What's the difference between debut and maiden?

Debut


Definition:

  • (n.) A beginning or first attempt; hence, a first appearance before the public, as of an actor or public speaker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meanwhile, Brighton rock duo Royal Blood top this week's album chart with their self-titled album, scoring the UK's fastest selling British rock debut in three years.
  • (2) Two decades after Donna Tartt soared to literary stardom with her debut The Secret History, the reclusive author is set to release her third novel this autumn.
  • (3) The story and the characters of Girl Online are mine.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Zoe Sugg, aka Zoella with her debut book ‘Girl Online’.
  • (4) As a result of a psychopathological total systems analysis of the debut of exogenously aggravated and nonaggravated paranoid schizophrenia the authors have revealed a significant interrelationship allowing the characterization of both general regularities of the "background" effect and individual characteristics secondary to a concrete nature of exogenous impact.
  • (5) The Guardian's Xan Brooks described Fruitvale Station as a "quietly gripping debut feature" in which "one has the sense of a man being slowly, surely written back into being" after the film's Cannes screening in May.
  • (6) The appearance of a band with lean, spiky songs, high cheekbones and excellent trousers was therefore the cause of considerable excitement, to which they mischievously alluded in the title of their debut album, Is This It.
  • (7) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
  • (8) Justice League, a followup to Dawn of Justice featuring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, arrives in May 2017, with a film starring Flash and the Green Lantern debuting the following Christmas.
  • (9) Ellen Page is to make her directorial debut with Miss Stevens, starring Anna Faris as a teacher chaperoning a mob of high school students to a state drama competition.
  • (10) Immediately upon his election, Ryan debuted a new Twitter handle, @SpeakerRyan, with the message: “Let’s do this.” Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) Let's do this.
  • (11) That is the question facing Major League Baseball pitchers who are faced with the horrendous looking but protective hat that made its debut this week.
  • (12) "It was a great debut for Christian," said the Spurs manager.
  • (13) Leroy Sané, a substitute, slotted in seamlessly on his debut.
  • (14) No, what swung it for us was their debut album, An Awesome Wave, which has been rapturously received.
  • (15) Photograph: Redferns Maurice made his Broadway debut in 1875 in Pique.
  • (16) The debut of the film – before an audience of business journalists, film critics and a smattering of Wonga customers – comes before a grilling by MPs in Westminster on Tuesday as calls grow for tighter curbs on payday lenders.
  • (17) Before we meet, I have to have a stern talk with myself about not mentioning the game last August in which all Arsenal fans will contend that Barton got new signing Gervinho sent off on his debut; he's had similarly abrasive encounters since with fellow midfielders, Karl Henry from Wolves and Norwich's Bradley Johnson, the latter earning him a three-match ban.
  • (18) This season’s other much awaited debut will be Natalia Osipova , dancing her first Kitri with the Royal later this month.
  • (19) It was a good, fair deal, and three days after signing, on 29 October 1960, Clay made his debut as a pro and defeated in six one-sided rounds Tunney Hunsaker, a former chief police officer, in Louisville’s packed Freedom Hall.
  • (20) Deft and perceptive, with the ability to contribute his share of goals, Eriksen made his Eredivisie debut at 17 and received his first senior cap at 18, making him the country's youngest international since Michael Laudrup.

Maiden


Definition:

  • (n.) An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.
  • (n.) A female servant.
  • (n.) An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.
  • (n.) A machine for washing linen.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.
  • (a.) Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt.
  • (a.) Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
  • (a.) Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated.
  • (v. t.) To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Her maiden speech in parliament celebrated the diversity of her beloved Yorkshire constituency, and passionately made the case that there is more that unites us than divides us.
  • (2) In case you've managed to avoid gatherings where it's been discussed (which is a long shot, but perhaps your friends are hard, angry, silent drinkers, in which case, you've got lucky), this involves combining the name of your first pet with your mother's maiden name to create the pseudonym you'd use if you were a porn star.
  • (3) Restricted franchise in EU referendum would make a mockery of democracy | Letters Read more My own interest in this matter goes back many years – including devoting my maiden speech in the House of Commons in 2001 to the case for lowering the voting age to 16 across the board.
  • (4) Breakthrough as US and China agree to ratify Paris climate deal Read more The prime minister used her maiden speech at the United Nations in New York to say the UK remained determined to “play our part in the international effort against climate change … In a demonstration of our commitment to the agreement reached in Paris, the UK will start its domestic procedures to enable ratification of the Paris agreement and complete these before the end of the year,” she said.
  • (5) Experiences in practice in an area with a high infection rate have shown an obvious protection in 700 maiden heifers.
  • (6) Search options include an individual veteran's name (either maiden or married) and section, location or building choices.
  • (7) He is the third major summer recruit for Bilic before West Ham’s maiden season at the Olympic Stadium following the arrivals of the midfielder Havard Nordtveit and the Algerian international winger Sofiane Feghouli .
  • (8) That's been good for small towns like Maiden, which has sold itself to tech companies as a "data centre corridor" by offering cheap electricity.
  • (9) It prompted him to field nine changes, giving debuts to Seb Lletget, Danny Whitehead and Callum Driver, with George Moncur making a maiden start.
  • (10) He joined the upper house and made his maiden speech, another clue to the future Cantuar.
  • (11) After the wedding, she found herself at the receiving end of good ol’ southern disapproval when she decided to keep her maiden name – an act that was seen as virtually seditious in unreconstructed 1970s Arkansas.
  • (12) • You can invest in a co-operative formed to help finance the restoration and regeneration of Unity Hall in Wakefield , which, during its lifetime, has hosted everything from silent movies to gigs by Bauhaus, Captain Beefheart, the Human League and Iron Maiden, among others.
  • (13) Talking og maidens, here's Ravi Nair confiding in us: "You asked for our worst defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory stories so maybe this'll make you feel better.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mhairi Black gives her maiden speech Students and other young people on Twitter and Tumblr said they were inspired by Black’s age and example.
  • (15) Murray earned $1.9m (£1.1m) for his maiden major victory to go with career earnings of $21.5m (£13.4m) and is worth £24m through endorsements and prize-money; Perry turned pro after beating Budge and made much more through his famous shirts than he ever did with a tennis racket.
  • (16) Between 1982 and 1985, 1015 mares were evaluated using the following parameters: age, mare status (maiden, barren, lactating), Caslick index, Caslick operation, ovarian cycle, ovarian and follicular size, treatments (hCG and intrauterine infusions), number of ovulations after mating (184 mares), number of conceptuses present, dimensions of embryonic vesicles, and pregnancy status 45 days after mating.
  • (17) Nine galleries narrate the tale, from context-setting in boomtown early 1900s Belfast, through construction and fitting-out, all the way to the launch and catastrophic maiden voyage.
  • (18) The brothers moved in different circles; the elder is a self-confessed “metalhead” who had been to the Manchester arena to watch Iron Maiden a week before Martyn – a Coronation Street superfan described by one friend as a “one-man hen party” – went to see Ariana Grande.
  • (19) Grainge was bullish that the enforced asset sale – which will include EMI operations in nine European countries and labels such as Chrysalis, Mute and Sanctuary, home to artists including Spandau Ballet, Depeche Mode and Iron Maiden respectively – will draw premium bids and that Universal will not lose out by offloading them.
  • (20) Tracing would be easier and less expensive if standard identifying information, including maiden name, social security number, and date of birth, were included in the medical records for all women.