What's the difference between cachet and zing?

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.

Zing


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Watson answered in a mellifluous computerised voice – think Stephen Hawking with extra zing – and in a neat visual trick its screen avatar changed colour depending on how sure it was about each answer.
  • (2) • workersplaytime.net Chosen by Sink the Pink co-founders, Glynfamous (Glyn Fussell) and Amy Zing (Amy Redmond) Soho Burlesque Club Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Soho Burlesque Club Soho Burlesque Club – at the Hippodrome Casino – is a properly late-night cabaret experience.
  • (3) He admits to lacking the entrepreneurial zing of contemporaries such as Jamie Byng of Canongate; as he tells the story of his rise through the ranks, it sounds as if he triumphed by being able to keep his cool when faced with managers who had no feeling for books at all.
  • (4) It's those "extras" that give Secret Cinema its zing: live performance, music, food, dress-up – all sorts of tricks layered over a main-event screening, the details of which are kept a secret until the last moment.
  • (5) Their European foray this season has seen them become the first Kazakh side to be guarantee a place in the group stage of a Uefa competition – when Celtic knock them out they go into the glamorous Europa League – and that means Zing!
  • (6) Just a dash of juice or a sprinkling of zest can bring zing to even the most warming of winter dishes – Betty Bee's rib-sticking stew and Anna Thomson's split peas for example – but it was the fresh simplicity of Erum Gulmann's fruit salad, served with a rich, sweetly spiced Indian yoghurt, that stole my heart.
  • (7) It’s good to see the government has a plan for knights and dames – where’s their plan for jobs?” said opposition leader Bill Shorten, before yelling “zing” and insisting that deputy opposition leader Tanya Plibersek to “give him some skin”.
  • (8) The moment was intended to feel surreal, as though you were entering Miles’s mind, but as the door began to swing, a deep rumble erupted into a volley of zings and swishes – those troublesome tape decks – as if the scene had plunged into a battle in outer space.
  • (9) Since it arrived in a burst of glitter eight years ago, best friends Amy Zing and Glynfamous have turned their event from makeshift east London disco into a lavish, 3,000-capacity megamix of stage shows, live music (Little Mix!
  • (10) Something I think that women generally struggle with in this industry is saying, ‘Actually, I do this, and I’m good at it, and you need to recognise that.’ So reading nominations from people nominating themselves, and their friends, was really lovely, and also seeing men nominate their peers.” One of the judges, Zing Tsjeng , the UK editor of Broadly, pointed out that compared with other journalism awards a lot of younger women were being nominated.
  • (11) But there's evidence that the public doesn't find the line so zing-y.
  • (12) Illustration: Alexander Wells Markram's belief in the need for teamwork is rooted in his own experience as a brain researcher and his conviction that only neuroscience is capable of solving the deeper mysteries of how the electrical signals zinging between neurons produce consciousness and how interferences or malfunctions in those electrical channels produce disordered or "diseased" thinking.
  • (13) Applying some Eastern zing to the symbol of Welsh pride – the leek – it's supremely healthy, packing in spices, peppers and leeks bursting with flavour into a colourful lip-smacking dish.
  • (14) Chris Pratt as the rogueish leader and Zoe Saldana (green this time, not blue) zip around in cool ships saving the day, zinging each other with jokes.
  • (15) Press coverage zings with unlikely stories about Davis – that he howls in his prison cells when the five-times daily call to prayer rings out; that the CIA plans a "Hollywood-style heist" to spring him; that he is the linchpin of the CIA's drone programme.