What's the difference between aficionado and fancier?
Aficionado
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Alice Wade, a 27-year-old self-professed whiskey aficionado, says she started drinking whiskey in college.
(2) In 1972 the BBC produced his tale The Stone Tape, a technological ghost story still renowned among aficionados for the twist in its tail.
(3) ... George Clooney in a still from Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity Sci-fi aficionados will know there are two possible ways to "do" sound in space on the big screen.
(4) The quality was poor, yet it was close and compelling to aficionados.
(5) Hamilton can be enjoyed by both the musical theater geek and the rap aficionado, but it ultimately has more to offer the former.
(6) Phyllis Dorothy James was born in Oxford in 1920 – a year that's doubly celebrated by crime aficionados, since it also heralded the dawning of the Golden Age of detective fiction , that interwar flowering of intricately plotted mysteries, in which the preternaturally shrewd detective is invited to pick his way through a liberal scattering of clues and red herrings, before confronting reader and murderer with his irrefutable conclusions in the final pages.
(7) Male sketchwriters and assorted Westminster aficionados either affected bemused indulgence on behalf of their slighted sisters or scented the whiff of political-correctness-gone-mad.
(8) Things can sometimes go wrong – a 1961 Marcels record that appears in episode two sent US vinyl aficionados into a flurry when they spotted that it was on modern reissue label Eric.
(9) Jones is an aficionado of musicals, and he recently helped bring The Play What I Wrote, a successful British production about Morecambe and Wise, from London to New York.
(10) If you're a scouse coffee aficionado, let us know which one he means.
(11) In my new school, a top school, full of maths and science aficionados, the girl with well-developed boobs was queen.
(12) The club would evolve over the next decade into incarnations as Brookhattan-Galicia, Galicia FC and Galicia-Honduras, but their brush with Gaetjens gives them cult status amongst US soccer history aficionados.
(13) This new Batman was considered by fans and comic-book aficionados to be the real deal and a long overdue riposte to the infamously camp 1960s Batman TV series, starring a paunchy Adam West as the caped crusader.
(14) One can wear a dozen powerful sensors, own a smart mattress and even do a close daily reading of one's poop – as some self-tracking aficionados are wont to do – but those injustices would still be nowhere to be seen, for they are not the kind of stuff that can be measured with a sensor.
(15) Ever since he bought out his contract from Bob Arum for the princely sum of $750,000 in 2007, he’s made all the right moves to become the highest earning athlete on the planet, no less than a miracle given his risk-averse, defensive style that appeals to a subset of aficionados but not a broader public that’s always preferred slugging to boxing.
(16) The first Jesuit pope turns out to be a voracious cultural aficionado – "a Jesuit must be creative," Francis says at one point – but do his literary and artistic inclinations reveal anything about his religious orientation?
(17) Not so long ago, I believed that anything that helped broaden interest in current art was to be welcomed; that only an elitist snob would want art to be confined to a worthy group of aficionados.
(18) Clinton joined Twitter last week – her biography reads : "Wife, mom, lawyer, women & kids advocate, FLOAR, FLOTUS, US senator, SecState, author, dog owner, hair icon, pantsuit aficionado, glass ceiling cracker, TBD …"
(19) As Bond aficionados will be well aware, White’s job is to turn up every now and then to offer up cackling portents of impending doom regarding terrifying nefarious organisations that 007 and his pals appear to know nothing about.
(20) I've got a recorder, and I talk to myself" – he puts on a voice like a wine aficionado – "'Hmm, very rubbery.
Fancier
Definition:
(n.) One who is governed by fancy.
(n.) One who fancies or has a special liking for, or interest in, a particular object or class or objects; hence, one who breeds and keeps for sale birds and animals; as, bird fancier, dog fancier, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) HLA B13 and HLA BW17 could not be demonstrated in any patient with pigeon fancier's lung.
(2) Precipitins to avian serum antigens have been found in the sera of bird fanciers and, until now, they have been considered strong supporting evidence for a clinical diagnosis of bird fancier's lung (BFL).
(3) A questionnaire survey of 1005 consecutive attenders at four outpatient clinics yielded 117 (12%) budgerigar fanciers (exposed to budgerigars- known in North America as parakeets-for at least three months) and 296 (29%) former fanciers.
(4) The prevalence of confirmed BrFL among the 11n current budgerigar fanciers was 3.4% (four cases).
(5) Titres of circulating IgG antibodies to pigeon gammaglobulin and end expired carbon monoxide concentrations were measured in 86 pigeon fanciers attending the "Show of the Year."
(6) Moreover, 48 of 49 isolates of C. neoformans cultured from the pigeon habitats of 72 fanciers studied were serotype A.
(7) Oliveira recently opened a sister restaurant next door, Esquina Mocotó , with a fancier menu and slightly higher prices, which has been received just as rapturously as the original by SP's gastronomics brigade.
(8) Serological studies in 15 patients with bird fanciers disease are reported.
(9) The group is formed above all by farmer's lungs (exposure against hay, straw, pellets, corn, fruit, vegetables and so on) and bird-fanciers' lungs.
(10) The test was applied to the sera of 134 pigeon fanciers for detection of antibodies to C. neoformans only.
(11) There was considerable overlap of chlamydial antibody responses in the pigeon fanciers but not in the farmers: 36% of the pigeon fanciers had antibodies to C. pneumoniae alone, 5% to C. psittaci alone, and 31% to both agents, whereas only 3% of farmers had antibodies to both C. pneumoniae and C. psittaci.
(12) A 33-year-old fish fancier developed a protracted skin infection that ultimately was found to be caused by Mycobacterium marinum.
(13) The lung function of 14 patients with extrinsic allergic alveolitis caused by exposure to mouldy hay (farmer's lung) or to birds (bird fancier's lung) was studied one week and four to six weeks after the last exposure to antigen.
(14) With the exclusion of this patient, confidence limits suggested that the true prevalence of BrFL among current budgerigar fanciers in the general population lies between 0.5% and 7.5%, which is similar to the prevalence of farmer's lung in farm workers.
(15) Although significantly more common (p less than 0.005) in the 85 (29.6 percent) fanciers who also had typical delayed symptoms of pigeon breeders' disease (PBD), chronic bronchitis was the only manifestation of the disease in 24 (8.4 percent) of the population surveyed.
(16) Solid-phase enzyme immunoassay and passive hemagglutination were used to study the occurrence of antibodies of various isotypes against feline and bovine epithelial extracts in RAST-positive patients, exposed subjects (cat fanciers and senior veterinary students) and healthy controls.
(17) As a result of clinical evaluation, BFL was considered a possible cause of undue breathlessness reported by three of the current bird fanciers only, and all underwent inhalation provocation tests.
(18) A group of pigeon fanciers with Pigeon Breeder's Lung wore a positive pressure respirator with a full mask and hood when working with pigeons.
(19) In view of the clinical similarities between influenza and acute extrinsic allergic alveolitis, it is essential that a diagnosis of influenza in bird fanciers is not based on either a single raised titre or a fourfold fall in complement fixation titre without appropriate control tests with avian antigens.
(20) A 43-year-old fish fancier with fish tank granuloma presented with a sporotrichoid-like skin infection of the right arm with multiple papulo-nodular lesions along the lymphatic drainage.