What's the difference between grange and granger?

Grange


Definition:

  • (n.) A building for storing grain; a granary.
  • (n.) A farmhouse, with the barns and other buildings for farming purposes.
  • (n.) A farmhouse of a monastery, where the rents and tithes, paid in grain, were deposited.
  • (n.) A farm; generally, a farm with a house at a distance from neighbors.
  • (n.) An association of farmers, designed to further their interests, aud particularly to bring producers and consumers, farmers and manufacturers, into direct commercial relations, without intervention of middlemen or traders. The first grange was organized in 1867.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In public life you meet people, and from time to time they give you things, they might give you ties, they might give you pens … sure a bottle of grange is pretty special.” Asked when he had learned of O’Farrell’s bombshell decision, Abbott said “he texted me that I should call him, by the time I saw the text he was about to go in and make his statement.
  • (2) The relative risk of mild hearing loss, in comparison with Kwinana, was 2.5 (95% CI 1.5-4.3) for Wiluna and 3.2 (95% CI 2.0-5.0) for La Grange.
  • (3) Robin Le Mare Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria • Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com
  • (4) Beside him is Claire Jepson, an occcupational therapist at The Grange, an NHS specialist assessment unit for dementia patients.
  • (5) We will now take time to consider our options regarding an appeal for Preston New Road, along with also considering appeals for the planning applications recently turned down, against officer advice, for monitoring and site restoration at Grange Hill, and last week’s decision to refuse the Roseacre Wood application,” the statement said.
  • (6) Barry O'Farrell resigned the day after telling the Independent Commission Against Corruption he did not remember receiving a gift of a $3000 bottle of Penfolds Grange from Australian Water Holdings chief Nick di Girolamo in 2011.
  • (7) Nine mutants were obtained by site-directed mutagenesis and two were spontaneous mutants previously obtained by in vivo selection (Grange, T., Kunst, F., Thillet, J., Ribadeau-Dumas, B., Mousseron, S., Hung, A., Jami, J., and Pictet, R. (1984) Nucleic Acids Res.
  • (8) The NSW premier said: “I don’t know about this phone call, but what I do know is if I’d received a bottle of 1959 Penfold Grange I’d have known about it.” O’Farrell said he first met Di Girolamo in 2007 after becoming state Liberal leader and maintained “once a month” contact with the prominent Liberal party fundraiser in the lead-up to the 2011 election.
  • (9) La Grange was at pains to make it clear that as a child she showed not a glimmer of the incipient political sensibility that some white South Africans I have met claim to have had.
  • (10) The age-adjusted prevalence odds ratio (relative risk) of perforations of the tympanic membrane for Wiluna compared with Kwinana was 5.0 (95% confidence interval [CI] 2.7-12.2) and 6.8 (95% CI 3.5-13.9) for La Grange compared with Kwinana.
  • (11) As well as Emmanuel, there's Barry Sloane, who's swapped being Chester's resident psycho Niall (you remember: blew up a church to kill his own sister) to play the mysterious Aiden in Revenge; and Max Brown, who's starred in everything from Grange Hill to The Tudors, is now playing a womanising doctor in the CW Network's Beauty And The Beast.
  • (12) These include BP's plans to build a carbon capture plant at Peterhead and Centrica's Eston Grange project.
  • (13) We have studied the structure-function relationships in newly discovered hemoglobin (Hb) mutants with substitutions occurring at the tight and highly hydrophobic cluster between the B and G helices in the beta chains, namely, Hb Knossos or beta A27S and Hb Grange-Blanche or beta A27V.
  • (14) Mandela also had a sharp sense of humour, according to La Grange.
  • (15) The whole show is really just a riff on that well-meaning girl in 1980s Grange Hill whining, "Why do you eat so many sandwiches, Ro-land?"
  • (16) Sightings of Winehouse looking healthier suggested the plan was working, with the head of Universal Music, Lucian Grange, quoted as saying the new material was sounding "sensational".
  • (17) Hemoglobin Grange-Blanche [beta 27(B9) Ala----Val] is a new variant found in a Portuguese family.
  • (18) For services to the New English Orchestra and to Chartiy through Rotary in Grange-over-Sands Cumbria.
  • (19) Minor concerns were expressed about two private units in Devon: Westbrook Grange in Barton, near Torquay, run by Modus Care, and James House in Chudleigh, run by the Four Seasons group.
  • (20) It is only his third wife, Graca Machel, who is with Mandela more than La Grange is.

Granger


Definition:

  • (n.) A farm steward.
  • (n.) A member of a grange.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To this end, we run a Granger causality test (named after Clive Granger, the 2003 Nobel prizewinner in economics) which suggests that Brexit predicts movements in the five-year yield (at the conventional 10% level of statistical significance).
  • (2) In the Eastern Conference, the Bulls played without Derrick Rose, the Celtics didn't have Rajon Rondo and the Pacers were without Danny Granger.
  • (3) Drawing on the "#hellomynameis" blogging-run campaign of Kate Granger, a doctor who is terminally ill, Hunt will say that the move is in part inspired by the "vital courtesy of introducing yourself when meeting a patient for the first time".
  • (4) All these characters are fictionalised, but they are based on real people: Frank Stokes is modelled on George Stout ; Campbell on Robert K. Posey ; Garfield on Walker Hancock ; Granger on James Rorimer .
  • (5) The officials facing the committee were Edward Troup, tax assurance commissioner, Jim Harra, director general of business tax, and Jennie Granger, director general of enforcement and compliance.
  • (6) The simplest membrane model compatible with these properties is the two-pore model (Grotte 1956), for which there now is massive documentation (Taylor & Granger 1984).
  • (7) But riding high above them all, although no longer on a broomstick, is that accomplished paragon of virtue Emma Watson, the 24-year-old English actress still known to millions of fans of the Harry Potter films as Hermione Granger and the winner this spring of the “Most Flawless Woman of the Decade” accolade from the internet news service Buzzfeed.
  • (8) You can imagine therefore how thrilled I was when Katherine Kelly – the former Becky Granger in Corrie, who spent six years wailing mournfully then angrily then mournfully again on the cobbles – turns up here as the stony-faced DI Shackleton.
  • (9) The demonstration of the oxygen free-radical-mediated postischemic reperfusion injury by Granger, Rutili, and McCord in ischemic cat intestine suggested that this mechanism might also be operative following renal ischemia.
  • (10) Jennie Granger, HMRC's director for enforcement and compliance, said: "If you have assets offshore you need to get in touch with us urgently, because we will catch up with you.
  • (11) Jennie Granger, director general of enforcement and compliance at HMRC, called on anyone who knew of tax evasion to "tell HMRC via the tax evasion hotline by phone, on 0800 788 887, email or post".
  • (12) It's hard to remember now, but Gerald Green was actually in the starting lineup at the start of the season, replacing the injured Danny Granger.
  • (13) Jennie Granger, the director general for customer compliance at HMRC, which supervises payment of the national living wage, said: “Employers must pay their workers what they’re entitled to and follow the rules.
  • (14) Jenny Granger, HMRC's director general for enforcement and compliance, cautioned that not all the individuals using offshore accounts were seeking to evade tax.
  • (15) The purpose of this study was to use the optical Doppler velocimeter of Borders and Granger [(1984), Microvasc.
  • (16) MPs will also want to know why more cannot be done to extract financial penalties from big accountancy firms shown to have marketed tax schemes Granger is expected to maintain that HMRC's efforts to tackle marketed tax avoidance schemes continue to bear fruit, pointing to a win rate of eight out of 10 tax avoidance cases in 2012-13, producing more than £1bn in tax receipts.
  • (17) 2.01pm BST Today on the network, Kate Granger, a doctor who was diagnosed with incurable cancer three years ago, writes about the #hellomynameis social media campaign she set up that encourages healthcare staff to take a few seconds to humanise the experience of being in hospital.
  • (18) Analysis of the eight major national and international inquiries into geoengineering over the past three years shows that Keith and Caldeira, Rasch and Prof Granger Morgan the head of department of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University where Keith works, have sat on seven panels, including one set up by the UN.
  • (19) Vilma is a "granger" – a term I coined to describe the "grey anger" of those who won't willingly enter the people farms, who don't want to spend their retirement twiddling thumbs and perennially tapping little white balls into a hole in a patch of cultivated grass.
  • (20) The resounding result was that Geraldine Granger , the Vicar of Dibley, would be most stridently pro-EU, with The Royle Family’s Jim Royle the most enthusiastic Brexiter.

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