What's the difference between gaggle and pride?

Gaggle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.
  • (v. i.) A flock of wild geese.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We also hear of a radio streaming service that will challenge Pandora and Spotify, and there's the usual gaggle of iPhone, iPad, and Mac variations.
  • (2) The warmest cheers came for the NHS ("not for sale", warned Unison's Dave Prentis), for attacks on the banks or (Unite's Len McCluskey) that "gaggle of public schoolboys on the make" who run the coalition.
  • (3) The gaggle of lawyers acting for the celebrities suing the newspaper argue that all News Corp has done is move from the "one rogue" – referring to the already jailed Goodman – to a "two rogue" strategy.
  • (4) On the one hand I was already too western for the gaggle of parents who brought us up communally (“You want to study English?
  • (5) The gaggle today is just today’s pool with the addition of a few others here at the White House.” Some outlets lingered in the West Wing hallway out of frustration but were asked by a Secret Service agent, upon instructions from the White House press office, to leave the area.
  • (6) I won’t do it again.” But he was cheery enough later, stopping to sign balls for a gaggle of ball-kids on his way to interview.
  • (7) The crowd has a right to do what they want, to cheer for whoever they want.” But he was cheery enough later, stopping to sign balls for a gaggle of ball-kids on his way to interview.
  • (8) It feels like a scene from Goodfellas, except instead of gangsters and gumars there's a gaggle of photography assistants nervously working around Ross.
  • (9) It's easy to forget, watching him talk, viewing old films, even seeing him goof about with a gaggle of kids in Fading Gigolo, that Allen is the product of pre-war New York.
  • (10) "Watergate and Vietnam served ... to erode the authority I think the president needs to be effective, especially in the national security area," opined the vice-president to a gaggle of reporters in the cabin of Air Force Two, as they flew over the Middle East.
  • (11) And, as in paradise, there were angels: a gaggle of ragged smiling children had gathered at our door, chattering excitedly.
  • (12) FOX 29 (@FOX29philly) Gaggle waiting for Christie in Fort Lee, NJ.
  • (13) After school last week, a gaggle of African children heading home with their satchels waved at the elderly Italian men lined up on chairs for a gossip outside the barber shop.
  • (14) Without fanfare or advertising, Nando's has woven itself into the fabric of UK society over the past few years, popping up on high streets across the country to serve everyone from happy families to lunching workers, from gaggling teens to dating couples.
  • (15) We have come too far – in our football stadiums and on our streets – for us to permit the thuggery of a gaggle of drunks to define us and our Britain in 2015.
  • (16) Spilling out of the Eastern Comfort hostel, which floats on Berlin's river Spree, a gaggle of Spanish tourists in town for a week of clubbing poses for the customary snapshots at one of the city's most iconic images.
  • (17) The “gaggle” with Sean Spicer , the White House press secretary, took place in lieu of his daily briefing and was originally scheduled as an on-camera event.
  • (18) Kate got to do some arts and crafts with a gaggle of boisterous school children who thought they were meeting Princess Elsa from Disney’s Frozen.
  • (19) On 20 April, he announced his alternative currency to a gaggle of online followers.
  • (20) But things got really weird when I found on Friday a gaggle of police near the Guardian office randomly questioning a 41-year-old Iranian national.

Pride


Definition:

  • (n.) A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.
  • (n.) The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.
  • (n.) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.
  • (n.) Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain.
  • (n.) That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.
  • (n.) Show; ostentation; glory.
  • (n.) Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life.
  • (n.) Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
  • (v. t.) To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively.
  • (v. i.) To be proud; to glory.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Enough with Clintonism and its prideful air of professional-class virtue.
  • (2) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
  • (3) Gassmann, whose late father, Vittorio , was a critically acclaimed star of Italian cinema in its heyday in the 1960s, tweeted over the weekend with the hashtag #Romasonoio (I am Rome), calling on the city’s residents to be an example of civility and clean up their own little corners of Rome with pride.
  • (4) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
  • (5) It's an attractive idea, and yet pride in Europe appears to be giving way to populism and hostility within the union.
  • (6) He points to the seat where his friend was hit; he says only pride prevents him from lying on the floor for the entire journey.
  • (7) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
  • (8) She said that want mattered now was “to help a human being [Suárez] and see if the group [the national team] shows its pride and love of Uruguay”.
  • (9) In a series of analyses guided by intuitive hypotheses, the Smith and Ellsworth theoretical approach, and a relatively unconstrained, open-ended exploration of the data, the situations were found to vary with respect to the emotions of pride, jealousy or envy, pride in the other, boredom, and happiness.
  • (10) Katwala says the old choice was between national pride on the one hand and acceptance that Britain had changed on the other: "Now we can be proud of the nation that has changed."
  • (11) We make mistakes, and fall victim to the temptations of pride, and power, and sometimes evil.
  • (12) Some were less fortunate, but panic has given way to a Balkan pride and resilience.
  • (13) Last month, Black Lives Matter Toronto staged a sit-in during the city’s gay pride march, which the group had been invited to join as an honored guest.
  • (14) There was no repeat of last season's humiliation but it told of another Liverpool exertion against Oldham Athletic that Brendan Rodgers took pride only in a competitive Anfield appearance for his son, Anton.
  • (15) In fact, it was Howard who first introduced a teenage Martin Amis to the delights of reading when she gave him a copy of Pride and Prejudice .
  • (16) The results surpassed all expectations and the change process has instilled a new sense of pride among nurses at the hospital and sparked the development of training sessions for other nurses in the region.
  • (17) Prime minister Lee Hsien Loong called the snap election more than a year early in the hope of riding a wave of national pride following the country’s recent 50th anniversary.
  • (18) He tells me with huge pride that she has an MBE for her work in the health service.
  • (19) A source of enormous national pride, China’s space program plans a total of 20 missions this year at a time when the US and other countries’ programs are seeking new roles.
  • (20) BBC1 will also screen a three-part adaptation of PD James' Death Comes to Pemberley, the Jane Austen homage in the 200th anniversary year of Pride and Prejudice, as well as a three-part adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn and Remember Me, a ghost story by Gwyneth Hughes (Five Days, The Girl).