What's the difference between plunder and prey?

Plunder


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.
  • (v. t.) To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found.
  • (n.) The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage.
  • (n.) That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud.
  • (n.) Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Serb teed up Steve Davis, who crossed low for Graziano Pellè to plunder his fifth league goal of the campaign.
  • (2) Scott's ambitious design for the hotel and station clearly plundered the architectural treasuries of medieval Europe.
  • (3) read one banner, against the woman whose family is reviled for taking tasty slices of state business and contracts, and plundering Tunisia's wealth.
  • (4) But as more end up empty-handed and black market prices soar, plundering is rising in Venezuela , an Opec nation that was already one of the world’s most violent countries.
  • (5) The French are no longer colonisers, or imperialists, or even plundering racists.
  • (6) The majority of these children come from Guatemala , Honduras and El Salvador – three of the many countries ravaged by civil strife, drug wars and economic turmoil precipitated by US political and military intervention over several decades, as well as free-trade regimes and the corporate plunder of Latin America's natural resources.
  • (7) Most newspapers were excoriating, for instance, about the failure of the City's self-regulating bodies to blow the whistle on Robert Maxwell's plunder of the Mirror pension fund .
  • (8) Kiir has accused government officials of plundering at least $4bn (£2.6bn) from state coffers over seven years.
  • (9) For every cinephile that delights in Quentin Tarantino's penchant for opulent dialogue and magpie film-historian's eye, there's another who sees the US director of Reservoir Dogs , Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill movies as a garish charlatan who survives on a habit of plundering the past.
  • (10) It was like a bomb went off in the room.” Arrest the thieves and embezzlers who are plundering Iraq | Letters Read more Abadi has placed much of his political stock on his reform drive, which he sees as essential to holding the country together.
  • (11) Mila D Aguilar , 67, poet, Quezon City Facebook Twitter Pinterest Krip Yuson ‘Many Filipinos still bear the scars of his plundering’ He should definitely not have been buried in the LNMB.
  • (12) With billions of dollars worth of assets of Muammar Gaddafi frozen by the UN and member countries, and other legal moves to recover the wealth of deposed autocrats such as Tunisia's Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, the drive to seize billions plundered by corrupt leaders has never been higher.
  • (13) Yet Joe Ledley’s handball might have earned United a penalty of their own after the interval before Ibrahimovic plundered the winner the visitors’ dominance merited .
  • (14) Damien Duff was sharp and Robbie Keane looked in the mood to plunder.
  • (15) In the past few years they had seen Ben Ali and his family and friends become extremely rich by plundering the nation.
  • (16) City were ahead again before half-time, Santa Cruz dummying over Shaun Wright-Phillips' centre for Bellamy to plunder the goal he so richly deserved, but three is not enough to guarantee City victory these days, and Kenwyne Jones, on as substitute, headed in from four yards to get Wearside's barmy army crowing with glee.
  • (17) Field’s parliamentary investigation concluded that BHS had been systematically plundered.
  • (18) The National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden used inexpensive and widely available software to plunder the agency’s networks, it has been reported, raising further questions about why he was not detected.
  • (19) For my part – plundering singles by Artful Dodger, by Semisonic – I have a memory of actually looking over my shoulder.
  • (20) The question is, why haven't the moon's resources been thoroughly plundered by now?

Prey


Definition:

  • (n.) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.
  • (n.) That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.
  • (n.) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
  • (n.) To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
  • (2) The concentration of prey and the ciliate mean cell volume, dry weight, and number per milliliter were determined at known growth rates.
  • (3) This unusual pattern of unbalanced growth may represent an adaptation by bdellovibrios to maximize their progeny yield from the determinate amount of substrate available within a given prey cell.
  • (4) We have four Money Shops in Medway: they know they can prey on the vulnerable, and most residents can't pay back on time.
  • (5) Plethodontid salamanders capture prey by projecting the tongue from the mouth.
  • (6) About 2 weeks after metamorphosis, midwife toads Alytes obstetricans judge the size of a prey object mainly in scales of visual angle.
  • (7) As the outer wall was dissolved, outgrowth began with the elongation of the germinant as it emerged from the prey ghost as an actively motile cell.
  • (8) In the present study the chemical composition of the venom was examined in order to determine the presence of constituents that may have physiologically important actions on the prey.
  • (9) The fate of those black boys and men rested in the hands of a racist system that preys on the fear and vulnerability of their parents.
  • (10) Paradoxical sleep is associated with a factor related to predatory danger, which suggests that large amounts of this sleep phase are disadvantageous in prey species.
  • (11) The latency increase is not likely to be due to motor fatigue, since it can be partially reversed by dishabituation with an alternate prey species.
  • (12) Two cases are considered: mutualism with the prey and mutualism with the first predator.
  • (13) At the same time, cetaceans are under threat from a variety of pressures including direct and indirect takes, pollution, and competition for habitat and prey.
  • (14) A wide range of suggested functions found in the literature include food acquisition, prey attack, aggression and attack behavior, facial expression in intraspecies communications, dispersion of pheromones, maintaining head position in swimming, and a wide range of environmental monitoring (e.g., current detection in water, wind direction on land).
  • (15) We suggest that the first step of the prey-catching sequence is to adjust the accommodative state of the lenses and thus lock the visual apparatus on to a stimulus.
  • (16) They prey on the population, kidnapping and extorting in cahoots with criminal gangs, according to multiple complaints filed to the human rights commission.
  • (17) For much of the film, Deckard refuses to identify himself with his prey; after all, that might make him no better than an organic machine.
  • (18) Phage typing was performed on 795 strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from poultry, a turkey, pigeons, and birds of prey in Japan and 4 countries in Europe, using the avian phage set of typing phages plus 6 others.
  • (19) Functional morphologists commonly study feeding behavior in vertebrates by recording electrical activity from head muscles during unrestrained prey capture.
  • (20) The strong reactivity of the two positive yellow baboon sera with SIVagm proteins raises questions about whether these animals may have been infected by green monkeys in their native habitat; baboons occasionally prey upon and eat green monkeys.