What's the difference between cavalier and knight?

Cavalier


Definition:

  • (n.) A military man serving on horseback; a knight.
  • (n.) A gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant.
  • (n.) One of the court party in the time of king Charles I. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament.
  • (n.) A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.
  • (a.) Gay; easy; offhand; frank.
  • (a.) High-spirited.
  • (a.) Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meanwhile Bradley Beal has developed into a dangerous second option and complementary sidekick in exactly the same way that Dion Waiters hasn't for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
  • (2) Cavalier-Smith (1981) has identified 22 characters that are universally present in eukaryotes but absent in prokaryotes.
  • (3) The energy levels improved in the second half as the game opened up and both teams became more cavalier and increasingly desperate in their search for a goal.
  • (4) They demonstrate, at worst, a cavalier prejudice against work that the correspondents deemed shoddy.
  • (5) In the last few weeks, Miami has had to rely on comebacks, most memorably when they dug themselves out a 27-point hole against the Cleveland Cavaliers .
  • (6) Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, said his party had not ruled out backing a strike but Cameron's "reckless and cavalier" approach had lost him support.
  • (7) The Cavaliers wanted no part of the draft lottery this year as they hoped to take advantage of an almost historically weak Eastern Conference field and make their first playoff appearance since the LeBron James era.
  • (8) "With independent experts warning that the number of state school students going to university could drop from October 2012, this is just one more reason why students and their families will feel let down by the government's cavalier treatment of their hopes and dreams for access to England's universities."
  • (9) The Wallace Collection, in central London, reopens its great gallery to the public on 19 September 2014, two years after a £5m project to transform a space that is normally home to spectacular works including Frans Hals' The Laughing Cavalier and Nicolas Poussin's A Dance to the Music of Time .
  • (10) Most cavalier use of ethnic and regional stereotyping When the Aladdin movie premiered, the first Gulf War was done and dusted.
  • (11) If it's a package around the Cavaliers' Andrew Wiggins, they're winners.
  • (12) The Cavaliers, who only recently hinted at the possibility of including Wiggins in a deal, have been trying to figure out a way to have both.
  • (13) The validity of the model proposed by Cavalier-Smith for the replication of linear, single-stranded DNA molecules was tested by using subgenomic DNA termini isolated from adeno-associated virus (AAV), a defective parvovirus.
  • (14) Washington Wizards break .500 If there has been any sort of major All-Star snub it might be that the Washington Wizards' John Wall deserved to be among the Eastern Conference All-Star starters over Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers .
  • (15) FBI officials said they arrested Bundy, his brother Ryan Bundy, Bryan Cavalier, Shawna Cox and Ryan Payne on Tuesday afternoon after they stopped them along the highway.
  • (16) I really hope the ATP will take major action against him this time.” None of which seemed to impress the ATP – who made no mention of the incident on its website coverage of the match and then slammed a copyright ban on the footage – Kyrgios’s mother, Norlaila, who endorsed his actions before asking how she could delete her Twitter account, or his brother, Christos, who wondered if Wawrinka had assaulted Kyrgios, a cavalier suggestion coming from a lawyer.
  • (17) The problem has been compounded by an equally cavalier approach to pay and costs – which goes right back to Margaret Thatcher's opportunist pledge to pay the police more than Jim Callaghan's Labour – and by a bipartisan reluctance, ever since, to submit the policing needs of modern Britain to objective strategic scrutiny through something like the royal commission on policing for which some have rightly called.
  • (18) The minister’s cavalier and populist approach to his portfolio is undermining the sector’s capacity to attract much-needed investment and to capitalise on growing global food demand,” Fitzgibbon said.
  • (19) It was that team effort that won the game; five in double figures for the Warriors and 28 assists for the NBA champions, compared to just 12 for the Cavaliers.
  • (20) Lord Bingham said: "Weight should ordinarily be given to the professional judgment of an editor or journalist in the absence of some indication that it was made in a casual, cavalier, careless or slipshod manner."

Knight


Definition:

  • (n.) A young servant or follower; a military attendant.
  • (n.) In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life.
  • (n.) One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John.
  • (n.) A champion; a partisan; a lover.
  • (n.) A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head.
  • (n.) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
  • (v. t.) To dub or create (one) a knight; -- done in England by the sovereign only, who taps the kneeling candidate with a sword, saying: Rise, Sir ---.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
  • (2) The greatest stars who emerged from the early talent shows – Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight, Tony Bennett – were artists with long careers.
  • (3) When she died in 1994, Hopkins-Thomas and his mother – Jessie’s niece – were gifted the masses of drawings and poems Knight had collected over the years.
  • (4) Or perhaps it was just because I was a little kid and more interested in them Weetabix skinheads, Roland Rat and Knight Rider.
  • (5) Peter Knights of WildAid, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in San Francisco, observed that people who argue against the destruction of ivory stockpiles think that having a legal supply is the answer to the poaching problem.
  • (6) He was later knighted for services to community relations.)
  • (7) His previous strokes of luck include being appointed chief executive of the Olympic Delivery Authority, the highest-paid quango boss in the UK, and being knighted for "services to regeneration" despite not being a Time Lord.
  • (8) Alfred was previously portrayed by Michael Caine in Christopher Nolan 's Dark Knight trilogy and the late Michael Gough in the earlier Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher movies.
  • (9) The first, or maybe, occurrence of the word "melancholia" is found in a French mediaeval book "Knight Yvain" (12th century).
  • (10) "If viewers think something is false or weird, that's when they reject it," says Gary Knight, commercial content director at ITV.
  • (11) Shopkeepers said they were afraid to open after gunmen believed to be working for the Knights Templar cartel threw firebombs at several of the city's businesses and city hall over the weekend.
  • (12) Talking of Batman, what about those rumours that he's been spotted on the set of Christopher Nolan's current movie, The Dark Knight Rises?
  • (13) If there is justice for Mark some of this sadness will end.” The family’s solicitor, Cyrilia Davies Knight, from Birnberg Peirce solicitors, said: “There are serious questions about whether this highly trained police officer, who shot Mark in broad daylight from an unobstructed view a few metres away from him, made a mistake that was reasonable and lawful.” She added: “A death of this kind is the cause of uniquely intense public concern as demonstrated by the disturbances after Mark’s death.
  • (14) In 1980, Knight and Griffen developed the "double-staple" technique, using a circular stapler to transect a linear rectal staple line.
  • (15) The original omitted Buddhism from a list of religions with more followers in England and Wales than the number of people who described themselves as Jedi Knights in the 2011 census.
  • (16) We just don’t believe the argument or the rationale is strong enough to transcend what has been around for thousands of years.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jarica Jordan (right), Raven Knight (center) and a friend in downtown Fargo during the gay pride parade.
  • (17) The long piece of cloth bearing the image of a man's face and body which is kept in Turin dates from at least 1357 when it was first displayed by the widow of a French knight.
  • (18) Richard Knights Liverpool • As an ex-headteacher who deserted the profession when it became evident that Ofsted was the untouchable body by which the government ensured its will would prevail in schools, I hope that your paper pursues its investigation into the manner in which Ofsted operates .
  • (19) John Howard livened up the morning by observing that Tony Abbott's knights and dames initiative was so quaintly olde world that not even he would have gone there.
  • (20) The last time a euthanasia bill came before our parliament, much was made by Baronesses Knight and Finlay of the fact that allowing any form of assisted death had impacted badly on palliative care in Oregon.