What's the difference between car and valet?

Car


Definition:

  • (n.) A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart.
  • (n.) A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad.
  • (n.) A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity.
  • (n.) The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper.
  • (n.) The cage of a lift or elevator.
  • (n.) The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc.
  • (n.) A floating perforated box for living fish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In January, Paris taxi drivers attacked an Uber car transporting two passengers from Charles de Gaulle airport.
  • (2) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (3) While the majority of EU member states, including the UK, do not have a direct interest in the CAR, or in taking action, the alternative is unthinkable.
  • (4) "It has done so much to educate people about low emissions cars.
  • (5) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
  • (6) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
  • (7) Car manufacturers, for example, are not allowed to insist that buyers only get their car serviced by them.
  • (8) After all, you can only drive one car at a time or go on one holiday at a time.
  • (9) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
  • (10) At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured by a car bomb at a funeral in Jaramana at the end of August.
  • (11) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
  • (12) There are men who have been here for 15, 20 years or more who have never even sat in the cars because no one on the floor can afford to buy one.
  • (13) She has more than made up for it since, building opera houses in China, art museums in America and car factories in Germany, all bearing her unmistakable influence in every detail.
  • (14) "I was in the car with Matthew and he held out his phone and said: 'We need to talk about this' with a very serious face, and my immediate thought was somebody had found where I lived and had made a direct threat.
  • (15) "[Zimmerman] shouldn't have gotten out of that car.
  • (16) Joe Gregory, parked outside the arena while waiting to pick up his girlfriend and her sister from the concert, captured its impact on his car’s dashcam.
  • (17) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
  • (18) He wound up repossessing the cars of workers who fled town after the bust.
  • (19) She began on Friday by urging Republican women at a convention to “look at this face”, meaning her own, condemned Trump’s remarks as “unpresidential”, and then the Super Pac campaigning group, Carly For America, used Fiorina’s words as a voiceover for a video ad posted on YouTube on Monday showcasing dozens of women’s faces as the “faces of leadership”.
  • (20) Morel was arrested after his car was matched with one caught on camera fleeing the scene, and was involved in a hit-and-run with a cyclist 10 minutes after the shooting .

Valet


Definition:

  • (n.) A male waiting servant; a servant who attends on gentleman's person; a body servant.
  • (n.) A kind of goad or stick with a point of iron.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) McQueen told this tale several times – the words varied from “McQueen was here” to more profane messages, between tellings – and so, years later, Anderson & Sheppard asked the prince’s valet for the suits of that era back, in order to examine the linings.
  • (2) Do you hand over your keys to a valet parking service at the airport before flying off on holiday?
  • (3) Lee Suthern, McCoy's valet I shall be looking after his saddles and the weights that go in them, his colours, making sure his equipment's all nice and safe.
  • (4) In training ground car parks where the football stars of the 1970s were doing well to park a Cortina, it is common now to see Bentleys and Porsches being lathered and valeted by young lads, ready for when the top players finish training and come back out.
  • (5) Accordingly, the ghost is advised never to forget that, at the end of the day, he or she ranks somewhere between a valet and a cleaner.
  • (6) At the same time, packed hampers and bottles of "royal" home made orange vodka, made from Seville oranges, courtesy of the king of Spain, would be despatched to a secluded log cabin by attentive valets and royal stewards, all sporting pristine thorn-proof apparel.
  • (7) The assertion that the estate is inseparable from Charles has allowed him to use its gross profits to fund private and official spending including 26 valets, gardeners and farm staff.
  • (8) The same year, in October, another member called police to report that a club parking valet had stolen her $800 gold chain and intended to press charges.
  • (9) The Liberal Democrats have no serious future as a party if they continue to act as the blame-takers and valets for David Cameron's Conservatives.
  • (10) While in Washington, he got to know many who had worked at the White House and elsewhere with their own fragment of history – valets, housekeepers, cooks, secretaries, secret service agents, groundskeepers, and others.
  • (11) He was a better military commander than he was an artist but Dwight D Eisenhower's oil painting of the south London house where he lived while planning the D-day landings is to be auctioned 65 years after he first painted it for his valet.
  • (12) The 187 articles of royal memorabilia to be auctioned by Christie's in Rome are the property of the couple's elderly Italian former valet and were apparently passed to him by his uncle and aunt who served as domestic staff for nearly 40 years.
  • (13) You could have 20 black actors in a film all playing valets, and you would merely underline an idea of white superiority.
  • (14) You could be left with a large bill: research by comparison site Gocompare.com found that half of all insurance policies do not cover damage to a vehicle while it is in the control of valet parking.
  • (15) He first heard of Spinlister when the site sponsored a bike valet at a Brooklyn Bridge Park concert and has since had two rentals, including a pair from Australia.
  • (16) Scott Kelly, Gocompare's head of car insurance, said: "Valet parking, once the preserve of Hollywood movies, is becoming a popular option in the UK with many airports, major hotels and entertainment venues now offering 'meet and greet' services.
  • (17) The latest cache of royal correspondence to emerge from a former servant is to be auctioned, without controversy, in Italy today when letters written by Edward VIII to Wallis Simpson 70 years ago are sold by the couple's valet.
  • (18) Clearly, delivering healthcare is more complex and safety critical than selling burgers or hotel rooms but it was fascinating to hear at this month's Nuffield Trust Summit how much emphasis the best US healthcare organisations put on managing their customer experience (valet parking at their hospitals was my favourite).
  • (19) They believed the modernising task was complete by 2008: a quick valet service and tune-up rather than fundamental change.
  • (20) I had to explain to my very nice valet that I'd been dressing myself for 40 years and I could manage.