What's the difference between rue and rune?

Rue


Definition:

  • (n.) A perennial suffrutescent plant (Ruta graveolens), having a strong, heavy odor and a bitter taste; herb of grace. It is used in medicine.
  • (n.) Fig.: Bitterness; disappointment; grief; regret.
  • (v. t.) To lament; to regret extremely; to grieve for or over.
  • (v. t.) To cause to grieve; to afflict.
  • (v. t.) To repent of, and withdraw from, as a bargain; to get released from.
  • (v. i.) To have compassion.
  • (v. i.) To feel sorrow and regret; to repent.
  • (v. t.) Sorrow; repetance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
  • (2) It left Monk rueing Shelvey’s disallowed strike, while also questioning why Oliver did not send off Koné, rather than book the forward, for an aerial challenge on Federico Fernández in the first half.
  • (3) A force of 110 heavily armed officers, led by the elite tactical unit Recherche, Assistance, Intervention, Dissuasion (Raid), launched an assault on a third‑storey flat at 8 rue Corbillon, a few doors down from a primary school and a 15-minute walk from the Stade de France.
  • (4) The semi-final reeked of history as it pitted South Americans who had won the trophy twice against opponents with so much to rue in this competition.
  • (5) It’s a real shame.” 8.05am Facebook Twitter Pinterest A 500-metre cordon was set up around the rue du Corbillon.
  • (6) • 170 rue Du Faubourg Saint Denis, +33 1 40 05 01 01, saravanabhavan.com .
  • (7) It has been twinned with London’s St Pancras Old church – close to the St Pancras Eurostar terminal – since 2007 • 5 rue de Belzunce, paroissesvp.fr Secrets Temple Ganesh Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy At the north end of the Gare du Nord, just past the elevated metro line, is a colourful Hindu temple dedicated to the god Ganesh.
  • (8) At the moment De La Rue produces all Bank of England notes but its current contract expires in March 2015.
  • (9) At Le Bouquet Garni (+33 4 93 86 20 71, 1 rue Palmaro, about £30pp), run by a family from Rome, the standout dish was a simple tomato and mozzarella salad made with the freshest, creamiest burrata .
  • (10) To really be beloved in France he needs to learn to swear with the virtuosity of a Frenchman who's mislaid his linen Agnes B scarf in the Rue du Bac.
  • (11) Restaurant Bar de la Marine (28 rue Achard) is a little oasis of comfort amid the rubble of the past and the concrete of the future.
  • (12) Witnesses described hearing heavy gunfire and the sound of large explosions and grenades coming from the apartment building in rue du Cornillon.
  • (13) For a foodie reward, stroll to Rue Didot's row of boulangeries.
  • (14) Rue is notable because of its use independently within different cultures, but may exhibit toxic side effects when used as an abortifacient.
  • (15) A beat officer had worked out that a relative of Abdeslam was living at 79 Rue des Quatre Vents, and was thought to have been radicalised.
  • (16) And in the UK, bank note printer De La Rue warned that its profits will be below forecasts.
  • (17) "PM will rue yet another bad call," said one comment piece.
  • (18) Villa were left to rue their inability to spring a surprise when City opened the second half with the sort of goal that made you wonder why they had taken so long.
  • (19) Photograph: Andy Pietrasik Start with a coffee and croissant at zinc bar Café Tupiña at the bottom end of rue Porte de la Monnaie, and then move on to a hearty lunch at La Tupiña next door, with its huge roaring hearth and spits roasting chickens and racks of lamb.
  • (20) Another new spot, Victor (11 rue Victor Massé), offers a good deal for lunch, with a tasty €12 plat du jour that includes dishes such as tender veal sautéed with baby leeks and hazelnuts, and crisp rocket salad and roasted new potatoes.

Rune


Definition:

  • (n.) A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of the ancient Norsemen, or Scandinavians; in a wider sense, applied to the letters of the ancient nations of Northern Europe in general.
  • (n.) Old Norse poetry expressed in runes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Henrik Williams, a Swedish expert on runes from Uppsala University, hailed the discovery.
  • (2) These are brand-new films, and there has been no Oscar-style "campaign" to build a consensus and help us read the runes.
  • (3) Rune, who is divorced, generally gets two days off a week, when he travels to nearby Ibaraki prefecture to see his sons.
  • (4) Rune gave the Guardian a rare insight into working conditions inside the plant.
  • (5) "I've never thought working at the plant was dangerous," Rune tells the Guardian after a day's work, for which he receives 12,000 yen (£95).
  • (6) The next morning, at 5.45am, the bus is already waiting when Rune emerges from his hotel, where he shares a room with five other workers.
  • (7) History will record that the rune-master of 21st century Scotland was Professor Curtice.
  • (8) Like most in the Falklands community, Hunt had half-expected the invasion; he had read the diplomatic runes and observed the naval manoeuvres.
  • (9) They include Ariyoshi Rune, a tall, wiry 47-year-old truck driver whose slicked-back hair and sideburns are inspired by his idol, Joe Strummer.
  • (10) Which is what you can say about psychics, mediums, homeopathy and the casting of runes, but that makes it, like them, more exploitative and wicked, not less."
  • (11) A previous Premier League inquiry, signed off in 1997 by Robert Reid QC and the league's then chief executive, Rick Parry, had found that after Arsenal signed the Danish midfield international John Jensen, and the Norwegian full-back Pal Lydersen in 1991 and 1992, Arsenal's manager, George Graham, had been paid £425,000 in kickbacks by the players' Norwegian agent, Rune Hauge.
  • (12) As a result, it doesn’t want to be in the position of the Bank of Japan, which twice in the past 20 years misread the economic runes and raised rates, only to find that it had to cut them again shortly afterwards.
  • (13) But that actually, they were used to get to know the alphabet, or rune names," said Nordby.
  • (14) So far, what he calls his "Rosetta stone", which was found at Bergen wharf, is the only place in which it is possible to be sure what the jötunvillur code says, although he believes another rune stick may well have been inscribed with the name Thorstein, and another with the name Einar.
  • (15) There is whole range of things that can be done with the supervision of Wada.” Meanwhile the IAAF has announced that their five-person investigation team that will verify the reforms programme in the All-Russia Athletics Federation (Araf) will be headed by Rune Andersen, a Norwegian international anti-doping expert, and include the former 200m runner Frankie Fredericks.
  • (16) After drifting inside and using his chest to lay the ball off for Steve Morison, the winger immediately looked for the return pass that the Norwich forward promptly delivered, the ball sitting up invitingly for Bale to dispatch an emphatic volley inside Rune Almenning Jarstein's near post.
  • (17) It seems the Tories read the runes on this one and realised that increasingly the evidence and political tide were against them.
  • (18) Some rune verses are, apparently, thematically derived from Chinese Radical sequences.
  • (19) But Rune expects there will be little praise, at least in public, for the men who cleaned up the devastation the waves left in their wake.
  • (20) New Labour thought it had discovered a magic money-tree and gave up on regulation; journalists on the whole failed to read the runes or question the new macho expansionist, masters-of-the-universe culture; the public liked the easy credit and soaring house prices and was too lazy to examine what was happening in the City; and what naysayers and doom-mongers there were tended to be marginalised.

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