What's the difference between rade and raid?

Rade


Definition:

  • (n.) A raid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) radE strains were moderately sensitive to ultraviolet light (D10 90 J m-2) and slightly sensitive to 137Cs gamma rays D10 255 krad).
  • (2) However, when amoebae of these strains were irradiated with ultraviolet light, the frequency of induced mutants was significantly lower in cultures of the radE strain.
  • (3) The frequency of spontaneous methanol-resistant (acrA) mutants was approximately the same in cultures of radE and radE+ strains.
  • (4) The next series also includes Russian actor Rade Sherbedgia, who appeared in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, playing a refugee who fled the Russian revolution after the first world war.
  • (5) radE strains also exhibited increased sensitivity to killing by N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine but not by other alkylating agents such as ethyl methanesulphonate or methyl methanesulphonate.
  • (6) Chancellor, whose credits include Four Weddings and a Funeral and BBC2's The Hour, will play Lady Anstruther, with Russian actor Rade Sherbedgia, who appeared in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, playing a refugee who fled the Russian revolution after the first world war.
  • (7) Speculation about the future of Southern Solar soured an already troubled atmosphere at the Solar UK t rade show in Birmingham this week.
  • (8) Furthermore, when amoebae of wild-type strain NC4 were plated in the presence of caffeine after ultraviolet-irradiation, the survival curves were very similar to the curves obtained for amoebae of radE strains in the presence or in the absence of caffeine.
  • (9) Complementation analysis and survival studies on strains carrying rad-100 suggested that this allele defines a new radiation-sensitive locus in D. discoideum, and this locus has been designated radE.
  • (10) M; 8.1 kg, F) and average skinfold radings (16.2 mm, M; 21.1mm, F) were greater than in younger adults.

Raid


Definition:

  • (n.) A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
  • (n.) An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.
  • (v. t.) To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One is the right not to be impeded when they are going to the House of Commons to vote, which may partly explain why the police decided to arrest Green and raid his offices last week on Thursday, when the Commons was not sitting.
  • (2) It will form part of an investigation launched by the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, on the orders of David Cameron to determine the British government's actions over the raid on Sikhism's holiest site in Amritsar.
  • (3) The raids began a year ago in Marylebone, but they have recently spread to the West End.
  • (4) Their brief was to eradicate cross-border raids by Palestinian fedayeen (guerrillas), yet many felt the overzealous Sharon was becoming a law unto himself.
  • (5) Stationed in Sarajevo, he became fascinated by special forces methods there and insisted on going on a night raid with them.
  • (6) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
  • (7) Gaddafi's residence, now gutted and covered with graffiti, was also targeted in a US bombing raid in April 1986, after Washington held Libya responsible for a blast at a Berlin disco that killed two American servicemen.
  • (8) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
  • (9) Shaky phone footage of the raid that circulated online showed the vigilantes kicking, slapping and insulting the men, with one of them slumped naked on the ground during the attack.
  • (10) The raids came after three separate federal indictments in the biggest investigation to date into trade-based drug money laundering, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles.
  • (11) On Friday, at the modest five-storey block of flats in the Quartier des Abattoirs where he had lived and which was raided by officers from the elite RAID unit at 9.30am,neighbours described him as a quiet and “not very religious” man.
  • (12) She devotes countless hours every week to meeting with her lawyer and officials from Russia's Investigative Committee, which raided her flat in early June.
  • (13) During their detention by Pakistani authorities the women, one of whom was wounded in the Abbottabad raid, were interviewed by American intelligence agencies.
  • (14) Police arrested her in September in a raid on a club on Iracema beach, a crowded neighbourhood packed with lively restaurants, hotels and bars.
  • (15) The Greek finance ministry's financial crimes unit conducted the raids, and says it has many other groups in its sights.
  • (16) It is called falling off the swing,” said Soames, when he tried to explain all this to me, “and getting hit on the back of the head by the roundabout.” There are times, when considering Serco, that it begins to resemble Milo Minderbinder’s syndicate, M&M Enterprises, in the novel Catch-22, which starts out trading melons and sardines between opposing armies in the second world war, and ends up conducting bombing raids for commercial reasons.
  • (17) The abduction early Thursday comes amid anger among Libya's powerful Islamic militant groups over the US special forces raid on Saturday that seized a Libyan al-Qaida suspect known as Abu Anas al-Libi.
  • (18) There had been simmering tension between the Tottenham Hotspur manager and officers since a dawn raid on his Dorset home that was watched by press photographers.
  • (19) At least that seemed to be the lesson last week when the autumn statement confirmed a further £600m raid on the troubled universal credit – a move that didn't cause a ripple.
  • (20) The Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood has indeed criticised the Saudi air raids in Yemen in parliament, and called on Riyadh to be quicker to establish public inquiries into its errors.