What's the difference between award and raffle?

Award


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.
  • (v. i.) To determine; to make an award.
  • (v. t.) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
  • (v. t.) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For the 18-month period from January 1988, 652 awards were made, consisting of 426 (65%) brand and 226 (35%) generic drugs.
  • (2) Hollywood legend has it that, at the first Academy awards in 1929, Rin Tin Tin the dog won most votes for best actor.
  • (3) Before the offer for the jungle came in she was meant to be presenting the Plus Size Awards this week, an event supporting plus-size people who are doing amazing things but are overlooked by the mainstream.
  • (4) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.
  • (5) The award for nonfiction went to New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos for his book on modern China, Age of Ambition .
  • (6) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .
  • (7) All was very accomplished; her award-winning photographs have been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and her articles and pictures were published in books, periodicals, and newspapers around the world.
  • (8) But it is as a winner of "best dressed" and "most inspiring" awards that she remains well-known.
  • (9) Losing Murphy is a blow to the Oscars which has struggled to liven up its image amid a general decline in its TV ratings over the last couple of decades and a rush of awards shows that appeal to younger crowds, such as the MTV Movie Awards.
  • (10) They also made it clear that they would seek to use the award to bring their two countries closer together and said they would invite their prime ministers, Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan and Narendra Modi of India, to the award ceremony in Oslo in December.
  • (11) Maggie and Joe Forber win the 2013 Unsung Hero (es) of the Year award.
  • (12) Last week, the army major who ordered Dar to be tied to the vehicle was awarded a commendation for his counter-insurgency work in the region.
  • (13) Since leaving the group last April – taking home a reported £3.1m in salary, compensation and future share awards – the work has not stopped.
  • (14) A week after the New York Film Critics Circle gave the movie its top award, a liberal political commentator wrote: "I'm betting that Dick Cheney will love [the film, which is] a far, far cry from the rousing piece of pro-Obama propaganda that some conservatives feared it would be."
  • (15) Both athletes and technicians awarded higher scores to risk than to efficacy for any substance, although 42-67% of athletes and technicians regarded amphetamines and anabolic steroids as efficacious.
  • (16) An Artist of the Floating World won the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was nominated for the Booker prize for fiction; The Remains of the Day won the Booker; and When We Were Orphans, perceived by many reviewers as a disappointment, was nominated for both the Booker and the Whitbread.
  • (17) The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards didn’t achieve the same degree of controversy as last year’s celebration of tongues, twerking and teddy bears , but between a speech by a homeless teen, an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction, and Beyoncé’s spectacular, epic, show-stopping finale, there were nevertheless a few moments worth watching.
  • (18) Now, 42 years later, he lives in the same flat in Portland Place, central London, though he is richer by £1bn, a peer in the House of Lords, and this week received a lifetime achievement gong at the Asian Business Awards.
  • (19) It appeared Dunaway and Warren Beatty had an envelope containing a card naming a previous award won by La La Land, prompting visible hesitation between the two veteran actors before Dunaway went ahead and named La La Land.
  • (20) Despite winning Chelsea's player of the year award for the past two seasons, Mata has found his opportunities restricted since Mourinho's return to Stamford Bridge last summer.

Raffle


Definition:

  • (v.) A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor.
  • (v.) A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes.
  • (v. i.) To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch.
  • (v. t.) To dispose of by means of a raffle; -- often followed by off; as, to raffle off a horse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They remain organised by ethnicity, but unlike in Raffles’ day, the PAP’s idea wasn’t to separate the Chinese, the Malays, the Indians and the rest, but to carefully integrate them – so the demographics of each block reflect the demographics of Singapore as a whole, in theory preventing the formation of volatile ethnic enclaves.
  • (2) The vascular mantles of the endochondral layer of labyrinthine bone in dog (Canis f. intermedius Woldrich) and monkey (Pithecus fascicularis Raffl.)
  • (3) Raffles hitch-hiked ahead of the troupe, often sleeping rough, to busk for new bookings.
  • (4) On transforming from their original round shape, the induced cells displayed the well-developed microvilli, spindles, or raffles that are characteristic of macrophages or dendrocytes.
  • (5) Well I am being uber-careful but there are SO many secrets around that it is quite hard to keep track, Oik says to forget the Black & White Ball even happened, especially the peerage raffle & I think it is still secret about Chope and Bone, because Bone has not told Mrs Bone they are in love yet & it is deffo a total secret about my shop party because of the whole not-being-allowed-to-capitalise thing?
  • (6) The response rate in the 1762 who were told about the raffle was no higher than for 950 subjects who served as controls.
  • (7) The event included a barbecue, drinks and a raffle, with prizes of vodka, champagne and a biography of Vladimir Putin .
  • (8) TO CELEBRATE THAT DEAL The classic Singapore Sling cocktail at the Raffles hotel.
  • (9) "Mildly ischaemic" cells featured raffled and invaginated cell surfaces, reduced matrix density, disorientated mitochondrial cristae due to swelling, and giant mitochondria.
  • (10) At a 2003 charity gala for the Florida-based Unicorn Children’s Foundation a misunderstanding over a raffle prize announcement resulted in a police investigation that lasted nearly a month.
  • (11) Then, in February 1953, Littlewood and Raffles rented the Theatre Royal, Angel Lane, E15, for £20 a week, a dilapidated palace of varieties reeking of cat urine.
  • (12) Today’s Singapore is far more precisely the result of Lee Kuan Yew’s vision than the Manchester of the East ever was of Sir Stamford Raffles’,” wrote science fiction author William Gibson in Wired magazine in 1993, three years after Yew stepped down.
  • (13) Exhausted and miserable, she walked out at the crowning moment when she and Raffles had managed to buy the theatre.
  • (14) But the second world war intervened and he had to go to the local Raffles College instead, where he acquired some basic economics, and met his future wife, Kwa Geok Choo.
  • (15) Obama had made an impromptu visit to Stonehenge , just a mile from Janice and James Raffle's home.
  • (16) Fashion parades, balls, raffles, and weekly deductions from thousands of workers' pay packets were integral to success of the Cancer Appeal-a-thon in the Illawarra region.
  • (17) We ran a letter-writing campaign, a big fundraising effort; coffee mornings, raffles, a black-tie ball.
  • (18) Her relationship with McColl was over and Gerry Raffles, handsome and nine years younger, had to her amazement, fallen wholeheartedly in love with her: their bond was to last more than 30 years.
  • (19) The gastric mucosa changes induced by enterogastric reflux remain to interest, thus, 20 patients with surgical duodenal ulcer disease were studied, and after raffle, they consisted in 2 groups of 10 patients each, in which were performed antrectomy and truncal vagotomy, with reestablishment of the gastrointestinal continuity, in the group I, through a Billroth II gastrojejunostomy, and, in the group II, by a Roux-en-Y gastrojejunostomy.
  • (20) Janice Raffle took to Twitter, saying: "I can see president Obama!

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