What's the difference between epithet and person?

Epithet


Definition:

  • (n.) An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.
  • (n.) Term; expression; phrase.
  • (v. t.) To describe by an epithet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 3) The first who presumed an independent state of these microorganisms, was Kohlert (1968), from the work of which the epithet for correct name, i.e.
  • (2) Trolls called Kaepernick racial epithets , after all.
  • (3) When he first became president, Republicans slammed him for being a socialist – an epithet, from their lips, of the worst kind.
  • (4) This epithet was sufficiently offensive for Obama to cancel a planned meeting with Duterte.
  • (5) Male, pale and stale is the epithet often used to describe the makeup of a charity board.
  • (6) The tragic results for the babies of patients prescribed thalidomide, although they can indeed be termed "side" effects, hardly warrant so slight an epithet, and Dr Joyce in his paper would like the term to be dropped in favour of "additional" effects of drugs.
  • (7) Gibran's epithet is one of many quotations on the Guardian Witness website , where people are sharing good advice for the women in their life ahead of International Women's Day on Saturday.
  • (8) Believe the hype and he was a cross between a mafioso overlord and "HRH Victor Meldrew" (the epithet is David Starkey's).
  • (9) Because it's a racial slur and – no matter how many millions it spends trying to sanitize it and silence native peoples – the epithet is not, was not, and will not be an honorific.
  • (10) A descriptive identification epithet for P. multocida isolates was constructed.
  • (11) In order to provide a new reference point in the dermatological literature from which the naming of florists' chrysanthemums may be regularised and standardised, the case is presented for the use of the generic name Dendranthema together with a cultivar name in place of a specific epithet.
  • (12) But, in addition to being the “roof of the world”, here are a few other equally suitable epithets.
  • (13) Debate about the film has turned into a major talking point in a number publications large and small, with editorials in defence and critique of Django Unchained laying out their case for readers, while one of the film's stars, Samuel L Jackson, highlighted the discomfort over the frequent use of a racial epithet in the movie when he challenged a journalist to say the word out loud.
  • (14) We have seen it shift in particular since the Meet the Ukippers programme,” he added, referring to a recent BBC documentary about the local Ukip branch which led to one of its councillors being expelled after she was filmed saying that she had a “problem” with black people and using racial epithets.
  • (15) I was called a dirty Jew walking home from synagogue, my rabbi was kicked and punched in central London while anti-Jewish epithets were hurled at him, and my university sometimes suffered from an atmosphere of intimidation and harassment of Jewish students.
  • (16) The long-standing use of racial epithets by players and racial abuse from crowds have been exposed by a number of incidents in which the authorities actually prosecuted perpetrators: Juventude supporters were barred from their ground after racially abusing Internacional's Tinga in 2005.
  • (17) DC representative Eleanor Holmes Norton said: “As an African American woman and third-generation Washingtonian, I want to say to Redskins fans: no one blames you for using a name that has always been used but they will blame you if you continue to use it.” She compared the word to racial epithets used against African Americans before it was accepted that they were not the terms of endearment that some claimed.
  • (18) The epithets applicable to these groups appear to be lacunata, nonliquefaciens, and bovis.
  • (19) But before Argo, Affleck had pretty much had to retire from being a frontline movie star because he almost without exception ensured any movie's eternal epithet would be "the Ben Affleck shocker — ".
  • (20) He also went to jab at former rival Jeb Bush, using the epithet “low energy” while going on a tirade about primary opponents who signed the RNC pledge to support the eventual nominee but are now not backing Trump.

Person


Definition:

  • (n.) A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character.
  • (n.) The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.
  • (n.) A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.
  • (n.) A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.
  • (n.) A parson; the parish priest.
  • (n.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.
  • (n.) One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject.
  • (n.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.
  • (v. t.) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Correction for within-person variation in urinary excretion increased this partial correlation coefficient between intake and excretion to 0.59 (95% CI = 0.03 to 0.87).
  • (2) The analysis is based on the personal experience of the authors with 117 cases and the review of 223 cases published in the literature.
  • (3) This finding is of major importance for persons treated with diltiazem who engage in sport.
  • (4) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
  • (5) Large gender differences were found in the correlations between the RAS, CR, run frequency, and run duration with the personality, mood, and locus of control scores.
  • (6) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
  • (7) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
  • (8) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
  • (9) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
  • (10) Polygraphic recordings during sleep were performed on 18 elderly persons (age range: 64-100 years).
  • (11) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
  • (12) Caries-related bacteriological and biochemical factors were studied in 12 persons with low and 11 persons with normal salivary-secretion rates before and after a four-week period of frequent mouthrinses with 10% sorbitol solution (adaptation period).
  • (13) Hypnosis might be looked upon as a method by which an unscrupulous person could sustain such a state of powerlessness in a victim.
  • (14) Urine tests in six patients with other kidney diseases and with uraemia and in seven healthy persons did not show this substance.
  • (15) Size of household was the most important predictor of both the total level of household food expenditures and the per person level.
  • (16) An additional 1.3% of the persons studied needed this operation, but were unfit for surgery.
  • (17) The results indicated that 48% of the sample either regularly checked their own skin or had it checked by another person (such as a spouse), and 17% had been screened by a general practitioner in the preceding 12 months.
  • (18) Of 573 tests in 127 persons, a positive response occurred in 68 tests of 51 patients.
  • (19) Also, it is often the case that trustees or senior leadership are in said positions because they have personal relationships with the founder.
  • (20) Fifteen patients of acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) were detected out of 2500 persons of Maheshwari community surveyed.