What's the difference between billard and english?

Billard


Definition:

  • (n.) An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One client, Stan (“it’s always the men”, says Billard), contacted the company to capture his proposal to wife Maja at a castle in the Périgord region.
  • (2) All the fun of the fair: Paris’s best retro attractions Read more Snaplove Paparazzi snapped into life in spring 2015 as the brainchild of Irène Billard.
  • (3) Martine Billard, a Green MP, attacked the "vengeful spirit" of Sarkozy's UMP for getting rid of the flagship socialist policy and effectively authorising a working week of 48 hours.
  • (4) We are paparazzi of love.” Billard has now completed 12 assignments, producing portfolios of photographs in a style that will be familiar to anyone who has flicked through a celebrity-filled glossy magazine: blurry objects in the foreground and a sense that the subjects are unaware they are being watched.
  • (5) In Canada, which introduced polymer banknotes in late 2011, Mona Billard from Ontario took $800 worth of the notes back to the bank after her son stashed them in a tin can and hid it near a heater.
  • (6) Among idiopathic forms sporadic as well as familial ones with dominant and recessive inheritance have been observed (Billard et al 1989).
  • (7) Staking out a couple, Billard and another photographer will hide 10-20 metres away, clutching the sort of long-lens camera that is synonymous with the trade.

English


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.
  • (a.) See 1st Bond, n., 8.
  • (n.) Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons.
  • (n.) The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in America, India, and other countries.
  • (n.) A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.
  • (n.) A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball.
  • (v. t.) To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain.
  • (v. t.) To strike (the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it in addition to its forward motion a spinning motion, that influences its direction after impact on another ball or the cushion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
  • (2) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
  • (3) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
  • (4) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
  • (5) Three short reviews by Freud (1904c, 1904d, 1905f) are presented in English translation.
  • (6) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (7) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
  • (8) When we gave her a gift of a few books in English, she burst out crying.
  • (9) He was really an English public schoolboy, but I welcome the idea of people who are in some ways not Scottish, yet are committed to Scotland.
  • (10) Stations such as al-Jazeera English have been welcomed as a counterbalance to Western media parochialism.
  • (11) "If you are not prepared to learn English, your benefits will be cut," he said.
  • (12) To our knowledge, this is the first case to be reported in the English literature.
  • (13) Earlier this week the supreme court in London ruled against a mother and daughter from Northern Ireland who had wanted to establish the right to have a free abortion in an English NHS hospital.
  • (14) An ultrasonic system for measuring psychomotor behaviour is described, and then applied to compare the extent to which English and French students gesticulate.
  • (15) This paper reviews the epidemiologic studies of petroleum workers published in the English language, focusing on research pertaining to the petroleum industry, rather than the broader petrochemical industry.
  • (16) In the UK the twin threat of Ukip and the BNP tap into similar veins of discontent as their counterparts across the English channel.
  • (17) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
  • (18) This is the second report in the English literature on the familial occurrence of chronic active hepatitis type B.
  • (19) We have reported the first case in the English literature in which there is a strong association between long-term immunosuppressive therapy and squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus.
  • (20) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.

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