What's the difference between geordie and george?

Geordie


Definition:

  • (n.) A name given by miners to George Stephenson's safety lamp.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Shortly afterwards normal service was very briefly resumed when, with Cardiff overcommitted to attack, a customary roar greeted Newcastle's third goal, a header from the popular, Geordie-reared substitute Steven Taylor.
  • (2) Alexander Lebedev's son Evgeny is the chairman of Independent Print, the holding company set up to buy the Independent titles, and its directors also include the editor of the Standard, Geordie Greig, who is the Lebedevs' UK consigliere.
  • (3) Geordie Greig, the Evening Standard editor, also denied that Sawiris was involved in the talks.
  • (4) The London Evening Standard distributed 850,000 free copies yesterday, 200,000 more than planned, as part of a promotion to mark a relaunch of the paper under new editor Geordie Greig and owner Alexander Lebedev.
  • (5) In a word: Hollyoaks has become Geordie Shore and The Only Way Is Essex – as unreal as its purported reality show counterparts.
  • (6) Lebedev's philanthropic interests also extend to Britain, where he is friends with Geordie Greig, editor of Tatler, and other members of Britain's aristo-celebocracy.
  • (7) The first tranche of redundancies are expected "within weeks rather than months" after the new editor, Geordie Greig, and management have had time to make assessments and plan for the future.
  • (8) Liverpool also want Aston Villa's purveyor of wayward crosses Ashley Young and will obviously need a muscular, ponytail-sporting Geordie to get on the end of them; step forward £30m-rated Newcastle United No9 Andy Carroll .
  • (9) However, new Evening Standard editor Geordie Greig subsequently revealed he paid considerably more but declined to name the price.
  • (10) And all Geordie hope was extinguished when Krul beat away his shot only to be punished by Adebayor's stunning half-volley.
  • (11) When asked to define his nationality, Plater's stock response was: "Geordie by birth, Yorkshire by upbringing and now a metropolitan sophisticate."
  • (12) Horse & Hound was down 6.4% year on year to 61,445 in the second half of 2008, while Tatler, which has just replaced the London Evening Standard-bound editor Geordie Greig with Catherine Ostler, was down 4.9% to 86,107.
  • (13) That said, the MoS editor, Geordie Greig, has a good record on helping the poor.
  • (14) "When the new editor [Geordie Greig] came in I went to talk to him about it and decided to stop."
  • (15) Evening Standard editor Geordie Greig is an enthusiastic proponent of the free model after taking the London paper free.
  • (16) Tatler editor Geordie Greig, a former Sunday Times journalist, had been lined up for the editorship of the paper, although he may be appointed to a more senior editorial role.
  • (17) The Children's Society Facebook Twitter Pinterest Last year The Children's Society ran Geordie Magic , which saw a team of magicians engage with members of the public in a street fundraising campaign.
  • (18) I'm inclined to think it's the former but lot of fans assuming he's just behaving badly," writes depressed Geordie Oliver Lewis.
  • (19) The tycoon insists he has a "hands off" relationship with both titles, leaving their day-to-day management to their respective editors, Dmitry Muratov and Geordie Greig.
  • (20) "When we went four goals down I thought the house might come down, but in the end we sent 51,000 Geordies home relatively happy.

George


Definition:

  • (n.) A figure of St. George (the patron saint of England) on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See Garter.
  • (n.) A kind of brown loaf.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The recent rise in manufacturing has been welcomed by George Osborne as a sign that his economic policies are bearing fruit.
  • (2) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
  • (3) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
  • (4) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
  • (5) Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter in the original film.
  • (6) In the UK, George Osborne used this to his advantage, claiming "Britain faces the disaster of having its international credit rating downgraded" even after Moody's ranked UK debt as "resilient".
  • (7) They also questioned why George Osborne and the Treasury failed to realise there was a potential issue earlier in the calculation process – pointing to recent upwards revisions of post-1995 gross national income by the UK’s own statistics watchdog.
  • (8) George Osborne’s eighth budget is unlikely to be a radical affair , as the state of the public finances and the upcoming EU referendum limit the chancellor’s room for manoeuvre.
  • (9) What about the "credit easing" George Osborne announced in his conference speech?
  • (10) Even so, the release of the first-half figures could help clear the way for the chancellor, George Osborne, to start selling off the taxpayer’s 79% stake in the bank, a legacy of the institution’s 2008 bailout.
  • (11) There are no more parties, there is only Greece," said Markos Bolaris, the new deputy health minister and close ally of the former prime minister George Papandreou .
  • (12) In Wednesday’s budget speech , George Osborne acknowledged there had been a big rise in overseas suppliers storing goods in Britain and selling them online without paying VAT.
  • (13) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
  • (14) George Bush, who won Ohio narrowly last time, has been there almost 20 times in the past four years and Vice-President Cheney is on his way this week.
  • (15) He poses a far greater risk to our security than any other Labour leader in my lifetime September 12, 2015 “Security” appears to be the new watchword of Cameron’s government – it was used six times by the prime minister in an article attacking Corbyn in the Times late last month, and eight times by the chancellor, George Osborne, in an article published in the Sun the following day.
  • (16) Obama will meet with Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas tomorrow as well, but US envoy George Mitchell has had no luck in recent weeks trying to persuade Netanyahu to compromise on the settlements.
  • (17) The film was shot in Monastir, Tunisia, for $4m, with financing from George Harrison's HandMade Films company, and each of the Pythons plays at least three roles.
  • (18) Conservative MP George Christensen has been forced to back down after suggesting an incident at a Sydney police station was a “failed terrorism attack” and linking it to radical Islamism.
  • (19) As he sits in Athens wondering when the International Monetary Fund is going to deliver another bailout, George Papandreou might be tempted to hum a few lines of Tired of Waiting for You.
  • (20) George J. Heuer was the 13th resident surgeon trained by William S. Halsted.

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