What's the difference between bachelor and celibacy?

Bachelor


Definition:

  • (n.) A man of any age who has not been married.
  • (n.) An unmarried woman.
  • (n.) A person who has taken the first or lowest degree in the liberal arts, or in some branch of science, at a college or university; as, a bachelor of arts.
  • (n.) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight.
  • (n.) In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member.
  • (n.) A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Andrew Bachelor AKA King Bach (@KingBach) Andrew Bachelor.
  • (2) Nancy Davis was a middle-ranking film actor in her 20s when she received her initial introduction to Reagan, having already told a friend that he was top of her list of Hollywood’s eligible bachelors.
  • (3) The minister defended his reforms, saying the planned expansion of funding for sub-bachelor programs would "spread opportunity to more students".
  • (4) Now trapped in an occupied city, she takes on a job as a housekeeper to mysterious bachelor Gabriel Ortega.
  • (5) At the end of the Colonial period, only 4 latin physicians and 3 bachelors in Medicine had graduated from the Universidad San Felipe, from an initial enrollment of 38 students in half a century.
  • (6) The purposes of this study were to identify the clinical teaching behaviors perceived as most effective and most hindering by students and CIs and to compare the response rates of students in bachelor's and master's degree programs.
  • (7) The greatest differences emerged between the bachelor's, postbaccalaureate certificate, and basic master's groups and the advanced master's and other master's groups, thus supporting the association between increased education and increased professional involvement.
  • (8) The manager most likely to use computers was a man of any age with at least a bachelor's degree who was employed full-time within the institution.
  • (9) The direct in vitro actions of tPRL177 and tPRL188 on basal and ovine luteinizing hormone (LH)-induced testosterone production in minced testes of courting and noncourting (bachelor) tilapia were examined.
  • (10) Lots of people write in to me asking if Mays is "a bachelor".
  • (11) Photograph: Alamy Schools are still out for summer, but it's time to count the cost of uniforms - kitting out a child for the autumn term can add up to more than £100, says Lisa Bachelor.
  • (12) Singles Day in China was invented by students in the 1990s as Bachelors’ Day – a day to meet prospective partners and hang out with single friends eating deep-fried dough sticks representing the four ones in 11.11 or steamed buns which represent the dot.
  • (13) A systems framework was used to study the unusual failure rate on the National Council Licensing Examination (NCLEX) experienced by one-third of the 1983 graduates of a Northwestern Bachelor of Science Nursing (BSN) program.
  • (14) Over the past four decades, those with bachelor’s degree have tended to earn 56% more than high school graduates while those with an associate’s degree have tended to earn 21% more than high school graduates,” found the report.
  • (15) One example is their work with universities to establish a bachelor of social work degree which has just produced its first graduates.
  • (16) The median age at death was 89.4 years for sisters with educational attainment of a bachelor's degree or higher, 82.2 years for sisters with some high school or college education, and 82.0 years for sisters with only a grade school education.
  • (17) Personnel with bachelor's degrees did have more counseling responsibilities than those with more advanced degrees.
  • (18) Results of a five-year investigation at the University of San Francisco of the impact-as measured by the students' perceptions of their collegiate experience-of an innovative four-year curriculum, leading to a bachelors degree and professional preparation in nursing, are summarized.
  • (19) She declined to detail how many times the “chairman’s scholarship” has been awarded previously, but the institute’s website makes no references to the scholarship and states the institute “does not currently offer scholarships to gain a place into the Bachelor of Design” .
  • (20) Its 2011 sequel, The Hangover Part II , shifted the stag-do antics of bachelor quartet Phil Wenneck, Stu Price, Alan Garner and Doug Billings from Las Vegas to Bangkok and once again broke box-office records.

Celibacy


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A ten-year study of the sexual behavior of college students in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, shows that students choose among three sexual subcultures: celibacy, monogamy, and free experimentation.
  • (2) A Health Ministry spokesman answers that the campaign has, in fact, stressed that use of condoms for "safe sex" does not provide complete protection but, since the only 100% sure protection, celibacy, is completely impractical, even partial protection is better than none.
  • (3) He has come to terms with his own celibacy ("An involuntary decision!"
  • (4) Celibacy, he says, has enriched his relationship with women.
  • (5) In comments to the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal, Parolin – who is the outgoing nuncio, or papal ambassador, to the Latin American country – said that as celibacy was a "church tradition" as opposed to dogma, it could be legitimately discussed.
  • (6) She felt that my celibacy was a problem, when I saw it as a strength.
  • (7) Clerical celibacy and civil rights restrictions on homosexuals are both silly, and it shouldn’t matter to anyone at all if it turned out that McDonnell and the pastor were doing trial prep via a two-man dildo ouroboros.
  • (8) Efforts at intervention have ranged from preventing pregnancy by encouraging celibacy to trying to enhance the options available to those who are already parents.
  • (9) In practice at least half of the House of Bishops ignore the guidelines and do not ask clergy questions about celibacy, and many of them consciously put in place people in civil partnerships with the partner present and acknowledged as a partner.
  • (10) The celibacy and fertility rates of 186 patients with major affective disorders were analysed as a function of the presence or absence of histories of mood congruent delusions or suicidal behaviour in the depressive phases of the disease.
  • (11) So she chose celibacy and became a virdzina (virgin in the Montenegrin dialect of Serbo-Croat).
  • (12) He has now effectively admitted he breached the church's strict rules on celibacy and its bar on homosexuality since he became a priest – and during his 10 years as a cardinal.
  • (13) So did the church act because it was shocked by the claims against the cardinal or were they were angry he had broken ranks on celibacy?
  • (14) As well as calling on the church to show "real repentance for the lack of welcome and acceptance extended to homosexual people in the past", the report also urges it to think about whether it is reasonable to allow lay people to be in sexually active same-sex relationships while requiring celibacy from its clergy and bishops, saying: "In the facilitated discussions it will be important to reflect on the extent to which the laity and the clergy should continue to observe such different disciplines."
  • (15) As a cure for AIDS remains out of sight, condom use, celibacy and extensive health education remain the immediate sole weapons for controlling HIV infection.
  • (16) Think about how our church’s rules – enforced celibacy, lack of transparency, secretive processes, no accountability to the people in the pews – contributed to this crisis in our church.
  • (17) He meditates, is a vegetarian, an advocate of tantric sex and and has gone through long periods of celibacy.
  • (18) Pietro Parolin, an Italian archbishop, has raised eyebrows by acknowledging that "modifications" to the law of priestly celibacy might be possible under Francis's reform agenda.
  • (19) At the end, a direct question was posed: "Is it true that the cardinal has broken his vow of celibacy?"
  • (20) "Celibacy is fine as a vocation, if chosen, but it is manifestly cruel to ban a human being from physical intimacy simply because they are gay."