What's the difference between frenchman and mortar?
Frenchman
Definition:
(n.) A native or one of the people of France.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Frenchman’s 65th-minute goal was a fifth for United and redemptive after he conceded the penalty from which CSKA Moscow took a first-half lead.
(2) "We hope that we can help in designing the future missions to Mars," said the Frenchman, Romain Charles.
(3) Frankly, the pair had been at each other ever since the Frenchman had come on to the pitch.
(4) The Frenchman, who arrived from Porto last month, was invited to let fly and sent his first-time volley arrowing across goal and into the corner past Artur Boruc.
(5) Hopefully there can be some really great performances which will try to blow away the shadow that programme has caused.” But Kilty will face a strong field in the men’s 100m that includes five athletes who have gone under the 10 second barrier in 2015, including the Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut, the American Mike Rodgers and the evergreen Kim Collins.
(6) The Frenchman has been excused from duty at Everton on Saturday on compassionate grounds and the club have put no time frame on his possible return.
(7) Garde has wasted no time in making his mark on the team and it came as no surprise that the Frenchman restored all four signings from Ligue 1 – Jordan Ayew, Jordan Amavi, Jordan Veretout and Idrissa Gueye – to the starting XI.
(8) Signing Paul Pogba and keeping David de Gea are Louis van Gaal’s priorities Read more Van Gaal is free to sign the 22-year-old, valued at €100m (£71.5m) by Juventus, despite Sir Alex Ferguson allowing the Frenchman to leave Old Trafford in 2012.
(9) Mancini resists the temptation to belt the Frenchman in the mouth as he walks past him.
(10) He careered at Pedro Obiang, propelled by a frightening intent, and the midfielder was forced to flatten the Frenchman but Mike Jones adjudged the offence to have taken place outside the area.
(11) As a Frenchman, albeit a London-based one, he probably lacks first-hand knowledge of ITV's history.
(12) But the Frenchman has revealed an unlikely source of inspiration on his daily drive to Arsenal’s training ground in Hertfordshire: Bob Marley.
(13) Chelsea could potentially follow up Falcao’s arrival on a 12-month loan with a move for Antoine Griezmann from Atlético – the Frenchman has a £43m buyout clause in his contract – which would see them beginning the defence of their title with a revamped forward line.
(14) The Frenchman, who had already won the World Rally Championship, took control of the three-day event from the start.
(15) To really be beloved in France he needs to learn to swear with the virtuosity of a Frenchman who's mislaid his linen Agnes B scarf in the Rue du Bac.
(16) Palace had started the day in second place and with Cabaye imperious and James McArthur just as impressive at the Frenchman’s side they are no longer pushovers.
(17) He might not want it.” That may well be the case, and the Frenchman’s instinct may be to seek a new long-term deal at the Emirates Stadium.
(18) I am satisfied he helped to prevent Mr Sylla entering the carriage,” said Branston, adding that he also made “a wanker sign” toward the Frenchman.
(19) I maintain what I said, that he could make it back for February or even earlier,” the Frenchman said of Wilshere.
(20) Fryatt knocks the ball past Koscielny and attempts to retrieve it but the Frenchman is faster and wins the race.
Mortar
Definition:
(n.) A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.
(n.) A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45¡, and even higher; -- so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described.
(n.) A building material made by mixing lime, cement, or plaster of Paris, with sand, water, and sometimes other materials; -- used in masonry for joining stones, bricks, etc., also for plastering, and in other ways.
(v. t.) To plaster or make fast with mortar.
(n.) A chamber lamp or light.
Example Sentences:
(1) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.
(2) Apple held an unprecedented online sale on Friday and retail giants like WalMart have combined their online and bricks and mortar sales.
(3) They said US forces had found a "daisy chain"– a long bomb rigged up from mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and a motorbike.
(4) Growing up in Walters Way – and knowing that my parents built our house – taught me that there is an alternative to buying on the open market, and that houses don’t need to be made from bricks and mortar.
(5) But, in contrast to mammals, the highly attenuated corneocytes of avians, which results from a paucity of keratin filaments, produce a 'straws-and-mortar' tissue, rather than the 'bricks-and-mortar' tissue of mammals.
(6) The median incubation period calculated from day of arrival at the mortar firing site was 17 days (range 2-78) for the 15 confirmed cases.
(7) "Yesterday Palestinian terrorists fired 11 mortars from the vicinity of an UNRWA school in Zeitoun, Gaza," the IDF said on Twitter about four hours after the strike on the school in Rafah.
(8) I don't mean the year communism collapsed and democracy-loving Berliners tore through bricks and mortar with their bare hands.
(9) Crush the pistachios with a mortar and pestle, and set aside, then finely crush the cardamom seeds.
(10) Today, retailers offer their customers multiple touch points, whether that is a bricks and mortar store, online or mobile.
(11) Associated Press said 44 Sunni detainees were executed by pro-government Shia militiamen after Sunni insurgents reportedly tried to storm the jail near Baquba, but the Iraqi military put the death toll at 52 and said the Sunni prisoners were killed by mortar shells.
(12) As a result, the conflict has moved closer to residential areas, where the warring parties are fighting with indiscriminate weapons such as mortars, rockets and grenades.
(13) Even when they mortar us, it is hard to know where they come from.
(14) No matter how much you enjoy cooking, you definitely won't need a mortar or a pestle.
(15) He added: "It may also fail to reduce the violence or shift the momentum because the regime relies overwhelmingly on surface fires – mortars, artillery, and missiles."
(16) The Israeli military said gunmen had fired mortar bombs from near the school and it shot back in response.
(17) For many traders, street food is a means to a more conventional end: you start out selling from the back of a van and, if you amass a big enough following, you might end up with a bricks-and-mortar restaurant.
(18) They show the interrogation in April 2007 of a suspected insurgent, "Hanif", detained and questioned about a mortar attack on a British base.
(19) Syrian rebels groups briefly seized control of the Quneitra border crossing after hours of sustained and intense fighting with tanks and artillery, during which several shells exploded inside Camp Ziouni, a UN compound inside the demilitarised zone, and three mortars reportedly exploded inside Israeli-occupied territory.
(20) In the case of Airbnb, it’s facilitating the buy-to-let marketplace, and lets people like me – who have the assets to sweat – make a profit to cover the cost of more assets, which can then be priced accordingly to cover their own bricks and mortar (or, in my case, fuel and waterproof blacking).