What's the difference between robe and rode?

Robe


Definition:

  • (v. t.) An outer garment; a dress of a rich, flowing, and elegant style or make; hence, a dress of state, rank, office, or the like.
  • (v. t.) A skin of an animal, especially, a skin of the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.
  • (v. t.) To invest with a robe or robes; to dress; to array; as, fields robed with green.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Many turned up in their bright robes and burqas, and some incredibly emotional scenes ensued.
  • (2) Because he is mad for them and I was like, you do not think they have gone the tiniest bit school run, as in Elle McPherson klaxon, but Mr Karzai was like, when something is a serious classic like a divine Turkman robe or the perfect ankle boot, it can survive any brand damage?
  • (3) Some of the women priests appeared to have sourced phone cases to match the colour of their clerical robes.
  • (4) As the cathedral clergy in their golden robes snaked in their stately procession around the nave, with the choir all in white and the bishops in white and scarlet, the theatre still seemed moving enough.
  • (5) 5.13am BST Pacquiao enters He's heading in, wearing a white robe with blue trim, and looking like he does...relaxed.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Protesters in KKK robes disrupt confirmation hearing for Jeff Sessions Sessions defended his brand of law-and-order conservatism, pledging to reverse a recent spike in violent crime in some US cities and to tackle a heroin addiction epidemic that has afflicted several regions.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lawrence’s white silk robes, which were presented to him after the capture of Aqaba.
  • (8) Photograph: Fox Searchlight Bathrobe One of these characters is in the bath, the other is wearing some kind of robe.
  • (9) A monk broke off from texting long enough to slip his phone inside his robes and give me a blessing Hpa-An was sleepy but charming and lay on the Thanlyin river, my route to Mawlamyine.
  • (10) "Chisora climbed down from the top table," he said, "removed his robe and then walked towards me, entourage in tow, in an aggressive manner.
  • (11) Asked by judges for an explanation, the black-robed prosecutor Siddiq al-Sur said: "He was allowed visits, he was allowed to see his daughter, his cousins.
  • (12) The pair, whose identities have not been revealed, were dressed in white robes and bowed their heads as they were whipped by officials wearing brown cloaks and masks with eye slits.
  • (13) Sporting the traditional robes and cap of the south-west Yoruba people – who have appeared largely in favour of the opposition – Jonathan opened with an unusually fiery speech that addressed a growing Islamist uprising in the north-east and, more pressingly for the south, a slump in oil prices and the value of the national currency.
  • (14) As kick-off at the Al-Ahli stadium approaches, a rust-coloured moon rises in the sky and a few rich Qataris in immaculate robes settle into their air-conditioned executive boxes.
  • (15) Then he reached deep into his robes, beamed a huge smile and offered me a sweet.
  • (16) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a poem that succeeds through a series of vivid contrasts: standard English contrasting with colloquial speech; the devotion and virtue of the young knight contrasting with the growling threats of his green foe; exchanges of courtly love contrasting with none-too-subtle sexual innuendo; exquisite robes and priceless crowns contrasting with spurting blood and the steaming organs of butchered animals; polite, indoor society contrasting with the untamed, unpredictable outdoors.
  • (17) A website for the group includes an image of Ancona in a white hood and robe standing in front of a burning cross.
  • (18) López, who wears a bulletproof vest under his robes at mass, said that compared to the cartel and the government, the vigilantes stood out as a "lesser evil", which was also gathering support among wealthy locals who were secretly channelling funds their way.
  • (19) So the eyes and ears of the eurozone will be on the eight red-robed judges of Germany's highest court this week when they deliver a long-awaited verdict over whether a financial rescue fund considered crucial to the future of the euro gets the green light.
  • (20) "The life of a fake sheikh where I disguise myself as a multimillionaire Arab with full robes and an entourage of flunkies isn't all five-star hotels, limos, yachts and dining with the rich and famous," he said in 2008 in an interview to mark the launch of his memoir, Confessions of a Fake Sheikh.

Rode


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Ride
  • (n.) Redness; complexion.
  • () imp. of Ride.
  • (n.) See Rood, the cross.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
  • (2) I thought we rode our luck in the first 20 minutes here.
  • (3) Eleven male cyclists rode at a high (80% of maximum VO2) and a low (60% of maximum VO2) workrate using each chainring.
  • (4) The country's president, Dilma Rousseff, rode a bus to mark Sunday's official opening of a $700m (£417m) bus corridor for quickly moving people between the airport and subway stations in the western part of the city.
  • (5) At the end of each weekly diet treatment, subjects rode on a cycle ergometer at 80% VO2max until fatigued.
  • (6) A reshaped defence – even with one of the locals’ hate figures, Dejan Lovren, standing in for the injured Mamadou Sakho – rode its luck amid the calls for a home penalty but emerged with a fifth successive clean sheet away from home in the league for the first time in 30 years.
  • (7) RESULTS - Of 68 pediatric patients treated for accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, 20 cases occurred as children rode in the back of pickup trucks.
  • (8) With that, Elizabeth retired to pray that her husband would be noble and manly enough to cope with whatever horrors might be revealed, while he and Colonel Fitzwilliam rode out to the woods.
  • (9) We can all imagine situations in which one could argue that there was a genuine public interest in exposure which over-rode the privacy concerns outlined above.
  • (10) I rode when I was a kid every day.” It was suggested that Wenger could take up riding again.
  • (11) Back in the early 1990s, President Bill Clinton rode to power on the strength of one savvy motto: "It's the economy, stupid."
  • (12) Law and Justice rode to power on the back of frustration that the post-1989 settlement failed to spread wealth more equally and frustration with endemic corruption.
  • (13) I don’t know why you people think that cops wake up one day and say ‘well I’m going to shoot somebody’,” says 56-year-old Dave Lenley, who rode all the way from London, Kentucky.
  • (14) World Bank lending: how the organisation rode roughshod over its own rules – interactive Read more The bank has said its goals are to end extreme poverty and reduce income inequality worldwide.
  • (15) (v) The results were explained in terms of a centrally integrated response to injury involving the hypothalamus which over-rode the controls operating in normal rats.
  • (16) The sale is a dramatic turnaround for San Francisco-based Blogger, which rode the high and subsequent low of the dotcom boom.
  • (17) In May 1935 Lawrence rode away from Clouds Hill on the last of his series of powerful Brough Superior motorbikes and died in circumstances that are still debated.
  • (18) At 11am Werritty and Fox were whisked into the hotel and rode the elevator to the executive meeting suite, one floor above Werritty's room on the 40th floor.
  • (19) Declarative memories are those you can state as true or false, such as remembering whether you rode a bicycle to work.
  • (20) later, 66 adults between the ages of 18 and 48 yr. took all cognitive tests and rode a bicycle ergometer to estimate physical fitness.