What's the difference between freeman and peasant?
Freeman
Definition:
(n.) One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal.
(n.) A member of a corporation, company, or city, possessing certain privileges; a member of a borough, town, or State, who has the right to vote at elections. See Liveryman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Educated at Imperial College London, he trained at the contractors Freeman Fox, but in 1978 he turned freelance as a transport consultant, setting up his own firm: Steer Davies Gleave.
(2) The study of the 40 Hz activity of the brain which was begun by Adrian (1942) has been furthered for the past years with several new approaches: A neural model for the generation of 40 Hz activity in attention has been published by Freeman (1975) whereas new possibilities in clinical applications and exploration of cognitive processes in an extended manner was proposed by Galambos and coworkers (1981).
(3) Cases of primary biliary cirrhosis in 95 patients from two centers are presented: 70 patients from a regional referral center (Freeman Hospital, FH) and 25 from an international tertiary referral center (King's College Hospital, KCH) with similar mean age at diagnosis and duration of follow-up (median, 12 months).
(4) The bomb threat tweet was sent to Freeman, the Europe editor of Time magazine, Catherine Mayer, and the Independent columnist Grace Dent, who took a screen grab of the tweet and posted it for her Twitter followers to see .
(5) A case with typical features of Freeman-Sheldon's syndrome is reported.
(6) When asked if she thought Freeman could be fair, Minneapolis NAACP president Nekima Levy-Pounds said she was cautiously optimistic.
(7) Those kind of moments are epic, like Cathy Freeman in the Sydney Olympics.
(8) However, Freeman bounced back into the presenter's chair in 1964, and continued to present the weekly rundown of the singles chart until 1972.
(9) The report specifies nothing about Freeman’s time at the secretive compound save for a seeming arrival at 4.10pm, only to note that he arrived in nearby district 11 lockup at 10.32pm.
(10) Freeman's dependable, capable Watson unlocks this modern Holmes, a man who now describes himself as "a high-functioning sociopath".
(11) Freeman was awarded an MBE in 1998 and over the years picked up an assortment of prestigious gongs for his radio work, including the Sony awards radio personality of the year in 1987, the Radio Academy's outstanding contribution to UK music radio award in 1988, and a special Sony award in May 2000 commemorating 40 years of service to broadcasting.
(12) Freeman ultimately was sentenced to probation for a misdemeanor.
(13) Hadley Freeman Broadchurch ( ITV ) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Reading this on mobile?
(14) Possible alterations in the mechanisms initiating plerocercoid migration as proposed by Fischer & Freeman (1969) were noted.
(15) A mathematical analysis is included, and the model is related to Freeman and Meyer (1975) wherein changes in sexual preferences were successfully made.
(16) Analysts at Freeman & Co, according to the New York Times, had estimated that bankers working for BAE and EADS – who have seen a big downturn in deals in the economic downturn – could have been handed "success" fees of £75m-£90m if the transaction had been completed.
(17) "I told him that if I was going to play him, I was going to have to have access to him," Freeman says.
(18) Sherlock, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role and Martin Freeman as Watson, was the top-rating show of the night.
(19) But while the names of grand jurors are kept secret, Freeman is an elected official, so citizens could hold him accountable at the polls.
(20) The classical P = ID equation is derived, as well as a number of identities originally reported by Miettinen (Am J Epidemiol 1976; 103: 226-235) and Freeman and Hutchison (Am J Epidemiol 1980; 112: 707-723.
Peasant
Definition:
(n.) A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.
(a.) Rustic, rural.
Example Sentences:
(1) Massive protests in the 1990s by Indian, Latin American and south-east Asian peasant farmers, indigenous groups and their supporters put the companies on the back foot, and they were reluctantly forced to shelve the technology after the UN called for a de-facto moratorium in 2000.
(2) Westminster wits had taken to ridiculing the rebel movement against Gordon Brown as a "peasants' revolt", a cohort without influence.
(3) Agroecology guarantees land to peasants, species diversity, decent work and food sovereignty, among other principles.
(4) As secretary general of La Via Campesina , the transnational peasant movement, he is the public voice of nearly 200 million small-scale producers, landless people, and farm and food workers in more than 180 organisations across nearly 90 countries.
(5) Cinematically, RED SORGHUM achieved a fantastically rich colour palette in its politically less-than-correct depiction of Chinese peasant life – blood and earth predominate – and trod a careful political line by focusing on atrocities by the invading Japanese rather than internal repression.
(6) Tellingly, loyal peasants relate how Guzmán chartered aircraft to take their children to the state capital for medical treatment, like a good old-school mafia don.
(7) It is expected that among the pupils of vocational mining schools who usually come from numerous peasant and working class families nutritional mistakes may occur very often.
(8) Nordestinos brought their hearty, meaty peasant cuisine with them, and one former factory worker, Jose Oliveira de Almeid, called simply Seu Ze, opened a small restaurant called Mocotó in the working-class suburb of Villa Medeiros.
(9) I might have said a few things after other forms of medication that I shouldn’t have done, but then again we all have, haven’t we?” Smith stood down as candidate for South Basildon and East Thurrock – regarded as one of Ukip’s most winnable target constituencies – this month after the release of a recording of a phone call in which he mocked gay party members as “poofters”, joked about shooting people from Chigwell in a “peasant hunt” and referred to someone as a “Chinky bird”.
(10) The field trial indicated that the grass carp could not only cut down the mosquito larvae population but also benefit the peasants by increasing the production of both fish and rice.
(11) Two ethnic groups in Laos were compared: the Hmong (or Meo), a tribal group with access to opium in their homes; and the Lao, a peasant people with more limited access, usually in opium dens.
(12) This case is observed in a 24 years old woman patient, of peasant extraction, who presents tumoration of the left hemiface, irregularly oval, 18 x 25 cm.
(13) In rural areas, plantation owners have a grip on local politics in the northeast that is little short of feudal, while the soy and cattle barons of the interior push landless peasants and Indian communities further to the margins.
(14) La Via Campesina has been lobbying in Geneva for a UN declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas.
(15) The newspaper said he joked about “shooting peasants”, referred to a woman with a Chinese name as a “chinky”, made claims he later retracted about the party leader, Nigel Farage, and called Steven Woolfe, Ukip’s immigration spokesman, a “fucking carpetbagger” and an “arsehole”.
(16) Historically, our masters have always imagined we lowly peasants will digest information more easily if it is written, for example, in a speech bubble coming out of the mouth of an imaginary squirrel pedestrian in yellow loon pants.
(17) Studies about life-time sport of different groups of population in Switzerland showed that 82% of 1990 apprentices in the town of Zürich and 59% of young peasants were active in sports in their leisure time.
(18) The article reports the results of the investigation on atmospheric pollution and mercury poisoning caused by the peasants mercury smelting.
(19) And, like all peasant messiahs, Mao promised a society in which all men would be equal.
(20) But soon after being appointed archbishop in 1977, he became a staunch critic of the military government after it began killing, kidnapping and arresting priests who had been organising peasants and supporting workers’ rights.