What's the difference between dickens and english?

Dickens


Definition:

  • (n. / interj.) The devil.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I write as someone who has devoted my professional life mainly to other 19th novelists than Dickens.
  • (2) More often, however, Dickens must have been fully conscious that he was playing at the very top of his game.
  • (3) Finally, a postscript offers a parallel between the writings of Charles Dickens and the pauper cemetery.
  • (4) Dickens's last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend , has a mysterious hero, John Rokesmith, who turns out to be someone different from the person we were told he was.
  • (5) London is seen as the home of publishing, a place that's kosher, where Dickens walked the streets."
  • (6) asked voter VaneWimsey, describing the author's final complete novel as "the great masterwork of Dickens's maturity".
  • (7) Clive Dickens, the programme and operations director of the station's new owner Absolute Radio and a former executive with Capital Radio, is tasked with building a new brand for the 15-year-old national music station.
  • (8) Nevertheless, Dickens's preoccupation with class in Great Expectations strikes a chord with Coltrane, who gives a good idea of what it means to him when he recalls coming across a few Bullingdon Club types outside a restaurant in Soho one night.
  • (9) Eliot's poem – composed in the emotional carnage of the post-second world war period – was originally entitled (borrowing, shamelessly, from Dickens's Our Mutual Friend), He Do the Police in Different Voices.
  • (10) Our Mutual Friend (monthly serial, May 1864-November 1865) Dickens's last completed novel is a marvel of play-acting and posturing, of taking on roles through delusion, calculation and ambition.
  • (11) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
  • (12) As well as being an actress, you're also a published journalist, have edited a book on film and are currently producing and writing a series on Dickens for the BBC.
  • (13) Dickens said he hoped the football would help drive awareness of the Absolute Radio brand, which has struggled to make an impact since it relaunched from Virgin Radio in 2008.
  • (14) There is still a sizeable chunk of the world which sees the English as top-hatted toffs who can be cruel to their urchins, so it remains to be seen what they will think after the British Council's celebrations of Charles Dickens' bicentenary.
  • (15) He has a well known soft spot for Middlemarch, and spent a good chunk of a speech at Brighton College in May extolling the virtues of teaching Shakespeare, Dickens, Tennyson, Blake and Eliot to primary pupils.
  • (16) Lesson I learned from Mr Dickens is not to worry about who is narrating.
  • (17) Coleridge, denouncing “a contemptible democratical oligarchy of glib economists”, asked: “Is the increasing number of wealthy individuals that which ought to be understood by the wealth of the nation?” Dickens did much with Carlyle’s despairing insight into cash payment as the “sole nexus” between human beings.
  • (18) But he did play Jane Austen's Willoughby in the BBC adaptation of Sense and Sensibility earlier this year, and now he plays Grey in The Duchess and soon we're going to see him as Steerforth in a TV adaptation of Dickens' David Copperfield, which may well feature britches.
  • (19) When I went to British film investors with stories of the black experience in a historical context, I was told verbatim: 'We're looking for Dickens or Austen.
  • (20) Diafra Sakho is vital for his goals and Andy Carroll’s fitness (as in Dickens’ Jarndyce and Jarndyce, we’re always awaiting a verdict) could be a key issue.

English


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.
  • (a.) See 1st Bond, n., 8.
  • (n.) Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons.
  • (n.) The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in America, India, and other countries.
  • (n.) A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.
  • (n.) A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball.
  • (v. t.) To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain.
  • (v. t.) To strike (the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it in addition to its forward motion a spinning motion, that influences its direction after impact on another ball or the cushion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
  • (2) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
  • (3) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
  • (4) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
  • (5) Three short reviews by Freud (1904c, 1904d, 1905f) are presented in English translation.
  • (6) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (7) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
  • (8) When we gave her a gift of a few books in English, she burst out crying.
  • (9) He was really an English public schoolboy, but I welcome the idea of people who are in some ways not Scottish, yet are committed to Scotland.
  • (10) Stations such as al-Jazeera English have been welcomed as a counterbalance to Western media parochialism.
  • (11) "If you are not prepared to learn English, your benefits will be cut," he said.
  • (12) To our knowledge, this is the first case to be reported in the English literature.
  • (13) Earlier this week the supreme court in London ruled against a mother and daughter from Northern Ireland who had wanted to establish the right to have a free abortion in an English NHS hospital.
  • (14) An ultrasonic system for measuring psychomotor behaviour is described, and then applied to compare the extent to which English and French students gesticulate.
  • (15) This paper reviews the epidemiologic studies of petroleum workers published in the English language, focusing on research pertaining to the petroleum industry, rather than the broader petrochemical industry.
  • (16) In the UK the twin threat of Ukip and the BNP tap into similar veins of discontent as their counterparts across the English channel.
  • (17) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
  • (18) This is the second report in the English literature on the familial occurrence of chronic active hepatitis type B.
  • (19) We have reported the first case in the English literature in which there is a strong association between long-term immunosuppressive therapy and squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus.
  • (20) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.

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