What's the difference between companion and consort?

Companion


Definition:

  • (n.) One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of, or is associated with, another or others; an associate; a comrade; a consort; a partner.
  • (n.) A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath.
  • (n.) A fellow; -- in contempt.
  • (n.) A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck.
  • (n.) A wooden hood or penthouse covering the companion way; a companion hatch.
  • (v. t.) To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
  • (v. t.) To qualify as a companion; to make equal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the companion paper, we quantitatively account for the observation that the ability of a solute to promote fusion depends on its permeability properties and the method of swelling.
  • (2) Headache, vegetative und neurological symptoms are frequent but not necessary companions.
  • (3) The preceding companion paper presents a biochemical study of two abnormal protein 4.1 species from individuals with the red blood cell disorder, hereditary elliptocytosis.
  • (4) A companion paper further discusses the nature of peaks B and C materials.
  • (5) I used to tease him with the suggestion he had chosen me as walking companion because I had no mathematics at all and so he was safe from prying questions, but in fact now and then he did used to tell me about what he was doing – and how clear it all seemed when he spoke!
  • (6) His companions eventually apologised to me, but only after apologising to my boyfriend, and only after being kicked out by restaurant staff who reinforced that the behaviour was unacceptable.
  • (7) These results are compared with experimental data on angular scattering from liver, muscle, and blood, reported in a companion paper [J. Acoust.
  • (8) The sources of data are the 1982 and 1984 National Long Term Care Surveys and the companion 1982 Informal Caregivers Survey.
  • (9) Microliths are rarely encountered in tracheal washings from companion animals.
  • (10) This is the first report of companion cell lines, one malignant and one normal, established from the same organ.
  • (11) These results form a base line with which luteolytic changes described in the companion study (Paavola, L.G.
  • (12) Money was tight and hunger was a constant companion.
  • (13) Findings based on applying the procedure to simultaneously recorded spike and event trains are described in a companion paper (Frostig et al.
  • (14) Her companion, a man in his fifties, also refused to give his name to the “Lugen Presse” (liar press, a term coined by the Nazis and frequently chanted at Pegida events), but is quick to add: “We’ve nothing against helping foreigners in need, like those poor people in Syria, but we should be helping them in their own country, not bringing them over here.” The demonstrations feel like an invitation for anyone to voice any grievance.
  • (15) In a companion microneurographic study (Schmidt et al.
  • (16) He throws confessions about his love of guns or his lust for violence into restaurant conversations, but his inanely sophisticated companions carry on conversing about the varieties of sushi or the use of fur by leading designers.
  • (17) This paper is a companion to an earlier report on prenatal visiting patterns in Aberdeen, Scotland (McKinlay, 1970).
  • (18) At that time, more patients were depressed and had a lower income, fewer wanted a transplant, and five had lost their living companion.
  • (19) The people who were persecuting him and his companions and his sympathizers.
  • (20) Discrimination between individual strangers and companions was examined in day-old domestic chicks.

Consort


Definition:

  • (n.) One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.
  • (n.) A ship keeping company with another.
  • (n.) Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union.
  • (n.) An assembly or association of persons; a company; a group; a combination.
  • (n.) Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.
  • (v. i.) To unite or to keep company; to associate; -- used with with.
  • (v. t.) To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate.
  • (v. t.) To attend; to accompany.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fructosamine concentration also remained high in consort with increased blood glucose concentration in cats with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus over extended periods.
  • (2) Other reactions include consort dermatitis and reactions to toothpastes, gum and perfumes in paper products, sanitary napkins, ostomy pastes, and detergents.
  • (3) These results suggest that these cytokines may function in consort as regulators of cellular growth and function in normal tissues.
  • (4) The INCA program converts Consort 30-generated fluorescence list mode data collected from Indo-1-stained cells to absolute intracellular calcium concentrations (nM Ca2+i).
  • (5) Unity state’s acting governor, Stephen Taker, and his consorts laughed off questions about whether government and allied forces had abducted women.
  • (6) The three companies work together as Consort Healthcare, with other projects including Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospital and Hope Hospital, Salford .
  • (7) When routine patch testing reveals a positive reaction, the dermatologist should consider exposure to the antigen not only in the patient but also through contact with the patient's consort.
  • (8) At the same age as Kaminski was consorting with fascist skinheads, I was a member of the Young Conservatives .
  • (9) Since then, he has been travelling across Russia and the former Soviet republics in what at times appears to be a concerted effort to consort with the region's least savoury politicians.
  • (10) The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was employed to detect human papillomavirus (HPV) 16 and 18 in cytological samples from the uterine cervix and in urine samples from the male consorts.
  • (11) The sexual consorts of confirmed and suspected STD patients must be promptly evaluated and treated of disease spread is to be curtailed.
  • (12) "The emphasis so far in Qatar has been on literacy, and our second challenge is how to move from literacy to literature to create a culture," said Abdel-Rahman Azzam, a spokesman for Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned, the emir's consort and the chair of the Qatar Foundation.
  • (13) In all but seven instances, the gonococci isolated from different sites of the same patient, or from a consort, had the same nutritional requirements and penicillin MIC.
  • (14) The executive offices overlook a construction site: the trust is part-way through a reconstruction project, funded by a £200m private finance initiative deal with Balfour Beatty and Consort Healthcare.
  • (15) And, if one is not at the zenith of adulation of the Pacific islanders who believe the Prince to be the penis-gourd-sporting Melanesian Messiah, then, at the very least, the example of Britain's longest-serving monarchal consort is deserving of our – and, more specifically, the Duchess of Cambridge's – interest.
  • (16) In 18 male consorts of females with positive cultures, asymptomatic bacteriospermia was found.
  • (17) In mice, only strange male pheromones block pregnancy; pheromones of the familiar male with which the female has mated have the capacity to block pregnancy but are ineffective with the consort female.
  • (18) Of 98 male patients with non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU) who had regular female consorts who received concurrent epidemiological treatment, NGU recurred in four (16%) men whose treated partners were initially chlamydia positive and 20 (27%) men whose treated partners were initially chlamydia negative.
  • (19) He became known as "Wally" after Wallis Simpson, consort of the abdicated Edward VIII and subsequent Duchess of Windsor.
  • (20) In most cases the role of a partner is performed by the consort (26.9%) or by a son or daughter (19.3%).