What's the difference between armada and flotilla?
Armada
Definition:
(v. t.) A fleet of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558.
Example Sentences:
(1) A revised policy would have to fulfil the twin objectives of ending the torture and other violations without rekindling the armada of boats.
(2) The study was done in three health care systems in the region: civil servants ("Mutualidad de Funcionarios Civiles del Estado: MUFACE") armed forces group ("Instituto Social de las Fuerzas Armadas: ISFAS") and the national system ("Instituto Nacional de la Salud: INSALUD").
(3) The party still faces a barrage of tactical voting by the right and left to stop it winning final-round votes – described by one Lille party worker as “the onslaught of an armada”.
(4) His invasion fleet of 463 ships, twice the size of the Armada, set sail in 1688.
(5) They danced, prayed and sang – and stood in long lines in front of the armadas of portable bathrooms along the beachfront.
(6) The government sent skimmers and booms to help clear up the oil , while BP recruited an "armada" of fishermen , otherwise banned from fishing for shrimp off the waters off Louisiana, to help lay some of the 2.25 million feet of containment booms to contain the slick.
(7) López Rivera eventually became a member of a clandestine group called Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional , which argued that armed force was a justified tactic in the fight for Puerto Rican independence.
(8) Col Tejero ignored Gen Armada and, instead of negotiating the formation of a government of national unity, demanded the creation of military junta.
(9) Only bad weather helped it avert a true disaster when the Spanish armada tried to invade in 1588.
(10) That said, however, it seems there is no direct correlation between the game and the film, in which a fleet of US ships is attacked by an armada of alien invaders, known as The Regents.
(11) Israel's deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, said: "The armada of hate and violence in support of the Hamas terror organisation was a premeditated and outrageous provocation.
(12) Sitting ducks for an armada of hackers, who are every bit as focused on stealing our data as we are relaxed about storing it.
(13) "It was the king himself who, after realising the nature of the threats to Spain, democracy and the crown ... had proposed to me in 1980 that I might head a government of unity," Gen Armada told his prison chaplain shortly after starting his 30-year jail sentence, the book reports.
(14) Col Tejero gave himself up and Gen Armada was soon discovered to have masterminded the plot.
(15) He howled when Diaz tried to boast about his armada of fighting coaches, portraying them as battle-tested kickboxing warriors as opposed to McGregor’s more eclectic group of movement and striking coaches.
(16) They were sure that Juan Carlos would respond by calling on the aristocratic Gen Armada, his former personal secretary, to lead a government of national unity.
(17) "The forecasts were correct, but it was soon clear that the armadas of ice that suddenly started to appear were thick and old."
(18) They showed 82% approval among viewers for the coverage of the armada along the river Thames.
(19) "He always told me I should trust Armada, that the best solution was a government of national unity led by him."
(20) Newly revealed transcripts of phone conversations between the king and Gen Armada show that, whatever may have been said before, Juan Carlos never wavered in his opposition to the coup once it started.
Flotilla
Definition:
(n.) A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.
Example Sentences:
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(2) During Sunday on the journey from Cyprus towards Gaza, the trip had been progressing well, with spirits high among the pro-Palestinian activists, according to messages received from the flotilla at the Cyprus base of Free Gaza, one of the campaign groups behind the mission.
(3) "We are talking about people on board [the flotilla] who are connected to al-Qaida," he said when El Periódico's interviewer pointed out that the Madrid attacks had been carried out by al-Qaida-inspired terrorists.
(4) As well as discussing the flotilla debacle, Obama is expected to press for further action to allow imports, exports and people to move more freely to and from Gaza.
(5) Israel had vowed to block the flotilla from reaching Gaza, accusing the organisers of embarking on "an act of provocation" against the Israeli military, and claiming its entry into the 20 nautical mile closure of the sea off Gaza would amount to a violation of international law.
(6) Like many passengers on the flotilla he insisted there were no weapons on any of the ships.
(7) At 3.30pm a flotilla of minibuses and taxis arrive to ferry our pupils to their homes across London and I attend a class review meeting with colleagues to discuss the progress of each pupil.
(8) Cathal Yeats, chief inspector of the Royal Gibraltar Police, said the flotilla crossed into Gibraltarian waters before being "corralled" out again.
(9) The Free Gaza movement, which chartered the Challenger yacht as part of the flotilla that was attacked by Israel on Monday, is led by a group of women of pensionable age.
(10) Goods are loaded on to a flotilla of wooden boats that grind their way up and down the lake using rackety diesel engines taken out of old tractors.
(11) The area came closest to voting leave of any part of Scotland, with fisheries workers the most vocal campaigners against EU membership, leading a flotilla on the Thames a week before the referendum last June.
(12) Israel gave strong indications today that its forces had secretly sabotaged some of the ships bound for Gaza as part of the freedom flotilla.
(13) Netanyahu said the aim of the flotilla was to break the blockade, not to bring aid to Gaza.
(14) In an escalation of the bitter diplomatic dispute over fishing rights, British military and police boats had to push back a flotilla of around 40 Spanish vessels.
(15) Israel's ambassador in Madrid provoked outrage this morning by suggesting Spaniards should worry more about the number of people dying on the roads every weekend and less about the nine people killed in his country's raid on the Gaza flotilla .
(16) It featured at the front of the flotilla that travelled down the river Thames last summer as part of the weekend of national celebrations marking the Queen's 60-year reign.
(17) A flotilla of other Chinese ships are also steadily making their way south, according to Reuters .
(18) And the Olympic torch completed its remarkable journey, the penultimate stage undertaken from Hampton Court to Tower Bridge on the prow of the gilded Gloriana, at the head of a flotilla of rowboats that drew curious glances from the cormorants, herons and great crested grebes in their haunts by Richmond Bridge.
(19) The international criminal court (ICC) will not prosecute over Israel’s raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in 2010, in which 10 Turkish activists died, despite a “reasonable basis to believe that war crimes were committed”.
(20) "This flotilla is bringing supplies the people of Gaza and are being met by military force," it said.