What's the difference between ensign and tut?

Ensign


Definition:

  • (n.) A flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers; -- as distinguished from flags indicating divisions of the army, rank of naval officers, or private signals, and the like.
  • (n.) A signal displayed like a standard, to give notice.
  • (n.) Sign; badge of office, rank, or power; symbol.
  • (n.) Formerly, a commissioned officer of the army who carried the ensign or flag of a company or regiment.
  • (n.) A commissioned officer of the lowest grade in the navy, corresponding to the grade of second lieutenant in the army.
  • (v. t.) To designate as by an ensign.
  • (v. t.) To distinguish by a mark or ornament; esp. (Her.), by a crown; thus, any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The assets he's offering to the indie sector are, apparently, Virgin, Chrysalis UK (excluding its deal with Robbie Williams), Ensign, Mute, Jazzland and Sanctuary.
  • (2) On the way back, Ensign asked them if they needed anything before they left.
  • (3) The French port of Saint-Nazaire woke to find the Russian naval ensign – a blue cross – flying offshore on Monday and a new row over France's sale of state-of-the-art warships to Moscow.
  • (4) Ensign, J. C. (University of Wisconsin, Madison), and R. S. Wolfe.
  • (5) Remember,” Ensign says, finding them in a study room one recent afternoon, “on your first day here, you guys looked at the food and you were like, what is this?” The girls all burst out laughing.
  • (6) Recently Ensign asked the girls to write an essay describing what education meant to them.
  • (7) Interfax Ukraine reported that a group of people with Russian navy ensigns also gathered at the airport’s building.
  • (8) So unless the economy comes back and land prices come back, I’m stuck.” His friend and roommate Carter chimes in: “Dropping dead is my retirement.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Valery Lyman An oil worker on an Ensign drilling platform north of Williston.
  • (9) Back in Yola, her boss Ensign heard about the two sisters’ dilemma and called their father.
  • (10) But he admitted that the 183 drill ships and platforms that reportedly sail under the Marshallese ensign were an uncomfortable reality as one of the tiny nation’s major sources of income.
  • (11) We are entrusting our children to you.” Ensign found herself choking back tears.
  • (12) That evening came a moment Ensign says she will never forget.
  • (13) The commander of the operation has sent the following message: ''Be pleased to inform Her Majesty that the White Ensign flies alongside the Union Jack in South Georgia.
  • (14) Ensign set up a foundation , which garnered $50,000 (£33,000) in donations to put 10 girls through the university for one year.
  • (15) We’ll raise the money to take both your girls.” Weeks later, while they prepared for the girls’ arrival, he called Ensign in a panic.
  • (16) She came into my office and, really quietly, she told me that her sister was one of the girls who had escaped, and she and all the other girls were just there in Chibok, doing nothing,” Ensign recalled.
  • (17) There is idealism and flying the ensign of volunteerism and common ownership and then there is the commitment, the torched time, the drain on the £75,000 contributions fund and the fight to keep inching forward.
  • (18) Other assets on the list reportedly include labels such as Chrysalis UK, excluding Robbie Williams, Ensign, Mute, Jazzland and Sanctuary.
  • (19) She approached her boss at the American University of Nigeria in Yola, Margee Ensign, an energetic, cheerful woman who has run the establishment for six years.
  • (20) But after 21, we had to stop because that’s a big commitment,” Ensign said.

Tut


Definition:

  • () Be still; hush; -- an exclamation used for checking or rebuking.
  • (n.) An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it.
  • (n.) A hassock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He would later tut-tut about this, as an error of judgment, and as a cause of relief to him that he was outbid.
  • (2) This manifests itself as a bit of a grimace when a kiddie pops up in front of his gun, a tut when colleagues show a lack of concern for collateral damage. "
  • (3) Menogaril (TUT-7) is a novel antitumor antibiotic belonging to anthracyclines.
  • (4) Shorter operative time and less post-operative bleeding were found in the TUT group, which included 3 failures.
  • (5) The chorus of tut-tutting reached such a volume – from small-town gossip to high politics – that her friends felt duty bound to intervene.
  • (6) In mouse L 1210 leukemia system, antitumor activity of TUT-7 administered orally was as good as that by i.v.
  • (7) Nothing of it shows above ground; 20ft down is a confused, inaccessible jumble of rooms, corridors and frescoes, buried beyond the reach of the public, an enormous Tut's tomb with nothing of value in it.
  • (8) Their successors tut at Cameron’s talk of swarms.
  • (9) Fantasy fancies Recent discussion of Kristen Stewart , the actor whose mother may or may not have confirmed her bisexuality, has been accompanied by clapping and tutting – but not a lot of self-examination.
  • (10) routes, were better than that of adriamycin administered i.v.. TUT-7 showed antitumor activities against various mouse tumors (L 1210 leukemia, P 388 leukemia, colon 38 adenocarcinoma, B 16 melanoma), LX-1 human tumor xenografts, and Yoshida sarcoma in rat.
  • (11) It was like trying to get into King Tut’s Tomb, downloading five apps to access the fucking thing.” The particular structure of the film, she said – one scene in the final reel especially – had her weeping with nerves as to whether she would be able to manage such extended sequence without recourse to easy edits.
  • (12) The antitumor activity of TUT-7, a new anthracycline compound, was compared to that of adriamycin in the screening system with rat ascites hepatomas.
  • (13) In some quarters, Celebgate prompted hand-wringing and tut-tutting about contemporary mores from Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.
  • (14) You know how frustrating it is when you put a cartridge in your printer, and it tuts at you about “not an approved part”, after which, printing becomes even more of a lottery than usual?
  • (15) If you are lucky, he might even tut at you for joining the wrong queue (it's a confusing system, OK, Mr Katsouris?
  • (16) TU3 was as effective as TUT-cocktail in inhibition of PHA response and CTL generation but unlike TUT spared NK effectors.
  • (17) Enter, tutting, Gillian Anderson , an Arctic roll in a pencil skirt.
  • (18) But more than anything, it's about the sense of entitlement, the presupposition that an entire page of a national newspaper should be given over to the sexual gratification of men, and we should tut and tolerate and turn the other cheek while the Sun's anti-rape campaign languishes in the women's section, as our problem.
  • (19) When it didn't run on time, I was shouted at, tutted at, and reminded of how much money I'd lost the company.
  • (20) Mascherano doesn’t laugh, but he tuts instead, shaking his head in that way players do when the possibility of Brazil exiting a World Cup is mentioned.

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