What's the difference between buddy and casual?

Buddy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Katie Neil, 22, works full-time for Buddies in Suffolk and has spent the summer supporting five young people.
  • (2) The new companies to be given ministerial buddies – but not yet publicly disclosed – include the property firms Atkins and Balfour Beatty, which have been paired with climate change minister Greg Barker, who is overseeing work on the government's green deal and zero-carbon homes programmes.
  • (3) Spotify has been courting established artists for some time, with Metallica’s Lars Ulrich famously buddying up with Spotify investor Sean Parker on-stage at the announcement of his band’s exclusive deal in December 2012.
  • (4) Then there's me and my buddy Ralph Garman , who does a daily radio show in LA, doing our entertainment podcast Hollywood Babble-On , which is basically just two guys who've worked in showbiz long enough to have informed opinions, sitting around taking the piss out of the entertainment industry.
  • (5) Approximately 7pm, Rowrah Bird calls in on old schoolfriend and drinking buddy Neil Jacques, 52, who lives on the same street.
  • (6) It is in honour of those killers that Cameron's new buddies march through the streets of Riga.
  • (7) In later life the star had to give up drinking due to ill health but the greatest acting triumph of his later years was playing another notorious drunk, and O'Toole drinking buddy, Spectator columnist Jeffrey Bernard in Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell.
  • (8) However, Buddies does more than simply offer respite care or home help.
  • (9) Other new options the review presents for providers of NHS care include increased use of “buddying”, by which high-performing hospitals help those in special measures, joint venture networks such as the orthopaedic centre in south-west London run by four NHS trusts, and the “expert provider” system.
  • (10) Even though we have Facebook, who said I am not interested as a player to play with my buddies in a room?
  • (11) They had formed an intense attachment to other men in their combat unit, which had been disrupted by the death of a buddy.
  • (12) Eighty-two-year-old Richard “Buddy” Weaver was killed by Oklahoma City police after he allegedly raised a machete at an officer who opened fire; neighbors later described Weaver as having schizophrenia.
  • (13) His buddies – the far-right, climate-denying , UN-hating renegades who formed his campaign brains trust – are egging him on to simply break it, to smash it on the floor for a good laugh.
  • (14) 5.34pm BST Politics should be consumed in moderation , and that reportedly goes for alcohol too, but if you insist on mixing them and are looking for some sort of structure in dissipation, well, our beer buddies at Conservative Intelligence Briefing have created a Presidential Debates drinking game.
  • (15) In Horrible Bosses, Bateman's hard-working office drone attempts to murder his psychotic boss, Kevin Spacey , and assist his two buddies in doing the same to their bosses.
  • (16) Louisiana attorney general Buddy Caldwell could have set Woodfox free immediately.
  • (17) But he got by, until the funding was removed for his buddy-system in the second year.
  • (18) It is the most homespun of arrangements for a team with such lofty ambitions, but somehow it will be a fitting send-off in a city that has embraced the idea from the start, with Major Buddy Dyer being one of their most fervent supporters, and some 20,000 showing up for the championship game against Charlotte last September .
  • (19) It was one of those clichéd, filmic moments when I looked at him and breathed: "You know, old buddy, that might just work …" Or so I recall.
  • (20) Metcalfe will find out whether the chutney is a winner at his next 'buddy day'.

Casual


Definition:

  • (a.) Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance.
  • (a.) Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses.
  • (n.) One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The difference in BP between a hospital casual reading and the mean 24 hour ambulatory reading was reduced only by atenolol.
  • (2) We performed a stepwise discriminant analysis first with only casual and end exercise systolic and diastolic BP, then after introducing age, overweight (Lorentz's formula), duration of hypertension, Sokoloff index and cholesterolemia.
  • (3) Best correlations with casual BP are moderate (SBP: r = 0.674, DBP: r = 0.588).
  • (4) With significant correlation, the experimental data show the statistics of the system not to be casual and Gaussian, but chaotic and persistent, with Hurst exponent <H> approximately 0.77 and fractal dimension <D> 1.23.
  • (5) Specifically, 31% of adolescents did not correctly identify "not having sex" as the most effective way of preventing AIDS, and 33% believed that AIDS could be spread through casual contact.
  • (6) Of course, everyone who is not drawn in by the spectacle of a 69-year-old man with hair that clearly telegraphs its owner’s level of self-delusion and casual relationship to the truth is horrified at Trump’s ascendency in the Republican party primary.
  • (7) According to the growth hormone hypothesis, elevated serum growth hormone is one casual factor in the development of diabetic angiopathy.
  • (8) These data indicate that the probability of transmission from infected animals to humans is extremely low and also provide supportive evidence for lack of transmission of HIV by casual contact.
  • (9) Even in zoos voted the best in Europe, the Captive Animals’ Protection Society has pointed out, there can be enough evidence of animals behaving abnormally, or a casual approach to culling any surplus, to avoid them or, ideally, close them down.
  • (10) Perhaps Silver and company would have been a bit more methodical if this embarrassing story had sprung up during the offseason or in early fall, when casual fans are wrapped up in football.
  • (11) By means of the presentation of several cases of Stylohyoid Complex partially or totally ossified, the authors emphasize in the necessity to have in mind this diagnosis in every patient with craniofacial pains, although it is in sometimes a casual radiological finding in a asymptomatic patient.
  • (12) Correlations between casual BP and diurnal records are stronger in controls than in BL patients showing a lower predictive value of clinical assessment in BL patients.
  • (13) However if a public inquiry deems it is still necessary, I believe that the use of casual sex by undercover police may be warranted in very exceptional circumstances.
  • (14) Clinical parameters were age, body weight, sodium excretion (as an estimate for dietary salt intake), systolic and diastolic blood pressure at work, casual blood pressure, resting and stress blood pressure during mental stress test and physical exercise.
  • (15) For many decades, the casual blood pressure (BP) has been the standard for assessing BP response to antihypertensive agents in clinical trials.
  • (16) Oh, I felt terrible, said the barista, but I came into work – displaying the same casual attitude to the illness that has seen thousands struggle into work, or keep up social rounds, despite still being infectious.
  • (17) Twenty-seven adolescents with casual BP about the 50th percentile, 17 males and 10 females, matched for age, were studied as controls.
  • (18) A casual relationship between the two diseases could not be proven, since specific antimyeline antibodies could not be found.
  • (19) Subsequent work with beta-adrenergic blockade suggested that elevated casual HRs in monkeys are associated with sympathetic arousal.
  • (20) About 100 people put in résumés for a casual – and low-paid – job at the Salvation Army homeless shelter.

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