What's the difference between away and vacation?

Away


Definition:

  • (adv.) From a place; hence.
  • (adv.) Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.
  • (adv.) Aside; off; in another direction.
  • (adv.) From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
  • (adv.) By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come away; begone; take away.
  • (adv.) On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
  • (2) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
  • (3) In the second approach, attachment sites of DTPA groups were directed away from the active region of the molecule by having fragment E1,2 bound in complex, with its active sites protected during the derivatization.
  • (4) The Tyr side chain had two conformations of comparable energy, one over the ring between the Gln and Asn side chains, and the other with the Tyr side chain away from the ring.
  • (5) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
  • (6) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
  • (7) When war broke out, the nine-year-old Arden was sent away to board at a school near York and then on Sedbergh School in Cumbria.
  • (8) Furthermore, the backing away from any specific yield targets is exactly the lack of clarity that the FX market will not like."
  • (9) To understand the reason for the opposite effect of the molar ratio observed at the middle of and at four residues away from the lysine-rich sequence, actual cross-linked residue(s) was (were) determined by subjecting cross-linked product to a protein sequencer.
  • (10) Plays like The Workhouse Donkey (1963) and Armstrong's Last Goodnight (1964) were staged in major theatres, but as the decade progressed so his identification with the increasingly radical climate of the times began to lead away from the mainstream theatre.
  • (11) Eighty-five per cent of newly appointed judges in France are women because the men stay away.
  • (12) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
  • (13) Seconds later the camera turns away as what sounds like at least 15 gunshots are fired amid bystanders’ screams.
  • (14) Although a variety of new teaching strategies and materials are available in education today, medical education has been slow to move away from the traditional lecture format.
  • (15) But even before the reforms, half of the women coming to refuges were being turned away, so beds were already scarce.
  • (16) Heptathletes peak in their mid-to-late twenties – two Olympic cycles away yet for Johnson-Thompson – so what would she like to achieve in London?
  • (17) Estonia had been reduced to 10 men early in the second half yet Hodgson’s men had to toil away for another 25 minutes before the goal, direct from Wayne Rooney’s free-kick, that soothed their mood and maintained their immaculate start to this qualifying programme.
  • (18) There is no evidence to support the move to seven-day services, there is no evidence of what is going to happen if we divert our resources away from the week to weekends.
  • (19) Reality set in once you got home to your parents and the regular neighborhood kids, and your thoughts turned to new notebooks for the school year and whether you got prettier while you were away and whether your crushes were going to notice.
  • (20) But in a setback to the UK, Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, refused British entreaties to attend on the grounds that it would not have been treated as equal to the Somali government.

Vacation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.
  • (n.) Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure.
  • (n.) Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess.
  • (n.) The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation.
  • (n.) The time when an office is vacant; esp. (Eccl.), the time when a see, or other spiritual dignity, is vacant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two years later, Trump tweeted that “Obama’s motto” was: “If I don’t go on taxpayer funded vacations & constantly fundraise then the terrorists win.” The joke, it turns out, is on Trump.
  • (2) Compelling evidence of the transference in this case occurred in the ninth month of treatment when the therapist told the child that she would be going on vacation.
  • (3) Antipyrine clearance was 18% higher during exposure to gasoline than after 2-4 weeks of vacation (P less than 0.01), while antipyrine clearance was unchanged in the office workers.
  • (4) You don't have a film called Out of Asia and you rarely go to Oceania on holidays (instead you talk of vacations in Australia, New Zealand or another island).
  • (5) The cerebellar molecular layer of chronic alcohol treated rats showed degenerated parallel fiber boutons and vacated Purkinje cell spines after 6 months of alcohol feeding; degenerated Purkinje cell dendrites were concomitantly observed.
  • (6) Gibson has held the role of chairman since 4 May 2006, when he took over from Sir Victor Blank, who vacated the role to become chairman at Lloyds TSB.
  • (7) He had simultaneously taken degrees in history and economics, so could cope with the politics and economics, but had to mug up the philosophy over the vacation.
  • (8) The authorities had vacated the area, leaving barricades and piles of rubble in place.
  • (9) The infestation happened in Greece during vacation.
  • (10) Obama and his family vacation every August on Martha’s Vineyard, and he has spent most of this year’s trip on the golf course, at the beach and dining at the island’s upscale restaurants.
  • (11) The top court late on Wednesday also vacated a stay from the US court of appeals.
  • (12) A well-known conservative, Ditka publicly flirted with running against Democratic candidate Barack Obama, then a state senator, for the open seat in the US Senate vacated by Illinois senator Peter Fitzgerald in 2004.
  • (13) Vacated postsynaptic sites are subsequently removed by phagocytosis.
  • (14) In the subsequent vacations the Hg values in the students' urine clearly decreased.
  • (15) Asked whether he was worried about being hassled on his family vacation, Jagger said: "Depends where I go.
  • (16) "We are actively considering what is necessary to deal with that threat and we are not going to be restricted by borders," said Rhodes, briefing reporters at Martha's Vineyard, where the president is on vacation.
  • (17) If they do move, they go into the private sector where a smaller home costs the housing benefit budget more than the social housing just vacated.
  • (18) Most travel (71%) was for vacations, 13% was for teaching or study, 11% for business, and 5% for missionary activities.
  • (19) Sabiah Khatun, a third-year student at Queen Mary, University of London, was inspired to study law after her Smart Start experience, after which she was selected for a summer vacation scheme and will start her training contract at the firm in September 2017.
  • (20) That is, APS binds to the subsite vacated by PAPS in the compulsory (or predominately) ordered product release sequence (PAPS before MgADP).