What's the difference between afters and banquet?

Afters


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A control inspection in every case was done one year afters start of treatment.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Freshly fried samosas at Faldela’s house Koeksisters , sweet sticky doughnuts sprinkled with desiccated coconut, are washed down with redbush tea for afters.
  • (3) Testosterone treatment alters both components of the mup phenotype, increasing mup excretion and aftering their relative proportions.
  • (4) Rats treated with Id showed a decrease in BW 24--32 h afters its sc injection.
  • (5) The lentils, rice, tinned tomato and tea for afters all come from Green City Wholefoods in Glasgow.
  • (6) Hang out at … Mawddach restaurant and bar is a cut above, with great views over the estuary for afters.
  • (7) Afterent discharges were observed in dissected filaments or single nerve fibers of hepatic nerve in the guinea pig and the rabbit.
  • (8) Better perfusion with carbon black and less edema were, however, seen in other AMT treated animals 6 afters after revacularization...
  • (9) Being entitled to lock-ins and late "afters" used to feel like a special advantage.
  • (10) And another ... "I seem to be the only one who noticed the other day, but out of the Man Utd players involved in after-game 'afters' with the Chelsea ground staff (Pique, Evra, Park, Neville, Tevez and Scholes), only Tevez was actually in the squad that day and he didn't play in the game," writes Ciaran Neeson.

Banquet


Definition:

  • (n.) A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.
  • (n.) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats.
  • (v. t.) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
  • (v. i.) To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.
  • (v. i.) To partake of a dessert after a feast.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Queen hosts the banquet in the Buckingham Palace ballroom.
  • (2) Is she going to make it over for the banquet tomorrow?
  • (3) A senior Gulf diplomat said: “They are inviting the vultures to the banquet table.
  • (4) The rescue effort got under way at about 11pm last night when the group of world leaders left a state banquet hosted by Queen Margrethe and returned to the convention centre to get to work.
  • (5) Like a bandit who has cajoled his way in, the parasite now forces his host to prepare a banquet for him.
  • (6) In contrast, it is highly unlikely China's leader could find fault with the welcome laid out by the Obama administration: a private White House dinner tonight to be followed later in the week by a full state banquet, a 21-gun salute and all the pomp and circumstance of a review of the troops.
  • (7) The leader of the world’s largest autocracy will enjoy a 103-gun royal salute and a sumptuous, white-tie state banquet attended by three generations of the royal family; he will address the houses of parliament and at night will sleep in the palace’s Belgian Suite, in the very same bed that Duke and Duchess of Cambridge used on their wedding night .
  • (8) On the northern side of the main palace stands the banqueting hall where the Chinese delegation was housed.
  • (9) First of all, I think the state banquet is for Her Majesty, it is her show, either Jeremy Corbyn or others are her guests,” he said.
  • (10) The Commonwealth heads of government meeting – a three-day gathering staged every two years – begins next Friday with the sovereign's opening speech and that evening a traditional banquet will be held.
  • (11) Some observers assert that rather than seeking to contain the number of people at the banquet of life, we should enlarge the table and place more food upon it.
  • (12) The PM told the lord mayor's banquet that he yearns for " fundamental change " in the EU, but such yearning is futile unless he can set out what he means by fundamental change, and how he intends to effect it.
  • (13) There is little evidence that hungover customers struggle, taste-wise, with what one provider calls the Auschwitz Stag Do Package, which could be attributable to amnesia, or to that fact that, as with lap dancing and medieval banquets, what happens at Birkenau stays at Birkenau.
  • (14) "Every room in the centre had a banquet, and each banquet included abalone and other expensive dishes," Jia said.
  • (15) They know how to behave on occasions like this … You think the Labour party will raise human rights at a state banquet?
  • (16) Which is doubtless doing a Christmas deal on festive football with the opportunity to treat someone special to a banquet of motor racing in the new year.
  • (17) Speaking at the annual St Matthew’s Day banquet in Hamburg, Cameron said he would “unequivocally recommend” that Britain stays in the EU if he clinched the deal on Friday.
  • (18) Guzmán went underground as Mexico descended into the abyss, boasting that he paid out $5m a month to corrupt officials, and making sudden, brazen appearances such as that in May 2005 at a restaurant in Nuevo Laredo, his enemy’s doorstep, when 40 diners found the doors suddenly locked by his gunmen to be told: “Don’t be alarmed, order whatever you want, and we’ll pay.” Another of his banquets in Mexico City was raided by the army – but too late, finding only four hapless members of the band paid to entertain Guzmán, who were arrested for possession of firearms.
  • (19) China’s public will be encouraged to swoon over the silver-gilt candelabra adorning the royal banquet table, the flower arrangements inspected personally by the Queen, the priceless gold vessels displayed as a sign of respect for the guest of honour’s exalted rank.
  • (20) There are many more phases to come, including further luxury accommodation, a residential village, second golf course, banqueting facilities and other high-end leisure amenities.” James Bream, a research and policy director for Aberdeenshire tourism board, believes the opening of the first course in 2012 has increased tourism and given north-east Scotland a far higher-profile in the golfing world, helping its economy spread beyond a reliance on North Sea oil.

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