What's the difference between beefeater and yeoman?
Beefeater
Definition:
(n.) One who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person.
(n.) One of the yeomen of the guard, in England.
(n.) An African bird of the genus Buphaga, which feeds on the larvae of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc. Two species are known.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whitbread, which also owns the Beefeater and Brewers Fayre restaurant chains, recorded a rise in like-for-like restaurant sales of 3.1%.
(2) A bottle of Beefeater appears in one of his prints alongside two bottles of Schweppes tonic water.
(3) I thought of the tourist scrums pushing each other off the pavements, jostling for souvenir humbugs and wind-up Beefeaters.
(4) If Edward I's pendulous swags – the replica drapery that forms part of the lavishly recreated Plantagenet bedchamber currently on display in the Tower Of London – were any more pendulous, their combined weight would probably bring down the ceiling, Beefeaters and all.
(5) Profits at hotels and restaurants, including Beefeater and Brewers Fayre, rose by 11% to £348m, helped by a sales rise of 13% at the Premier Inn hotel chain.
(6) An update comes in from the finance dept: “Delighted to report that a major recruitment website, which prefers to remain anonymous, has secured perpetual rights to all the data.” Hot Cross Everything Beefeaters, the popular grilled meat chain, is off the blocks with an innovative culinary idea: “Whether you’re a fan of buns or a member of the KKK, everyone loves a hot cross!
(7) Drinks experts from the consumer group rated 12 standard-range gins and gave Morrisons , Lidl and Waitrose higher marks than established brands Greenall’s and Beefeater, while the market leader, Gordon’s – which accounts for half of all gin sales in the UK – trailed behind in ninth position.
(8) It wasn't just Big Ben and Beefeaters and red buses and stuff.
Yeoman
Definition:
(n.) A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.
(n.) A servant; a retainer.
(n.) A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry.
(n.) An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.
Example Sentences:
(1) 35:1249-1255) and in mitogen-stimulated normal human lymphocytes (Yeoman et al.
(2) Yeomans said there was not one simple solution, but the federal government needed to take a leadership role and involve all three levels of government.
(3) Justin Peters at Slate has done yeoman's work in addressing this issue.
(4) Photograph: Mark Yeoman Yet the orthodoxy prevails.
(5) Chicago’s Homan Square 'black site': surveillance, military-style vehicles and a metal cage Read more William Yeomans, who worked in the civil rights division from 1981 to 2005, and served as its acting attorney, said the allegations about off-the-books interrogations and barred access to legal counsel reported by the Guardian merited a preliminary investigation to confirm them, a first step toward a full civil rights investigation.
(6) Yeomans said it was not just the very poor who were adversely affected by high house prices.
(7) Yeomans said the North Carolina legislation represented "a sad day" for democracy in the US.
(8) A nuclear nonhistone protein which decreases in chromatin during growth (Yeoman, L. C., et al.
(9) Nonhistone protein BA has been shown to decrease in amount in the chromatin of growth- stimulated normal rat liver (Yeoman et al.
(10) How British hearts swelled with pride though, when Beckham was sent off during a Spanish league game in 2004 after calling a linesman a " hijo de puta " (son of a bitch) – even though we knew, really, that he remained a monoglot yeoman with a squeaky voice.
(11) We have previously shown that a 30 kDa DNA-binding protein isolated from rat cell nuclei exhibits the chemical and immunological properties of glutathione S-transferase Yb subunits [Bennett, Spector & Yeoman (1986) J.
(12) The name of Manchester City winger James Milner features prominently on his shopping list , although Liverpool, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur are also interested, but a bid of £10m might convince City suits to sell their Yorkshire yeoman.
(13) Two yeoman warders in medieval tunics, who had come from London with the constable of the Tower of London, Lord Dannatt, stood with their backs to the south door of the cathedral, as if the Tudors or Lancastrians might try to break in at any moment.
(14) I had long ago decided I was going to do everything I could with my yeoman-like work ethic to become as much of a maker as I am a taker.
(15) Ruth Yeoman is head of the academic research, leadership education and organisation development work at the centre for mutual and employee-owned business that is part of Oxford University.
(16) Protein C23 (Mr 110 000, pI = 5.5), a major phosphoprotein in the nucleolus of mammalian cells, has been shown to contain 1.3 mol% of NG,NG-dimethylarginine (DMA) [Lischwe, M.A., Roberts, K.D., Yeoman, L.C., & Busch, H. (1982) J. Biol.
(17) William Yeomans, a law professor in Washington and a former chief of staff in the Justice Department, said Texas and North Carolina may just be the start of a series of legal battles over voter rights in states across the country.
(18) Read more Mission Australia’s chief executive, Catherine Yeomans, said surging house prices were sending people into crisis accommodation for months instead of weeks and pushing them to the fringes of society.
(19) A DNA-binding nonhistone protein, protein BA, was previously demonstrated to co-localize with U-snRNPs within discrete nuclear domains (Bennett, F. C., and L. C. Yeoman, 1985, Exp.
(20) Donald Yeomans, of Nasa's near-Earth object programme, said in an interview posted on space agency's website : "There are three possibilities when this comet rounds the sun.