What's the difference between cachet and special?

Cachet


Definition:

  • (n.) A seal, as of a letter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The following messages are elaborated: osteoporosis is a silent thief; backache during the menopause is not always osteoporosis; detection of the patient at risk for osteoporotic fractures is possible; primary osteoarthrosis protects against osteoporosis; bone densitometry has given osteoporosis a scientific cachet; bones are not stones, effective prevention and treatment are possible, there are alternatives to calcium and hormone replacement therapies.
  • (2) The Nobel prize has a cachet that will not be surpassed in a hurry.
  • (3) It may be that if you move a drug up a class, it has a greater cachet.
  • (4) At least one reason is straightforward: clubbing lost its all-important cachet of cool.
  • (5) It looked like a marriage of convenience: Piano would lend Sellar his cachet and Sellar would give Piano the chance to build the most conspicuous landmark of his career.
  • (6) But the world has changed since it launched in 2009, and the idea of letting all your friends know where you are doesn't have quite the same cachet in 2014.
  • (7) "The fact that he had made it in Britain gave him tremendous cachet in India, particularly among the 200,000 or so English-speakers who still run the country," he adds.
  • (8) I think parents want the social cachet of having kids at grammar school, they're holding on to old perceptions and we wanted to set the record straight."
  • (9) But Everest still has a certain cachet.” It does.
  • (10) Chinese giant pandas have been a hit all around the world but seem to have a special cachet in Taiwan, where animal figures are so much in vogue that the airline company Eva Airways has found that festooning its aircraft in the livery of fictional Japanese figure Hello Kitty provides a powerful boost to sales.
  • (11) The last presidential duo to have that kind of cachet were John and Jackie.
  • (12) It was these roles that gave him a serious cachet among a generation of film buffs who became movie makers, such as David Zucker, who cast him in the comedy spoof Top Secret!
  • (13) The idea was popularized in a Wall Street Journal op-ed by the conservative writer Heather Mac Donald, and gained cachet as national figures like Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and FBI director James Comey invoked it, or a similar “YouTube” or “viral video” effect, to describe a behavior among law enforcement of rolling back their most proactive policing strategies in response to criticism and scrutiny from the general public.
  • (14) Its prices place it above the highest end of the high street, stores such as Jigsaw, Whistles, Hobbs and Reiss, without the cachet of the catwalks or celebrity endorsement.
  • (15) I imagine the cachet at school must have been tremendous, but he puts me right on that.
  • (16) However much she condemns the hypocrisy of traditional marketing, she knows her backstory has cachet.
  • (17) Major labels in the UK also capitalised on the cool cachet of the cassette.
  • (18) There is certainly cachet and brand equity attached to many of the brands, beyond their intrinsic value.
  • (19) His charm and immense wealth gave him a cachet that few other Iranians enjoyed.
  • (20) Once an icon of British gentility (as perceived by non-Brits), the commissariat of trench coats , scarves, and other country squire accoutrements, Burberry had lost its cachet by sticking to a taste-numbing repetition.

Special


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a species; constituting a species or sort.
  • (a.) Particular; peculiar; different from others; extraordinary; uncommon.
  • (a.) Appropriate; designed for a particular purpose, occasion, or person; as, a special act of Parliament or of Congress; a special sermon.
  • (a.) Limited in range; confined to a definite field of action, investigation, or discussion; as, a special dictionary of commercial terms; a special branch of study.
  • (a.) Chief in excellence.
  • (n.) A particular.
  • (n.) One appointed for a special service or occasion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
  • (2) The frequency of rare fragile sites was studied among 240 children in special schools for subnormal intelligence (IQ 52-85).
  • (3) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
  • (4) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
  • (5) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
  • (6) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
  • (7) Historical analysis shows that institutions and special education services spring from common, although not identical, societal and philosophical forces.
  • (8) The clinical usefulness of neonatal narcotic abstinence scales is reviewed, with special reference to their application in treatment.
  • (9) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
  • (10) The differences might be due to an arrest of "specialization" in the regional expression of the different MHC isoforms.
  • (11) Mary's grief, which lasts for about the first half of the two-hour premiere special, is the finest work of the series so far by Michelle Dockery.
  • (12) The authors describe the special medical expertise of the psychiatrist and define 11 indicators, such as a patient's need for new psychotropic medication or the presence of symptoms requiring medical or laboratory procedures, that can be used to determine whether psychiatric expertise is needed.
  • (13) Many examples are given to demonstrate the applications of these programs, and special emphasis has been laid on the problem of treating a point in tissue with different doses per fraction on alternate treatment days.
  • (14) Doctors may plausibly make special claims qua doctors when they are treating disease.
  • (15) Following mass disasters and individual deaths, dentists with special training and experience in forensic odontology are frequently called upon to assist in the identification of badly mutilated or decomposed bodies.
  • (16) The indication of the DNA probe method would be considered in the four cases as follows, 1. necessity of the special equipment to isolate the pathogen, 2. necessity of the long period to isolate the pathogen, 3. existence of the cross reaction among the pathogen and relative organisms in the immunological procedure, 4. existence of the difficulty to identify the species of the pathogen by the ordinary procedure.
  • (17) This procedure generated a number of VI-like effects, supporting the notion that VI behavior can be construed as a special case of an interaction between the organism's function relating reinforcement susceptibilities to chain length and the experimenter's function relating probabilities of reinforcement to chain length.
  • (18) Special conditions apply for the scoring of a first and a last bone stage in a sequence, which will introduce less bias in the estimation of individual skeletal maturity with the MAT-method than with the TW-method.
  • (19) I also decided that the Kushner-Harvard relationship deserved special attention.
  • (20) A television camera scans the spread through microscope optics; computer and special purpose electronics process the video signals to generate run length histograms.