What's the difference between driveway and private?

Driveway


Definition:

  • (n.) A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But it is difficult not to conclude that the survey, which ends on St Andrew’s day, 30 November, has been something of a fools errand for those loyal driveway-trampers.
  • (2) Partial surface capping, as would occur with driveways and patios, was found to have a minor effect on soil gas pressures.
  • (3) (There are expensive cars in his driveway, I later found, but he is still taken to the airport in a tiny old Peugeot 106 by a retired Maltese taxi driver named Charlie.)
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bill Earley's cleans off his driveway in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
  • (5) I sat in the driveway eating takeaways when I couldn't face going inside and drove for miles singing my heart out to Springsteen songs, tears running down my face.
  • (6) A high proportion of toddler injuries occurred in residential driveways and were caused by vehicles backing up.
  • (7) Although the majority of pedestrian fatalities to older children have been shown to be due to "dart-outs" into traffic with the child being struck by an oncoming car, pedestrian fatality incident for children less than five tended to occur when the child was backed over in the home driveway by the family van or light truck driven by a parent.
  • (8) Photograph: Mae Ryan for the Guardian On our last morning in town, Deb intercepted me in the driveway to explain how fragile I was.
  • (9) Anyhow, if the Edstone is living a new life as a driveway on the south coast, we need to know about it.
  • (10) Then in August the convoy of the EU ambassador was shot at by the hotel's driveway entrance.
  • (11) This is important for a number of reasons: • It means residents are not just forgotten people who live down the end of a driveway.
  • (12) Nyamwasa was shot in the stomach in 2010 as he drove into the driveway of his upmarket Johannesburg home.
  • (13) The letter stated: “The properties are mostly houses with a low rental charge and normally come with access to a garden and in some instances have a private driveway.
  • (14) Another approach is to slow down water runoff with grass roofs, porous paving on driveways and even simple water butts.
  • (15) Those who have driveways are often blocked into them.
  • (16) His work has often been obliquely autobiographical – never quite his story, but yes, he was a history boy back in the day preparing for Oxford; yes, you could draw comparisons with the repressed gay man he plays in A Chip in the Sugar; yes, he did give refuge to a tramp who parked her van in his driveway for 15 years, and so it goes.
  • (17) According to the study findings, there is a need to educate the public and health professionals about the risks associated with leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle and the hazardous environment of the private driveway.
  • (18) He gets into the car and, as his mother and their elderly neighbour Sato-san look on, he motors down the narrow driveway, past the cracks caused by the earthquake.
  • (19) Halfway down the driveway he turns and fixes his gaze on the home he is leaving behind.
  • (20) He went outside into the driveway, leaving his wife, Nancy, in the house.

Private


Definition:

  • (a.) Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others; personal; one's own; not public; not general; separate; as, a man's private opinion; private property; a private purse; private expenses or interests; a private secretary.
  • (a.) Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer.
  • (a.) Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life.
  • (a.) Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding.
  • (a.) Having secret or private knowledge; privy.
  • (n.) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
  • (n.) Personal interest; particular business.
  • (n.) Privacy; retirement.
  • (n.) One not invested with a public office.
  • (n.) A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer.
  • (n.) The private parts; the genitals.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
  • (2) An “out” vote would severely disrupt our lives, in an economic sense and a private sense.
  • (3) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
  • (4) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
  • (5) The author's experience in private psychoanalytic practice and in Philadelphia's rape victim clinics indicates that these assaults occur frequently.
  • (6) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
  • (7) Couples in need of help will be "encouraged" to come to a private agreement.
  • (8) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
  • (9) Also on Saturday, the VA said it would allow more veterans to obtain healthcare at private hospitals and clinics.
  • (10) Mike Enzi of Wyoming A senior senator from Wyoming, Enzi worked for the Department of Interior and the private Black Hills Corporation before being elected to Congress.
  • (11) Neil Blessitt Bristol • We need to establish what the legal position is with regard to the establishment by the government of a private company co-owned by the Department of Health and the French firm Sopra Steria.
  • (12) The first source attended was a private practitioner for 53 % of the patients, another private medical establishment for 4 %, a Government chest clinic for only 11 % and another Government medical establishment for 17 %, 9 % went first to a herbalist and 5 % went to a drug store or treated themselves.
  • (13) The government did not spell out the need for private holders of bank debt to take any losses – known as haircuts – under its plans but many analysts believe that this position is untenable.
  • (14) The alignment of Clinton’s Iowa team, all but guaranteeing a declaration of her official campaign before the end of next month, was coming into view amid reports that she was due to address by the end of the week controversy over her use of a private email account as secretary of state.
  • (15) Broad-based secular comprehensives that draw in families across the class, faith and ethnic spectrum, entirely free of private control, could hold a new appeal.
  • (16) But leading British doctors Sarah Creighton , consultant gynaecologist at the private Portland Hospital, Susan Bewley , consultant obstetrician at St Thomas's and Lih-Mei Liao , clinical psychologist in women's health at University College Hospital then wrote to the journal countering that his clitoral restoration claims were "anatomically impossible".
  • (17) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.
  • (18) Private landowners are able to use property guardians to minimise their tax bills and, although it is hard to estimate, the potential financial loss to councils is substantial.
  • (19) A team-oriented problem-solving procedure using management project teams was developed to improve quality of care and productivity in a private, nonprofit hospital.
  • (20) Yet private student loans – given out by banks and financial institutions to the students who can’t get a federal loan – don’t get as much attention as the federal system.

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