What's the difference between avatar and persona?

Avatar


Definition:

  • (n.) The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu.
  • (n.) Incarnation; manifestation as an object of worship or admiration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although prostheses are not anatomical avatars, careful appliance prescription and training, coordinated with the child's growth and developmental changes, can optimize the benefits the child derives from the prosthesis.
  • (2) And the characters' creation of an avatar of a dead person based on their writings, in Jonze's film, is an idea that he's been banging on about for years.
  • (3) When it emerged that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had gone missing, he tweeted: "It occurs to me: All our good news on the economy is currently as submerged and lost as the Malaysian Airlines flight recorder..." The MP, whose Twitter avatar is a character from figure-skating comedy Blades Of Glory, also joked about having a relationship with a llama.
  • (4) Bookmaker Paddy Power is currently offering odds of 16-1 on The Force Awakens passing Avatar’s total by June 2016.
  • (5) Sitting with him as he spoke were Sigourney Weaver and Joel David Moore, who starred in Avatar , which charts the fight of the fictitious Na'vi people against outside attempts to pillage their resources on the planet Pandora.
  • (6) Avatar revolutionised the industry with its groundbreaking use of 3D; The Force Awakens is merely concerned with making sure the Star Wars franchise lives on.
  • (7) For the most part, I floated about the treetops while construction went on, overseeing as avatars flew about, sloughing off blocks, pausing to consider a tricky curve or corner, and sloughing again.
  • (8) Seems to me, there isn't quite a Slumdog or a King's Speech this year to grab the popular British attention, and we don't yet have the internecine drama of, say, a race boiling down to Avatar vs Hurt Locker .
  • (9) The director James Cameron will make three sequels to his 2009 sci-fi blockbuster Avatar in New Zealand , he announced on Monday.
  • (10) Martin: 'I can't afford a one-room flat in the cheapest area' avatar yello Photograph: guardian.co.uk After getting on my bike in 1992 and moving to Holland, where I worked for 18-and-a-half years, I returned to the town of my birth in 2011.
  • (11) The room erupted for Marco Rubio, the Ken doll avatar of CPAC crushes.
  • (12) Dan Snyder isn’t satisfied with being the avatar of every cruel and stupid thing about modern capitalism.
  • (13) As a player, I don't remember having many problems projecting myself as Lara – and I don't particularly want an avatar in a game that needs protecting.
  • (14) Watson answered in a mellifluous computerised voice – think Stephen Hawking with extra zing – and in a neat visual trick its screen avatar changed colour depending on how sure it was about each answer.
  • (15) "I mean, I'm glad it went to her and not to James Cameron [for Avatar ]; if that had happened, it would have been too weird.
  • (16) Pinewood is home to a range of productions including the next Clash of the Titans film starring Avatar actor Sam Worthington and TV shows including Dancing On Ice, The Weakest Link and My Family.
  • (17) The saga’s debut instalment, 1977’s Star Wars, made $2.825bn when ticket prices are adjusted for inflation – though Avatar itself is also upgraded to $3.020bn using the same formula.
  • (18) Also, don't retweet @suckup1967 when she tweets at you to say "@rupertmurdoch Gt appearance at the select committee you showed them LOL love your avatar too".
  • (19) Films financed by Ingenious include Avatar, Die Hard 4 and Die Hard 5 and Girl with the Pearl Earring.
  • (20) But right now, in avatar form, he was styled in tan leathers and a rocket pack, and he was figuring out how to make that giant door open and shut on command.

Persona


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Person, n., 8.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
  • (2) Prince was named after his father's own stage persona, and when his parents split up he became determined to better his dad on piano.
  • (3) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.
  • (4) The persona that emerged during day two of Breivik's 10-week trial was a rambling, repetitive obsessive, fixated on a threat he never truly managed to articulate, but which involved "cultural Marxists", whom he claimed had destroyed Norway by using it as "a dumping ground for the surplus births of the third world".
  • (5) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
  • (6) There's no doubt that MacMaster expended an enormous amount of effort compiling the blog and creating Gay Girl's persona: poems, long imaginary reminiscences – even warning readers to treat some other websites "with a very large grain of salt" – but to what purpose?
  • (7) "For us he is persona non grata," said Panos Kammenos, leader of the vociferously anti-austerity Independent Greeks party as the 300-seat house debated the job losses.
  • (8) Wilson, though, quick to adopt new personas, and adapt to new circumstances, adored the attention, and shrewdly exploited his role as local minor celebrity when it came to what he was really interested in - helping Manchester to recreate itself as a major city, with its radical, inventive and progressive traditions intact.
  • (9) So convincing is this act – if indeed it is an act – that I became intrigued: was the “real” Lee quite as prickly as his performance persona?
  • (10) As for her outspoken nature and self-styled "maverick" persona: "We didn't know that when we picked her."
  • (11) In the book’s preface , Hager explains how Key was desperate to continue his success by constructing a charming public persona while pursuing “ more personal attacks and negative politics than any in living memory.” I asked Hager to tell me more: It is about political PR and particularly what the US Republican party strategists have called a two-track approach.
  • (12) De La Rosa mapped out what he saw as the dramatis personae of execution in Juárez.
  • (13) Fortunately for his detractors, who bristle at his brash TV persona and penchant for bullying guests, Shimada conceded his TV career was at an end: "From tomorrow I will become just another regular person.
  • (14) I’m talking about persona, I’m not talking about look,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News on Thursday morning.
  • (15) Walker also began the summer as a strong favorite in the early-voting state of Iowa, where voters seemed inherently drawn to his midwestern persona and retail politics – which have often included traversing from one county to the next on a Harley Davidson.
  • (16) Even before the verdict the court case shattered Harris's public persona as a cuddly family entertainer, one maintained over six decades of stardom.
  • (17) Despite the sometimes self-deprecating shtick – in sharp contrast to Putin's self-mythologising antics – there remains disquiet about what Navalny really represents, behind the caustic put-downs and cool persona.
  • (18) Even then, analysts who should investigate the link between the business and its persona seem swept away by utopian dreams and look where the company suggests they should be looking (mainly the future.)
  • (19) The enforced absence of Karim Benzema, deemed persona non grata for his alleged role in the “sextape” scandal, and the sad disappearance of Mathieu Valbuena, the only true victim of the affair, mean that Didier Deschamps has been obliged to do what many hoped he would do to start with: put his trust in youth, particularly up front.
  • (20) These statements reveal outrageous malevolence regarding the values that define this European Union and, if pronounced by an official representative of the United States, they would have the potential to undermine seriously the transatlantic relationship that has, for the past 70 years, essentially contributed to peace, stability and prosperity on our continent.” Trump's focus on UK trade could sideline EU, Democrats fear Read more A letter from the leader of the Socialists and Democrats group, Gianni Pittella, describes Malloch’s statements as “shocking” and urges the EU institutions to treat him as a “persona non grata”.