What's the difference between booty and treasure?

Booty


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The woman across the street from me bought an entire Burberry outfit for her dog, from coat to booties to hat.
  • (2) GRRRR," he guffawed, eyebrows wiggling lasciviously, before being ejected from Booty at 230mph courtesy of a broom and a gallon of budget acrylic nail glue.
  • (3) The pay-per-view take-up is also expected to delight the promoters, Golden Boy Promotions and Mayweather Promotions, and the TV cheque-signers, Showtime, when they sit down to count the booty.
  • (4) Anya was like, Adder actually, and Mary Portas was like, now move on ladies, what matters is that Britfash is facing its biggest crisis since Cherie Blair went out with a matching Burberry tote and booties?
  • (5) But what if “booty” were a metaphor for the free ownership of handguns?
  • (6) Whatever it takes – hints of preferment or threats – they may lose their booty.
  • (7) It was only supposed to be a fleeting visit – cheeky blow dry at Booty's, cop a bacon bap, and then straight to Ibiza with Roxy to forget all about that baby-snatching shit, just like the scriptwriters dearly wish they could.
  • (8) Business owners who spoke on condition of anonymity accused officers of treating the city as booty.
  • (9) I designed most of the dress, the booties and the hat.
  • (10) It seems only right that some of the trust fund to be established from Habré’s stolen booty, together with other contributions, should be spent on providing survivors with the clinical and mental health services provided by Freedom from Torture, to help heal their wounds.
  • (11) Instead, she found Kat waiting at the prison gates, Roxy shacked up with Alfie, and Booty's replaced with Beauty's.
  • (12) It seems that Senicianus only got as far as Silchester before he lost his booty.
  • (13) Becoming a grandfather for the second time, following the birth of Princess Charlotte on 2 May, saw Prince Charles showered with baby booties, wooden rattles, baby blankets, vests, hats and even two giant lollipops.
  • (14) The company, which is known for its trademark trenchcoats but also sells £14,000 alligator bowling bags and £95 babies’ booties, warned that sales growth is slowing in Asia with are “pockets of weakness in Europe”.
  • (15) The suspicion is that at least some of Morgan's booty winds up 280 miles south-west of Epulu, in the hands of the Congolese army.
  • (16) This autumn is full of booty songs – yours, Nikki Minaj’s Anaconda and Jennifer Lopez’s Booty.
  • (17) What you got a big booty,” is how the chorus to Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea’s derriere-themed ditty goes – over and over.
  • (18) Jonathan Jones has rightly argued that British museums must “face up to reality” and that “cultural imperialism” belongs in history’s dustbin, but clearly his passionate plea fell on deaf ears ( The art world’s shame: why Britain must give its colonial booty back , 4 November).
  • (19) Win it and this Arsenal team will at last graduate from pretenders to victors, cast off the reputation as bottlers and seem well primed to use their post-Emirates-building booty money to add judicious reinforcements and embark on a new period of glory for the Gunners and ultimate vindication for Wenger.
  • (20) Your job is to loot galactic booty (so to speak) in your spaceship, crafting weapons and upgrades to keep your fleet in shape, and plotting your space-battle strategy.

Treasure


Definition:

  • (n.) Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve.
  • (n.) A great quantity of anything collected for future use; abundance; plenty.
  • (n.) That which is very much valued.
  • (v. t.) To collect and deposit, as money or other valuable things, for future use; to lay up; to hoard; usually with up; as, to treasure up gold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is a tragedy that he abandoned Iraq, sacrificing the gains secured by American blood and treasure.
  • (2) Nicholas Shaxson – the author of Treasure Islands, a book about the world of tax evasion – described the demands as "incredibly powerful".
  • (3) After a brief review of the range of monitoring accessories, the author considers the problem of their hospital standardization (various needs of the different hospital units, diversity of the monitors, existence of central purchasing departments, pressure from the treasurer's office).
  • (4) The previous day in the Commons, Miliband had accused former Conservative party treasurer Lord Fink of tax avoidance and talked about “dodgy” donors.
  • (5) The treasurer, Joe Hockey, defended the government's planned changes to higher education during an appearance on the ABC's Q&A program on Monday night.
  • (6) That he was able to keep his secret treasures here, not in some remote corner of the globe but in the centre of the city that gave birth to the National Socialist movement, is both extraordinary and not short of a certain dark irony.
  • (7) The New South Wales and South Australian premiers have joined forces to tell treasurer Scott Morrison that finding extra federal funding to head off a looming hospitals and schools funding “cliff” is a “non negotiable” condition of their support for increasing the GST.
  • (8) It’s especially not appropriate for a citizen seeking election to this house or selection to the ministry canvassing for money and support to seek to damage individuals’ reputation by commencing court actions for what could only be an improper purpose.” Palmer said the former treasurer, Joe Hockey, had been staying at the resort at the time and “walked past the table” where they were sitting and “merely sat down to have a coffee”.
  • (9) Frankly, it is rather a shame that he does not fall under the Treasure Act (to do so he would have to be over 300 years old and be composed of more than 10% gold or silver).
  • (10) Darth Vader is no match for Treasure Island, Guardian 19 November 1983 In the early years, Stevenson did not consider Treasure Island one of his great achievements, perhaps because he did not have to work hard over it.
  • (11) A treasure trove of more than £1.7bn-worth of old masters paintings, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities, ancient weapons and prehistoric archaeological items were allowed to be sold overseas in the year to May 2013, according to official statistics issued by the government .
  • (12) Turning on the community suggests they are spooked by the growing support to protect our national treasures.
  • (13) Treasurer Wayne Swan says largely because we have a fixed price in Australia's carbon pricing scheme to allow certainty for businesses having to make the transition.
  • (14) It is reluctantly forced to strip the UK of its treasured AAA rating when the government's growth forecasts have faced repeated downgrades and the upturn is out of sight.
  • (15) But if the coalition does keep together for four more years, then that's four more years of Lib Dem withering and four more years to gather a treasure chest to reward Tory voters.
  • (16) "The [Inupiat] people who have thrived off the Arctic waters for thousands of years and those who treasure the Arctic's unique wildlife will continue to demand that the Obama administration not allow Shell to move forward."
  • (17) The Treasurer Joe Hockey walks to a doorstop interview with the media this morning at the Ministerial entrance to Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday 13th May 2013 Photograph: Mike Bowers, Guardian Australia There is a certain commonality associated with the annual rituals of the treasurer.
  • (18) Ambling along Long Beach, south of Tofino, exploring treasures in tidal pools can easily absorb days.
  • (19) Your commitment, passion and, crucially, skills will be treasured elsewhere.
  • (20) Back when he was a professor of economics at Australian National University, Andrew Leigh (now the federal shadow assistant treasurer) co-authored a study that found Chinese applicants must submit 68% more applications to get an interview than those with Anglo-Saxon names.