What's the difference between countryman and swain?

Countryman


Definition:

  • (n.) An inhabitant or native of a region.
  • (n.) One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun.
  • (n.) One who dwells in the country, as distinguished from a townsman or an inhabitant of a city; a rustic; a husbandman or farmer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Miliband said he had been "right" to raise the past record of MEP Michał Kamiński despite the insistence of Poland's chief rabbi that his countryman was not antisemitic, despite his "problematic" past.
  • (2) Thomas Countryman, former US acting undersecretary for arms control and international security, commented: “It’s an indication of how rapidly our standards are falling when we’re reasonably pleased that President Trump has not made an obvious error.” Pre-meeting hype had focused on whether Trump would confront Putin over Russia’s interference in the US election.
  • (3) The resident EBV genome was simultaneously induced to replicate by using a cotransfected expression plasmid for the EBV immediate-early transactivator, Z (J. Countryman, H. Jenson, R. Seibl, H. Wolf, and G. Miller, J. Virol.
  • (4) The late Peter Porter called his fellow countryman "the custodian of Australia's soul".
  • (5) Waterford Crystal itself, set up in 1947 by the Czech emigré Karel Bacik, became an astonishing success, pushed along by the design skills of his fellow countryman "Paddy" [Miroslav] Havel .
  • (6) While Fiorentina’s Juan Cuadrado is not thought to be high on Van Gaal’s list, the Ajax midfielder Daley Blind, is on the manager’s radar, along with countryman Stefan de Vrij, the Feyenoord defender, and Arsenal’s Thomas Vermaelen, though it is not thought any deal for him would currently involve a United player in part-exchange with Arsenal.
  • (7) Sinclair is now at Villa , Rodwell at Sunderland and their countryman James Milner has left City for Liverpool .
  • (8) Trump had accepted Putin’s assurances, Countryman said: “It certainly was the minimum that any US president should have done in this situation.
  • (9) Garcès will take charge of Saturday’s clash between South Africa and New Zealand, with his countryman Romain Poite and Ireland’s John Lacey appointed as assistant referees.
  • (10) In the 1960s he lived mostly in Europe, especially Paris, where he met and mixed with other writers, from his fellow countryman Octavio Paz to the Cuban Alejo Carpentier and the Argentinian Julio Cortázar.
  • (11) Scott, a farmer and countryside campaigner, is better known co-presenter of the BBC2 series Clarissa and the Countryman with Clarissa Dickson Wright.
  • (12) There was even a joke with his countryman, William Shatner, about signs of life on the blue planet below.
  • (13) You look at the new Mini – the new Mini came out and then there were two or three different engine variants but now there is the Mini convertible, the Mini Countryman, the Mini which is bigger.
  • (14) I want to enjoy this win but I will fight anyone.” Groves’ previous two losses in world title fights came to countryman Carl Froch.
  • (15) So he sold his British racing green Speedster and bought the sensible Countryman model, the one with two creaky back doors.
  • (16) In September, launching the consultation, Paice said: "As a countryman my view is that free shooting would, in most cases, be by far the most effective option."
  • (17) Micronuclei (MN) were scored according to Countryman's standard, and 2000 interphase was observed in each subject of CVMN frequency.
  • (18) When the minister for the natural environment and fisheries, Richard Benyon , last week posted a picture on Facebook of himself bravely pulling up a ragwort plant while being watched by a quizzical cow, he probably thought the image of a true countryman being tough on weeds would go down well with the voters.
  • (19) While Ross could not sue for libel across the Atlantic, his threatened action for libel forced the publisher of the British edition of Microbe Hunters to delete the chapter about Ross and one about David Bruce, Ross's countryman.
  • (20) But she is not getting the ultimate accolade – granted to Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi, Barack Obama, or her countryman Pope Benedict – of giving a joint address in Westminster Hall.

Swain


Definition:

  • (n.) A servant.
  • (n.) A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Val Swain, spokesperson for Netpol, a police monitoring group, said: "The Saturday protest is certainly an event that people are traveling to.
  • (2) In the future, says Kalixa’s Colin Swain, even window cleaners and other small trades people will be able to accept cards.
  • (3) Photograph: Jon Swaine for the Guardian However, the shop was then looted during Monday’s unrest, said the shop owner, who is Korean and speaks little English.
  • (4) Taking a value of the Swain-Scott nucleophilicity (n) of 2.5 for an average DNA nucleotide unit [Walles & Ehrenberg (1969) Acta Chem.
  • (5) There is no correlation between the Swain-Scott factors of monofunctional alkylants and their ability to induce chromosomal damage when compared in terms of pharmacological doses.
  • (6) The physical risk to Wesley himself is obvious and outrageous.” Earlier, the Guardian’s Jon Swaine posted pictures and video of heavily armed police pushing protesters back down the streets, and an image he believed to be of the two reporters being arrested.
  • (7) Updated at 1.27am BST 10.02pm BST US vice-president Joe Biden says MH17 was "blown out of the sky" , as the Guardian's Jon Swaine quotes him in full comments from his speech in Detroit.
  • (8) Nigel Swain University of Liverpool I just don’t recognise Viktor Orbán as a ‘tyrant’ | Tibor Fischer Read more • As a keen reader of his novels, I was disappointed with Tibor Fischer’s article.
  • (9) The Swains, with their tiny toilet, which empties into a leach pit – a hole in the ground used to compost faeces when there is no sewage system – are the face of progress.
  • (10) The nucleophilic selectivity (Swain-Scott's constant s) of chloroethylene oxide (CEO), an ultimate carcinogenic metabolite of vinyl chloride, was determined to be 0.71 using the 4-(p-nitrobenzyl)pyridine (NBP) assay (Spears method).
  • (11) In two examples which indicate how execution lengths have varied widely since the move to single-drug, 33-year-old Mario Swain was put to death on 8 November , 2012, for the murder of a woman a decade earlier.
  • (12) Entwistle's elevation creates another vacancy at the top of the corporation, with BBC1 controller Danny Cohen, another former Newsnight editor Peter Barron, who quit to join Google and Entwistle's number two Emma Swain, among the contenders to succeed him as head of BBC Vision.
  • (13) Val Swain, 44, another Fitwatch campaigner, said the post had been been a direct response to what she called the Telegraph's "rogues' gallery" and was never intended to divulge information that was not already "well known".
  • (14) On the basis of Orem's self-care framework, subjects' levels of knowledge in six criterion areas were assessed according to measurement criteria developed by Horn and Swain.
  • (15) Some examples of E lacking Knops, McCoy, Swain-Langley, and York antigens, a serologically related group, were not agglutinated.
  • (16) The presence of either excision-defective mutant can enhance the frequency of mutation (hypermutability) and this hypermutability can be correlated with the Swain-Scott constant S of specific AAs such that as the SN1 character of the DNA alkylation reaction increases, the difference in response between repair-deficient and repair-proficient females decreases.
  • (17) Their swains will arrive in white vests and ill-fitting suit trousers held up by braces.
  • (18) In the case of monofunctional agents, ENNG, ENU, DES and EMS there was a relationship between the induction of chromosome aberrations with the Swain-Scott S-value and O-alkylation with those agents with the lowest S-value and the highest proportion of O-alkylation producing chromosome aberrations at the lowest exposure concentrations.
  • (19) Two conceptual nursing models, Roy's adaptation model and Erickson and Swain's adaptive potential assessment model are explained, and knowledge is identified within these two assessment techniques for adaptation to stress.
  • (20) Some BBC insiders believe that Entwistle's No 2, Swain, is the most natural candidate to take over.