What's the difference between coupon and ticket?

Coupon


Definition:

  • (n.) A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.
  • (n.) A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The probability of finding a contaminated coupon in any pack after 50 weeks was 0.018.
  • (2) After disappointing performances from games group Zynga and coupon network Groupon, Facebook may prefer to avoid a fall in the weeks after it goes public by pricing at the lower end of expectations.
  • (3) Patients were asked to complete a questionnaire and given a coupon that could be exchanged for 3 regular and 3 lubricated condoms.
  • (4) For example, buy a £50 gift card at Morrisons to spend in Topshop, Next or H&M and you get a coupon for 5p off each litre of fuel.
  • (5) During two of the intervention procedures used in the additive design, the patient could earn coupon booklets from the hospital commissary if his daily average urine sugar levels were less than a set criterion.
  • (6) Children and parents in schools 1 and 2 received literature about bicycle safety and discount coupons for helmet purchase.
  • (7) "With the ability to print travel tickets, e-coupons for discounts, and even your Facebook gallery, all can be done wirelessly via smartphones and tablets if your printer has this facility."
  • (8) No significant differences were found between pigmented or clear coupons which contained moisture.
  • (9) From the above results, the inclusion of a fourth stage is suggested for further studies where the application of economy of coupons would gradually disappear until a desired behavior is maintained.
  • (10) The recent advent of new advertising campaigns for infant formulas aimed at the general public via television commercials, newspapers, free formula coupons, and lay periodicals has disrupted a comfortable symbiotic relationship between infant food manufacturers and the medical profession that has endured for more than 50 years.
  • (11) Do you want people to turn off the lights because they will get a coupon or because they have some ethical, environmental concerns?
  • (12) "My sister lives in Italy and here local supermarket has a very inviting offer on: do a big shop there on the day of an Italy match, and if Italy win the game you will be given a coupon for the amount that you spent, entitling you to free goods of the same value next time you come," warbles Peter Jenkins.
  • (13) All participants completed the AIDS Knowledge Questionnaire-Revised, the AIDS Attitude Survey, a self-report measure of condom use and received a coupon that could be exchanged for free condoms from the hospital pharmacy.
  • (14) The government will also provide around 40bn yuan in coupons to allow farmers to buy appliances, farm machinery, cars and motorbikes as part of an attempt to stimulate domestic consumption.
  • (15) The company sells coupons offering discounts, taking a cut in any money the business makes.
  • (16) A pattern was detected for all test groups of early initial bone ingrowth by two weeks, which became maximal at six to twelve weeks, followed by remodelling to a more mature lamellar bone and later resorption by 24 weeks, with fibrous tissue interfaces covering the smooth test coupons of all groups at all times.
  • (17) Seventy-six white and black low-income families were interviewed weekly during 1 month to determine how much they spent on food using Food Stamps, WIC coupons, and cash and how much additional food they obtained from different food and meals programs.
  • (18) (1.27-cm)-square stainless-steel coupons, and coupons were suspended in the centrifuge chamber, the space between the refrigeration can and the barrier ring (inner gap), and the space between the barrier ring and the vacuum ring (outer gap).
  • (19) There is no maximum spend on gift cards (redeemable at more than 50 different retailers) but the coupons last only 63 days from the date of issue.
  • (20) Coupons offering $10 off at Radioshack, a retailer that announced the closure of up to 1,100 stores last year , are still scattered about the tile floors.

Ticket


Definition:

  • (v.) A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.
  • (v.) A little note or notice.
  • (v.) A tradesman's bill or account.
  • (v.) A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket.
  • (v.) A label to show the character or price of goods.
  • (v.) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.
  • (v.) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot.
  • (v. t.) To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 2013, the town’s municipal court generated $221,164 (or $387 for each of its residents), with much of the fees coming from ticketing non-residents.
  • (2) "It's a ticket that is going to win in order to bring out an agenda of transformation.
  • (3) So if you are, for example, going on maternity leave in 17 weeks' time you can ask the booking office for a 17-week season ticket, which will be cheaper than buying a series of monthlies and weeklies.
  • (4) Rawlins bought a stake in Stoke City in 2000, where he'd been a season ticket-holder from the age of five, after selling off his IT consultancy company and joined the board.
  • (5) Manchester United Would you vote in favour of a £30 cap on away tickets?
  • (6) Another was a mock-up of a speeding ticket for Mr G Bale, Campeón de Copa, for overtaking recklessly, crossing a continuous white line.
  • (7) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
  • (8) Train companies are making passengers pay disproportionate penalties for having the wrong ticket and criminalising people who have no intention of dodging fares, a government watchdog has warned.
  • (9) Like Donald Trump’s campaign today, the Know Nothings (who watered down their name to the “American Party” in 1856 when Fillmore ran for president on their ticket) appealed to those who saw native-born Americans losing out to immigrants.
  • (10) During Nicolas Sarkozy's unsuccessful 2012 re-election campaign she was mocked for not knowing the price of an underground train ticket (she said €4 instead of €1.70).
  • (11) "The soaring cost of air travel will ultimately be a small factor in increased rail fares, as the ONS said plane tickets pushed the inflation index higher.
  • (12) It went ahead with the hospitality on Monday and Tuesday – using around 96 tickets – but has called off all further formal entertainment.
  • (13) In 2004, fewer than 100,000 tickets were sold for arena standup gigs.
  • (14) Buy carnet tickets Carnets were introduced by First Capital Connect to offer slightly lower fares to those who travel into London two or three times a week, but not enough to make it cost-effective to buy a season ticket.
  • (15) But homewares, which Street calls the store chain's "point of fame", are well down as a result of fewer people moving house and therefore not popping in to John Lewis to order big-ticket items such as carpets, curtains and furniture.
  • (16) Last week, it emerged that the firm was sending out tickets to members of the public that were originally intended for Games sponsors.
  • (17) Yet here comes Bloomberg — a former Democrat turned Republican turned independent who many thought might run for president himself on a third-party ticket — throwing his support behind Obama , citing climate as the proximate reason for his hop off the fence: Our climate is changing.
  • (18) And I decided that the best way for me to come to America was to become a bodybuilding champion, because I knew that was the ticket the instant that I saw a magazine cover of my idol, Reg Park.
  • (19) Liverpool’s Ian Ayre urges fans to ‘look at facts’ over ticket prices Read more The FSF chief executive, Kevin Miles, who has been leading its Twenty’s Plenty campaign for a £20 cap, said: “We are incredibly disappointed to learn that a proposed cap on away ticket prices was voted down by the Premier League clubs yesterday in a secret ballot.
  • (20) • San Francisco fans may struggle to get hold of a ticket to their game in Seattle on Sunday, after the Seahawks restricted sales to just six US states and two Canadian provinces .