What's the difference between gallant and swain?

Gallant


Definition:

  • (a.) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
  • (a.) Noble in bearing or spirit; brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as, a gallant youth; a gallant officer.
  • (a.) Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
  • (n.) A man of mettle or spirit; a gay; fashionable man; a young blood.
  • (n.) One fond of paying attention to ladies.
  • (n.) One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer.
  • (v. t.) To attend or wait on, as a lady; as, to gallant ladies to the play.
  • (v. t.) To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to gallant a fan.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While bus passengers aren't particularly gallant, on the underground there hasn't been a single rush-hour journey when someone hasn't stood up to offer me a seat.
  • (2) A few months ago I visited a house in Rawalpindi with a giant poster over the windows, depicting a heroic warrior on a gallant white steed.
  • (3) She is by far the most popular …" Ms Harman was careful not to smile at this gallant jibe, but most of the shadow cabinet thought it very droll and smiled happily.
  • (4) He leads gallant, battling Stan Wawrinka 3-6, 7-6, 6-4.
  • (5) "Fucking hypocrite slut," quipped one gallant observer.
  • (6) Gallant has reminded us of the "tragedy of delayed treatment."
  • (7) O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming” – what does it mean?
  • (8) Reading had been enduring a similar slump, apart from their FA Cup run and gallant 2-1 defeat against Arsenal, after extra time, in their semi-final at Wembley.
  • (9) Korean defenders Kwang Chon and Nam Chol were magnificent, as was their gallant forward Jong.
  • (10) In doing so, she perfects the song, narrowing the sarcasm of "gallant South" to a fine point and cooling the temperature of the most overheated image: "the stench of burning flesh".
  • (11) Valcke gallantly told the supermodel he was French and kissed her three times.
  • (12) What on earth happened to the gallant tradition of “pozzing”: making positive remarks?
  • (13) The Independent’s latest proprietors, the Lebedevs , have done their best to keep the gallant paper afloat – well served by a tiny but committed and talented team of journalists – and have conceded defeat.
  • (14) Dave Hill gallantly interviews the Liberal Democrat runner, Caroline Pidgeon here , but she’s an also-ran.
  • (15) But Bolton gallantly hit back with two goals, one by Moir, with Farm at fault again, the second a brave header by Bell himself.
  • (16) The figure has been touted by Ukip on the slender basis that they have been wined and dined by the gallant spread-bet king, Stuart Wheeler, in his over-priced Mayfair flat (as indeed have I).
  • (17) Pigs heterozygous for the halothane-sensitivity gene exhibit a distinct phenotype with regard to both in vivo and in vitro muscle responses to halothane (E. M. Gallant, J. R. Mickelson, B. D. Roggow, S. K. Donaldson, C. F. Louis, and W. E. Rempel.
  • (18) They will not want the tag of gallant losers but the players in red and white gave everything, as they always do, before the agonies of a penalty shoot-out when Lucas Vázquez, Marcelo, Bale, Sergio Ramos and, finally, Ronaldo all scored for Real in the same corner.
  • (19) The gallant lad had never complained, merely tried to keep Michel and James Murdoch happy by feeding them upbeat messages about their BSkyB bid.
  • (20) The lyrics are very traditional national-anthem stuff about a “land of hope” and “full gallant legions”, and the pay-off at the end is “the fatherland of true brotherhood”, which is half right-wing and half left-wing, which is probably what any good national anthem should aspire to.

Swain


Definition:

  • (n.) A servant.
  • (n.) A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Val Swain, spokesperson for Netpol, a police monitoring group, said: "The Saturday protest is certainly an event that people are traveling to.
  • (2) In the future, says Kalixa’s Colin Swain, even window cleaners and other small trades people will be able to accept cards.
  • (3) Photograph: Jon Swaine for the Guardian However, the shop was then looted during Monday’s unrest, said the shop owner, who is Korean and speaks little English.
  • (4) Taking a value of the Swain-Scott nucleophilicity (n) of 2.5 for an average DNA nucleotide unit [Walles & Ehrenberg (1969) Acta Chem.
  • (5) There is no correlation between the Swain-Scott factors of monofunctional alkylants and their ability to induce chromosomal damage when compared in terms of pharmacological doses.
  • (6) The physical risk to Wesley himself is obvious and outrageous.” Earlier, the Guardian’s Jon Swaine posted pictures and video of heavily armed police pushing protesters back down the streets, and an image he believed to be of the two reporters being arrested.
  • (7) Updated at 1.27am BST 10.02pm BST US vice-president Joe Biden says MH17 was "blown out of the sky" , as the Guardian's Jon Swaine quotes him in full comments from his speech in Detroit.
  • (8) Nigel Swain University of Liverpool I just don’t recognise Viktor Orbán as a ‘tyrant’ | Tibor Fischer Read more • As a keen reader of his novels, I was disappointed with Tibor Fischer’s article.
  • (9) The Swains, with their tiny toilet, which empties into a leach pit – a hole in the ground used to compost faeces when there is no sewage system – are the face of progress.
  • (10) The nucleophilic selectivity (Swain-Scott's constant s) of chloroethylene oxide (CEO), an ultimate carcinogenic metabolite of vinyl chloride, was determined to be 0.71 using the 4-(p-nitrobenzyl)pyridine (NBP) assay (Spears method).
  • (11) In two examples which indicate how execution lengths have varied widely since the move to single-drug, 33-year-old Mario Swain was put to death on 8 November , 2012, for the murder of a woman a decade earlier.
  • (12) Entwistle's elevation creates another vacancy at the top of the corporation, with BBC1 controller Danny Cohen, another former Newsnight editor Peter Barron, who quit to join Google and Entwistle's number two Emma Swain, among the contenders to succeed him as head of BBC Vision.
  • (13) Val Swain, 44, another Fitwatch campaigner, said the post had been been a direct response to what she called the Telegraph's "rogues' gallery" and was never intended to divulge information that was not already "well known".
  • (14) On the basis of Orem's self-care framework, subjects' levels of knowledge in six criterion areas were assessed according to measurement criteria developed by Horn and Swain.
  • (15) Some examples of E lacking Knops, McCoy, Swain-Langley, and York antigens, a serologically related group, were not agglutinated.
  • (16) The presence of either excision-defective mutant can enhance the frequency of mutation (hypermutability) and this hypermutability can be correlated with the Swain-Scott constant S of specific AAs such that as the SN1 character of the DNA alkylation reaction increases, the difference in response between repair-deficient and repair-proficient females decreases.
  • (17) Their swains will arrive in white vests and ill-fitting suit trousers held up by braces.
  • (18) In the case of monofunctional agents, ENNG, ENU, DES and EMS there was a relationship between the induction of chromosome aberrations with the Swain-Scott S-value and O-alkylation with those agents with the lowest S-value and the highest proportion of O-alkylation producing chromosome aberrations at the lowest exposure concentrations.
  • (19) Two conceptual nursing models, Roy's adaptation model and Erickson and Swain's adaptive potential assessment model are explained, and knowledge is identified within these two assessment techniques for adaptation to stress.
  • (20) Some BBC insiders believe that Entwistle's No 2, Swain, is the most natural candidate to take over.