What's the difference between chapel and church?

Chapel


Definition:

  • (n.) A subordinate place of worship
  • (n.) a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial
  • (n.) a small building attached to a church
  • (n.) a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.
  • (n.) A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.
  • (n.) In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.
  • (n.) A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
  • (n.) A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
  • (n.) An association of workmen in a printing office.
  • (v. t.) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
  • (v. t.) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To determine whether perioperative blood transfusion affected the recurrence rate of squamous cell cancer of the head and neck, we performed a retrospective study of all patients with stage III and IV disease treated surgically at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, between 1983 and 1986.
  • (2) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
  • (3) A Benn family spokesperson said: "At the suggestion of the Speaker of the House of Commons and by agreement with the Lords Speaker, Black Rod and the dean of Westminster Abbey, an approach was made by Black Rod to the palace for agreement that Mr Benn's body rest in the chapel of St Mary Undercroft on the night before his funeral.
  • (4) The attacks were in different continents and on people of different faiths and of none, but in the North Carolina university town of Chapel Hill and the Danish capital, Copenhagen, it was freedom itself that was the intended target.
  • (5) Unless there is a meaningful increase in the pay offer, with a settlement significantly more than [the Retail Price Index], this group chapel agrees to move towards an industrial action ballot and commits to campaigning robustly for a strong ‘yes’ vote.” The ballot will run from 20 June to 11 July.
  • (6) Two had died before they were rescued, and their bodies lay a few steps down the hall in the hospital chapel, now a makeshift morgue.
  • (7) For services to the Restoration of Salem Chapel, East Budleigh, Devon.
  • (8) In 1500, though, he unveiled two paintings in the Contarelli chapel in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome – the French church – showing Christ calling St Matthew and his martyrdom.
  • (9) In a joint statement the chapels said:"It shows management's utter disregard for the loyalty and dedication that their staff show every day in their efforts to produce quality newspapers and magazines, and sends out a deeply unpleasant message: no matter your experience or your commitment, everything is rated by cost."
  • (10) At Chapel-le-Frith in 1786, for instance, Wesley recorded a kind of punk festival riot: "The terror and confusion was inexpressible.
  • (11) Kim, Kwang S. (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Wallace A. Clyde, Jr., and Floyd W. Denny.
  • (12) The chapel is identified by the school as a Christian church but also hosts Hindu services and has been used for Buddhist meditations.
  • (13) The Financial Times’ NUJ chapel has a meeting scheduled at 3pm on Thursday to decide on its next steps following an improved offer from management earlier this week.
  • (14) Vascular access has become the most common operation performed at North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill.
  • (15) The Millbank chapel vote on the strike was tied, he said.
  • (16) I argued we were going into it too quickly and too deeply, and in fact there were better ways of doing coalition.” Asked a second time at the meeting in the Methodist chapel in Penzance to confirm there would be no coalition with the Tories, he said: “I have told you: it is not going to happen.” He also predicted no party would secure an overall majority in the Commons, but it would be better for the differences between the parties to be aired in open in parliament, and not through back room deals.
  • (17) Paolucci said because the chapel was a place of prayer, timed visits were impossible.
  • (18) What’s new here is understanding how air works in this space and also adding the ‘intelligent’ aspect.” Paolucci was hosting a conference on Wednesday on the state of the chapel 20 years after the controversial restoration of its frescoes.
  • (19) The Queen arrived at the chapel with the Duke of Edinburgh, and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, Prince Edward , the Countess of Wessex and their children also attended the service.
  • (20) Since 1985 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) has been implemented at the completion of the second year as the final examination in physical diagnosis.

Church


Definition:

  • (n.) A building set apart for Christian worship.
  • (n.) A Jewish or heathen temple.
  • (n.) A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together.
  • (n.) A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.
  • (n.) The collective body of Christians.
  • (n.) Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm.
  • (n.) The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil.
  • (v. t.) To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
  • (2) Atmaca, who belongs to the Gregorian-Armenian church in Istanbul, said that he nevertheless holds the current pontiff in high regard.
  • (3) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
  • (4) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (5) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
  • (6) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
  • (7) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
  • (8) Another is that the churches were in very densely populated areas and the police did not want to go in and create more damage."
  • (9) He is also an active member of the Unitarian church, having returned to religion after the birth of his children.
  • (10) "My future was probably to become an officer [running my own church] and go to London to the William Booth College," she says.
  • (11) The church was the Cypriot Orthodox led by Archbishop Makarios.
  • (12) McDaniel supported his 2003 election as bishop of New Hampshire, which, caused conservative Episcopalians in the US to break away and was the subject of intense debate in the worldwide Anglican church.
  • (13) But Detre declined to comment on a report on the Guido Fawkes website that Westminster Advisers, run by the Labour supporter and former councillor Dominic Church, organised a cross-party meeting at the end of 2010 which was shown the Crosby Textor research .
  • (14) Is he saying that the Orthodox church is also subject to public spending cuts?
  • (15) In the target areas, church and community members will sponsor health fairs and discussions of adolescent pregnancy at church and at parent-teacher association meetings.
  • (16) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
  • (17) Officers across the country are dealing with hundreds of cases involving abuse in the past in institutions including schools, churches and children's homes and a number of allegations relating to high profile people.
  • (18) The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Bishop of Hulme, who speaks for the Anglican church on urban life and faith, is less sanguine.
  • (19) A lot of our people had to come to make sure the church was kept safe and to get the children out safely."
  • (20) The incident in Aswan that sparked Sunday's protest was an attack on a church that attackers claimed was being built illegally.