosted, speckled, and mottled patterns.
  • (12) To find a marker for the bovine "muscular hypertrophy" gene and for the "roan" locus, we have typed six cattle pedigrees totaling 540 animals for nine blood group systems, for 12 biochemical markers, for RFLPs at four loci, and with five probes revealing multilocus DNA fingerprints.
  • (13) On inoculation into rabbits the virus induced malignant catarrhal fever indicating that roan antelope should be considered as a possible source of infection.
  • (14) The question is how much improvement there will be,” lead analyst Debra Roane told AAP.
  • (15) No linkage was found either with the 'muscular hypertrophy' locus, or with the 'roan' locus.