What's the difference between naze and raze?

Naze


Definition:

  • (n.) A promotory or headland.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kim Mawby, from Nazeing, Essex, was diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2010.
  • (2) I examined the socioeconomic influence to the skeletal maturation within Kyushu populations, Naze, Nomozaki and Ogi children.
  • (3) Although Ogi and Naze samples showed similar socioeconomic status, their skeletal maturity status differed significantly.
  • (4) This walk starts at Kirby Cross station and ends at Walton-on-the-Naze.
  • (5) Dr William Dixon City University, London Dr David Wilson Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex • Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com
  • (6) Won by Labour in 1997 and Carswell in 2005 Major population centres Clacton-on-Sea, Jaywick, Frinton-on-Sea, Walton-On-The-Naze Tourism Modern day Clacton-on-Sea was founded as a seaside resort in 1871.
  • (7) Carry on walking along the seafront until you reach the pier, and you are then in Walton-on-the-Naze.
  • (8) The alleged victims were living in seaside towns in Essex, including Frinton-on-Sea, Walton-on-the-Naze, Holland-on-Sea and Clacton.
  • (9) • Maps: OS Landranger 169 (Ipswich & The Naze) or OS Explorer 184 (Colchester, Harwich & Clacton-on-Sea) Folkestone to Dover, Kent Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Margaret Dickinson Starting from Folkestone station, the day starts with swims from shingle coves or a sandy beach and continues with a nine-mile walk over towering cliff tops and mysterious relics of war.
  • (10) The Public and Commercial Services union said three Coastguard stations have already close d and five others - Swansea, Liverpool, Walton on the Naze, Brixham and Portland - are earmarked for closure.
  • (11) • Maps: OS Landranger 164 (Oxford) or OS Explorer 170 (Abingdon, Wantage & Vale of White Horse) Kirby Cross to Frinton and Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Margaret Dickinson A perfect summer’s walk of 10½ miles with sea swims from sandy beaches.
  • (12) There are numerous cafes and pubs in Walton-on-the-Naze including a cafe at the Naze Tower for post-swim refreshments.

Raze


Definition:

  • (n.) A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.
  • (v. t.) To erase; to efface; to obliterate.
  • (v. t.) To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
  • (2) MSF said the village of Lekongole has been razed to the ground.
  • (3) Helicopter crews have reported that entire villages have been razed there.
  • (4) His village was later razed and he felt too traumatised to return, he said.
  • (5) As a newly appointed prime minister in 1999, before becoming president on New Year's Day 2000, he began with a war in Chechnya , brutally suppressing an armed insurrection against Moscow's rule in the north Caucasus and razing the provincial capital, Grozny.
  • (6) The provisional structures that have been built in the area, including shops, cafes, churches and mosques, will all be razed as part of efforts to clear regions of the camp next to a motorway leading to the port, where there have been clashes with police.
  • (7) What is known is that a number of villages, including Likuangole, were razed to the ground.
  • (8) The massacre at Sharpeville , the first trial of Nelson Mandela , the razing of the black township of Sophiatown , signalled a regime prepared to shoot, jail or exile its opponents – and as Nakasa said, to bore the rest to death.
  • (9) When Katniss stands in the rubble of her district razed to the ground, it could be parts of Syria, Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan.
  • (10) The last one – a magnitude 8.1 in 1934 – razed around a quarter of Kathmandu to the ground and killed 17,000 people.
  • (11) Up to 15 people are thought to have been killed and more than 160 injured after a massive explosion and fire tore through a fertiliser plant and razed dozens of homes in a small Texas town on Wednesday night.
  • (12) Turn Britain's regions into subsidiaries of London, raze its business and political elites, and you have hardly any counterbalance to the might of the City.
  • (13) Moses wanted to extend Fifth Avenue through the square, ostensibly to ease congestion in Greenwich Village's dense maze of streets, but also to reward developers building on 10 blocks he'd razed to the south.
  • (14) Author deals with the possiblity of determination of various razes.
  • (15) But it is the first such modern museum in Poland , devoted to the 63-day insurrection in August and September 1944 that left 200,000 dead and incurred a terrible revenge when the Nazis methodically razed Warsaw.
  • (16) The result has been to raze the platform of the governing socialist party to a charred mess.
  • (17) Andy Warhol's first Factory location was razed in the late 1960s.
  • (18) But I don’t think this gets to the heart of why the razing of the temple rightly matters so much to us, and why such concerns can be as powerful as the ones we have for individual lives.
  • (19) First is that it goes the way of Badia East, razed for high-rises, or Bar Beach, site of a massive land reclamation project that is turning nine square kilometres of Atlantic Ocean into what developers are touting as “the Manhattan of west Africa”, a residential and commercial mini-city called Eko Atlantic .
  • (20) Britain can now boast its place as the world’s leading internet economy, but if no action is taken, our success stories could be razed to the ground.