What's the difference between cardinal and cassock?

Cardinal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal.
  • (a.) One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college.
  • (a.) A woman's short cloak with a hood.
  • (a.) Mulled red wine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A possible role for Id for IgM Ab as cardinal autoantigens is discussed.
  • (2) Father Vincent Twomey said that given the damage done by Smyth and the repercussions of his actions, "one way or another the cardinal has unfortunately lost his moral credibility".
  • (3) From our data on symptomatology, family history and course of 538 such patients, several findings emerge of cardinal relevance to genetic studies.
  • (4) That diary was published in 2005 by Limes, a serious Italian magazine, which did not identify the cardinal.
  • (5) After the action-packed opening two innings the Cardinals, and particularly Wainwright, settled and the runs dried up.
  • (6) He did not speculate about when that would be, and he did not rebut Cardin’s claim that it could be next month.
  • (7) Updated at 4.05am BST 4.00am BST Dodgers 3 - Cardinals 0, top of 9th And so it's all up to Yadier Molina, the Cardinals catcher who is looking to get a rally going, no easy task against Jansen who looks to have his best stuff tonight.
  • (8) 4.11am BST Dodgers 2 - Cardinals 2, bottom of 7th Jay bunts!
  • (9) Updated at 3.53am GMT 3.50am GMT Red Sox 4 - Cardinals 2, bottom of the 9th Matt Carpenter takes a ball and a called strike.
  • (10) 1.20am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 3, top of the 4th Lackey gets ahead of Freese 1-2, if he could work around the error it would be- Freese takes strike three!
  • (11) The thymus is the first organ in the body to age, which seems incongruent considering its cardinal role in the immune system.
  • (12) The Democratic US Senator for Maryland, Ben Cardin, tried to enlist the State Department's help but was brushed aside.
  • (13) It derives from remnants of the left cardinal vein system.
  • (14) This list gives the Latin first names of all 115 cardinals.
  • (15) 2.10am BST Cardinals 3 - Dodgers 0, top of 4th Yadier Molina hits the first pitch to center field for the first out.
  • (16) After visiting the H-blocks, the Catholic archbishop Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich compared the conditions to "the sewer pipes in the slums of Calcutta".
  • (17) Freese is down to his last strike with a chance to tie it for the Cardinals.
  • (18) A month later, the papal conclave chose as his successor 76-year-old Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, elevating the son of Italian immigrants to the highest office in the church.
  • (19) Now they await the results of the American League Championship Series to see whether this year's World Series will be a rematch of 2004, when the Cardinals were swept by the curse-reversing Boston Red Sox, or 2006, when the Cardinals defeated the Detroit Tigers and became one of the worst teams to win the World Series in MLB history .
  • (20) The cardinal signs and symptoms are given in detail, particularly those at the onset.

Cassock


Definition:

  • (n.) A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their uniform.
  • (n.) A garment resembling a long frock coat worn by the clergy of certain churches when officiating, and by others as the usually outer garment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As the debate reached its conclusion, Stockwood, dressed grandly in a purple cassock and pompously fondling his crucifix in a way that was devastatingly lampooned by Rowan Atkinson a week later on a Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch, delivered his parting shot of, "You'll get your 30 pieces of silver."
  • (2) It was a case of dumping my bag and going straight back out on to the street to talk to people, in full cassock.
  • (3) The rain halted in time for the pope's procession through rapturous crowds, many carrying the flags of their countries, others in nuns' habits, monks' cassocks or wearing priests' dog collars.
  • (4) He will trade his famous red shoes for some brown loafers given to him in Mexico last year, but will continue to wear a cassock in the traditional papal colour of white.
  • (5) On Tuesday the Vatican announced that once he had resigned Benedict would forgo his red shoes but would continue to wear a white cassock.
  • (6) Entitled Il Mio Papa, or My Pope, the fanzine contains an array of Francis trivia and comment, including tips on the best places to stand in St Peter's Square to catch his Sunday blessing, photographs of the guesthouse where he lives, and a centrefold picture of the pontiff smiling in his white cassock.
  • (7) As a curate, he startled the Cambridge parishioners of St Andrew's, Chesterton, by bicycling in a cassock and a biretta, though eventually the bicycle chain chewed up the cassock.
  • (8) Francis wore bright red robes over a white cassock as he presided over the mass at an altar sheltered by a white canopy on the steps of St Peter's Basilica.
  • (9) Asked if the by-now-famously-maverick pontiff had given the archbishop any tips on his style, Welby, ever a quip to hand, replied: "We naturally discussed the colour of cassocks."
  • (10) It’s surprisingly spacious in the back, with generous leg room and a drinks holder in the central armrest to keep the papal coffee from spilling over the white cassock.
  • (11) As Runcie is the son of an archbishop of Canterbury, the Radio Times should be spared letters about the cassocks and hassocks being wrong for the period.
  • (12) The Archbishop of Canterbury, less splendid than the monks in a mere purple cassock, took his place in the front row of the packed cathedral, alongside the Bishop of London .
  • (13) "As of 8pm on 28 February he is not the pope any more, and whether you call him emeritus pope or emeritus bishop of Rome or even holy father, and whether he wears a white cassock or a black one, he is not the pope … There will only be one pope."
  • (14) Walking back in the dark to the station hotel of a village near Macon, and still wearing his cassock, his hand was seized by a small boy, a complete stranger, who called him "Mon père" and trotted along beside him chatting in French.
  • (15) Your friend’s all about the pussy isn’t he?” she says, licking her lips at Dylan and picturing her cassock on his bedroom floor.