What's the difference between cortege and posse?

Cortege


Definition:

  • (n.) A train of attendants; a procession.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I was five when taken on a dark winter morning to see George VI’s funeral cortege pass by.
  • (2) People flocked to a crematorium where a private cremation will be held for a final glimpse of the cortege.
  • (3) Belaïd's death was described in his cortege as a new type of political murder.
  • (4) It was the day of the funeral of Jimmy Reid – the firebrand union leader who had kept the docks open by occupying them in the 1970s – and Ed joined the dockworkers who lined the streets as the cortege passed.
  • (5) I have few recollections of Thatcher after the slowly chauffeured, weepy Downing Street cortege.
  • (6) At noon, the cortege is due to leave the University of Leicester, where the archaeologists and academics have studied and guarded the monarch’s mortal remains since they were excavated from a council car park in August 2012.
  • (7) A factory was turned into a chapel today for the funeral of the Segway scooter owner Jimi Heselden, whose hundreds of workers lined the goods delivery bay and staff car park as his cortege arrived draped in flowers.
  • (8) The protest was led by a group dressed in black suits and masks and carrying umbrellas and briefcases to represent financial speculators, acting as the head of a funeral cortege mourning the death of Europe.
  • (9) This past Thursday, when Senator Kennedy's funeral cortege wound the 90 miles from the family compound on Cape Cod up to Boston, it made its way through a landscape littered with memorials to his siblings, his parents and his grandparents: Lt Joseph P Kennedy Jr Memorial School; the Kennedy Federal Building; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway (which is built over the old John F Fitzgerald expressway); the Robert Kennedy School; the JFK Presidential Library.
  • (10) As the funeral cortege made its way up Seville Place, flanked by five garda motorbike outriders, a train on the railway bridge over the street suddenly halted while thousands all around clapped and cheered.
  • (11) When recently his remains were brought home from New York for reburial, a military honour guard met the cortege and he was given a hero’s funeral.
  • (12) Even as her funeral procession wound through London streets some faced the cortege and bowed their heads in respect; others turned their backs.
  • (13) According to the Times of India newspaper, the funeral cortege took three hours to cover the five miles to the river from their ancestral home because of the crowds.
  • (14) Maclean is to be found in Eastwood cemetery in Glasgow's southern suburbs, where he was taken in 1923 with a crowd of thousands following the cortege.
  • (15) There was gentle clapping as the cortege, with police motorcycle escort, drove slowly through cordoned-off streets.
  • (16) When we reflect on Bieber's Louis Vuitton embossed, Lamborghini cortege it is easy to equate addiction with indulgence and immorality.
  • (17) Recently, I was travelling to visit my sick mother in hospital and they closed the road for an hour because Putin's cortege was taking him somewhere to drink tea with someone.
  • (18) Undeterred by heavy rain, about 100,000 people lined a 15km (nine-mile) route through the city-state to catch a glimpse of the funeral cortege.
  • (19) After he fled the capital, Yanukovych said, "bandits" had opened fire on his cortege, injuring one of his security officers.
  • (20) Three shootings over the weekend included the killing of a mourner at the wake for an earlier gun crime victim, whose cortege had been given a police escort amid fears of trouble.

Posse


Definition:

  • (n.) See Posse comitatus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are definitely elements of Clash of Clans in this Wild West-themed game, but it’s got a spark of originality too as you build your posse, explore the wild frontier and protect your town.
  • (2) N-(Tetrazol-5-yl)azetidin-2-ones were found to posses excellent activity.
  • (3) Leadership is not always about pyrotechnics at EU summits or staying one step ahead of the posse.
  • (4) Normally, amphetamine reduces grooming behavior, but since this reduction was greater in lead-reared than in control rats, the data suggest that for this measure the lead-reared rat may posses an increased sensitivity to amphetamines.
  • (5) In this simple sentiment we can find hope, as we can in the efforts of those cleaning up the debris and ash in bonhomous, broom-wielding posses.
  • (6) All GABAergic agents, except piracetam, were found to posses anticatatonic actions as they significantly blocked perphenazine-induced catatonia.
  • (7) According to the differentiations of the apical surface of the dendrites, it is possible to distinguish six different classes: a) dendrites with one cilium and 75 nm thick cytofila (sometimes dendrites of identical appearance posses more than one cilium); b)dendrites with several cilial and 150 nm thick cytofila; c) dendrites with several cilia, 50 nm thick cytofila, and long, striated rootlets; d) dendrites with several cilia bur without cytofila; e) dendrites with 130 nm thick cytofila but without cilia; and f) dendrites with 65 nm thick cytofila but without cilia; dendrites of this class are the only ones with a cytoplasm more electron dense than that of the surrounding supporting cells.
  • (8) He refers several times to Vaughan, Jonathan Ross, Chris Evans, and to the kind of "posse radio" spawned by Steve Wright.
  • (9) This microvascular difference may account for the susceptibility of the ganglia to metastases when compared to nerve trunks which posses unfenestrated endothelium and blood-nerve barrier.
  • (10) For the first time a new type of glia cells is described which are designated as astrocytic tanycyte; they posses the structural features of tanycytes as well as of astrocytes.--After adrenalectomy and castration the area of the glia is bigger in the external zone than in untreated animals.
  • (11) It has been stated that the neuromuscular spindles posses their own microcirculatory bed which is formed by the vessels of the surrounding muscular tissue, tends to separate in the course of development and subdivides into two parts: extracapsular and intracapsular.
  • (12) For example: Broker B: u see 3m jpy libor going anywhere btween [sic] now and IMM?4 Primary Submitter B : looks fairly static to be honest, poss more pressure on upside, but not a lot Broker B: Oh.
  • (13) These sites of staining have been shown, by other methods, to posses substantial Na+, K+-ATPase, indicating that the antibody recognizes antigenic determinants of the sodium pump highly conserved in the course of evolution.
  • (14) Benzophenanthridine alkaloids, fagaronine 4, O-methylfagaronine 5, nitidine 1, allonitidine 3 and methoxydihydronitidine 2 have been shown to posses inhibitory activity against reverse transcriptase of RNA tumor viruses.
  • (15) The intercellular spaces are considerably dilated, and the cells posses intracellular spaces having well developed microvilli.
  • (16) The kind of don who arrived in a smart restaurant while on the run at Nuevo Laredo, deep in the territory of an enemy cartel, had the doors locked by his men, who took all mobile phones from those dining, asked them to continue at his expense while he ate, then left with his posse.
  • (17) Characteristically, the avascular pole and the lateral margins of the cell posses predominantly stacked and whorled cisternae of agranular ER.
  • (18) It is concluded that the hepatic ALDH from rats posses in the active centre two SH-groups in close vicinity which can be oxidized slightly to the intramolecular disulfide and reduced again.
  • (19) So expansive, grateful and loyal is the fighter's posse he makes presidents jealous.
  • (20) In previous studies 1-methyl-2-nitro-1H-imidazole-5-carboxaldehyde and 1-methyl-2-nitro-5-vinyl-1H-imidazole were found to posses interesting antimicrobial activities.

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