What's the difference between english and englishmen?
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.
Englishmen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Englishman
Example Sentences:
(1) Allardyce, who is in Austria on a pre‑season tour with Sunderland, has been invited to meet with the FA after being identified as the best option of all the available Englishmen.
(2) The story, in many guises, held that the EU was about to legislate some daft law that would threaten a way of life enjoyed by free-born Englishmen since King Ethelred.
(3) There's no shortage of unsavoury foreigners in the novel, but they're more than matched by the unsavoury Englishmen.
(4) There’s no denying their talent – and there certainly aren’t many Englishmen who can boast their record of international success – but the very sight of their ageing blond frontman, performing instead of the more celebrated English icons many had expected to see instead, brought pain to many British souls.
(5) All this would have been unthinkable to the imperial Englishmen of 40 years ago - it would have represented the defeat of all they stood for.
(6) Albeit, for all the passing of time and altered circumstances, there is still something extraordinary in the sight of the future king standing while a stadium full of Englishmen sing the republican revolutionary anthem, soundtrack to the guillotines.
(7) He quoted from a variety of sources to support his case, including, he said, a story written in the Times in February 2010 which he said reported that "three out of five Englishmen believe that the UK has turned into a dysfunctional society as a result of multiculturalism".
(8) The chances of City allowing him to leave are, however, complicated by the fact that he and Joe Hart were the only two Englishmen to play regularly for Manuel Pellegrini's team last season.
(9) Lee Westwood toiled under the weight of expectation which surrounded the possibility of Englishmen claiming back-to-back majors for the first time since 1909.
(10) I love England so much and England haven't won a football match, so before I go to sleep I'm going to beat up as many Englishmen as possible and demolish as much of England as I can.
(11) We're all proud Englishmen looking to do well in this tournament."
(12) Kumba Abu Kamara once worked as a nanny for the Englishmen who ran Kono's mines in colonial days.
(13) It says much for Floyd's bravura that he succeeded where many Englishmen have failed.
(14) British reporters in the press conference asked [coach] Óscar Tabárez three times asked about the incident, saying that: ‘Suárez bit Chiellini.’ Their intention was Fifa should intervene and expel Luisito [Suárez] from the World Cup … It would be good if these Englishmen, who are concerned to have Suárez suspended, remember how they won the World Cup in 1966 with a ball which was not a goal.” Suárez has been involved in two biting incidents in the past.
(15) In the entire two centuries of British rule, only three cases can be found of Englishmen executed for murdering Indians, while the murders of thousands more at British hands went unpunished.
(16) Household describes his protagonists in this and other similar novels as "strong, capable Englishmen with a high sense of honour, binding themselves to a certain course of action".
(17) His plan, I suspected, was to combine his passions for fitness freakery and torturing Englishmen by frightening the hell out of me on the climb, then watching me keel off my bike on the lung-busting ascent to the Cristo .
(18) We used to have two very nasty Englishmen working in the tax department here who used to spend their whole time chasing the miners up and down.
(19) On the surface Chesterfield seems to lie at the opposite end of the laughter spectrum from the laughing pygmy (and Nietzsche was of the view that most Englishmen were, more or less, buttoned up in a sub-Chesterfield kind of way).
(20) The truth is that Ashworth has been monitoring possible candidates for several months and – let this be cleared up straight away – the list is not restricted to Englishmen.