What's the difference between addict and devotee?

Addict


Definition:

  • (p. p.) Addicted; devoted.
  • (v. t.) To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; -- with to.
  • (v. t.) To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recent research conducted by independent investigators concerning the relationship between crime and narcotic (primarily heroin) addiction has revealed a remarkable degree of consistency of findings across studies.
  • (2) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
  • (3) We studied the arterial blood gas determinations done on the first hospital day in 14 narcotic addicts with bacterial endocarditis (group 1) and six addicts with other medical complications of narcotic addiction (group 2).
  • (4) We have investigated the presence of fragments of the HIV genome with a new nucleic acid amplification technique (PCR or polymerase chain reaction) in lymphocytes from 33 seronegative couples with anti-HIV antibodies, most of which were heroin addicts.
  • (5) This study raises the possibility of lithium carbonate use as an adjunct in the treatment of amphetamine addiction.
  • (6) Sleep alterations in addicted newborns could be related to central nervous system (CNS) distress caused by withdrawal.
  • (7) Future increasing segments of females addicted to tobacco smoking will obviously markedly influence sex difference in morbidity.
  • (8) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
  • (9) These results are discussed in relation to previous reports suggesting a common addiction liability for both morphine and alcohol in inbred strains of animals.
  • (10) A 26-year-old man addicted to alcohol was admitted to hospital with headache and rhinorrhoea.
  • (11) The level of prescribing of opioid painkillers – Percocet in Geni’s case – has soared, and with it the incidence of addiction, and addiction’s grim best friend: fatal overdoses.
  • (12) Of 242 north Italian heroin addicts, 24 (9.9%) were HBsAg positive.
  • (13) Both groups of addicts had an altered response to oral and intravenous glucose load.
  • (14) Both heroin and alcohol addicts were characterized by a high frequency and magnitude of life change.
  • (15) Grahovac’s addiction arrived on the back of an untreated eating disorder.
  • (16) The WHO said that e-cigarettes should be subject to much tighter restrictions on their use, sale, content and promotion, in a major statement that again highlighted key differences of opinion among medical groups as to whether they will ultimately increase or reduce the number of people addicted to nicotine.
  • (17) But why did a pregnant heroin addict, or Nadia and the mother who put her into care, want to appear?
  • (18) High morbidity of such persons is often contributed to their antisocial way of life, and alcohol and drug addiction.
  • (19) One hundred eighty-eight asymptomatic addicts were studied to determine the frequency of a history of hepatitis (previous episodes of jaundice), abnormalities of liver tests (serum bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, serum albumin, serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase) and incidence of HB-Ag and HB-Ab.
  • (20) Paraphilias (PAs) and non-paraphilic sexual addictions (NPSAs) may be behaviors that share a common perturbation of central serotonin neuroregulation as a component of their pathophysiology.

Devotee


Definition:

  • (n.) One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sabella was a devotee of 5-3-2 when he led Estudiantes to the title and the Copa Libertadores but the danger of using three central defenders against a lone centre-forward is that, with two spare men, one is left redundant.
  • (2) For Kaori Kitakata, a devotee since she was introduced to the genre by Korean friends, K-pop is a change from the overtly cute mien cultivated by popular Japanese girlbands such as Morning Musume .
  • (3) Brompton has fared well from the growing number of devotees.
  • (4) When I spoke to some of the live-in devotees, I realised that they see their connection with Amma as the strongest relationship in their lives.
  • (5) The billionaire founder of Facebook has apologised to the website's 57 million devotees for its handling of a controversial advertising feature which has sparked furious protests about privacy.
  • (6) She will be sharing it with British devotees for three days from Sunday, when her European tour reaches London's Alexandra Palace.
  • (7) It was a extraordinary match, New Zealand the devotees of attack, forced to defend for all their worth.
  • (8) Instead, Dr Clements said teachers of TM and the maharishi's more advanced TM-Sidhi programme, in which devotees learn to use yoga to "levitate", were being encouraged to take teaching positions in South Africa and at the Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa, a campus built on Vedic architectural principles that is home to around 2,000 TM devotees.
  • (9) Both solar power and hydrogen fuel cells have their devotees, and can certainly lift demonstrator aircraft off the ground – though in both cases the main application seems likely to be powering auxiliary systems rather than aircraft engines.
  • (10) What miracles, envisioned in the fevered imaginations of so many cultists and devotees, were not made manifest?
  • (11) The show has plenty of devotees (and people mocking it) on both sides of the pond, but Brits get to see the latest season months ahead of their American counterparts.
  • (12) Since journalist Tom Mueller revealed how more than 70% of the extra virgin olive oil sold in the world is fake , olive oil devotees have been seeking out authentic, 100% real olive oil.
  • (13) AC 12 June 1966: Andy Warhol's factory John Heilpern's visit to Andy Warhol's Factory yielded a fascinating portrait of the artist and his circle of devotees.
  • (14) A mixed crowd of senior citizens and vintage car devotees here for an al fresco auction slurp their tea and ice creams and quietly look on.
  • (15) Talk to those who devote their lives to the study of violent jihadism, reading Isis’s propaganda and interviewing its devotees, and a different picture emerges.
  • (16) Two decades after that appointment, Khamenei has become so powerful that the assembly’s role has diminished to a symbolic one with members acting as his devotees, stripped of all their supervisory power even though they are still being elected in public votes.
  • (17) It would be ironic if China’s Communist leaders turned out to have a better understanding of capitalism’s reflexive interactions among finance, the real economy, and government than western devotees of free markets.
  • (18) The vehicles made during a ramped-up final year of production in Solihull include tributes to the HUE 166, the original Series I model whose Birmingham area number plate devotees all recognise, with Defenders painted in that original shade of RAF surplus green.
  • (19) EA’s multiplayer first-person shooter franchise attracts a fanatical group of hardcore devotees, but at the same time, swarms of players find it too exacting and intimidating.
  • (20) Martins had, like the football fan he is, been at the opening game the night before and his respect for stickers is as wholehearted as that of any devotee.