What's the difference between courant and news?

Courant


Definition:

  • (a.) Represented as running; -- said of a beast borne in a coat of arms.
  • (p. pr.) A piece of music in triple time; also, a lively dance; a coranto.
  • (p. pr.) A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He could forget about mastering the tricky manoeuvres of the "coranto" or courante , and at last fall "to quiet of mind and business again".
  • (2) La circulation atmosphérique serait affectée, les courants-jets de latitude moyenne devraient se déplacer vers les pôles d’1 ou 2 degrés de latitude dans les deux hémisphères.
  • (3) Flow images caused by confluent axes of high-flow veins (internal iliac veins, renal veins) or layer courants (gutter effect) are presented as a reminder.
  • (4) M&S has managed a few coups of late – its terribly au courant blue metallic pencil skirt has been splashed across the style press this season, and ads campaigns featuring model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (who has also been the face of Burberry) have boosted the brand's credentials.
  • (5) It’s the widest beach on the coast and runs alongside the Courant d’Huchet nature reserve.
  • (6) You can walk along the banks of the courant (stream), which ends, 9km inland, at the freshwater Etang de Léon.
  • (7) Bateliers (from €13.50pp) offers a two-hour trip by boat down the courant d’Huchet to see the herons, otters and arum lilies.
  • (8) Connecticut newspaper the Hartford Courant – 50 miles from Newtown – left it to resident cartoonist Bob Englehart to deliver its response to the NRA's breaking of silence.
  • (9) Daytrippers stay on Mimizan Plage Sud for surfing, or the riverbank Plage du Courant for swimming.
  • (10) Samir Nasri Official (@SamNasri19) Merci a tous pour vos messages je serai indisponible pour 8 semaines je vous tiens au courant de l'evolution de la blessure January 13, 2014 "Thank you everyone for your kind words and overwhelming support, I suppose its kind of good news that I will be out around 8 weeks," he tweeted.
  • (11) Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.
  • (12) Its parent company, Tribune, owns seven other papers including the Chicago Tribune and the Hartford Courant.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dessert at Ô Courant, Mimizan One hundred years ago, the only sporting activity was hunting.
  • (14) Restaurant Ô Courant has views of both and a lunchtime special of starter, main course, cheese and dessert all on the same plate for €15.

News


Definition:

  • (n) A report of recent occurences; information of something that has lately taken place, or of something before unknown; fresh tindings; recent intelligence.
  • (n) Something strange or newly happened.
  • (n) A bearer of news; a courier; a newspaper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lucy and Ed will combine coverage of hard and breaking news with a commitment to investigative journalism, which their track record so clearly demonstrates”.
  • (2) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
  • (3) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
  • (4) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
  • (5) Fatah leader Yahya Rabah said the organisation would celebrate "with our brothers in Hamas", the Ma'an news agency reported.
  • (6) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
  • (7) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
  • (8) And perhaps it’s this longevity that accounts for her popularity: a single tweet from Williams (who has 750,000 followers) about the series will prompt a Game Of Thrones news story.
  • (9) Channel 4 News said on Friday that Manji and the programme’s producer, ITN, had made an official complaint to press regulator Ipso.
  • (10) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
  • (11) The detail of all of that will come over the coming months,” Cormann told Sky News.
  • (12) We are firmly opposed to that," an unidentified spokesman from the ministry of industry and information technology told the state news agency, Xinhua.
  • (13) One might expect that a similar news spike and rebounding of support for stricter gun control can happen, given President Obama's new push.
  • (14) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
  • (15) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
  • (16) Meanwhile the Brooklyn Nets, who have been dealing with nothing but bad news since the start of the regular season, will be without Paul Pierce for 2-4 weeks, also due to a right hand fracture.
  • (17) The New York Times also alleged that the Met had not passed full details about how many people were victims of the illegal practice to the CPS because it has a history of cooperation with News International titles.
  • (18) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
  • (19) Prof Bryan Williams, chair of the working party that developed the chart, said: "Many changes in healthcare are incremental but this new National Early Warning Score (News) has the potential to transform patient safety in our hospitals and improve patient outcomes.
  • (20) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.

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