What's the difference between buddy and stranger?

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'.

Stranger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who is strange, foreign, or unknown.
  • (n.) One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner.
  • (n.) One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country.
  • (n.) One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance.
  • (n.) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
  • (n.) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy.
  • (v. t.) To estrange; to alienate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This report concerns the rape of a woman by a stranger.
  • (2) "It is also very surprising that the government is advising families with disabled children, and children suffering trauma following serious abuse, to invite a stranger into their home."
  • (3) If you work at home and don't talk to strangers in pubs or do sport or belong to associations, and don't have school-age children, it is very hard to meet new people.
  • (4) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
  • (5) Digital culture has hardly helped, adding revenge porn, trolls and stranger-shaming to the list of uncomfortable modern obstacles.
  • (6) But in the Round Room of the Mansion House there must have been at least two thousand others in an improvised Strangers' Gallery.
  • (7) Mohamed Saleh, the security supervisor for the Al Masry club, claimed that he too noticed people in the crowd whom he described as "strangers".
  • (8) The term comes from the Urdu ( parda ) and Persian ( pardah ) word meaning veil or curtain and is also used to describe the practice of screening women from men or strangers.
  • (9) Discontinuation rates of injection equipment sharing practices varied from 33% in shared use of cookers to 74.2% in sharing needles with strangers.
  • (10) Who can complain of physical fear, of the nightmare of a baby eating its way out of your abdomen, of the loss of professional autonomy, staring at a stranger's idiotic grin?
  • (11) Killer Mike and Talib Kweli both appeared on news channels such as CNN and Fox to offer measured words on the situation (Killer Mike: “We have essentially gone from being communities that were policed by people from the communities to being communities that are policed by strangers, and that’s no longer a community, that’s an area that’s under siege”), while Common interrupted the MTV Video Music Awards to deliver a considered monologue on Ferguson , calling for a moment of silence “for Mike Brown and for peace in this country and in the world”.
  • (12) "We reject any strangers, and they are colonialists," said Rudha Muter, a local resident.
  • (13) Systolic (S)BP and diastolic (D)BP levels varied significantly as a function of the social situation (alone, with family, with friends, or with strangers).
  • (14) Five percent occurred after adolescents "hitchhiked" and accepted rides from strangers.
  • (15) In unstructured interactions, male friends were found to be more accurate than male strangers in inferring each other's thoughts and feelings.
  • (16) I can see their point but it does not feel right to me that the random output of a program can be considered something I said.” Even more intriguingly, the death threat was issued during a conversation with another bot, each having been programmed to reply to messages from strangers.
  • (17) Discrimination between individual strangers and companions was examined in day-old domestic chicks.
  • (18) No stranger to bereavement – on the last count I had lost 12 close friends and family members by the age of 35 – I’d endured so much loss that I had become blasé about death.
  • (19) It was wrong of him to disclose his thoughts about the proposed BSkyB merger to total strangers.
  • (20) From time to time I'd bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was a character but that world was riddled with half-cut, doped-up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn't especially register.

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