What's the difference between bachelor and celibate?

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.

Celibate


Definition:

  • (n.) Celibate state; celibacy.
  • (n.) One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by vows not to marry.
  • (a.) Unmarried; single; as, a celibate state.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the basis of their sexual practices in the preceding 6 months, the men were categorized into four groups: Group 1--unprotected oral intercourse only (n = 13), Group 2--unprotected oral and anal intercourse (n = 39), Group 3--unprotected anal intercourse only (n = 2), and Group 4--celibate (n = 6).
  • (2) John is in a long-term relationship with another clergyman, which he has affirmed is celibate.
  • (3) In many instances the personality factors and circumstances which led both to a decision to enter and then to leave a celibate religious community are not easily appreciated by the nonreligious professional counselor and do not readily lend themselves to extrapolation from other population groups.
  • (4) O'Brien explained that many priests found it "very difficult to cope" with the celibate life and suggested lifting that ban could soon happen in the wider church.
  • (5) Nor does it allow clergy to marry same-sex partners in civil ceremonies, and it only tolerates same-sex relationships if they are celibate.
  • (6) The CofE has refused to countenance any form of official liturgical recognition for civil partnerships; has sought special exemptions from human rights and equalities legislation in order to continue discriminating against openly gay clergy or gay employees; has repeatedly restated its condemnation of all sexual relations outside heterosexual marriage; and has formally debarred even celibate gay clergy from becoming bishops.
  • (7) But having to insist that I was happy being celibate made me uncomfortable.
  • (8) He said it was clear "beyond peradventure that those who attend the masses are nearly all what the archdiocese calls 'non-celibate gay people' who intend to continue to defy Catholic teaching".
  • (9) These marriages might be celibate, or dynastic formalities for the production of a new generation, while allowing for outside interests: Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West are a case in point.
  • (10) I want people to understand that being celibate can be as nourishing and fulfilling as being in a relationship.
  • (11) Men and women who have lived in a celibate religious community experience a unique set of sexual, social, and psychological problems upon resuming a secular life style.
  • (12) It tolerates clergy who are in civil relationships, but expects them to be celibate.
  • (13) Bishop of Grantham first C of E bishop to declare he is in gay relationship Read more In effect, there is one standard for the laity – which is to conform to the liberal norms of society – and a double standard for the clergy who are supposed to be celibate, even when they live with same sex partners, if not heterosexually married.
  • (14) Although the majority were celibate or monogamous during the prior year (men 52.5%, women 64.3%), many IVDUs had multiple sexual partners in that time, including 19.6% of men and 7.2% of women reporting five or more.
  • (15) The Church of Scotland has been edging towards gay ordination ever since Rennie's appointment: in 2011, the general assembly voted to allow gay ministers already in post to remain in place, so long as they were in openly-declared civil partnerships or celibate, and had been ordained before 2009.
  • (16) That same year, he revealed to startled breakfast television viewers that he had been celibate since 1981, but before that had been bisexual.
  • (17) Lowest risk is among celibate women and those who live in communities where marriage is stable and where premarital and extramarital coitus is infrequent.
  • (18) Antibodies were not found in homosexual men who were celibate, or who practised only oral intercourse during the same period.
  • (19) In the past two years, Suzie King, founder of celibate dating agency Platonic Partners , has seen a marked increase in visitors to her website (which began as a resource for the medically impotent).
  • (20) In the future it will probably be best to stay celibate, in the dark, awake for as long as possible and quiet.