What's the difference between dominie and schoolmaster?

Dominie


Definition:

  • (n.) A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
  • (n.) A clergyman. See Domine, 1.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The fundamental barrier we still need to overcome is people understanding what housing does, and the breadth and depth of the best housing providers," argues Domini Gunn, director of health and wellbeing at the Chartered Institute of Housing .
  • (2) Structure analysis involving IR and NMR techniques and recognition by polyclonal human renin antibodies provides support for a beta-hairpin secondary structure of the cyclized peptides identical with that presented by the flap section in the speculative human renin model [Blundell, T., Sibanda, B. L., & Pearl, L. (1983) Nature (London) 304, 273-275; Sibanda, B. L., Blundell, T., Hobart, P. M., Fogliano, M., Bindra, J. S., Dominy, B. W., & Chirgwin, J. M. (1984) FEBS Lett.
  • (3) Domini’s Adam Kanzer says companies should work to reform the corporate tax system, even if that means paying more taxes.
  • (4) It’s short-sighted,” says Adam Kanzer , general counsel and managing director of Domini Social Investments.
  • (5) Dominy's work often brought my father to Washington, and he was able to stay over on August 28 to attend the March.
  • (6) Domini this year filed a shareholder resolution to reform Google's tax-avoidance strategy.
  • (7) After many years of unemployment, the publicity for the case quickly brought Green a job offer, flying for the Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Floyd E. Dominy.

Schoolmaster


Definition:

  • (n.) The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, disciplines and directs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Herbert Ross's Goodbye Mr Chips (1969), based on the Terence Rattigan stage play, he won hearts as well as minds with a tender performance as the shy schoolmaster who falls in love with Petula Clark, and in 1972 he gave an extraordinary turn in a cult movie rarely revived now, Peter Medak's The Ruling Class, in which he played a young man who succeeds to an earldom after the ageing incumbent dies in an auto-erotic strangling incident, and reveals that he believes himself to be Jesus Christ.
  • (2) Chris Keates, the general secretary of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, said: “Had the review body not been constrained by the arbitrary pay cap imposed by the government, there is no doubt that it would have been recommending a pay uplift higher than 1% for teachers.” Kevin Courtney, acting general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), said it was “shameful” that Morgan had failed to address the STRB’s concerns over staff shortages.
  • (3) Chris Keates, general secretary of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, said: "It's what lies behind the figures, rather than the figures themselves, which should be the focus of attention.
  • (4) In another age, he might have become a schoolmaster or a colonial civil servant.
  • (5) Or Johnson, E – said, with accompanying admonitory finger-wagging and in a schoolmasterly tone by tweeters, emailers, etc up until that last, goal-scoring moment.
  • (6) For 10 years, Rolfe was a provincial schoolmaster and would-be Roman Catholic priest.
  • (7) He contributed to two more Granada anthologies, Nightingale's Boys (1975) exploring an old schoolmaster's reunion with a succession of former pupils, and Red Letter Day (1976), the challenge of which title provoked an incestuous comic masterpiece from Rosenthal, Ready When You Are, Mr McGill, in the same year.
  • (8) Graham Chapman recalled Davies as "not a very human person … if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster".
  • (9) His schoolmaster's voice, formal and clipped, softens at last into something approaching bemusement.
  • (10) To lecture China like a schoolmaster and with a sense of superiority is not acceptable.
  • (11) With his father standing on the steps in his corner, clapping impatiently like a schoolmaster, Eubank swished air way too often in the first five rounds.
  • (12) Chris Keates, general secretary of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, couches her remarks in broad political terms – she's due to have her first official meeting with Wilshaw later this week.
  • (13) "I'm one of those people who was told by schoolmasters that he liked the sound of his own voice," he has said.
  • (14) A schoolmasterly, sometimes even hectoring, campaigner known as Sascha in reference to his Russian roots, he led the Greens from 1997 to 2008, turning the party into the country’s fourth biggest political force and stepping down only after elections in which it lost votes for the first time in a decade.
  • (15) After Makerere University, in Kampala, he taught for three years, admitting, later in life, that he was a schoolmaster by choice and a politician by accident.
  • (16) If it fails to do so, the NUT will proceed with its ballot and – based on the combative mood in Harrogate – go ahead even without support from its fellow teaching trade union, the more moderate NASUWT (National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers).

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