What's the difference between castaway and outcast?

Castaway


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.
  • (n.) One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.
  • (a.) Of no value; rejected; useless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He is a survivor, it's true – but to turn to Cheney for advice about longevity is like interviewing the lone recovered castaway for tips on sea travel: you can ask him for his recipes but don't look too closely at the bones on the bottom of the boat.
  • (2) He plays Ben Gunn, the castaway who comes to figure in the second half of the two-part drama, which was filmed in Puerto Rico.
  • (3) The two most popular non-classical records chosen by castaways are the rather self-justificatory "Non, je ne regrette rien" and "My Way".
  • (4) He was one of my favourite castaways,” Young told the Radio Festival in Salford on Tuesday.
  • (5) These features are described and then compared with the similar experience of being a castaway after shipwreck.
  • (6) Jamil said more castaways were expected to emerge from the island.
  • (7) Unlike when David Cameron was a castaway, there were no indie hits or student favourites from the likes of Radiohead, The Smiths and REM.
  • (8) Release date tbc The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden Facebook Twitter Pinterest In a tale that's a bit like the BBC's Castaway, albeit more tropical, The Galapagos Affair tells the true story of a small group of Europeans who settled on one of the tiny Pacific islands in the 1930s.
  • (9) So, home secretary, did you agree to appear as a castaway to show a warmer, personal side?” asks the presenter, Kirsty Young, before many discs have been spun.
  • (10) And, like many political castaways, Clegg had something in the mix to show a different side to his character.
  • (11) He said that although reality TV programmes such as Castaway and I'm A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!
  • (12) Desert Island Discs presenter Kirsty Young has revealed she would take a Tom Jones song with her to a desert island because he “pulsated sexuality” and was one of her favourite castaways.
  • (13) Inspired by Jules Verne, this four-hour epic, which translates as The Castaways of the Fol Espoir (Sunrises), follows a group of people in 1914, escaping war in Europe on a boat.
  • (14) He picked This Charming Man – a track composed by Marr with the group's lead singer, Morrissey – when he was a castaway on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs four years ago.
  • (15) We're currently perched at Castaways Bar and Grill .
  • (16) It’s a short boat ride to Poliegos, a castaway island with magnificent beaches and a population of wild goats and rare birds.” She suggests staying at Milaki , a hotel in the port of Psathi (doubles from €70 B&B).
  • (17) Theresa May brought to you in conjunction with Toilet Duck.” Another Radio 4 stalwart, Desert Island Discs , had to be re-edited last year after the castaway Michael Bublé picked a Rolex watch as his luxury item without disclosing he was a brand ambassador for the company.
  • (18) If you love them you have to listen to them very, very carefully,” he said in reference to the passionately held but opposing views among believers during his appearance as guest castaway on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs .
  • (19) Interviewed on BBC's Radio 4 today by Kirsty Young, after choosing his preferred castaway music, Clegg revealed he "did enjoy the occasional cigarette", although he insisted he never lit up in public and that his children were entirely ignorant of the fact.

Outcast


Definition:

  • (a.) Cast out; degraded.
  • (n.) One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond.
  • (n.) A quarrel; a contention.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The problem of the achondroplast arises when his surroundings, right from the start, reject his disorder, connoting it with destructive anxiety: this seriously harms the subject's physical image, making him an outcast.
  • (2) Effect of immobilization stress on myocardial ultrastructure has been studied in rats occupying, according to the behavior, dominant, subdominant and "outcast" position in the group.
  • (3) A few floors above Baumanns’ cafe the teenage outcast was studying mass killers and preparing for murder himself, police said.
  • (4) As in seriously ridic but also quite boring because Dave had to call this Stop Alan meeting in our kitchen :( and Picklesy is going to befriend him, as in mwahaha, because Dave said it would have to be a social outcast or Alan would smell a rat, and Hunty has started an effigy & Anna Soubry is doing this amaze visual profiling where she just kind of looks & she can instantly tell Alan is a millionaire of the noov persuasion?
  • (5) You become an outcast," said Wada president, John Fahey.
  • (6) M from dominant rats under normal conditions were shown to exhibit higher energy and to possess better respiratory energy regulation than those of "outcast" rats.
  • (7) "They have run out of money, face daily threats to their safety, and are being treated as outcasts for no other crime than losing their men to a vicious war.
  • (8) At Cambridge, Oliver says not entirely jokingly, he felt "outcast and angry"; in his first week there he met Richard Ayoade , later to star in The IT Crowd, and they bonded over "not feeling particularly comfortable about being exposed to the top end of the class system".
  • (9) Community leaders vowed to organise and form a better defence for subsequent nights, helped by members of the Outcast and Dominant Breed motorcycle clubs who lined their bikes up in front of stores.
  • (10) Thousands of children in west Africa have been orphaned by Ebola and are at risk of becoming outcasts from communities frightened of the infectious disease, according to Unicef.
  • (11) The suit alleged that the film portrayed people living in the mountains, who are often of mixed Native American and white heritage and were once known by the derogatory term “Jackson Whites”, as inbred social outcasts.
  • (12) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
  • (13) But the most dramatic rebellion was staged two months later on July 22 when the Tory outcasts attempted to scupper the treaty by voting with Labour in favour of the European social chapter.
  • (14) Growing up in 1940s French Algeria, the young Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent dreamed of Paris: a bullied outcast at school, he escaped into fantasy at home – devouring his mother's fashion magazines, sketching endlessly, and predicting (in the safety of his adoring family circle, at least) a future of spectacular fame.
  • (15) If you don’t have a job, you are made to feel like an outcast from your community,” Jean-Pierre says.
  • (16) They tell us that the authorities have 86% support, loyalty to Putin is total, [governing party] United Russia enjoys colossal popularity, and the opposition is a bunch of outcasts that can only exist within [downtown Moscow] on Twitter and Facebook and don’t know how to communicate with the people,” Yashin told the Guardian after a campaign stop.
  • (17) Without papers, status or rights, they are outcasts.
  • (18) There are perhaps exceptions to the rule, but Queens Park Rangers aren't one of them and at some point today Harry Redknapp is expected to bring Tottenham Hotspur outcasts Emmanuel Adebayor and Benoît Assou-Ekotto , who are both triffic fellas, to Loftus Road on loan.
  • (19) They don’t want to be punked out of their own neighbourhood.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson greets members of the Outcast motorcycle club before a vigil in Ferguson.
  • (20) His 1964 album Bitter Tears, subtitled Ballads Of The American Indian, included Cash's memorable treatment of Pete LaFarge's Ballad Of Ira Hayes, and was the first of many instances of his willingness to speak up for outcasts and underdogs.

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