What's the difference between christening and godfather?

Christening


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Christen

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Following the service, guests will attend a private tea at Clarence House, hosted by Prince Charles , where guests will be served christening cake.
  • (2) The present data emphasize the applicability of certain oxidants as trapping agents for enzymatic carbanion intermediates as proposed previously (Healy, M.J.,, and Christen, P. (1973) Biochemistry 12, 35-41).
  • (3) In July, a religious procession was organised by the Ukrainian Orthodox church to commemorate the anniversary of the christening of Kievan Rus’ , while calling for a peaceful resolution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine .
  • (4) It would swirl around that child's head in the manner of a bad fairy from a storybook bringing along a cursed gift to a christening.
  • (5) And with people like Douglas, Martin, Nathan, I'd go to their weddings, their children's christenings, birthday parties, and still do."
  • (6) Alan Clarke, at BNP Paribas, christened the new government "the odd couple".
  • (7) • George wore a reproduction of a christening gown worn by royal babies since 1841.
  • (8) However, its accumulation is limited by degradation with a half-life of only approximately 5 min (Jaussi, R., Sonderegger, P., Flückiger, J., and Christen, P. (1982) J. Biol.
  • (9) No doubt the archbishop of Canterbury will give Prince George a typically discreet Anglican sprinkling of water during his christening at St James's Palaceon Wednesday.
  • (10) In the first few pages he writes about his earliest memory, aged four, standing on a chair at his younger sister's christening, pulling faces while people laughed.
  • (11) The decrease in flagellar beat frequencies and sperm velocities are much greater than what could be extrapolated from the decrease of intracellular ATP (Christen R. et al: Eur.
  • (12) The duchess appears to be constantly dressed for a christening.
  • (13) He was reported to have been in jovial form following the christening of his granddaughter at Staghall Church near Belturbet, Co Cavan on Boxing Day before returning to Mountjoy.
  • (14) Since 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid (3HAA), an oxidation product of tryptophan metabolism, is a powerful radical scavenger [Christen, S., Peterhans, E., & Stocker, R. (1990) Proc.
  • (15) When he was born on 5 December 1971, the politician was christened Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Sylvester Joseph von und zu Guttenberg.
  • (16) George will be christened in a replica of the intricate lace and satin christening gown made for Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, Victoria, the princess royal, in 1841.
  • (17) The O’Neill-Keane combination was immediately christened the dream team when they took over from Giovanni Trapattoni in 2013 but after showing some promise in early friendlies performances have slumped.
  • (18) The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London at Prince George's christening.
  • (19) He had two names: christened Lee Alexander McQueen , he used Alexander when he started his label to avoid jeopardising his unemployment benefit.
  • (20) And once you've bought, you're not allowed to exhale with relief as you christen the hatstand and pour your inaugural brandy.

Godfather


Definition:

  • (n.) A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction.
  • (v. t.) To act as godfather to; to take under one's fostering care.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fleeting though it may have been (he jetted off to New York this morning and is due in Toronto on Saturday), there was a poignant reason for his appearance: he was here to play a tribute set to Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of house and one of Morales's closest friends, who died suddenly in March.
  • (2) Tour begins 22 November, NIA, Birmingham, thenia.co.uk Black Sabbath Still without original drummer Bill Ward, but with their first US No 1 album (the Rick Rubin-produced 13), the undisputed godfathers of metal play a handful of UK shows.
  • (3) Bin Laden, who was 54 when he died, also had a copy of The America I Have Seen, a vitriolic memoir of a short trip to the US by the Egyptian thinker and activist Syed Qutb , considered the godfather of modern jihadi thinking and hanged in 1966.
  • (4) It's this unsettling montage of re-enactment, confessional and political exposé that grabbed the attention of doco-godfathers Werner Herzog and Errol Morris – both executive producers – as well as awestruck critics the world over.
  • (5) "So I know there has been all this stuff about me being godfather of one of his children.
  • (6) In 2010, weeks before the general election at which Murdoch's papers did their best to drive Labour from office, Blair secretly became godfather to one of Deng and Murdoch's daughters.
  • (7) Or take The Godfather: remember when Tom Hagen explains to Michael Corleone why they can't kill McCluskey?
  • (8) Job: founder and chairman, Brunswick Group Age: 54 Industry: public relations Staff: 470 Worth: £90m 2009 ranking: 82 Alan Parker is the godfather of modern financial public relations .
  • (9) A bit like Godfather II, only with mom's apple pie for tea.
  • (10) · He edited American Graffiti, The Conversation, The Godfather parts I to III, Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley and many more.
  • (11) Clarke was his godfather and cousin, and he had been devastated at the loss.
  • (12) GSK's commitment to stop paying doctors comes five months after it was accused of behaving like a criminal godfather in China, bribing doctors with cash and prostitutes in return for prescribing its drugs.
  • (13) On the journey there, I tune into an AM broadcast from a famed Mamou Establishment called Fred's Lounge, known for its Saturday morning Cajun dances, before arriving at the Last Farewell to Luke Collins, a DJ and the self-styled 'godfather of zydeco'.
  • (14) We value diversity, self-expression and experimentation above all else.” “The liberation of LGBTQ+ people is wired into the original components of electronic music culture and personally embodied in the deep, lifelong friendship between our godmother (and trans icon), Wendy Carlos and our godfather, Bob Moog,” Black Madonna said.
  • (15) Ed Miliband's recent appointee to the House of Lords, Lord Glasman, is considered the "intellectual godfather" of the Labour party.
  • (16) To appease Real Madrid, Uefa sent the refereeing godfather, Pierluigi Collina, to oversee the performance of Franck De Bleeckere, the Belgian official picked out by Mourinho as one of the five who had delivered major decisions against his teams.
  • (17) He is godfather to a future king, and now owns a large chunk of the most exclusive parts of London.
  • (18) Last year, tapes of Bongo’s conversations with Michel Tomi, a controversial Corsican businessman known as the “last of the Godfathers” were leaked to the French investigative website Mediapart.
  • (19) She has been one of the key organisers for the protests and direct action against the arms fair in London; Martin Hogbin is the godfather of her son.
  • (20) The gang's expansion plans were hatched when Kenichi Shinoda replaced Yoshinori Watanabe as the gang's godfather in a peaceful handover of power in July 2005, making him Japan's top yakuza don.

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