What's the difference between unmoor and unsecure?

Unmoor


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause to ride with one anchor less than before, after having been moored by two or more anchors.
  • (v. t.) To loose from anchorage. See Moor, v. t.
  • (v. i.) To weigh anchor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Courtesy the Artist and Victoria Miro, London It makes no sense in many ways for us to think in national terms in art or politics or anything else any more - our world is characterised by interdependence - but is the “international” artist in danger of becoming unmoored in some ways, of losing a connection with the audience?
  • (2) Shannon Minter, the legal director of National Center for Lesbian Rights, which is acting as co-counsel in the Utah case, Kitchen v Herbert, said such arguments were “unmoored from any reality”.
  • (3) Historical amnesia is certainly liberating – so liberating that America is once again diving into free fall, unmoored by any critical or intellectual insight into its own myths, or even into the histories of the debates that we think define our moment.
  • (4) Memories are false, people misspeak, they are misunderstood, mistakes are repeated until they are unmoored from the original and turn into concrete evidence for conspiracy nuts.
  • (5) For there is, together with a flat and fluid world, a more tribal, fragmented, and divisive world, as people unmoored from millennial traditions and cultures flail about in search of a social identity that is at once individual and intimate but with a greater sense of purpose and possibility of survival than the sorrow of here today, gone tomorrow … Jihad offers the group pride of great achievements for the underachieving.
  • (6) As a violated man, he knew the “unmooring” that violation can bring.
  • (7) Their hope [is] that some individual, lost, unmoored, [for] whatever reason, drawn to a violent ideology, will connect with theirs and will then act on behalf of that ideology.
  • (8) The world is as unmoored, as ripe with menace and possibility, today as it was a century ago.
  • (9) I wouldn’t say that Western Union: Small Boats was unmoored.
  • (10) I was thinking about that a lot, that feeling of being unmoored."
  • (11) Russia, trying to catch up with the west, produced many such spiritually unmoored young men who had a quasi-Byronic conception of freedom, further inflated by German idealism, but the most unpromising conditions in which to realise them.
  • (12) Without heroin and cocaine she felt unmoored, and for a while was unsure if she would ever take a good photograph again.

Unsecure


Definition:

  • (a.) Insecure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unsecured lending rose slightly during the month, with outstanding debt increasing by £331m, after contracting by £114m in April.
  • (2) Instead, those who ordered through the company will be treated as unsecured creditors.
  • (3) Sainsbury’s Bank has become the first provider to offer new and existing customers a personal unsecured loan of £35,000.
  • (4) The Bank's own figures also showed that consumers paid back unsecured borrowing for the third month running, adding to fears that the banking system needs another cash boost.
  • (5) Total net lending, which includes mortgages and unsecured borrowing through loans, credit cards and other consumer credit rose by £1.3bn in April, almost double the previous month's increase of £0.7bn.
  • (6) Therefore we are seeing an increasing number of people entering retirement with unsecured and secured borrowing.
  • (7) In terms of unsecured lending, the BBA said new spending on credit cards of £7.1bn was above the recent six-month average, but was more than offset by repayments for a net repayment of £237m in January, up from £67m in December.
  • (8) The fires had died down and they gingerly explored, finding the unsecured window into the safe room.
  • (9) UKAR still owes taxpayers £42.1bn, which it is repaying as customers pay back their mortgages, although it raised a further £400m by selling its unsecured personal loans to OneSavings Bank and Marlin Financial last month.
  • (10) As an unsecured lender it is liable for this type of fraud – our defrauded customers have chargeback rights for any losses they face."
  • (11) Wonga claims, you state, that "it helps if you have a good track record of taking out unsecured loans and repaying them on time", and that APRs distort the true cost of a loan.
  • (12) The pri-globulins went up slightly prior to parturition, but that rise remained statistically unsecured.
  • (13) The Bank's figures showed an increase in the amount of unsecured debt consumers took on during February, with this rising by £528m.
  • (14) Financial engineering via fashionable "pre-pack" selloffs, which cut out unsecured creditors, are starting to attract criticism.
  • (15) It has been published as administrators warned that unsecured creditors to BHS, including landlords and suppliers, were likely to receive less than 3p for every £1 owed.
  • (16) Unsecured creditors will, however, get nothing from the administration process.
  • (17) Changes in reporting practices also had an impact on the BBA's figures for unsecured consumer credit, resulting in credit card growth shifting down by 2% and growth in personal loans and overdrafts rising by 0.5%.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest How the Westminster terror attack unfolded Video footage released after the attack showed how MPs remained unsecured and a motorcycle courier riding through the gates unchallenged as emergency services battled to save the life of PC Keith Palmer.
  • (19) Patients with unsecured aneurysms remote from an ischemic middle cerebral territory should probably be revascularized if cautious hypertension fails to improve their conditions.
  • (20) A child who has sustained a firearm injury is more likely to know the perpetrator, be killed in the home by a readily available unsecured firearm, and die from severe head injury.

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