What's the difference between annunciator and annunciatory?
Annunciator
Definition:
(n.) One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.
(n.) An indicator (as in a hotel) which designates the room where attendance is wanted.
Example Sentences:
(1) From the plague's ominous annunciation, the first dead rat, rotting on the turn of the stair in the protagonist's apartment block, to the end of the first act and the prefect's terse command, "close the town", plot fits meaning with tailored perfection.
(2) The criteria annunciated by Murray are stressed, since they will raise a suspicion of the presence of calcium "milk" on views taken with a vertical x-ray beam.
(3) The design includes both the ability to detect dangerous conditions and a digital annunciator to indicate which of the many leads being checked simultaneously is at fault.
(4) The principle annunciated by Charnley suggesting that total joint arthroplasty be performed in large units or special hospitals is strongly recommended.
(5) Art galleries now need to explain the agony in the garden, the raising of Lazarus and even the annunciation.
Annunciatory
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, announcement; making known.