What's the difference between acclaim and approve?

Acclaim


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To applaud.
  • (v. t.) To declare by acclamations.
  • (v. t.) To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.
  • (v. i.) To shout applause.
  • (n.) Acclamation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gassmann, whose late father, Vittorio , was a critically acclaimed star of Italian cinema in its heyday in the 1960s, tweeted over the weekend with the hashtag #Romasonoio (I am Rome), calling on the city’s residents to be an example of civility and clean up their own little corners of Rome with pride.
  • (2) He'd later carry this over into Netflix's House Of Cards but before that, TV had already begun to emulate this new, bleak, antiheroic maturity with a cycle of dark, longform, acclaimed dramas, commencing with The Sopranos and culminating in Breaking Bad .
  • (3) This House , his witty political drama set in the whips' office of 1970s Westminster, transferred from the National's Cottesloe theatre to the Olivier, following critical acclaim.
  • (4) Like many ambitious young writers, he sought both popular success and literary acclaim.
  • (5) There is effective use of a scuba-like neoprene fabric which is slickly practical and gives a bold, shell-like silhouette to hooded coats and to sweatshirts which seems to reference the balloon and cocoon shapes that Cristobal Balenciaga invented to great acclaim in the 1950s.
  • (6) Prior to BBC4 Hadlow was head of specialist factual at Channel 4, commissioning shows such as The 1940s House and acclaimed documentary The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off .
  • (7) Photograph: Getty So that was the grand import of the producer’s vision, realised on an unprecedented scale and to eventual rightful acclaim: despite Gagarin and the rest, Americans in particular (and then Australia, and Britain) became transfixed by all the unfolding tales and testimonies.
  • (8) The acclaimed leading man who overcame stomach cancer in the 1970s passed away at the Wellington hospital in London following a long illness.
  • (9) The Oscar-winning director, who made his National Theatre debut two years ago to much acclaim with Nick Dear's adaptation of Frankenstein , has told the Telegraph he won't be applying for the artistic director's position , which comes free in 2015.
  • (10) Allen announced a new comedy, Puppy Love, set in a dog training class, written by the creators of acclaimed Jo Brand sitcom Getting On.
  • (11) Meanwhile volumes two and three of The Gulag Archipelago appeared to less public acclaim than volume one, but confirmed the uniqueness and immensity of that vast enterprise.
  • (12) Best-known for creating Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros , Shigeru Miyamoto is an acclaimed games designer and general manager of Nintendo's entertainment analysis and development division.
  • (13) It is a credit to everyone who has worked on The Bill that the series will be signing out on a creative and editorial high with both critical and industry-wide acclaim and a loyal fan base who have supported the show throughout."
  • (14) But the album for which she is being rightly acclaimed, 50 Words for Snow, as well as cleverly weaving together some hauntingly beautiful melodies with a characteristically surrealist narrative, also perpetuates a widely held myth about the semantic capaciousness of the Inuit language.
  • (15) Last week, acclaimed Basque chefs Juan Mari Arzak and his daughter Elena, owners the famous Arzak restaurant in San Sebastián, opened Ametsa , their long awaited London outpost.
  • (16) Photograph: Popperfoto The director, Paul Andrew Williams, best known for the acclaimed L ondon to Brighton , is a refreshingly unpretentious and unflappable director, despite having had to conduct an orchestra of several languages and locations.
  • (17) Speaking through his biographer Joseph Farrell, Fo recalled his grandfather, an acclaimed storyteller, who would travel from village to village selling vegetables from a horse-drawn cart that the young Fo was allowed to drive.
  • (18) His approach was to view BBC2 as a channel of serendipity: a place where you might chance upon a nice surprise, such as the history series World War Two: Behind Closed Doors, Simon Schama's The American Future: A History, and, most recently, Norma Percy's acclaimed series Iran and the West.
  • (19) Plague Over England, about homophobia in the 1950s and the scandal that nearly destroyed John Gielgud, has been acclaimed by critics .
  • (20) Ejiofor recently won acclaim for his role in the film 12 Years A Slave.

Approve


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To show to be real or true; to prove.
  • (v. t.) To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
  • (v. t.) To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial.
  • (v. t.) To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of; as, we approve the measured of the administration.
  • (v. t.) To make or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.
  • (v. t.) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; -- said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
  • (2) The genome characterization of the typing strains for all 13 species of the genus Staphylococcus, included into the Approval List of the Names of Bacterial (1980), is presented.
  • (3) Currently there are no IOC approved definitive tests for these hormones but highly specific immunoassays combined with suitable purification techniques may be sufficient to warrant IOC approval.
  • (4) The toluene group were more approving in their attitudes towards taking other drugs.
  • (5) No one knows if this drug will be approved for use by American physicians.
  • (6) Britain First applied to use seven slogans in the elections and four were rejected, but the remaining three, including the slogan relating to Rigby, were approved by the watchdog.
  • (7) Yet, polls have Maryland voters approving same-sex marriage by 14 to 20 points.
  • (8) Guidelines are presented for pharmacist coordination of the importation for use by institutionalized patients of drugs not currently approved by the FDA.
  • (9) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
  • (10) However, the law minister indicated he would allow the supreme court to approve a draft of the letter.
  • (11) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
  • (12) An ‘approved’ poster in the student center at Regent University.
  • (13) The final approved log contained 72 problems, 64 of which received importance ratings greater than or equal to 2 on the three-point scale.
  • (14) Masutha said the parole board had made a mistake when they approved Pistorius for early release, but his intervention has been widely criticised by legal experts.
  • (15) But he argued that Obama entered the agreement without approval from Congress, allowing the president to revoke it.
  • (16) Everton announce plan for new stadium in nearby Walton Hall Park Read more The club has set aside £2.5m to commence work on the stadium should its funding proposals – that Elstone claims will give the council an annual profit – gain approval.
  • (17) I am acutely aware that not all of you, by any stretch of the imagination, will approve of everything I have done.
  • (18) The participants strongly preferred the experimental leaflets to the approved leaflets, both with respect to accessibility of the contents (overall preference 78.1% v 17.8%) and ease of understanding the contraindications of drug use (90.2% v 73.7%).
  • (19) In the following, there will be indicated the approved techniques and methods of suturing the cleft palate and a new method will be discussed related to the reciprocal Z-type plastic operation.
  • (20) Unite, which will have to give seven days' notice before calling a strike after winning approval for industrial action in a ballot of the tanker drivers, is expected to finalise a framework that should allow discussions to begin on Monday.