What's the difference between bygone and former?

Bygone


Definition:

  • (a.) Past; gone by.
  • (n.) Something gone by or past; a past event.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And a telling line said by one character about Gustave's desire to recreate a bygone era could almost be Anderson's own epitaph: "His world had vanished long before he entered it.
  • (2) Though he thought it among his finest works, for many its accounts of bygone bureaucratic battles and reliance on internal memos render it a work of reference only.
  • (3) What better reason to get rid of it as an economically and ethically unjustifiable anachronism from a bygone age, exploited now only by the richest in our society so that they can get richer at cost to all the rest of us?
  • (4) The Alabama county argues that Section 5 is an unconstitutional infringement on "state sovereignty", and a relic from the bygone days of poll taxes and literacy tests.
  • (5) Adapted from a short story by Stephen King , the film was pure fiction – and in any case was set in a bygone age, when prisons everywhere were less open to scrutiny – so it was easy to suspend disbelief at that particular aspect of the storyline.
  • (6) Paleopathology is the study of human ailments in bygone times of which written records are non-existent or inadequate.
  • (7) Those of a more forgiving nature were perhaps willing to let bygones be bygones, especially given that the club can now look forward to a third successive season in the Premier League after the mid-season arrival of Pardew.
  • (8) Perhaps it was easier to tell the patient the diagnosis of cancer or its poor prognosis in bygone days than nowadays, when the wonders of modern medicine are too much publicized.
  • (9) It risks making visiting restaurants obsolete, just another bygone historical ritual, such as medieval banquets.
  • (10) Robert Senior, the chief executive of Saatchi & Saatchi, said: "The world of one-way communications is a bygone era.
  • (11) In 2010, an international team of researchers drilled almost 500 metres below the deepest part of the Dead Sea bed to bring up evidence of a series of epic bygone droughts, when the trapped water evaporated to precipitate deep, dense beds of salts.
  • (12) It doesn’t matter that the policies are from a bygone era.
  • (13) Economists normally advise that bygones should be bygones, but this might be the time to remember past favours.
  • (14) Monday mornings will continue to bring them the realities of school and discipline, but at least they will be spared the embarrassment of shouting the antiquated slogans of a bygone era.
  • (15) Will rooftop panels soon resemble the relics of a bygone energy age, like the enormous cooling towers of coal-fired power stations?
  • (16) As all the power-imbalanced recruitment is done out of sight, society is spared the scenes of desperate people queueing in the street for work, which was on full public view during bygone eras, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t still there in what could be termed “post-ethical” phantom form.
  • (17) This body is populated by a motley collection of amateurs; leftovers from a bygone age, when Ukip was a ragtag band of volunteers on the fringes of British politics.
  • (18) Lord Steyn explained: "The part of section 3 of the 1848 Act which appears to criminalise the advocacy of republicanism is a relic of a bygone age, and does not fit into the fabric of our modern legal system.
  • (19) I'm always going to wonder why we can't just let bygones be bygones.
  • (20) Sylvia evokes a bygone era when iconoclastic young poets used to gather on weekends and listen to the latest recording of Robert Lowell reading his work.

Former


Definition:

  • (n.) One who forms; a maker; a creator.
  • (n.) A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed.
  • (n.) A templet, pattern, or gauge by which an article is shaped.
  • (n.) A cutting die.
  • (a.) Preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past.
  • (a.) Near the beginning; preceeding; as, the former part of a discourse or argument.
  • (a.) Earlier, as between two things mentioned together; first mentioned.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
  • (2) A former Berlusconi aide, Valter Lavitola, is also on trial for being the alleged intermediary in the bribe.
  • (3) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (4) All former US presidents set up a library in their name to house their papers and honour their legacy.
  • (5) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
  • (6) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
  • (7) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.
  • (8) Even former Florida governor Jeb Bush, one of Trump’s chief critics, said ultimately, “anybody is better than Hillary Clinton”.
  • (9) Formerly, many patients in this category were considered either inoperable or candidates for total or partial nephrectomy.
  • (10) Uptake could be supported either by substrate oxidation or by adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP), and was inhibited in the former case by antimycin or cyanide, in the latter case by oligomycin, and in both cases by 2,4-dinitrophenol.
  • (11) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
  • (12) Both former presidents Bush have said they will sit out the 2016 campaign, as has former presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
  • (13) Former detectives had dug out damning evidence of abuse, as well as testimony from officers recommending prosecution, sources said.
  • (14) Only IgG2a and IgG2b myeloma proteins bound readily to IC-21 Fc-receptors, the former in nonaggregated as well as aggregated form, the latter only as aggregated complexes.
  • (15) Transient intermediates were distinguished from dead-end metabolites by the rapid formation and disappearance of the former.
  • (16) The former Stoke City manager Pulis had reportedly been left frustrated by the club failing to push through deals for various players he targeted to strengthen the Palace squad.
  • (17) Eighty people, including the outspoken journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk from the Nation newspaper and the former education minister Chaturon Chaisaeng, who was publicly arrested on Tuesday, remain in detention.
  • (18) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
  • (19) Two lunches are recoded with John Yates and Andy Hayman, the former assistant commissioners.
  • (20) Younge, a former head of US cable network the Travel Channel, succeeded Peter Salmon in the role last year.