What's the difference between bricklayer and frenchman?
Bricklayer
Definition:
(n.) One whose occupation is to build with bricks.
Example Sentences:
(1) A n unemployed bricklayer sits with his Work Programme employment coach in Hull, watching as he types out a sample covering letter.
(2) His mother was a school dinner lady, and his father a bricklayer and stonemason.
(3) In July 2013, Amarildo de Souza, a bricklayer living in a Rio de Janeiro favela, was arrested by police in an operation to round up drug traffickers.
(4) Skills shortages were also seen as hampering growth and bricklayers have been especially scarce after housebuilding picked up on the back of the government's Help to Buy scheme.
(5) Like other builders who have warned of a shortage of bricks and bricklayers, Barratt said the increase in building across the industry had strained its supply chain.
(6) That follows a report last week of booming pay deals within the sector as companies struggle to attract bricklayers and other skilled workers.
(7) Friendship Alfredo Scappaticci, small, barrel-chested with classic Mediterranean olive skin and wiry black hair, was born to an Italian immigrant family in west Belfast in the late 1940s and became a bricklayer.
(8) Housebuilding activity still increased at a strong pace overall, but the sharp growth slowdown since this summer reflects greater caution towards new development projects amid tighter mortgage lending conditions and renewed uncertainties about the demand outlook.” Meanwhile, Persimmon, Britain’s biggest housebuilder by market value, said a shortage of workers with joinery and bricklaying skills was limiting the number of homes it could build.
(9) Persimmon has already taken on 100 former military personnel to train primarily in bricklaying, where the lack of skilled workers has reached a record high, according to the latest construction survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
(10) I can’t get a permanent job,” says Nowrooz, an asylum seeker who works as a bricklayer in Sydney.
(11) Photograph: Africa ELI The private school is run by Wani Kenneth Evans, a South Sudanese engineer who started as a bricklayer at another school project, and progressed up the ranks.
(12) The warning comes after rival homebuilder Galliford Try said that good bricklayers could command salaries of £40,000 a year , as demand for new homes escalates.
(13) In 1950, after three years at the sharashka Solzhenitsyn was transferred to a special camp at Ekibastuz in northern Kazakhstan, where he worked for three more years, first as a bricklayer, and then as a brigade leader in the machine shop.
(14) In terms of skills, the ever-growing lack of bricklayers is causing concern.
(15) The material consists of a random sample of 85 painters, and as a non-exposed control group of 85 bricklayers, selected in the same way.
(16) Low male prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease was found among bricklayers, road construction workers, unskilled workers in brick and stone, unskilled labourers, and security personnel.
(17) The FMB’s services director, Steve Laurence, who drew up the scheme, said the first cohort would learn the basics of “all the biblical trades” in one year – bricklaying, joinery, roofing, floorlaying, plastering and painting – and gain an NVQ level 2 qualification, with the opportunity to specialise after.
(18) Figures in September showed the number of out-of-work bricklayers was the lowest in a decade .
(19) The latent period of several decades for the development of silicosis is such that it may well be feared that the cases now reported are only the beginning of increased occurrence of the disease in coming years among particularly exposed concrete workers, bricklayers, unskilled workers, electricians, joiners and carpenters.
(20) A study was made of work conditions suspected of being responsible for a greater prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders among 33 bricklayers.
Frenchman
Definition:
(n.) A native or one of the people of France.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Frenchman’s 65th-minute goal was a fifth for United and redemptive after he conceded the penalty from which CSKA Moscow took a first-half lead.
(2) "We hope that we can help in designing the future missions to Mars," said the Frenchman, Romain Charles.
(3) Frankly, the pair had been at each other ever since the Frenchman had come on to the pitch.
(4) The Frenchman, who arrived from Porto last month, was invited to let fly and sent his first-time volley arrowing across goal and into the corner past Artur Boruc.
(5) Hopefully there can be some really great performances which will try to blow away the shadow that programme has caused.” But Kilty will face a strong field in the men’s 100m that includes five athletes who have gone under the 10 second barrier in 2015, including the Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut, the American Mike Rodgers and the evergreen Kim Collins.
(6) The Frenchman has been excused from duty at Everton on Saturday on compassionate grounds and the club have put no time frame on his possible return.
(7) Garde has wasted no time in making his mark on the team and it came as no surprise that the Frenchman restored all four signings from Ligue 1 – Jordan Ayew, Jordan Amavi, Jordan Veretout and Idrissa Gueye – to the starting XI.
(8) Signing Paul Pogba and keeping David de Gea are Louis van Gaal’s priorities Read more Van Gaal is free to sign the 22-year-old, valued at €100m (£71.5m) by Juventus, despite Sir Alex Ferguson allowing the Frenchman to leave Old Trafford in 2012.
(9) Mancini resists the temptation to belt the Frenchman in the mouth as he walks past him.
(10) He careered at Pedro Obiang, propelled by a frightening intent, and the midfielder was forced to flatten the Frenchman but Mike Jones adjudged the offence to have taken place outside the area.
(11) As a Frenchman, albeit a London-based one, he probably lacks first-hand knowledge of ITV's history.
(12) But the Frenchman has revealed an unlikely source of inspiration on his daily drive to Arsenal’s training ground in Hertfordshire: Bob Marley.
(13) Chelsea could potentially follow up Falcao’s arrival on a 12-month loan with a move for Antoine Griezmann from Atlético – the Frenchman has a £43m buyout clause in his contract – which would see them beginning the defence of their title with a revamped forward line.
(14) The Frenchman, who had already won the World Rally Championship, took control of the three-day event from the start.
(15) To really be beloved in France he needs to learn to swear with the virtuosity of a Frenchman who's mislaid his linen Agnes B scarf in the Rue du Bac.
(16) Palace had started the day in second place and with Cabaye imperious and James McArthur just as impressive at the Frenchman’s side they are no longer pushovers.
(17) He might not want it.” That may well be the case, and the Frenchman’s instinct may be to seek a new long-term deal at the Emirates Stadium.
(18) I am satisfied he helped to prevent Mr Sylla entering the carriage,” said Branston, adding that he also made “a wanker sign” toward the Frenchman.
(19) I maintain what I said, that he could make it back for February or even earlier,” the Frenchman said of Wilshere.
(20) Fryatt knocks the ball past Koscielny and attempts to retrieve it but the Frenchman is faster and wins the race.