What's the difference between aftermath and sequel?

Aftermath


Definition:

  • (n.) A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is Cruz, a longtime critic of so-called “amnesty” policies, who has spent the greater part of the debate’s aftermath seeking to clarify his position.
  • (2) One is to shoot them in the head and cry about the bloody aftermath.
  • (3) Gazans have also been badly affected by Egypt's closure of the Rafah crossing, the main route out of Gaza, in the aftermath of the military takeover.
  • (4) In the aftermath of the incident, there was considerable confusion over the hecklers’ identities – even within the Cossack community.
  • (5) The sanctions that could be levied in the aftermath of the Geneva meeting were expected to focus on Putin's close associates, including oligarchs who control much of Russia's wealth, as well as businesses and other entities they control.
  • (6) In the aftermath of that war, Hasan Zeyada, a psychologist with the GCMHP, told the Guardian : "The majority of children suffer many psychological and social consequences.
  • (7) All these freedoms have been crushed in the aftermath of the coup.
  • (8) A former Halliburton manager was sentenced to one year of probation on Tuesday for destroying evidence in the aftermath of BP's fatal 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout, which claimed 11 lives.
  • (9) In the aftermath of the horsemeat scandal, Tesco mounted a huge advertising campaign insisting it was changing – that it would pay farmers a fair price for their produce and honour its responsibilities to the food supply chain.
  • (10) Too distressed to utter more than a single word - "Devastated" - in the immediate aftermath of her withdrawal, a pale and red-eyed Radcliffe emerged yesterday to give her version of the events that ended the attempt to crown her career with a gold medal.
  • (11) In the aftermath of Snowden's disclosures he was forced to apologise for misleading Congress.
  • (12) Based on one-to-one interviews with more than 40 people, the inquiry said the immediate aftermath of the stabbing “was well managed by all agencies”.
  • (13) The same would be true in the aftermath of the crisis of the neoliberal order, as the need to reconstruct a broken economy on a more democratic, egalitarian and rational basis began to dictate the shape of a sustainable alternative.
  • (14) Naureen Shah, director of Amnesty International USA’s security and human rights programme, acknowledged the need for governments to assess their approach in the aftermath of major attacks but said: “What we don’t want to see is government using the Paris attacks as a pretext for extending surveillance authorities or pushing back against reforms that even the government acknowledged as necessary.” Some of the hawkish responses to events in Paris “raise a question of whether there’s an exploiting of public fear and anger and anxiety to push legislation through”, she added.
  • (15) But it was funny and interesting also because it really showed that, maybe, I can still bring something to a team.” This will be Drogba’s second departure from Stamford Bridge having initially left for Shanghai Shenhua in 2012 in the immediate aftermath of his winning penalty in the shoot-out against Bayern Munich which saw Chelsea claim the European Cup .
  • (16) The identity of the four Britons, whose details did not emerge in the immediate aftermath of the crash, became known over the weekend.
  • (17) Neil Morton has written a dandy little blog explaining how he found the perfect soundtrack for the aftermath of England's tussle with Italy last weekend.
  • (18) Parts seem as deserted as Chernobyl or as blasted as Stalingrad in the aftermath of battle.
  • (19) Along with a team of collaborators with curiously close ties throughout a big election and its aftermath.
  • (20) I understand why biting is seen so badly.” Suárez said that he had “no desire” to speak to anyone in the aftermath of the match against Italy.

Sequel


Definition:

  • (n.) That which follows; a succeeding part; continuation; as, the sequel of a man's advantures or history.
  • (n.) Consequence; event; effect; result; as, let the sun cease, fail, or swerve, and the sequel would be ruin.
  • (n.) Conclusion; inference.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Once a liver abscess as a sequel to amebic dysentery was diagnosed and once a megaloplastic anemia with symptoms of a funicular myelopathy following a vitamin B12 deficiency syndrome.
  • (2) "We are planning a sequel [to Alpha Papa], yes, that will be great," Normal told the Guardian.
  • (3) Disturbance of the arterial circulation in the ipsilateral upper limb following mastectomy is a rare sequel attributed to adjuvant radiotherapy.
  • (4) A film sequel to 2013’s Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa is also on the cards.
  • (5) Three female actors, including former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko , are rumoured to be in the running for the lead female role in the upcoming sequel to superhero reboot Man of Steel, reports Variety .
  • (6) He admitted the increased profile afforded him by appearances in movies such as Captain America , its forthcoming sequel The Winter Soldier and 2012's $1.5bn superhero ensemble piece The Avengers had helped him get a foot on the ladder as a film-maker.
  • (7) Following his exposure of racism in Invisible Man, a sequel, Juneteenth, was left uncompleted at his death in 1994.
  • (8) This is a sequel to the paper, where a model which describes ranged series of codon frequencies was proposed.
  • (9) Hyperlipacidaemias play a role as etiological partial factor in the pathogenesis of various acute and chronic functional disturbances and are essentially the sequel of a disturbed metabolism of the free fatty acids of the fatty tissue.
  • (10) Total mortality is 27% and among survivals there are few sequels.
  • (11) In 1995, a year after his novel Forrest Gump had been sanitised for the screen, Winston Groom published Gump and Co , a sequel, which began with: "Let me say this: Everybody makes mistakes ...
  • (12) This report describes a patient with a migratory abscess as a sequel to the surgical removal of a mandibular third molar tooth.
  • (13) His bestselling book is The Annotated Alice, a timeless compendium of footnotes to the two Alice books, and a decade ago he wrote a sequel to The Wizard Of Oz in which Dorothy and friends go to Manhattan.
  • (14) The Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator's bosses at Marvel are also bringing sequels to Thor and Captain America to the big screen over the next year, a fact which would also appear to clash with Whedon's clarion call for originality.
  • (15) The findings are discussed in the light of recent reports of cerebral dysfunction occurring as a sequel of VEE virus infection in children.
  • (16) - The relative mildness of post-operative sequels, regarding the extra serous form of this way.
  • (17) The Snowman and the Snowdog Game Channel 4 commissioned this endless-runner game in the style of Temple Run for its Snowman sequel.
  • (18) Follow-up through age 2 years in one large study suggests that static encephalopathy may be a sequel.
  • (19) As well as Episode VII and its two sequels, Disney also plans a series of standalone "origins movies" for characters from the original triptych of films which debuted between 1977 and 1983.
  • (20) A sequel to Beetlejuice has been in the pipeline for decades, but plans for a followup which would have transferred the action to Hawaii (thankfully) never came to fruition.