What's the difference between expiry and tenor?

Expiry


Definition:

  • (n.) Expiration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But others do: gift cards for Amazon.co.uk, for example, expire one year from the date of issue, while Marks & Spencer gift cards are valid for four years, although each time a customer spends on the card the expiry date is reset to four years.
  • (2) He pointed out that some of the fall was down to the expiry of a government scheme expiring that had "artificially propped up" the housing market over the past year.
  • (3) The declaration of production date and expiry date, were increased by 57.3% and 49.8% respectively.
  • (4) If a 14C labelled metabolite is used the oxidation rate may sometimes be determined by measuring the expiry rate of 14CO2.
  • (5) It has to be that time because the Albanian power supply tends to go on the blink just after 6 p.m. and broadcasters who want to get their message across only have the erratic period between their listeners' arrival home and the quiet expiry of the glorious people's voltage as they all switch on their lights and radios.
  • (6) The system operates in English and Spanish and includes such information as the product name, registration number, ingredients, species for which the product is approved for use, the disease against which the product is used, names of manufacturers and distributors and other distinguishing characteristics of the product including expiry dates and withdrawal times.
  • (7) While Berlin played for more time, until after next year's general election and the expiry of Greece's formal bailout schedule in 2014, the IMF has been demanding a clear, credible longer-term programme.
  • (8) Mitch Fifield, the assistant minister for social services, told the paper: “It’s important, as the legislated expiry dates of board appointments approach, to make sure we have into the future the best mix of skills and experience from current and new members for a venture of this magnitude and importance.” The ads seek previous corporate experience and work in disability services.
  • (9) A drawback to the use of this kit is the recommended 1h expiry for 99Tcm-MAG3.
  • (10) Expiry of an authorization or an unregistered experimenter will come to light in the course of the plausibility study.
  • (11) Programmes will not appear on the MSN service until the expiry of the online catch-up TV window on broadcasters' own websites.
  • (12) They cannot be fraudulently used, however, as only the last four digits of the card numbers were obtained by the hackers and not the customer name and expiry date, the company said.
  • (13) * Thursday Expiry of a deadline imposed by EU foreign ministers at a meeting on Monday for Russia to withdraw its troops in Crimea or face possible sanctions.
  • (14) Don't assume because you can't see an expiry date on a voucher or gift card that it doesn't have one.
  • (15) is calling on mobile phone companies to provide customers with their contract expiry date, one month's notice before their contract ends and details of all the available deals to best match their needs.
  • (16) He added: “That implicitly precludes the group members from exercising rights under US law which have the result that the claimant’s ownership of the copyrights is brought to an end prior to their expiry.
  • (17) But the dearth of such courses is not the only reason why some 500 prisoners are now two years beyond their tariff expiry, the equivalent of serving an additional four-year fixed sentence.
  • (18) Chelsea's recently adopted club policy is to offer one-year deals to players in their 30s upon the expiry of current agreements and while the player had initially been asking for a two-year commitment, he has accepted a shorter arrangement on terms similar to the £175,000-a-week he currently earns.
  • (19) It's difficult not to imagine that the group has an expiry date.
  • (20) The private franchises could simply be allowed to run their course and, upon expiry, services folded in to the existing public operator, East Coast.

Tenor


Definition:

  • (n.) A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.
  • (n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
  • (n.) Stamp; character; nature.
  • (n.) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument.
  • (n.) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary.
  • (n.) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No, for all of its ugly tenor, that statement has long been true under the law; corporations have long existed as a concept by which business interests could have the legal standing of individuals.
  • (2) The discovery of troponin C and calmodulin set the tenor for understanding the intracellular mechanism of action of calcium.
  • (3) Abdullah reined in his base but the shift in the tenor of the fans was unmistakeable, especially after some of them tore down a portrait of Karzai.
  • (4) Macqueen plays up that view, and finds the tenor of his Eye different from that of Ingrams.
  • (5) In the young age group sexual activity was highest among the bass voices, in the middle and old age group tenors were most active.
  • (6) The idea caught on, and now the Doodlers have put their innovative spin on everything from Freddie Mercury (a video accompanied by the 1978 Queen hit Don’t Stop Me Now) to Jules Verne (the logo adapted to show the view from a submarine, inspired by Verne’s classic Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea), and the tenor Luciano Pavarotti, whose animated likeness replaced the “L” on the Google logo for one day in 2007.
  • (7) | Lucia Graves Read more It was an attempt to resurrect the long-dead genre of vaudeville, only replacing acrobats with Rick Santorum and tenors with veterans.
  • (8) So incendiary were the interview's contents evidently deemed that it was practically smuggled out of the Vatican, with so few senior officials reportedly aware of its tenor that the consensus is that it has sent "shock waves" around the Catholic world.
  • (9) As compared to tenor singers higher testosterone and lower oestradiol plasma concentrations were measured in bass and baritone singers.
  • (10) Mr Woodhouse has an obsession with vitamin pills, Jane Fairfax plays the tenor saxophone and Frank Churchill has been living in Australia: meet the cast of the modern-day Emma, which is to be rewritten for the social media generation by Alexander McCall Smith .
  • (11) For the same excess pressure over threshold, the professional tenors produced 10-12 dB greater intensity than the male nonsingers, primarily because their peak airflow was much higher for the same pressure.
  • (12) These performances are splendid, but the principals are exceptional: Thompson finds vulnerability beneath Travers's spikes, and Hanks brings a steely tenor to Disney that prevents him from becoming completely gooey.
  • (13) Sometimes, says Costa, 74, Mario Lanza, the American tenor and Hollywood star would feature.
  • (14) We must fight for the real needs of the people | Bernie Sanders and James Clyburn Read more The tenor of such exchanges echoed Republican town halls in other states in recent months.
  • (15) Jay Kaplan, staff attorney at the LGBT project of the ACLU of Michigan, told the Guardian the law “flies in the face of the whole tenor” of the supreme court’s majority opinion on same-sex marriage.
  • (16) 18 February 2010 The PCC rejects the complaint , admitting it was "uncomfortable with the tenor of the columnist's remarks" but that censuring Moir and the Mail would represent "a slide towards censorship".
  • (17) In recent days, Westerwelle even intensified the tenor of his rhetoric.
  • (18) So many images are seared into the mind, from the sight of Ranieri proudly standing alongside Andrea Bocelli as the Italian tenor produced such a spine-tingling performance, to that wonderful and surreal moment later in the evening when Wes Morgan and his 64-year-old manager thrust the Premier League trophy into the night sky to a backdrop of fireworks and tears.
  • (19) In the Atlantic city of Mar del Plata, lyric tenor Darío Volonté, a survivor of the Belgrano, the cruiser on which 323 Argentinian sailors died after it was torpedoed by a British submarine, led a large crowd in the national anthem.
  • (20) As the audience arrived outside the Lincoln Center, protesters brandished signs with slogans such as “tenors and terrorists don’t mix”.