What's the difference between banquet and conference?

Banquet


Definition:

  • (n.) A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.
  • (n.) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats.
  • (v. t.) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
  • (v. i.) To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.
  • (v. i.) To partake of a dessert after a feast.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Queen hosts the banquet in the Buckingham Palace ballroom.
  • (2) Is she going to make it over for the banquet tomorrow?
  • (3) A senior Gulf diplomat said: “They are inviting the vultures to the banquet table.
  • (4) The rescue effort got under way at about 11pm last night when the group of world leaders left a state banquet hosted by Queen Margrethe and returned to the convention centre to get to work.
  • (5) Like a bandit who has cajoled his way in, the parasite now forces his host to prepare a banquet for him.
  • (6) In contrast, it is highly unlikely China's leader could find fault with the welcome laid out by the Obama administration: a private White House dinner tonight to be followed later in the week by a full state banquet, a 21-gun salute and all the pomp and circumstance of a review of the troops.
  • (7) The leader of the world’s largest autocracy will enjoy a 103-gun royal salute and a sumptuous, white-tie state banquet attended by three generations of the royal family; he will address the houses of parliament and at night will sleep in the palace’s Belgian Suite, in the very same bed that Duke and Duchess of Cambridge used on their wedding night .
  • (8) On the northern side of the main palace stands the banqueting hall where the Chinese delegation was housed.
  • (9) First of all, I think the state banquet is for Her Majesty, it is her show, either Jeremy Corbyn or others are her guests,” he said.
  • (10) The Commonwealth heads of government meeting – a three-day gathering staged every two years – begins next Friday with the sovereign's opening speech and that evening a traditional banquet will be held.
  • (11) Some observers assert that rather than seeking to contain the number of people at the banquet of life, we should enlarge the table and place more food upon it.
  • (12) The PM told the lord mayor's banquet that he yearns for " fundamental change " in the EU, but such yearning is futile unless he can set out what he means by fundamental change, and how he intends to effect it.
  • (13) There is little evidence that hungover customers struggle, taste-wise, with what one provider calls the Auschwitz Stag Do Package, which could be attributable to amnesia, or to that fact that, as with lap dancing and medieval banquets, what happens at Birkenau stays at Birkenau.
  • (14) "Every room in the centre had a banquet, and each banquet included abalone and other expensive dishes," Jia said.
  • (15) They know how to behave on occasions like this … You think the Labour party will raise human rights at a state banquet?
  • (16) Which is doubtless doing a Christmas deal on festive football with the opportunity to treat someone special to a banquet of motor racing in the new year.
  • (17) Speaking at the annual St Matthew’s Day banquet in Hamburg, Cameron said he would “unequivocally recommend” that Britain stays in the EU if he clinched the deal on Friday.
  • (18) Guzmán went underground as Mexico descended into the abyss, boasting that he paid out $5m a month to corrupt officials, and making sudden, brazen appearances such as that in May 2005 at a restaurant in Nuevo Laredo, his enemy’s doorstep, when 40 diners found the doors suddenly locked by his gunmen to be told: “Don’t be alarmed, order whatever you want, and we’ll pay.” Another of his banquets in Mexico City was raided by the army – but too late, finding only four hapless members of the band paid to entertain Guzmán, who were arrested for possession of firearms.
  • (19) China’s public will be encouraged to swoon over the silver-gilt candelabra adorning the royal banquet table, the flower arrangements inspected personally by the Queen, the priceless gold vessels displayed as a sign of respect for the guest of honour’s exalted rank.
  • (20) There are many more phases to come, including further luxury accommodation, a residential village, second golf course, banqueting facilities and other high-end leisure amenities.” James Bream, a research and policy director for Aberdeenshire tourism board, believes the opening of the first course in 2012 has increased tourism and given north-east Scotland a far higher-profile in the golfing world, helping its economy spread beyond a reliance on North Sea oil.

Conference


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.
  • (n.) The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.
  • (n.) A meeting for consultation, discussion, or an interchange of opinions.
  • (n.) A meeting of the two branches of a legislature, by their committees, to adjust between them.
  • (n.) A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters.
  • (n.) A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A world conference in Edinburgh during August 1988 will have the theme.
  • (2) Cop rats, however, possess a single 'suppressor' gene which confers complete resistance to mammary cancer.
  • (3) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (4) The most important conclusion of both conferences was that oestrogen substitution can significantly reduce the incidence of fractures in postmenopausal women.
  • (5) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
  • (6) The presence of a few key residues in the amino-terminal alpha-helix of each ligand is sufficient to confer specificity to the interaction.
  • (7) The data suggest that the presence of a bromoacetate group at the 12 position on cardiotonic steroids does not confer CS binding site directed alkylating properties on these drugs.
  • (8) It is possible that the formation of a mycetoma grain may limit a patient's exposure to antigens which confer specificity, an explanation which may also account for the variability in antibody responses seen.
  • (9) The vector is relatively small (6 kilobase pairs) and contains a portion of the L. seymouri alpha-tubulin gene positioned in-frame with a truncated neomycin phosphotransferase gene that confers resistance to the aminoglycoside G418.
  • (10) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
  • (11) Substitution of a single amino acid residue, proline for glycine-9 in [pGlu6]SP6-11, a hexapeptide analogue of substance P, confers on the peptide selective agonist activity toward the SP-P receptor subtype.
  • (12) I have to do my best.” The Leeds sporting director Nicola Salerno told the news conference that it was unlikely there would be new permanent signings in the January transfer window, but that there would be the possibility for loan deals.
  • (13) The 5'-terminal methylated cap (m7G(5')ppp(5')Gm) in reovirus messenger RNA comprises part of the ribosomes binding site, since attachment of 40 S wheat germ ribosomal subunits to reovirus small (s), medium (m), and large (l) RNA classes conferred almost complete protection of the cap against RNase digestion.
  • (14) What about the "credit easing" George Osborne announced in his conference speech?
  • (15) Furthermore, immunization of mice with persistently infected cells conferred resistance to tumor growth after challenge with the highly malignant NS20Y cells.
  • (16) Moallem’s news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in north-eastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group.
  • (17) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
  • (18) According to the resolution of the national coordinative conference, 1098 cases with extrahepatic biliary cancer, from 1977, January to 1989, April were collected by over 40 hospitals and coordinative groups throughout the country.
  • (19) Of CD patients, 92% (50% DR3 and 42% DR5,7) compared to 18% of the controls carry both DQA1*0501 and DQB1*0201 alleles, so that the combination confers an RR of 52, higher than both the risks of the single alleles (DQA1*0501 RR = 19, DQB1*0201 RR = 30), confirming the primary role of the dimer in determining genetic predisposition to CD both in DR3 and in DR5,7 subjects.
  • (20) "We will respect the principle of multi-year [funding] settlements," Hunt told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.