What's the difference between britannia and personification?
Britannia
Definition:
(n.) A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and is used for table ware. Called also Britannia metal.
Example Sentences:
(1) December 3, 2013 11.56am GMT JP Morgan challenged over Co-op fees Photograph: Parliamentlive.tv JP Morgan is now in the hot seat in front of the Treasury committee ( live stream ) and defending the £5m fee it received for providing its expertise on the Britannia deal.
(2) They hang pretty strangely, these garments of Britannia: if our decline is down to the loss of empire, how can we call that a coarsening?
(3) He attended Stoke’s 1-0 defeat by Liverpool at the Britannia Stadium on Sunday and Mark Hughes is hopeful of concluding a deal at the second attempt.The Stoke manager said: “We are hopeful.
(4) If it stays like that at the Britannia Stadium, it doesn't matter if QPR lose here, which isn't the best news for Manchester United.
(5) What to think when the forest of flags were raised for Rule Britannia?
(6) The Stoke supporters mercilessly booed the Welshman’s every touch, presumably for his reluctance to accept Ryan Shawcross’ apology for breaking his leg at the Britannia Stadium six years ago, and there was also some unsavoury and shameful chanting by a section of the home fans, who sang: “Aaron Ramsey, he walks with a limp”.
(7) Tootell set out two reasons for the £1.5bn capital shortfall – the bill for compensating customers for payment protection insurance (PPI) and the losses in its non-core lending, largely stemming from the Britannia acquisition in 2009.
(8) These will mostly be the “optimum” book of rather sub-optimal mortgages it acquired from its ill-fated takeover of Britannia building society.
(9) Many Pibs were issued at generous interest rates in the 1990s by building societies such as Britannia (later acquired by Co-op Bank) that made them very attractive for pensioners seeking a steady, reliable income in retirement.
(10) Those embraces in Downing Street – Harold Wilson's swinging 60s love-in, or Tony Blair's cool Britannia arts reception – were rapidly regretted by both sides.
(11) The account accepts transfers in from previous years' Isas and requires a minimum deposit of £500, and can be accessed by post or in any Co-op or Britannia branch.
(12) When people get together sometimes they forget their individual responsibility and maybe when you go home and watch it on television you are less proud.” While disappointed that Arsenal “missed two points” and failed to record their first victory at the Britannia Stadium in six attempts, Wenger praised his players for the way they handled a fixture that been hostile in the past and so often ended up with them being turned over.
(13) Stoke have been seeking a new naming rights partner for the stadium, which has been sponsored since it opened in 1997 by the Britannia building society, now part of the Co-operative Bank.
(14) Sutherland said the Co-op bank's bad loans were mostly accounted for by Britannia, with half of all its poorly performing retail loans and three quarters of its roughly £440m corporate bad debts blamed on over-zealous loan agreements sold by the building society.
(15) Jon Walters beat Tim Krul from the spot and the Britannia Stadium, which had been so quiet for so long, finally found its voice.
(16) So he bought the Britannia building society and wanted to buy up Lloyds.
(17) "My concern was not just that the former Britannia assets had contributed a significant proportion of the Co-op bank's loan losses but that the nature of those assets meant they were likely to lead to further impairment," Bailey's letter said.
(18) I'm off to Stoke where I plan to spend the next nine or 10 hours standing behind Rob Dorsett outside the Britannia Stadium making faces like this ... Roll-up man Updated at 2.37pm GMT 2.31pm GMT Tancredi Palmeri (@tancredipalmeri) Lazio going strong on Santos' Felipe Anderson, bidding 7m € for the 70% of his property (you know, brazilian ownerships...) January 31, 2013 2.29pm GMT Patrick O'Dea writes: "My cousin Alecc is a waiter in Red Lobster is New York," he says.
(19) The sales supervisor, from Bristol, took out a two-year tracker pegged at 0.05% above the Bank of England base rate with Britannia building society in January last year, and is now reaping the benefits following a series of swingeing interest rate cuts.
(20) However, Richardson's evidence prompted Andrew Bailey, the head of the Prudential Regulatory Authority, to write to the committee disputing many of Richardson's claims, saying it "strongly disagreed" with Richardson's views on the Britannia loan book.
Personification
Definition:
(n.) The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.
(n.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop/ia; as, the floods clap their hands.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was a convert to Islam and the personification of Black Pride.
(2) And surviving that moment of iconoclasm early on 9 May , the personification of Labour’s failure.
(3) Alien limb sign includes failure to recognise ownership of one's limb when visual cues are removed, a feeling that one body part is foreign, personification of the affected body part, and autonomous activity which is perceived as outside voluntary control.
(4) This found its personification in the disappointing Ross Barkley, whose burst from near his area before an awry pass was indicative of his contribution throughout.
(5) Ahmed Wali Karzai , who was gunned down in his home in Kandahar by a bodyguard, was in many ways the personification of modern-day Afghanistan – corrupt, treacherous, lawless, paradoxical, subservient and charming.
(6) The abundant data indicate that the shamanistic priest, who was highly placed in the stratified society, guided the souls of the living and dead, provided for the transmutation of souls into other bodies and the personification of plants as possessed by human spirits, as well as performing other shamanistic activities.
(7) The presenters' personification of nursing leadership and management concepts, as well as the descriptions of specific "how to" strategies, provided a valuable ingredient for reinforcing the theoretical concepts.
(8) In the same breath, my body cannot bring itself to believe it is the personification of power, though it evidently is in any rational accountancy of social status.
(9) Nancy Pelosi , the Democratic minority leader, said Giffords was the "personification of courage".
(10) From this is abstracted the idea of 'father' both as a component of the self representation and as the personification of the urge towards continuing development.
(11) That potency was intensified by the media’s eagerness to style him as the personification of Isis malevolence.
(12) In a matter of days Erdoğan has become the personification of all the corrupt despotism and violence of the old Kemalist Turkey he was elected to sweep away.
(13) There is also a concern that she has become the personification of Burmese democracy and this is dangerous.
(14) Simplified to a yellow skull on a shrouded body curved in an S shape, thin, serpentine hands against the emaciated cheeks and covering its ears, the personification of unhappiness stretches its mouth open in a vertical oval, and screams.
(15) Hokhma too was a victim of what might be called the "study-hall syndrome" – when a phalanx of scholarly men elected to write the personification of female wisdom out of the centre and into the margins.
(16) This Mason was Mr Elocution, if you like, the personification of affectation and lingering insult or innuendo.
(17) Cardiff huffed and puffed in response but a top-notch save by Adrián at Fraizer Campbell's expense denied them equality and Mark Noble, the personification of dreadnought spirit, doubled the margin with a smart finish in added time.
(18) Mr Cooke himself even described the late BCCI chairman Agha Abedi as "the living personification of Uriah Heep".
(19) One critic labelled him the "personification of the new amorality of avaricious, red-top, vulgar new Britain".
(20) I'd completely remove the personification in terms of the celebration.