What's the difference between fording and noncommittal?

Fording


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ford

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
  • (2) She knew that Ford needed parts for the best-selling truck in America, and she knew how to make them.
  • (3) Last year Ford sold more than 25,000 white Fiestas.
  • (4) Read more “We know Tafe can be transformative for people who are doing it hard, bringing new skills to Indigenous communities, helping close the gender pay gap, empowering mature-age workers with the chance to retrain – not standing by while people from Holden and Ford are cast on the scrapheap,” Shorten will say.
  • (5) If that's what's happening here, we might soon be in a position to learn if Henry Ford was right.
  • (6) Car manufacturers such as Ford, General Motors and Volkswagen have plants here.
  • (7) Eamonn Forde of the music business website Music Ally says: "I think the change would just be chipping at the edges at first, but then you see things like a new generation of artists who are just huge on YouTube, who don't make the charts because they don't see themselves as having to put out singles, they make their money online.
  • (8) As plantation owners go, Ford is a kindly sort: he delivers sermons and permits his slaves moments of humanity, even giving Northup a violin.
  • (9) Ford takes from time out from studying to go rollerskating in Pyongyang.
  • (10) While promoting 1983's Return of the Jedi, Ford told an interviewer: "Three is enough for me.
  • (11) Peter Ford Ambassador to Syria 2003-06 • Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com
  • (12) • David Hinds (Barbados), Mark Bob Forde (Barbados), Richard Groden (Trinidad & Tobago), Yves Jean-Bart (Haiti) and Horace Reid (Jamaica) all received a warning.
  • (13) If only she could have foreseen the levels of excitement and anticipation surrounding Star Wars: The Force Awakens , the seventh instalment, in which she will return alongside co-stars from the original trilogy including Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill.
  • (14) Abrams currently has the production on a two-week hiatus to allow Ford to recover from a broken leg sustained on set.
  • (15) In a 38-year review (1950 to 1988) of surgically treated thymic tumors at Henry Ford Hospital, only 7 cases of thymic carcinoids were identified.
  • (16) Of approximately 6000 admissions to the Henry Ford Hospital medical ICU between October 1969 and September 1984, 61 (1%) had active tuberculosis (TB).
  • (17) Nevertheless, Manafort’s role with Trump has expanded quickly since he was tapped in late March to manage Trump’s convention operation and round up delegates, a speciality of Manafort’s going back to the 1976 GOP convention, when he worked for Gerald Ford’s campaign.
  • (18) Cameron referred to Forde, who runs a business supplying kitchen worktops, while speaking about immigration during the ITV debate on Thursday.
  • (19) That was the verdict of Anna Ford on Buerk's advance publicity for a Channel Five programme in which he bemoaned the fact that men have become mere "sperm donors" in a female-dominated society.
  • (20) Also free, there's 2012 best newcomer nominee Cariad Lloyd in her new show with Louise Ford, Alternative Comedy Memorial Society supremo John-Luke Roberts, controversialist Josh Howie, Sunday Assembly co-founder Pippa Evans – and indeed Omielan.

Noncommittal


Definition:

  • (n.) A state of not being committed or pledged; forbearance or refusal to commit one's self. Also used adjectively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He's more noncommittal, as a Muslim, about Obama's promises to open dialogue between Islamic leaders and America.
  • (2) I’m usually Labour” is an ominously noncommittal doorstep refrain: Jeremy Corbyn’s name often follows.
  • (3) Mention of the Lib Dems was met with noncommittal shrugs, as if you might just about bring yourself to back them, knowing it was little more than a futile protest vote.
  • (4) The author discusses the signs and symptoms appearing in the course of so called noncommittant squints.
  • (5) The chief executive, Ron Gourlay, has been publicly appreciative but noncommittal on Di Matteo's prospects, with the manager claiming still to be relaxed and focused on his immediate task as his contract ticks down towards expiry.
  • (6) Results of these analyses show that guidelines are too often formulated in a noncommittal way and that there is a need for a more functional registration system to link information about the clinical working diagnoses, the bacteria isolated and the sensitivity to the antibiotics used.
  • (7) Bassa was noncommittal about the offer, adding that it was still considering a "formal response", but said the proposals would be considered by shop stewards and ultimately by members.
  • (8) Andy Thornton, chief executive of the Citizenship Foundation, said: "So far responses from the Department for Education to our enquiries have been noncommittal and focus mainly on the coalition's proposals for a 'national citizens service'."
  • (9) Noncommittant squints are divided into squints caused by paresis or by a total paralysis of the motor muscles.
  • (10) This picture has all the traits of a well-rounded photograph: there are the jack rabbits on the fence, which make it look as if there is movement; the car that’s really dead, including the tumbleweed to one side and the beat-up old licence plate; the sky is totally noncommittal; the horizon is mute.
  • (11) She is, at first, similarly noncommittal about what she thinks of conversations around the burqa in the UK.
  • (12) Nomura analyst Rick Sherland had downgraded the company to a neutral – or noncommittal – stock recommendation on its disappointing stock performance.
  • (13) Two years into a five-year deal and recently appointed captain of Lazio, Biglia was noncommittal upon being asked if his promotion meant he would be staying at the club.
  • (14) But as a declaration of a military objective, it is slippery and noncommittal.
  • (15) Their Labour councillors refused to discuss the matter until after June 2004's council elections; when the council broke its silence, it was either noncommittal or brazenly enthusiastic about the Vardy proposal.
  • (16) The behaviour of these neoplasms has prompted the suggestion that these tumours be designated carcinomas rather that noncommittally tumours or neoplasms (Batsakis and Regezzi, 1977).
  • (17) Lamar McKay, the president of BP's US subsidiary, was also noncommittal about the plan during testimony before Congress earlier yesterday.
  • (18) Shortly after my first child was born, I attended a job interview where I responded to a casual question about my domestic circumstances with a revealingly noncommittal answer: "I live with my girlfriend – at the moment."
  • (19) And [the protagonists] were portrayed as Jews, so that was portrayed as a good thing?” I grunted noncommittally, which he took as a signal to move on to his critique of Django Unchained.
  • (20) For it, the author prefers the descriptive and diagnostically noncommittal acronym "BSAP".