What's the difference between carriage and chariot?

Carriage


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is carried; burden; baggage.
  • (n.) The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.
  • (n.) The price or expense of carrying.
  • (n.) That which carries of conveys,
  • (n.) A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort.
  • (n.) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage.
  • (n.) A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part.
  • (n.) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.
  • (n.) The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.
  • (n.) The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Staphylococcal carriage seems largely to depend on individual characteristics rather than environmental factors.
  • (2) A higher proportion (14 of 40; 35%) had evidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection than had evidence of either hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriage (17.5%) or alcohol abuse (30%).
  • (3) Rail campaigners claim that the convoluted carriage-ordering system contributes to overcrowding.
  • (4) Bronchial carriage may, however, not always be associated with pathological effects.
  • (5) 2) Chronic HBsAg carriage in the adult household contact was associated with female sex of the index case and with being a sibling; among young subjects, household contacts were more likely to be chronic HBsAg carriers when the index case was the mother, a sibling, or an HBV-DNA-positive subject.
  • (6) This study further confirms the importance of skin carriage of group A streptococci as a precursor to pyoderma and demonstrates the importance of minor skin trauma as a predisposing factor.
  • (7) Japanese company Hitachi Rail is planning to invest £82m and create hundreds of jobs at a new train factory in Newton Aycliffe, Darlington, where it will build hundreds of carriages.
  • (8) The current uses of serotyping of N. gonorrhoeae include epidemiological studies, clinical purposes and surveillance of antibiotic resistance and plasmid carriage.
  • (9) Think, too, of the savings in road widening and new carriages – money that could be spent mending what we've got, or making travel safer or more comfortable, or spent on other things.
  • (10) The order is the largest yet for Bombardier’s Aventra trains, at 750 carriages, and is a boost to the Derby plant, whose future recently appeared in jeopardy.
  • (11) The carriage of C. diphtheriae was found to be 19.8%, 65.3% of them were toxin producing by counter-immunoelectrophoresis (CIEP).
  • (12) Efforts at prevention of non-A, non-B hepatitis associated with blood transfusion have thus far been hampered by the lack of reliable laboratory markers for carriers of this disease, and controversy exists over the implementation of screening tests on blood donors, using such nonspecific indicators of possible viral carriage as serum alanine aminotransferase levels.
  • (13) The epidemic strain, which was not agglutinated by commerical diagnostic antisera, was isolated from the hands of personnel in five instances directly incriminated hand carriage as the mode of spread.
  • (14) The city responded with a mixture of fear and defiance, sharing pictures of cuddly animals on hashtags for the attack in place of the usual images of police, and offering homes, mosques and even grounded train carriages as shelter for those stranded by the shutdown.
  • (15) These patterns are generally consistent with available information concerning the distribution of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) carriage in New Zealand and suggest that HBsAg carriage is likely to be a major risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma in New Zealand, as it is in other countries.
  • (16) In renal transplant recipients carriage was positively related to treatment with ranitidine, consumption of more than three types of cheese in the previous 20 months, and consumption of English cheddar cheese more than once per week.
  • (17) The objectives of this preliminary study were to determine the prevalence of oral candidal carriage and infection in a group of HIV-positive individuals and compare the humoral immune responses in serum and saliva in this group with a control group of HIV-negative subjects.
  • (18) "My service is not as frequent as it should be and has very old carriages," he said.
  • (19) An association between fecal carriage of Streptococcus bovis and colorectal carcinoma has been reported.
  • (20) The carriage rates were 89% in children, 39% in adolescents and 34% in adults.

Chariot


Definition:

  • (n.) A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc.
  • (n.) A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat.
  • (v. t.) To convey in a chariot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the end of last year Baez went down to Crawford, Texas, to protest outside Camp Casey with Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq; in December last year she sang Swing Low Sweet Chariot outside San Quentin prison as Tookie Williams was executed.
  • (2) The average fan remains ignorant in terms of it wanting it be Chariots of Fire.
  • (3) It is possible his delicate skills could have been of more benefit to Arsenal with longer on the pitch, though listening to the Stoke fans serenading their side at the end with Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and "One nil to the rugby team", one could understand why Wenger exercised caution, even if the rugby motif is a joke the home supporters enjoy.
  • (4) Cue that familiar gloating refrain from Stoke fans when Arsenal are in town: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” they crooned.
  • (5) Mounted bowmen succeeded chariots in warfare, particularly nomadic Scythians who dominated Central Asia (1000-500 BC).
  • (6) Now she only needed to wait, resplendent atop her chariot.
  • (7) He would not have been out of place in Chariots of Fire."
  • (8) Updated at 10.03pm BST 7.22pm BST The soothing strains of Chariots of Fire come on the stadium stereo ... ... and Poland's Tomasz Majewski collects his gold medal for winning the men's shot put in what was a thrilling competition.
  • (9) The pits are filled with figurines of courtiers and animals, and you can see the fossilised remains of wooden chariots.
  • (10) The ropes are heaved, down come the statues, Axes demolish their chariot wheels, the unoffending Legs of their horses are broken.
  • (11) Once roused from her slumbers, Nemesis would mount a two-wheeled chariot drawn by griffins (Sturmey and Archer) and, brandishing an array of carpet tacks, set out on her mission to destroy cyclists who sneered.
  • (12) In the summer of 1981, for example – as Andy Beckett recounts in his book Promised You a Miracle – the rhetoric of advertising and film projected a concerted attempt at national revival against the odds: Chariots of Fire and a Mini Metro on the white cliffs of Dover, staving off European rivals.
  • (13) Huston joins the previously announced Morgan Freeman, who will play Ildarin, a chariot race trainer.
  • (14) Havers, who made his name as the hurdler Lord Lindsay in the film Chariots of Fire and was a staple of British television in the 1980s with programmes such as The Charmer and Don't Wait Up, defended his aunt after a lawyer representing victims of child abuse, Alison Millar, told The World at One that Butler-Sloss should stand aside.
  • (15) We sing to elevate sporting events – Abide With Me, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.
  • (16) Chariots is not the only theatre production currently exploring the world of sport.
  • (17) Greek sculptors in 350BC created a 40-metre-high monument, crowned by a colossal four-horse chariot on a stepped pyramid.
  • (18) The archaeologists believe it may have come from a chariot, but are only guessing since nothing like it has ever been found.
  • (19) Inscribed within this square, it stipulates that there must be “nine avenues running north-south and nine running east-west, each of the former being nine chariot tracks wide” – a principle that perhaps set the precedent for the scale of modern-day Beijing’s agoraphobia-inducing highways.
  • (20) American financiers in pink shorts and back-to-front baseball caps push the hedge fund managers of 2040 round in thousand-pound chariots, and every second store is an estate agency.” All of this is true.