What's the difference between alan and clan?

Alan


Definition:

  • (n.) A wolfhound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alan Pardew faces punishment from the Football Association for his head-butt on Hull City's David Meyler.
  • (2) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
  • (3) The last complete count of the number of US abortions was made by the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) in 1982.
  • (4) There is a certain degree of swagger, a sudden interruption of panache, as Alan Moore enters the rather sterile Waterstones office where he has agreed to speak to me.
  • (5) They had been pinning their hopes on Alan Johnson who has, in their eyes, the natural authority and ease of manner which Miliband has struggled to develop.
  • (6) A film sequel to 2013’s Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa is also on the cards.
  • (7) You had to admire the party’s commitment to its Alan Partridge roots.
  • (8) If Alan Sugar did The Apprentice for older people, I would love to be on it.
  • (9) London might have Nelson’s column, the north its angel, Manchester its Alan Turing .
  • (10) Harry Kane laughs off one-season wonder tag after Alan Shearer pep talk Read more “He is a great role model.
  • (11) The 24-year-old becomes Alan Pardew’s fifth signing of the summer and offers much-needed support up front after the departures of the loan signing Loic Rémy and the out-of-contract Shola Ameobi.
  • (12) Alan's pathology is highlighted by his psychotic identification with Equus and his binding of the horses.
  • (13) I think we’re finally at a place in culture where a character being gay or lesbian isn’t taboo, especially for teenagers – the target audience for a lot of these summer blockbusters,” says screenwriter Graham Moore, who won an Oscar for the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game .
  • (14) Edmund White I think the sexiest passages are those about Luc in Alan Hollinghurst's The Folding Star .
  • (15) Analysts and industry watchers say it is too soon to judge the mettle of Lewis and new finance director Alan Stewart, whose tenure can still be measured in weeks.
  • (16) For example, in May 2012 , Hockey said, “Australians are right to be concerned about handing Wayne Swan yet another increase in our nation’s credit card limit.” He then went on Alan Jones to argue that the government could not make claims that it was making savings if it was also increasing the debt ceiling from $250bn to $300bn.
  • (17) Alan Pardew's side have forgotten how to win at home and, resorting to too many aimless long, high balls, could find no way beyond the excellent James Collins and his fellow West Ham United defenders.
  • (18) Updated at 7.54pm GMT 7.34pm GMT The Guardian’s Alan Yuhas has a roundup of recommended commentary and analysis on the situation in Ukraine.
  • (19) Fourteen of these fragments have been found by one man, Blaine Alan Gibson, the result of an independent, self-funded investigation he began 18 months ago.
  • (20) The right-back, Alan Hutton, was comfortably Villa’s most potent attacker, with a run and a shot midway through the first half that had Tim Howard worried for the first time, then a blistering break down the right that caught out Baines and led to a chance for Tom Cleverley that James McCarthy had to come across and intercept.

Clan


Definition:

  • (n.) A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald.
  • (n.) A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Their chief conduits in Damascus have been leading members of the Assad clan, but not necessarily Bashar al-Assad himself.
  • (2) A vicious feud playing out within Uzbekistan's ruling family took a new twist on Monday , when prosecutors announced that the clan's most flamboyant member faces charges of involvement in mafia-style corruption.
  • (3) Ukraine's real political split has always been between different industrial clans, whose placemen dominate parliament.
  • (4) I wasn't prepared for Madiba (his clan name) coming into my life, but now we make sure we spend time with each other because we were so lonely before.
  • (5) It was also, because it transcended family and clan interests and involved defining what the realm was, the starting point of the modern state.
  • (6) There are definitely elements of Clash of Clans in this Wild West-themed game, but it’s got a spark of originality too as you build your posse, explore the wild frontier and protect your town.
  • (7) Yamadayav's extended family has been involved in a bitter clan feud with Kadyrov, and represented one of the few sources of genuine opposition to the president inside the unstable Caucasus republic.
  • (8) They are victims of both Sicilian and Nigerian criminality.” For now, Nigerians and Sicilians live in peace with the Abuja clans at the service of Cosa Nostra.
  • (9) Similarly, at the town of Galiwinku the children of two deprived clans are involved almost exclusively.
  • (10) The Wu-Tang Clan’s 20th anniversary reunion certainly didn’t always seem like a foregone conclusion.
  • (11) Pressuring governments to combat corruption will not help if payoffs to mob bosses, clan chiefs, or warlords are needed to maintain social order.
  • (12) These are the only clans in eastern Arnhem Land without outstations on their homelands.
  • (13) And the game’s place in the ancestry of Clash of Clans is clear too, which may have been one reason people like me – a fraction of the latter game’s audience, admittedly – fell for Supercell’s game.)
  • (14) Wu-Tang Clan have already started taking pre-orders for A Better Tomorrow – which should not be confused with their "single-sale collector's item" Once Upon a Time in Shaolin – and have released a new single, Keep Watch .
  • (15) The donors and the UN agencies who will be represented at Thursday's London conference, who have spent decades working with discredited governments in Mogadishu, do not know which clan leaders to talk to.
  • (16) Its social structure was organised by family clan, and to this day, most local people have one of three surnames: Lu, Xian or Liang.
  • (17) Two key opposition cities, Deraa in the south, where the uprising began, and Homs near the Lebanese border, which has become the centre of the nine-month revolt, were heaving with demonstrators chanting anti-regime slogans and waving a national flag last flown before the Assad clan swept to power in Syria more than 40 years ago.
  • (18) Clash of Clans made the most money on iOS this year.
  • (19) The Wu-Tang Clan's last album, 8 Diagrams , was released in 2007.
  • (20) One of the elders, who was a senior leader of the Rhino clan, inducted us into his clan with a short ceremony followed by a long speech over the fire, which allowed us to be officially recognised as the first female Masai warriors.