What's the difference between dean and dearn?

Dean


Definition:

  • (n.) A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
  • (n.) The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.
  • (n.) The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.
  • (n.) A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.
  • (n.) The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (2) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
  • (3) The club then brought in Darren Randolph, Dean Brill, Scott Flinders, Roman Larrieu, and Simon Royce on loan at various times."
  • (4) Dean Baquet, the managing editor in question, does admit in the piece that walking out was not perhaps the best thing for a senior editor like him to do.
  • (5) Crocker had retired from the government in April 2009, becoming dean of the Bush school of government and public service at Texas A&M University.
  • (6) A Benn family spokesperson said: "At the suggestion of the Speaker of the House of Commons and by agreement with the Lords Speaker, Black Rod and the dean of Westminster Abbey, an approach was made by Black Rod to the palace for agreement that Mr Benn's body rest in the chapel of St Mary Undercroft on the night before his funeral.
  • (7) The findings can be a starting point for faculty-dean dialogue about tenure expections.
  • (8) Nonetheless, the NSA persuaded Erwin Griswold, the former dean of Harvard law school, the then solicitor general of the United States, to knowingly lie to the United States supreme court that it was still a secret.
  • (9) The appearance of the enamel of their permanent teeth was assessed 11 years later (children aged 12-15 years) and recorded using Dean's and the FDI indices.
  • (10) Dean, who started working at the flagship A&F store on 11 June last year, told the tribunal: "I had been bullied out of my job.
  • (11) The second episode, that of Dean Vaughan, has been reconstructed for the first time using the Broadlands Manuscripts of Lord Palmerston.
  • (12) Yu Hongchen, the vice dean of China’s football management centre, said Team China players had been left “heartbroken” by the defeat to Syria.
  • (13) Dean's system, however, has several shortcomings, principally its inability to measure fluorosis in different tooth surfaces.
  • (14) As dean of the Medical Faculty (1930-1931) or prodean (1931-1932) he had to resolve under complicated conditions of the general economic crisis many difficult problems of its further development and concept.
  • (15) The chairman is Lord Currie, dean of the business school at City University in London.
  • (16) 98, 491-505 (1984)] and G. L. Rice, J. W. Gray, P. N. Dean, and W. C. Dewey [Cancer Res.
  • (17) During the 1982-83 academic year, ten members of the College of Health Deans participated in a five-round Delphi study to identify objectives for schools of the allied health professions through the year 1991.
  • (18) Separately, in February a group of junior doctors at Tameside privately raised a number of concerns with the postgraduate medical dean for Greater Manchester, Jackie Hayden.
  • (19) Neighbor Dean McDaniel said he’d known the family for nearly 17 years, and remembered Abdulazeez as an elementary school student and teenager.
  • (20) Responses from faculty (nominated by their deans to answer the survey) from 82% of the medical schools indicated considerable agreement between the basic science teachers and clinical teachers on the relative importance of a set of biomedical concepts, and showed relatively minor levels of disagreement on how difficult these concepts are.

Dearn


Definition:

  • (a.) Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful.
  • (v. t.) Same as Darn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Making his announcement, Healey, MP for Wentworth and Dearne and a member of the party’s national executive, said he originally had no intention of standing but added: “I’ve been dismayed at how narrow and shallow Labour’s debate has been so far.” Writing for the Guardian , he said: “I know I’m a late entrant when others have been up and running for some time.
  • (2) The high court in London ordered Jane Collins to pay £54,000 each to Sarah Champion, Kevin Barron and John Healey, the MPs for Rotherham, Rother Valley, and Wentworth and Dearne respectively.
  • (3) Shadow minister for housing and planning John Healey, 55, MP for Wentworth and Dearne since 1997 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian In a shadow cabinet light on hands-on experience, Healey is notable for having done his job from the government benches; he served as housing minister under Brown from 2009-10, having been a junior minister since 2002.
  • (4) Transatlantic trade deal will undermine climate talks in favour of big business | Mark Dearn Read more It said the government must be allowed to expand the NHS without facing a legal challenge, and Brussels needed stronger evidence to back up its claim that the deal would bring a boost of £100bn a year to the UK.
  • (5) Speaking to Sky News in January last year, Caven Vines, the former leader of Ukip on Rotherham council, claimed that the MP for Wentworth and Dearne, John Healey, and the MP for Rother Valley, Sir Kevin Barron, “knew what was going on”.
  • (6) Privatising public services is no way to fund sustainable development | Mark Dearn and Meera Karunananthan Read more DfID has described its partnerships with the private sector as an “ engine of growth ”.
  • (7) Married to Ed Balls John Healey Votes 192 Age 50 Constituency Wentworth and Dearne Experience Former housing minister and prominent Balls supporter Ed Balls Votes 179 Age 43 Constituency Morley and Outwood Experience: Former children's secretary who failed in his bid to become Labour leader, partly because of his very close association with Gordon Brown Andy Burnham Vote 165 Age 40 Constituency Leigh Experience Former health secretary who stood for the leadership as the non-metropolitan candidate Angela Eagle Votes 165 Age 49 Constituency Wallasey Experience Treasury minister and pensions minister under Brown.
  • (8) John Healey The former trade union and charity campaigner has been the MP for Wentworth and Dearne since 1997.
  • (9) He then met locals in Belford, Northumberland who have developed a cheap, effective system of “bunds” to protect themselves from flooding and in the Dearne Valley, Yorkshire where similar work is proposed.

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