What's the difference between buddy and companion?
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'.
Companion
Definition:
(n.) One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of, or is associated with, another or others; an associate; a comrade; a consort; a partner.
(n.) A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath.
(n.) A fellow; -- in contempt.
(n.) A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck.
(n.) A wooden hood or penthouse covering the companion way; a companion hatch.
(v. t.) To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
(v. t.) To qualify as a companion; to make equal.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the companion paper, we quantitatively account for the observation that the ability of a solute to promote fusion depends on its permeability properties and the method of swelling.
(2) Headache, vegetative und neurological symptoms are frequent but not necessary companions.
(3) The preceding companion paper presents a biochemical study of two abnormal protein 4.1 species from individuals with the red blood cell disorder, hereditary elliptocytosis.
(4) A companion paper further discusses the nature of peaks B and C materials.
(5) I used to tease him with the suggestion he had chosen me as walking companion because I had no mathematics at all and so he was safe from prying questions, but in fact now and then he did used to tell me about what he was doing – and how clear it all seemed when he spoke!
(6) His companions eventually apologised to me, but only after apologising to my boyfriend, and only after being kicked out by restaurant staff who reinforced that the behaviour was unacceptable.
(7) These results are compared with experimental data on angular scattering from liver, muscle, and blood, reported in a companion paper [J. Acoust.
(8) The sources of data are the 1982 and 1984 National Long Term Care Surveys and the companion 1982 Informal Caregivers Survey.
(9) Microliths are rarely encountered in tracheal washings from companion animals.
(10) This is the first report of companion cell lines, one malignant and one normal, established from the same organ.
(11) These results form a base line with which luteolytic changes described in the companion study (Paavola, L.G.
(12) Money was tight and hunger was a constant companion.
(13) Findings based on applying the procedure to simultaneously recorded spike and event trains are described in a companion paper (Frostig et al.
(14) Her companion, a man in his fifties, also refused to give his name to the “Lugen Presse” (liar press, a term coined by the Nazis and frequently chanted at Pegida events), but is quick to add: “We’ve nothing against helping foreigners in need, like those poor people in Syria, but we should be helping them in their own country, not bringing them over here.” The demonstrations feel like an invitation for anyone to voice any grievance.
(15) In a companion microneurographic study (Schmidt et al.
(16) He throws confessions about his love of guns or his lust for violence into restaurant conversations, but his inanely sophisticated companions carry on conversing about the varieties of sushi or the use of fur by leading designers.
(17) This paper is a companion to an earlier report on prenatal visiting patterns in Aberdeen, Scotland (McKinlay, 1970).
(18) At that time, more patients were depressed and had a lower income, fewer wanted a transplant, and five had lost their living companion.
(19) The people who were persecuting him and his companions and his sympathizers.
(20) Discrimination between individual strangers and companions was examined in day-old domestic chicks.