What's the difference between donative and patron?
Donative
Definition:
(n.) A gift; a largess; a gratuity; a present.
(n.) A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.
(a.) Vested or vesting by donation; as, a donative advowson.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reducing equivalents could be donated by formate or NADH through some segment of the membrane respiratory chain.
(2) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.
(3) Asked if his donation to Filner, who has a district about 2,500 miles from where Sharif lives, was because of his position on Iran and the MEK, Sharif said that it was.
(4) Documents seen by the Guardian show that blood supplies for one fiscal year were paid for by donations from America’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) – and both countries have imposed economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
(5) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(6) Enzyme-inhibiting ability for individual alkylphenols can be estimated based on the quantitative structure-activity relationship developed by Dewhirst (1980) and is a function of the free hydroxyl group, electron-donating ring substituents, and hydrophobic aromatic ring substituents.
(7) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(8) Second, at a time when efforts to improve the safety of commercial factor VIII have led to extraordinary increases in cost, factor VIII from plasma exchange donation promises to be relatively inexpensive.
(9) A comparison of the qualification of first time homologous and directed donations showed in our groups significant differences for HBsAg positivity, ESR and hemoglobin.
(10) The PTA take 25% of sales, and most parents donate unsold stock."
(11) The headline controversy is that, for the first time, following changes to the regulations, women can be paid for donation.
(12) To see whether the issue of AIDS has influenced the observed decline in blood donation in Scotland.
(13) In contrast, none of 16 women who had reached menopause and only two of 21 men required oral absorption of dietary or prescribed iron for the amount of blood iron donated.
(14) Planned Parenthood denies the accusations, saying it donates fetal tissue to medical research companies at no cost.
(15) Activity was insensitive to oxygen and CO if the substrates had no additional substituents on either ring or contained only electron-donating substituents.
(16) We infer that a 5' cap is present on both of these RNAs and conclude that the mini-exon-derived RNA donates its 5' cap along with the mini-exon sequence to the pre-mRNA.
(17) Communication issues in obtaining organ donation consent were examined, with particular focus on what are literally life-and-death decisions.
(18) Other health spending includes $10.2m to improve organ and tissue donation and transplantation rates.
(19) The San Antonio Food Bank says donations are up 16% But because of the cuts to Snap the supplies disappear faster.
(20) The commission heard AWH charged luxury accommodation in Queensland, limousine rides and Liberal party donations to Sydney Water.
Patron
Definition:
(n.) See Padrone, 2.
(v. t.) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor.
(n.) One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender.
(n.) A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him.
(n.) A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself.
(n.) An advocate or pleader.
(n.) One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art.
(n.) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
(n.) A guardian saint. -- called also patron saint.
(a.) Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one of the best of the recent ones ( Shakespeare Unbound , 2007) René Weis has a cool and illuminatingly open-minded analysis of whether the earlier sonnets (including 20) are directed at the young and glamorous Earl of Southampton, the poet’s patron and possible love object.
(2) The new slogan “for the thirsty” seems to lionise those who try different things: great for enticing new patrons but do you really want your loyal consumer base branching out beyond their usual pint?
(3) He has set up a "trade and growth" board for Scotland and will soon lead Scotland's "largest ever trade delegation to Brazil", a visit which will take place on St Andrew's Day, the patron saints day beloved by the nationalists.
(4) Immediately after the verdicts two Surrey-based charities, Shooting Star Chase and the Woking & Sam Beare Hospices, said that Clifford would no longer be their patron.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Charlie Webster explains her decision to quit as patron of Sheffield United She said: “At no point have Sheffield United acknowledged the extremity of his crime.
(6) In view of this, Hufeland has become a kind of 'patron saint' to modern chronobiologists.
(7) The bill should authorize stiff fines for unruly dog behavior – to include noise violations from sustained barking and lunging – and misdemeanor criminal penalties for menacing waitstaff and patrons.
(8) I went to the club twice and moved around, taking my photos without interacting much with any of the patrons,” McMullan recalled.
(9) He was the patron of an alternative medicine charity run by Dr Patrick Pietroni, who had a GP practice in the basement of Marylebone Church.
(10) If there is a patron saint of shorts in this country, then it is undoubtedly the Chungmeister, with her beloved denim hotpants and collection of lacy and smart city shorts.
(11) A former showgirl from the gravel pits of Wraysbury in Berkshire, Keeler was just 19 and was staying on the estate with her friend, patron and (some said) pimp, the society osteopath Stephen Ward.
(12) In the African American neighborhood south of the Midway, Gates gutted a string of condemned buildings and then turned them into sculpture, covertly turning his collectors into patrons of urban renewal .
(13) Litvinenko also received a regular stipend from the oligarch Boris Berezovsky , his friend and patron, who had arranged his escape from Russia in October 2000.
(14) Kabila's father, Laurent Kabila, had seized power with Rwandan help in 1997 only to then go to war with his former patrons and die by an assassin's bullet a little over three years later.
(15) They are thus funded or closed from season to season depending on the generosity of surrounding mines, the success of local art centres, and the sympathy of wealthy patrons.
(16) But we will support a secure and united Iraq as a partner, and never as a patron.
(17) He wants to style himself as patron of the most ambitious urban overhaul since Baron Haussmann dramatically changed the face of Paris in the mid-19th century when he carved out wide boulevards and the Champs Elysée.
(18) A spokesman for Prince Charles said: “The red squirrel is a most cherished and iconic national species, and, as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, the Prince of Wales keenly supports all efforts to conserve and promote their diminishing numbers.
(19) She gives the example of the Digismart scheme , of which she is a patron, which uses digital tools to mentor struggling school children, and has been introduced at 500 schools.
(20) Unlike the multi-racial community living and working in Woodstock , Cape Town’s oldest suburb, the vast majority of the Old Biscuit Mill’s patrons are white, while many of those serving in the food market and other businesses are black, as are the car guards and beggars outside.