What's the difference between clerk and yeoman?

Clerk


Definition:

  • (n.) A clergyman or ecclesiastic.
  • (n.) A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.
  • (n.) A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.
  • (n.) One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.
  • (n.) An assistant in a shop or store.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
  • (2) Cal Zastrow, also with the group, said that, although he has stood by Davis throughout the ordeal, he wouldn’t support the clerk’s policy to allow deputies to issue licenses without her authorization.
  • (3) There were 119 quarry drilling and crusher workers (outdoor, physically active), 77 quarry truck and loader drivers (outdoor, physically inactive), 92 postal deliverymen (outdoor, physically active), 75 postal clerks (indoor, physically inactive), and 43 hospital maintenance workers (indoor, physically active).
  • (4) You will have to offer leadership and a sense of belonging to the civil service's lowly clerks and frontline staff in the Department for Work and Pensions, struggling not just with Iain Duncan Smith's fantasies of benefit rationalisation, but sharp contractors snapping at their heels.
  • (5) Others bucked, including a Dallas County clerk who bluntly remarked that Paxton’s office “does not trump the highest court in the land”.
  • (6) present the purposes and the methods of an epidemiological study on coronary risk factors in selected bank-clerks of Parma, in view to correlate the dietary factors, possible methabolic alterations, psychical behaviour, social and environmental position and coronary risk evaluated by electrocardiographic stress test.
  • (7) General health was good in both vocational groups and isometric strength for the welders was intermediate between that of office clerks (who had lower strength) and that of fishermen (who had higher strength, as disclosed in a previous investigation).
  • (8) Abbreviated and full versions of the discharge summary were generated with very little interactive time required of the physician or record clerk.
  • (9) Trainmen and railroad clerks were used as reference cohorts.The engineers had relatively high invalidity and mortality rates in comparison to the reference groups, especially with respect to cardiovascular diseases and malignant tumors.
  • (10) You can feel it has strengthened the Taliban.” One man who saw what happened inside the US base is a former clerk at the local office of the ministry of information and culture named Qandi, who said he was detained and tortured for 45 days in 2012 before being transferred to the detention facility at Bagram airbase.
  • (11) Similarities and discrepancies in the way that evaluators viewed clerks were found.
  • (12) At the same time a comparable control group, i.e., 19 workers of the same chemical plant but without any direct occupational nickel exposure (clerks, service men, etc.
  • (13) In Kentucky , county clerks issue marriage licenses, and someone else must “solemnize” the marriage.
  • (14) A 26-year-old female clerk without previous heart disease ingested with suicidal intensions antihistaminic drugs--H1 blockers, astemizole (a total of 700 mg) and terfenadine (a total of 900-1200 mg).
  • (15) As we go along all these kinks will be ironed out.” Under Ghanaian law, farmers are only allowed to sell their beans to purchasing clerks who act as intermediaries between them and Cocobod.
  • (16) But because Piazza didn't issue a stay, Arkansas' 75 county clerks were left to decide for themselves whether to grant marriage licenses.
  • (17) In all study villages, the clerk in each health station maintained a regular count of the number of preschool children who had died within the preceding week.
  • (18) Their alcohol consumption, as obtained by interview was found to be higher among males than among females, among workers than among managers, executives, and clerks.
  • (19) During a second series of experiments, urine mutagenicity of 17 office clerks was also investigated.
  • (20) "We don't sell Japanese books," said a shop clerk, adding, "I don't know much about the reason, but perhaps it is because China-Japan relations are not good."

Yeoman


Definition:

  • (n.) A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.
  • (n.) A servant; a retainer.
  • (n.) A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry.
  • (n.) An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 35:1249-1255) and in mitogen-stimulated normal human lymphocytes (Yeoman et al.
  • (2) Yeomans said there was not one simple solution, but the federal government needed to take a leadership role and involve all three levels of government.
  • (3) Justin Peters at Slate has done yeoman's work in addressing this issue.
  • (4) Photograph: Mark Yeoman Yet the orthodoxy prevails.
  • (5) Chicago’s Homan Square 'black site': surveillance, military-style vehicles and a metal cage Read more William Yeomans, who worked in the civil rights division from 1981 to 2005, and served as its acting attorney, said the allegations about off-the-books interrogations and barred access to legal counsel reported by the Guardian merited a preliminary investigation to confirm them, a first step toward a full civil rights investigation.
  • (6) Yeomans said it was not just the very poor who were adversely affected by high house prices.
  • (7) Yeomans said the North Carolina legislation represented "a sad day" for democracy in the US.
  • (8) A nuclear nonhistone protein which decreases in chromatin during growth (Yeoman, L. C., et al.
  • (9) Nonhistone protein BA has been shown to decrease in amount in the chromatin of growth- stimulated normal rat liver (Yeoman et al.
  • (10) How British hearts swelled with pride though, when Beckham was sent off during a Spanish league game in 2004 after calling a linesman a " hijo de puta " (son of a bitch) – even though we knew, really, that he remained a monoglot yeoman with a squeaky voice.
  • (11) We have previously shown that a 30 kDa DNA-binding protein isolated from rat cell nuclei exhibits the chemical and immunological properties of glutathione S-transferase Yb subunits [Bennett, Spector & Yeoman (1986) J.
  • (12) The name of Manchester City winger James Milner features prominently on his shopping list , although Liverpool, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur are also interested, but a bid of £10m might convince City suits to sell their Yorkshire yeoman.
  • (13) Two yeoman warders in medieval tunics, who had come from London with the constable of the Tower of London, Lord Dannatt, stood with their backs to the south door of the cathedral, as if the Tudors or Lancastrians might try to break in at any moment.
  • (14) I had long ago decided I was going to do everything I could with my yeoman-like work ethic to become as much of a maker as I am a taker.
  • (15) Ruth Yeoman is head of the academic research, leadership education and organisation development work at the centre for mutual and employee-owned business that is part of Oxford University.
  • (16) Protein C23 (Mr 110 000, pI = 5.5), a major phosphoprotein in the nucleolus of mammalian cells, has been shown to contain 1.3 mol% of NG,NG-dimethylarginine (DMA) [Lischwe, M.A., Roberts, K.D., Yeoman, L.C., & Busch, H. (1982) J. Biol.
  • (17) William Yeomans, a law professor in Washington and a former chief of staff in the Justice Department, said Texas and North Carolina may just be the start of a series of legal battles over voter rights in states across the country.
  • (18) Read more Mission Australia’s chief executive, Catherine Yeomans, said surging house prices were sending people into crisis accommodation for months instead of weeks and pushing them to the fringes of society.
  • (19) A DNA-binding nonhistone protein, protein BA, was previously demonstrated to co-localize with U-snRNPs within discrete nuclear domains (Bennett, F. C., and L. C. Yeoman, 1985, Exp.
  • (20) Donald Yeomans, of Nasa's near-Earth object programme, said in an interview posted on space agency's website : "There are three possibilities when this comet rounds the sun.