What's the difference between buttery and spencer?
Buttery
Definition:
(a.) Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
(n.) An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.
(n.) A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.
(n.) A cellar in which butts of wine are kept.
Example Sentences:
(1) Talk rarely tends this way with an actor who’s found a good slot, more inclined as a result to play safe and spray out buttery praise in all directions, at co-stars, crew, studios, cheque-signers.
(2) There is also an excellent – and blissfully long – section on teatime: every possible cake and bun is here in all their sugary, buttery glory.
(3) Lined up alongside green, paper-skinned pistachios or buttery pecans, almonds – anaemic, lozenge-shaped, creamily bland – can seem rather dull.
(4) We're currently planning on going to LouMalnati's for the buttery crust August 21, 2013 Helen Knox (@lebowski2020) @GuardianTravel where is best place for evening rooftop bar view of Chicago, pref for mojitos?
(5) These buttery potato scones glisten on my plate like Grecian tiles.
(6) Just lovely acid-sweet jam and an explosion of buttery pastry.
(7) If you're going to opine about cheese, it's best to know your washed rind (stinky) from your bloomy rind (buttery).
(8) "The once-great Paul Gascoigne was already so good by 1988 that he could score in north London derbies sans footwear," says Mark Buttery.
(9) I was really spoilt for choice, torn between a lentil and watercress salad with an unusual citrussy dressing, and buttery purple sprouting broccoli on toast, but on a sunny day, thejameskitchen's lively, punchy green soup seemed so perfectly spring-like I couldn't resist.
(10) The sausages were naturally top drawer, but that glossy, buttery, roughly worked mash, properly seasoned and brilliantly laced with sweet caramelised onions, was awesome.
(11) You can see how that works with a classic Kiwi sauvignon blanc, which has a snappy, pungent, faintly sweaty greenness to match the same character in asparagus, but also has an incisive citric crispness to cut through the almost buttery richness of avocado.
(12) A breakfast of wild mushrooms and spinach on good sourdough delivered a persuasive hillock of buttery, thoroughly seasoned funghi.
(13) I serve mine for breakfast with a runny egg on top, or for dinner with buttery cabbage and succulent chicken thighs.
(14) The buttery sauce is flavoured with fennel and coriander seeds, orange zest and a good slug of Marsala.
(15) People favour risottos now, but before there was risotto, there was pilaff: buttery rice mixed with onions, garlic and tomatoes that have first been fried in olive oil.
(16) Unfortunately, where the homemade stuff is rich, tender and buttery, shop‑bought tends to be pallid and disappointingly bland.
(17) I opt for the buttery Brazilian Agua Preta latte with a shot of agave syrup.
(18) Likewise, the ASA decided against banning the third most complained about ad, also by Unilever, an animated TV and online ad for Flora Buttery margarine featuring two siblings wrestling.
(19) A year-long investigation “When I started out I had never worked one of these cases and had no idea what to do,” says Finley, an amiable man with a buttery Georgia drawl.
(20) It was a cheap thing, but a pleasingly buttery colour with knobbly legs around which I used to curl my bare feet when eating breakfast.
Spencer
Definition:
(n.) One who has the care of the spence, or buttery.
(n.) A short jacket worn by men and by women.
(n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802].
Example Sentences:
(1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(2) The survey also found that department stores – which include general retailers such as Marks & Spencer as well as traditional outlets such as John Lewis – had enjoyed their strongest surge in sales for 30 years.
(3) A new carpet piece, Soft Ground (Great Hall), is being woven specially for the echoing double height great hall, Spencer-Churchill's favourite room.
(4) Verdict Phil Spencer promised games and he delivered lots and lots of games, some of them really rather beautiful to look at.
(5) Former Marks & Spencer boss Rose, chairman of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign, was on Monday highlighting an analysis that claimed to show EU membership was worth an average of £670,000 in extra trade for each business that exports or imports goods within the bloc.
(6) Sainsbury's £1bn bid for Home Retail Group rejected Read more Sainsbury’s said the takeover would create the UK’s largest non-food retailer – ahead of John Lewis or Marks & Spencer – with about 2,000 stores and 100,000 products combined.
(7) June 19, 2014 7.39pm BST How Nouri al-Maliki fell out of favour with the US Here's new reportage and analysis from the Guardian's Martin Chulov ( @martinchulov ) and Spencer Ackerman ( @attackerman ).
(8) Spencer has now heard that Andy, who got the boat remember, has been cracking on to Louise, even though Jamie warned him it would be like jumping into a polar bear's nest.
(9) A spokeswoman for Marks & Spencer said that while the firm had not seen a significant increase in applications this year for its management trainee scheme, which is open to entrants with two A-levels, competition remained intense; there are up to 3,000 applicants for just 30 places.
(10) But others do: gift cards for Amazon.co.uk, for example, expire one year from the date of issue, while Marks & Spencer gift cards are valid for four years, although each time a customer spends on the card the expiry date is reset to four years.
(11) GDP growth could be as high as 1% for the quarter, which would appear to justify comments by the Bank of England's chief economist, Spencer Dale, that growth is running at an annualised rate of 3-4%.
(12) You have to have internal expertise, you have to have some troops in the department able to interpret ministers’ words,” said Matthew Spencer, Green Alliance’s director.
(13) This paper represents an initial step in applying to complex clinical situations the symbolic logic developed by G. Spencer Brown and elaborated by Francisco Varela.
(14) Charles Spencer goes further: " The show's crowning glory is James Corden ," he writes in the Daily Telegraph.
(15) The Occupy protesters outside St Paul's Cathedral in London named their camp "Tahrir Square" while they sat cross-legged, sang songs and consumed Marks & Spencer sandwiches, oblivious to the obscenity of a comparison with freedom fighters who risked their lives in Egypt.
(16) None of the staff opted out of treating Spencer even though they were given an opportunity to do so.
(17) • They take action even if it may harm business Marks & Spencer's decision to charge for plastic bags, British Gas's encouragement of reduced use: these are not immediately obvious comfort zones for money-making enterprises.
(18) Clothing from its factories makes its way across the world, supplying big name brands in the west – from WalMart – the world's largest retailer (Asda is a subsidiary) – to high-street names like Tesco, Marks & Spencer and H&M.
(19) Spencer Thompson, the IPPR's senior economic analyst, said that while Britain's self-employed workforce "come in many shapes and sizes", some members of the Bank of England's interest rate-setting committee view the phenomenon as an indication of weakness in the labour market.
(20) Ben Altman Spencer, New York, USA • We believe the energy industry has been misrepresented in your article ( Big firms' gas bonanza threatens green energy , 21 April), which claims energy companies are lobbying governments and business to reject renewables in favour of natural gas.