What's the difference between dearest and love?

Dearest


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Managers scurry back and forth across the Atlantic with advance copies handcuffed to their wrists, critics are required to sign contracts promising that they will not so much as hum the contents to their nearest and dearest, and the music press acts as if the world is about to witness the most significant release since Nelson Mandela's.
  • (2) It's a perfect line, that sums up not only the dearest wish of every character in the film (and some might say those outside it), but also one that lays the foundations for the film we're discussing now, Beginners.
  • (3) I write articles on subjects I'd previously kept secret from my nearest and dearest.
  • (4) Dorothy Rowe, the author of My Dearest Enemy, My Dangerous Friend: Making and Breaking Sibling Bonds, told me three years ago : "Most of us like to be seen to behave well, even if in private we're not.
  • (5) She was one of the most mature users of Twitter and her Twitter feed was so Tayloresque as to be nigh-on parodic, mixing passionate defences of Jackson with shout-outs to reality TV android Kim Kardashian and the occasional – and necessary – denials that she had re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-remarried ("Jason is my dearest friend!"
  • (6) Predominantly, rural Scotland (143.4p), Wales (143.1p) and Northern Ireland (143p) are the dearest for diesel, with London the cheapest at 141.8p a litre.
  • (7) In a heartfelt statement last night, Thatcher said he had been one of her 'closest political and dearest friends', and would be missed by millions of people who now lived in freedom thanks to his administration: 'Ronald Reagan had a higher claim than any other leader to have won the Cold War for liberty, and he did it without a shot being fired.
  • (8) Dearest addresses 1 Campden Hill Square Kensington and Chelsea, west London, (average property price £4.9m) 2 Parkside Merton, London, south-west London (£4.8m) 3 Drayton Gardens Kensington and Chelsea (£4.4m) 4 Dawson Place Kensington and Chelsea (£3.89m) 5 Duchess Of Bedford's Walk Kensington and Chelsea (£3.86m) 6 Cadogan Square Kensington and Chelsea (£3.7m) 7 Hamilton Terrace Westminster (£3.62m) 8 Cedar Park Gardens Merton London, (£3.6m) 9 Bramerton Street Kensington and Chelsea (£3.52m) 10 Hampstead Lane Camden (£3.5m)
  • (9) It was only when she discovered her phone had been hacked on an industrial scale (she changed her number three times in three months, but it never did any good) that she realised all her nearest and dearest were blameless.
  • (10) Ikea has finally broken this silence, calling upon us to stop taking pictures of our food using our dearest role models: the landed gentry of 17th-century Europe.
  • (11) Yet, despite this, he displays little interest in talking about those who have taken up the causes dearest to his heart.
  • (12) Tory donor Theodore Agnew is rumoured to be replacing Lady Morgan, while the Department for Education is so full of donors and cronies it is starting to look like a get together for Gove and Cameron's nearest and dearest.
  • (13) Another tactic some partners have is to set aside a little time each day to think about the dangers their nearest and dearest are facing and thus try to control or contain the anxiety.
  • (14) Jos Dings, its director, laughs: “I could say it changed everything overnight, but in the first vote two days ago on real driving emissions, some of our dearest member states – including Britain and Germany – stuck, in an inexplicable way, to short-term measures.” The European commission has delayed more stringent tests by a year , allowing engines to emit more than twice the legal limit of nitrogen oxides until 2021.
  • (15) One refugee, Bashir, 20, a film student from Raqqa in Syria, said: “All of my nearest and dearest have left Syria and my family is doing the same.
  • (16) The result is that at times Battle Hymn reads like an American-Asian version of Mommie Dearest .
  • (17) To retreat now, I believe, would put at hazard all that we hold dearest, turn the UN back into a talking shop, stifle the first steps of progress in the Middle East; leave the Iraqi people to the mercy of events on which we would have relinquished all power to influence for the better.
  • (18) Henry writes: Newly released figures this afternoon from the Republic's Central Statistics Office reveals that Ireland is the fifth dearest nation in the EU.
  • (19) In his speech last Friday at Nike’s headquarters in Oregon, Obama said unions have been “fellow travelers” with him on increasing the minimum wage and job training, but he added: “On trade, I actually think some of my dearest friends are wrong.
  • (20) But when I tried this theory out on one of my nearest and dearest, the answer was simple: "MacAskill hasn't the balls."

Love


Definition:

  • (n.) A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.
  • (n.) Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex.
  • (n.) Courtship; -- chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.
  • (n.) Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; -- opposed to hate; often with of and an object.
  • (n.) Due gratitude and reverence to God.
  • (n.) The object of affection; -- often employed in endearing address.
  • (n.) Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.
  • (n.) A thin silk stuff.
  • (n.) A climbing species of Clematis (C. Vitalba).
  • (n.) Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc.
  • (n.) To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love one's country; to love one's God.
  • (n.) To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other.
  • (n.) To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures.
  • (v. i.) To have the feeling of love; to be in love.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
  • (2) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
  • (3) To many he was a rockstar, to me he was simply 'Dad', and I loved him hugely.
  • (4) She loved us and we loved her.” “We would have loved to have had a little grandchild from her,” she says sadly.
  • (5) My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or been injured in this barbaric attack.
  • (6) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
  • (7) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
  • (8) Clute and Harrison took a scalpel to the flaws of the science fiction we loved, and we loved them for it.
  • (9) "I loved being a man-woman," he says of the picture.
  • (10) True Love Impulse Body Spray, Simple Kind to Skin Hydrating Light Moisturiser and VO5 Styling Mousse Extra Body marked double-digit price rises on average across the four chains.
  • (11) There is a heavy, leaden feeling in your chest, rather as when someone you love dearly has died; but no one has – except, perhaps, you.
  • (12) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
  • (13) But in Annie Hall the mortality that weighs most heavily is the mortality of his love affair.
  • (14) Ultimately, both Geffen and Browne turned out to be correct: establishing the pattern for Zevon's career, the albums sold modestly but the critics loved them.
  • (15) Case histories Citing some or all of the following cases makes you look knowledgeable: * Wilson v Love (1896) established that a charge was a penalty if it did not relate to the true cost of an item.
  • (16) He loved that I had a politics degree and a Masters.
  • (17) The people who will lose are not the commercial interests, and people with particular vested interests, it’s the people who pay for us, people who love us, the 97% of people who use us each week, there are 46 million people who use us every day.” Hall refused to be drawn on what BBC services would be cut as a result of the funding deal which will result in at least a 10% real terms cut in the BBC’s funding.
  • (18) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
  • (19) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
  • (20) The Commons will love it,” Chairman Jez Cor-Bao had said.