What's the difference between abbot and rector?

Abbot


Definition:

  • (n.) The superior or head of an abbey.
  • (n.) One of a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If Queensland goes ahead and develops and dredges Abbot Point, it may all be for nothing.
  • (2) Documents obtained under freedom of information reveal huge uncertainty over the investment needed to maintain water quality following dredging to expand the Abbot Point port, north of Bowen in Queensland.
  • (3) A recent study suggests that coral disease is doubled when dredging occurs near reefs, although supporters of the dredging have repeatedly insisted it can be done safely and that the Abbot Point sediment will be dumped around 40km from the nearest reef.
  • (4) "They have now stalled by another three months a decision on whether or not they will approve the important expansion plans for Abbot Point.
  • (5) In 1988 Abbot could prove that among men, those afflicted by gout as compared to those without gout experienced a 60% excess of coronary heart disease.
  • (6) The Australian and Queensland governments have granted approval for dumping as part of the expansion of the Abbot Point coal port, which lies on the fringes of the reef.
  • (7) Energy World Corporation (EWC), the company behind the plan, wants to build a 1,000km pipeline from south-west Queensland to transport the gas to Abbot Point, near Bowen.
  • (8) The site, called Reef Facts , addresses the contentious decision to allow the dredging and dumping of 5m tonnes of seabed sediment within the Great Barrier Reef marine park in order to expand the Abbot Point port.
  • (9) Located in Queensland’s Galilee Basin, 400km inland from the reef, it will require a major rail line, which is yet to receive final approval, to transport the coal, which must then be loaded on to ships at the ports of Hay Point and Abbot Point, near Gladstone on the Queensland coast, adjacent to the southern section of the reef.
  • (10) Critics claim proposed expansion of coal and gas export terminals, such as at Townsville, and new major new export developments, such as Abbot Point, will hurt coral, turtles, dugongs and other wildlife through increased shipping and waste from dredging.
  • (11) In every annual report since, Adani Ports has referred to Abbot Point only in a note recording the completion of the sale, saying: “The company has all the approvals except in respect of approval from one of the lenders who has given a specific line of credit.” Tim Buckley, of the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, said it was “bizarre that three years after Adani announced the transfer of ownership of one of Australia’s major ports from a reputable public listed company in India to a private family company, the transaction has still not been finalised”.
  • (12) Alternatives, such as building an extended ship loading trestle, were rejected as unsafe and too expensive by the mining industry, which will use Abbot Point to export millions of extra tonnes of coal once it is expanded.
  • (13) Bacteriocines were detected in 103 of 206 strains (by Abbot and Shennon's method).
  • (14) The Mumbai-listed Adani Ports is registered with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission as the ultimate holding company of the Adani Abbot Point coal terminal, known as T1, in north Queensland .
  • (15) Planned expansion of ports, or the creation of new ones, at sites including Gladstone, the Fitzroy Delta, Abbot Point and Townsville, would involve dredging 149m tonnes of seabed to allow large ships to access ports.
  • (16) As well as being a natural marvel, the reef plays a vital role in the north Queensland economy, generating significant business and tourism.” Hunt’s decision, which was twice deferred, is likely to be welcomed by both the Queensland government and mining industry, which have hailed the Abbot Point and Curtis Island LNG projects for their job-creating potential.
  • (17) An enzyme immunoassay (Abbot Laboratories) has been developed that detects chlamydial antigen directly in the urogenital specimens of patients.
  • (18) Queensland’s government has been an enthusiastic supporter of the Galilee basin mining projects; it has also approved the Carmichael mine and doled out A$2bn ($1bn) in subsidies to fund expansion of the Abbot Point coal port.
  • (19) A 300km railway line would transport the coal to an expanded port at Abbot Point on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef – a plan that has alarmed Unesco and could lead to the reef being added to its list of world heritage sites in danger .
  • (20) Instead, he chose to run a defamatory half-page advertisement in the local newspaper in Airlie beach that insinuated I was ‘on the take’ for pushing for the Abbot Point expansion,” Christensen wrote.

Rector


Definition:

  • (n.) A ruler or governor.
  • (n.) A clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and has the tithes, etc.; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate. See the Note under Vicar.
  • (n.) A clergyman in charge of a parish.
  • (n.) The head master of a public school.
  • (n.) The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the Rector of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at Oxford.
  • (n.) The superior officer or chief of a convent or religious house; and among the Jesuits the superior of a house that is a seminary or college.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Sombat Thamrongthanyawong, a core PDRC leader and former rector of the National Institute of Development Association, told the Guardian: "The PDRC never use any violent means.
  • (2) Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod said in a statement that its vice-rector for innovation, Kendrick White, had been relieved of his duties as part of a “restructuring of the management system”.
  • (3) Father Philip North, who is team rector at the parish of Old St Pancras in north London, said that local reservations over his appointment — and the divisions exacerbated by last month's General Synod vote against female bishops — meant it would be impossible for him to be "a focus for unity" as bishop of Whitby.
  • (4) A poem to the vaccine was written by Andres Bello, the first rector of the University of Chile, then in Venezuela (1804).
  • (5) The rector, Kathleen Adams-Shepherd, told the congregation that she had been at the firehouse close to Sandy Hook elementary waiting and praying with families.
  • (6) She unveiled road signs and streets named after her husband, and was even a candidate in 1977 to be rector of Glasgow University.
  • (7) NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said he was humbled and honoured after Glasgow University students voted overwhelmingly for him to serve as their rector for the next three years.
  • (8) But Professor Massimo Egidi, an economist and rector of LUISS Guido Carli, a private university in Rome, dismissed a link between the results and Italy's 43% youth unemployment rate for under 24-year-olds.
  • (9) "This is a great honour and an even bigger challenge," said the author of The Choir , A Village Affair and The Rector's Wife .
  • (10) The Rev John Ubel, rector of the Catholic cathedral that overlooks downtown St Paul, said the day would prove to have been a good one if it brought people of different backgrounds together and gave them a “tiny measure of peace”.
  • (11) Formerly head, London College of Communication and Deputy Rector, University of the Arts, London.
  • (12) The life of Paul de Sorbait (1624-1691), who was Professor of Medicine, Dean of the Medical School, and Rector Magnificus at Vienna University, is reviewed on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of his death.
  • (13) Yet it was on him that Orbán’s official spokesman focused while scrambling to explain recent mass protests supporting Budapest’s Central European University (CEU) – a small elite institution of higher learning of which Ignatieff is rector, and which could, theoretically, be forced to close because of a new higher education law.
  • (14) Charles Kennedy, the outgoing rector and former Lib Dem leader, said: "It has been a pleasure and a privilege to serve the students of the University of Glasgow for the past six years.
  • (15) Most beta-emitting radionuclides are produced in nuclear rectors via neutron capture reactions; however, a few are produced in charged-particle accelerators.
  • (16) The social mobility "trackers" will most probably lead to the blaming of schools in poor areas, as they try to achieve those five A to Cs for disadvantaged kids; schools will learn to game the system, resulting in grade inflation; there will be an annual ding-dong with rectors from Oxford and Cambridge as it emerges that they've managed in yet another year not to find a single black person clever enough to study history.
  • (17) As a medical student, Burns voted for Reid – who was a SNP supporter in later life – to become rector of the University of Glasgow, and vividly recalls his rectorial address, which was printed in full in the New York Times .
  • (18) Rosemary Rimmer-Clay, who was a 19-year-old student at Dundee University in 1975 at a time when he was rector of the university, said that a man who she had once viewed as a hero had abused his power to prey on young girls.
  • (19) Soon afterwards this influence followed Twombly to Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where his teachers included Robert Motherwell, although he was also inspired by the rector Charles Olson's interest in archetypal, symbolic imagery.
  • (20) Andrés Bello, an intellectual and humanist and the first Rector of the University of Chile, published several articles about cholera in the Araucano, a newspaper of Santiago.