What's the difference between chapel and oratory?

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.

Oratory


Definition:

  • (n.) A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions.
  • (n.) The art of an orator; the art of public speaking in an eloquent or effective manner; the exercise of rhetorical skill in oral discourse; eloquence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) My wife is ex-Workers Revolutionary Party, so let’s not go there – she’s mellowed a bit down the years!” Whelan was a bright boy who passed the 11-plus and went to grammar school: the Oratory, where Tony Blair sent his children.
  • (2) If you haven’t seen it,” Clinton said, “you need to see her speech in New Hampshire.” Michelle Obama denounces Trump's rhetoric: 'It has shaken me to my core' Read more In fact, Obama’s oratory was a Clinton campaign highlight Thursday, a much-shared, widely tweeted and overwhelmingly celebrated defense of girls’ and women’s rights not to be demeaned or assaulted by anyone, not a construction worker on the street or the man who would be president.
  • (3) The movie sticks mostly to the facts , although a community meeting in a church, where Obama displays his rare talent for oratory, is incorporated from a later date.
  • (4) Choice of the Oratory was criticised because the school had opted out of local authority control; choice of St Olave's was criticised because admission was selective.
  • (5) The Oratory, which achieves about twice the national average for GCSE scores, did not respond to a request for comment.
  • (6) Former prime minister Tony Blair was also heavily criticised for sending his sons to the selective Oratory school in south London.
  • (7) Martin was alleged to have met at least six pupils in his rooms at the London Oratory church, to which the highly regarded school is affiliated.
  • (8) Ritchie began designing the bike in 1975 from his flat in South Kensington, London, which overlooked Brompton Oratory, the imposing Roman Catholic church from which he took the name.
  • (9) Related special report Special report: religion in the UK Related stories 5 December: Sex abuse issue haunts the Catholic church 6 November: Archbishop steps aside in paedophile scandal 5 November: Bishop ignored warnings over abuser priests 13 September: Nolan to review Catholic rules on child abuse Useful links The London Oratory school ChildLine ChildLine's child abuse factsheet Hammersmith and Fulham council
  • (10) Political events continue to remind us of the importance of persuasive arguments and good oratory that appeal not only to our rational side, but our emotional side too.” He also thinks the ability to see the other side is particularly important.
  • (11) The Conservative party today pounced gleefully on an embarrassing dilemma for Prime Minister Tony Blair as his children's school, the London Oratory, sent a letter to parents asking for money after the government scrapped its grant-maintained status.
  • (12) The collision of history threatens to overshadow his first visit as US president to Africa's biggest economy, although his oratory can be expected to rise to the occasion of honouring the anti-apartheid hero.
  • (13) With all the arrogance of 21 I replied: ‘A harmless lunatic with the gift of oratory.’ I can still hear his retort: ‘No lunatic with the gift of oratory is harmless.’” Binchy had a second encounter with Hitler in Berlin in 1930, when the Nazis were on the brink of power.
  • (14) The Office of the Schools Adjudicator ruled that the London Oratory school in Fulham, a state secondary, broke a section of the official admissions code for schools intended to prevent parents from obtaining places for their offspring by giving practical or financial support to schools or associated bodies like the church.
  • (15) In opposition, the Blairs' decision to send one of their children to London Oratory grated with the Labour party.
  • (16) But having won, he returned not only to the oratory but to famous lines from earlier speeches, reprising once again his 2008 slogan about "hope".
  • (17) He was not a dynamic leader, had no great powers of oratory, but he knew absolutely everything that was going on in school,” says Michael Allen, who taught him history and cricket.
  • (18) "We occasionally go to the same church in Oxford – they really think there that the BBC is run from the pews of the Oratory.
  • (19) This is about more than great oratory, it is about a kind of fear.
  • (20) Faith schools like the London Oratory, which are quickly oversubscribed, can use faith-based criteria for admission to decide who gets the places.