What's the difference between celebrity and starlike?
Celebrity
Definition:
(n.) Celebration; solemnization.
(n.) The state or condition of being celebrated; fame; renown; as, the celebrity of Washington.
(n.) A person of distinction or renown; -- usually in the plural; as, he is one of the celebrities of the place.
Example Sentences:
(1) says Gregg Wallace opening the new series of Celebrity MasterChef (Mon-Fri, 2.15pm, BBC1).
(2) Fatah leader Yahya Rabah said the organisation would celebrate "with our brothers in Hamas", the Ma'an news agency reported.
(3) If you want to become a summit celebrity be sure to strike a pose whenever you see the ENB photographer approaching.
(4) There are many examples to support his assertion, yet for the most part, it is celebrities who dictate what images can be published and what stories should be told.
(5) On a weekend that sees the country celebrate 50 years of independence it is certain that despite all things – good and bad – that have taken place in 2013, the next 50 years will be transformed by personal technology, concerned citizens and the media.
(6) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
(7) They had watched him celebrate mass with three million pilgrims on the packed-out shores of Copacabana beach .
(8) July 7, 2016 Verified account A blue tick that tells you the user is either an A-list celebrity, a respected authority on an important subject or a BuzzFeed employee.
(9) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
(10) Arsenal’s 10 men fall at the first hurdle against Dinamo Zagreb Read more This win, even against such feeble opponents, was celebrated, with the locals chorusing their manager’s name amid a wave of relief given so much of the team’s domestic campaign to date has been dismal.
(11) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
(12) My boyfriend and I headed to a sushi bar to celebrate.
(13) In early 2009, he took part in Celebrity Big Brother for a rumoured fee of £100,000.
(14) Lion cubs fathered by Cecil, the celebrated lion shot dead in Zimbabwe , may already have been killed by a rival male lion and even if they were still alive there was nothing conservationists could do to protect them, a conservation charity has warned.
(15) We used to have a really good night in here on Bonfire night.” Communities across the UK are facing the same unwillingness by civic bodies to stage Bonfire night celebrations.
(16) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
(17) Two days after Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse , published a beautiful essay calling for this year's First World War commemorations to " honour those who died " and "celebrate the peace we now share", Michael Gove has delivered the government's response.
(18) Roche, 30, was born in High Wycombe, but moved with her British parents to Germany as a young child, and has been a national celebrity there since her teens, presenting music and culture shows.
(19) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
(20) The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards didn’t achieve the same degree of controversy as last year’s celebration of tongues, twerking and teddy bears , but between a speech by a homeless teen, an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction, and Beyoncé’s spectacular, epic, show-stopping finale, there were nevertheless a few moments worth watching.
Starlike
Definition:
(a.) Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as, starlike flowers.
(a.) Shining; bright; illustrious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Uranyl formate-contrasted specimens displayed an elongated hexagonal nucleocapsid with a neck region; the cross-striated tail possessed a starlike base plate.
(2) Bundles and starlike foci of microfilaments and microtubules were usually found in close association with the membrane.
(3) Ten white, starlike, 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.2 cm, calcified structures were found within the endometrial cavity.
(4) Among 50 little starlike shadows in about 13,500 mammograms during the years 1973-1975 there were seven pictures proved histologically not to be cancers but "radial scars".
(5) The top surface of the globules occasionally displays a starlike profile and seems to contain a central depression approximately 25 A in diameter.
(6) The strands are not reorganized into a single dominant transverse bar, but remain as a starlike array until mitosis.
(7) The most parsimonious network relating the haplotypes by site loss or gain was starlike in shape.
(8) In addition to starlike cells, friable pigment and thready remnants of the pupillary membrane, also radial retroiridal pigmentlines which were found on the peripheral anterior capsula of the lens were interpreted to be remnants of the "tunica vasculosa retroiridalis (membrana capsulopupillaris).
(9) In all patients lymphoscopy showed abnormal images ranging from irregular distribution of the colouring agent to "starlike images" and dermal reflux.
(10) Chondroid starlike mineral deposits which are composed of needles appear in the vicinity of the cells.
(11) Three women and five men with chronic biological false-positive seroreactions for syphilis and circulating anticoagulants exhibited a vascular syndrome consisting of recurrent deep venous thrombosis of the extremities and necrotizing purpura with painful superfacial starlike ulcers around the ankles.
(12) Histologic, histochemical, and histoenzymatic investigations of nine cases of Omenn's disease showed generalized lymphoid depletion, including B cells and all T-cell subpopulations; an apparent proliferation of alpha-naphthyl acetate esterase-, acid phosphatase-, OKM1-positive macrophages and T6 interdigitating cells; a thymic hypoplasia with arrest of hassallian epithelial maturation; starlike fibrinous deposits in the bone marrow; and extensive cutaneous lesions characterized by hyperkeratosis, apoptotic cell death associated with the intraepidermal presence of T4+ and T8+ cells, localized necrosis of the basement membrane, expression of Ia antigens by malpighian cells, and progressive loss of the T6+ Langerhans' cells.
(13) The fibrils of fibrocartilage are partly swollen and escorted by starlike mineral deposits.
(14) The principle of this method is to find pairs of operational taxonomic units (OTUs [= neighbors]) that minimize the total branch length at each stage of clustering of OTUs starting with a starlike tree.
(15) Six subjects reported multiple starlike flashes and short streaks on exposure to neutrons of energies up to 25 million electron volts.