What's the difference between anachronism and era?

Anachronism


Definition:

  • (n.) A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Despite 50 years of intensive research in the field of RFs, autoimmunity and chronic inflammation, some of the serological tests used for measuring autoantibodies remain an anachronism.
  • (2) Miliband, as I observed some time ago in a piece for ConservativeHome , should have dismissed as a preposterous anachronism the Tory attack on the trade union link.
  • (3) In order to have an impact on the vast population, that kind of anachronism must be addressed.
  • (4) What better reason to get rid of it as an economically and ethically unjustifiable anachronism from a bygone age, exploited now only by the richest in our society so that they can get richer at cost to all the rest of us?
  • (5) Like its predecessors (The Tudors, Spartacus, Camelot etc) the 10-part potboiler is awash with wrecking ball exposition, window-rattling anachronisms and scenes in which heritage hardbodies have shouting backwards sex next to stupefied livestock.
  • (6) In the past she has gone on the attack, pointing out that the Booker criteria (Commonwealth writers yes, Americans no) might also be viewed as an anachronism.
  • (7) But it did have a very particular place in the Liberal Democrat heart, both because the ermine-trimmed anachronism that still co-writes Britain's law offends the party's modernity and rationalism, and because great Liberal heroes moved heaven and earth to reform the chamber a century ago.
  • (8) The whole thing is a mad anachronism,” Greer said.
  • (9) Aid projects in China and Russia will be cut, on the grounds that they have become anachronisms given the global clout of those economies.
  • (10) In an ere in which man is beginning to master and make his way into the various systems which surround him (atom, cosmic exploration, organ transplant, genetic manipulations...), a clinical practice which would remain centered on the various forms and apparent characteristics of psychic dysfunctioning, has become anachronical.
  • (11) Laboratory managers who eschew computer tools are now an anachronism; extinction of this species is imminent.
  • (12) American Indian tribes are seen as an anachronism by many non-Indian people.
  • (13) The non-dom loophole is an anachronism that should have been archived a long time ago.
  • (14) By the time the last club closed in the early 90s, they seemed a total anachronism.
  • (15) Despite truly heroic estimates of their economic value to the nation (at least $1bn a year), the red tape repeal days were mostly about removing anachronisms and correcting punctuation in the nation’s legislation.
  • (16) The G8 as an institution, after all, is an anachronism – a body without legitimacy or power, in the words of David Miliband last week.
  • (17) At the same time, the decline of the trade union movement has made many people believe that being a "worker" is something of an anachronism.
  • (18) Rebekah Anderson and Helen Fuller spent the month of their student elective in southern India and here reveal some of the dental anachronisms they encountered.
  • (19) The conclusion arrived at after a review of the relevant literature, coupled with current knowledge of the morphophysiological changes which take place in the transformation zone of the cervix, is that the term cervical erosion is an anachronism.
  • (20) There's a danger of anachronism here - it feels like a very modern civil partnership – as there is too with the boys' habit of saving slave girls, spoils of war, from ravishment by their fellow soldiers by claiming them chastely for themselves, and promising earnestly never to kill unarmed men.

Era


Definition:

  • (n.) A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.
  • (n.) A period of time reckoned from some particular date or epoch; a succession of years dating from some important event; as, the era of Alexander; the era of Christ, or the Christian era (see under Christian).
  • (n.) A period of time in which a new order of things prevails; a signal stage of history; an epoch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "In my era, we'd get a phone call from John [Galliano] before the show: this is what the show's about, what do you think?
  • (2) After the emperor's death, they are named after an era chosen for them; thus Hirohito is known exclusively in Japan as Showa Emperor.
  • (3) The viral titer was 10(1.8) tissue culture infective doses (TCID) higher than that of commercial ERA vaccine.
  • (4) Thanks to the groundbreaking technology and heavy investment of a new breed of entertainment retailers offering access services, we are witnessing a revolution in the entertainment industry, benefitting consumers, creators and content owners alike.” ERA acts as a forum for the physical and digital retail sectors of music, and represents over 90% of the of the UK’s entertainment retail market.
  • (5) We have now entered the era of climate change induced loss and damage.
  • (6) In an era when citizens expect choice, the council argue, the old model of local government no longer works.” Northants uses the word “right-sourcing” to describe the process of offloading services.
  • (7) He is seeing clubbers with their hands in the air again: "In the dubstep era everyone just stood there and nodded their heads.
  • (8) In an article for the Nation, Chomsky courts controversy by arguing that parallels drawn between campaigns against Israel and apartheid-era South Africa are misleading and that a misguided strategy could damage rather than help Israel's victims.
  • (9) Russia may be on the point of walking out of a major cold war era arms-control treaty, Russian analysts have said, after President Obama accused Moscow of violating the accord by testing a cruise missile .
  • (10) This deal also promotes the separation of the single market and single currency – a British objective for many years that would have been unthinkable in the Maastricht era.
  • (11) The new era of medical economics emphasizes prospective payment and alternative delivery systems.
  • (12) Once availed of the fallacy that athletes are role models, there’s a certain purity that feels almost quaint in an era of athlete as brand.
  • (13) A “shock to the system” is precisely how his adviser Kellyanne Conway has repeatedly described the new era.
  • (14) So the worst start to a campaign in the Roman Abramovich era has condemned Chelsea to the top of the Premier League table.
  • (15) The report’s concluding chapters raised dire warning that the operations of contemporary child protection agencies were replicating many of the destructive dynamics of the Stolen Generations era.
  • (16) The modern era of leg lengthening has therefore brought two things: new technical versatility to correct complex and coexisting deformities and new concepts of the biology of lengthening that are not device specific and can be applied with most lengthening devices.
  • (17) Pallo Jordan , the ANC's chief propagandist in exile during the apartheid era, made no effort to hide his emotions.
  • (18) These infections must have been more common in the pre-antibiotic era and perhaps a search of the older literature would have been more fruitful.
  • (19) In 1994, he appeared as himself in the television special Smashey and Nicey, the End of an Era.
  • (20) The club’s increase in capacity from 35,000 at the Boleyn Ground to 60,000 at the former Olympic Stadium also makes it the biggest and most successful stadium move in Britain in the modern era.” The club’s vice-chairman, Karren Brady, added: “David Sullivan, David Gold and I have always believed in the West Ham fanbase and knew we could fill the new stadium “Reports consistently show that we have highest average capacity in the Premier League and every game in our final season at the Boleyn Ground sold out within days of going on sale.