What's the difference between embassage and errand?

Embassage


Definition:

  • (n.) An embassy.
  • (n.) Message; errand.

Example Sentences:

Errand


Definition:

  • (n.) A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere.

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) Many tasks (e.g., solving algebraic equations and running errands) require the execution of several component processes in an unconstrained order.
  • (3) His first job was also as an errand boy and assistant in a grocer's shop, from which he moved on to be a junior shop assistant and an early switchboard operator.
  • (4) Through either running in a group or carrying out one-off missions you can complete physical tasks that benefit the community, for example doing errands for those who are isolated or lonely.
  • (5) Techniques such as Loci can be readily adapted to help us remember appointments, birthdays, errands we need to run, etc.
  • (6) Our results indicate that patients with RA experience more losses than controls in every domain of human activity and that patients with OA experience more losses in the performance of household chores, shopping and errands, and leisure activities.
  • (7) Though she pursued further studies and wrote, Aung San Suu Kyi did bring up children, darn socks and run grocery errands.
  • (8) He said he'd run some errands, and would "be right back".
  • (9) The first point to make, stresses Jason Butler from IFA Bloomsbury Wealth, is that "all the evidence suggests trying to time investment markets is a fools' errand".
  • (10) Photograph: TaskRabbit Leah Busque is the founder and CEO of TaskRabbit.com , an online and mobile peer-to-peer marketplace for neighbourhood errands and small jobs One blustery Boston night in February 2008, Leah Busque and her husband were about to go out for dinner when they realised they'd run out of dog food and didn't have time to get any.
  • (11) Ameobi dinks a ball over the top (seriously) and finds Gouffran again, once more with the Liverpool defenders busy running errands or something, but this time Johnson nips across and half-blocks, enough in any case to prevent another goal.
  • (12) A useful strategy to counteract such absent-mindedness can be to develop a fixed method for performing such tasks: always place your keys in the same spot on the sideboard, always carry out the late-night errands in the same order (lock the back door, turn off the gas, turn off lights, etc).
  • (13) The whole idea that we were going to shut down the government to get rid of Obamacare in 2013, this plan never had a chance,” he said, adding that it was a “fool’s errand”.
  • (14) But as Stevenson heads off towards his seventh errand of the day, it's not clear what is keeping him going like this just shy of his 70th birthday.
  • (15) Pimpi is still working as an errand boy in a government office aged 38.
  • (16) And here’s a taster from the ‘errands’ section: • Organise all Jermain’s personal needs i.e.
  • (17) The men seem to be on some urgent errand or quest, but are constantly waylaid by events, the scenery, or perhaps the atmosphere.
  • (18) Fame Monster is said to revisit Jennifer O'Neill's two years travelling the world with Gaga, which she claims included running her errands, and sometimes even sleeping in the same bed.
  • (19) The second daughter of a middle-class Muslim family from the city’s Mulund area, Firoza learned to cycle at eight so she could run errands for her mother – she would hire a bike for 30 minutes a day because her father did not have the money to buy one.
  • (20) I was trusted to run errands alone in the van, so I knew I could leave the site without arousing suspicion.

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