What's the difference between fiesta and holiday?

Fiesta


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Last year Ford sold more than 25,000 white Fiestas.
  • (2) The Ford Fiesta was the bestseller in August, followed by the Ford Focus and Vauxhall Corsa, mirroring the top three best sellers in the year to date.
  • (3) Basic santeria beliefs and rituals, including the fiesta santera (a gathering at which some participants may become possessed), are briefly described, and four cases in which the patients' belief in possession played a role in their mental illness are presented.
  • (4) The top three best sellers in July, and in 2014 so far, were the Ford Fiesta, followed by the Ford Focus and the Vauxhall Corsa.
  • (5) This year's fiestas are peaceful, untroubled by tensions with Eta supporters or baton charges by twitchy police.
  • (6) Parliamentary byelections, which Hanna transformed into memorable TV fiestas in the Thatcher era, have become tepid and tedious since the bonhomous Belfast bruiser quit the BBC in 1987.
  • (7) It was also the setting for the first section of Hemingway’s first, and best, novel (published in the UK as Fiesta ).
  • (8) The VW Golf was the fourth best-selling car in the UK last month, and in the year to date, behind the Ford Fiesta, Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Focus.
  • (9) A note on the text Hemingway began writing the novel with the working title of Fiesta on his birthday, 21 July, in 1925.
  • (10) Industry observers said the programme would boost sales of smaller cars such as the Ford Fiesta and the Toyota Yaris, which are not normally discounted.
  • (11) Other significant risk factors (p.05) were drank water from container also used to dip hands (OR 4.2) and attended a fiesta (OR 3.6).
  • (12) While car sales have stalled or only inched forward across the sickly eurozone they have roared ahead in Britain, which is fast becoming an island jammed by drivers of sparkling white Ford Fiestas, bought on cheap credit.
  • (13) Each spring in Tudela there’s a festival devoted to all things green, red, yellow etc, the Jornadas de Exaltación y Fiestas de la Verdura (running until 1 May).
  • (14) Christina Garcia Rodero spent 15 years travelling around villages in Spain, photographing fiestas.
  • (15) The runs attract more than 2,000 people every morning of the nine-day fiesta.
  • (16) Shortly, there will also be a Ford Fiesta and a Smart.
  • (17) The bestseller in May was the Ford Fiesta, followed by the Volkswagen Golf and Vauxhall Corsa.
  • (18) Britain’s best-selling model remains by some margin the Ford Fiesta, followed by the Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Focus.
  • (19) In the case-control study, drinking unboiled water (odds ratio [OR] 3.1, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.3-7.3), drinking water from a household water storage container in which hands had been introduced into the water (4.2, 1.2-14.9), and going to a fiesta (social event) (3.6, 1.1-11.1) were associated with illness.
  • (20) First the Argentinian version, a jaunty instrumental number which at one point threatens to turn into the middle-eight of Fiesta by The Pogues.

Holiday


Definition:

  • (n.) A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday.
  • (n.) A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day.
  • (n.) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay.
  • (a.) Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
  • (2) Airbnb also features a number of independently posted holiday rentals in Brazil's favelas.
  • (3) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
  • (4) After all, you can only drive one car at a time or go on one holiday at a time.
  • (5) Amid all of the worry about her health, the difficult decisions around the surgery, and how to explain everything to the children, the practicalities of postponing the holiday was a relatively minor consideration.
  • (6) Back then, before her life took a darker turn, Holiday was able to leave the song, and its politics, at the door on the way out.
  • (7) Yet the 11-year-old has met both challenges while at a special needs holiday club near his home in Colchester, Essex, over the last year.
  • (8) Officials at the ONS said it was hard to assess the full impact of June's additional public holiday on GDP in the second quarter, but officials expect a bounce back from the loss of production in the third quarter, when the London Olympics should also provide a boost to activity.
  • (9) That’s why when I heard from a family of 11 from my Walthamstow constituency whose holiday to LA had had to be abandoned, my first thought was for their kids.
  • (10) He reportedly almost never went out, spending America's 4th of July holiday at home, and cooking steak dinners for one.
  • (11) Target’s data breach in 2013 exposed details of as many as 40m credit and debit card accounts and hurt its holiday sales that year.
  • (12) You don't have a film called Out of Asia and you rarely go to Oceania on holidays (instead you talk of vacations in Australia, New Zealand or another island).
  • (13) The president of People with Disability Australia, Craig Wallace, said he was concerned by the potential change to the DSP and that he was particularly disappointed it was being discussed by the minister on Easter weekend, when most people were on holiday.
  • (14) Cliff's choice of opening a cappella number for the centre court crowds was inspired: Summer Holiday.
  • (15) It sells itself to British tourists as a holiday heaven of golden beaches, flamenco dresses and well-stocked sherry bars, but southern Andalucía – home to the Costa del Sol – has now become the focus of worries about the euro.
  • (16) He frequently refers to it, including in a recent television ad he ran in Iowa during which he reads to his two daughters from reimagined holiday stories with a conservative bent, such as the Hillary Clinton-targeting “The Grinch Who Lost Her Emails”.
  • (17) Oleg Konstantinov, editor of local news site dumskaya.net, who was in hospital with gunshot wounds to his back and leg, and splinter wounds in his arm, said he had sent most of his reporters home for the two-day holiday.
  • (18) She finds indoor activities to discourage the kids from playing outside on the foulest days, and plans holidays abroad as often as possible – but still frets about what their years in Delhi may do to her children’s health.
  • (19) The Financial Services Authority today shut the door on so-called liar loans and warned that the days of homeowners remortgaging to splash out on holidays and pay off credit card debts may soon be over.
  • (20) By encouraging (in effect, subsidising) ever more Britons to holiday abroad, extra runway capacity would probably harm rather than help the balance of payments.