What's the difference between granger and steward?

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.

Steward


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To manage as a steward.
  • (n.) A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to manage the domestic concerns, supervise other servants, collect the rents or income, keep accounts, and the like.
  • (n.) A person employed in a hotel, or a club, or on board a ship, to provide for the table, superintend the culinary affairs, etc. In naval vessels, the captain's steward, wardroom steward, steerage steward, warrant officers steward, etc., are petty officers who provide for the messes under their charge.
  • (n.) A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a Methodist church.
  • (n.) In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
  • (n.) In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recovery was assessed by means of a modified Steward coma scale.
  • (2) A 30-year-old steward told the Guardian that the conditions under the bridge were "cold and wet and we were told to get our head down [to sleep]".
  • (3) Molly Prince, managing director of the company, refuted the Guardian story with some lustily expressed but random facts: "CPUK have not only purchased tents for everyone (some stewards wanted to use their own but it was too wet to put them up, they insisted in having a go!).
  • (4) And it can be a good idea to apply to do a one-off to see if there’s an appetite to do more and whether you have enough people willing to be stewards.
  • (5) Dressed in saris, the hijras gave an air-steward style demonstration of how to wear the belt while directing saucy, suggestive remarks at the drivers watching them.
  • (6) "These actions are not coming from the stewards, they are coming from the lads."
  • (7) On Monday, police took over security at stadiums in Durban and Cape Town amid protests by stewards.
  • (8) Officers were pelted with missiles, including shards of glass from shattered shopfronts, as stewards from the demonstration called for calm and tried to separate police from protesters.
  • (9) We have created no framework in which owners are required to commit to companies over time, to steward their assets and to act as trustees for the living, breathing social organisations that companies are.
  • (10) I was raised in a traditional way and regard it as my job to be a steward of the land.
  • (11) In a real sense it not only pits 36-year-old Smith, a former BBC producer and lobbyist, against Dai Davies, former shop steward at the down defunct steel works, but Blairism against Bevanism and Nye's ghost.
  • (12) The action spread by phone in "a domino effect", stewards said.
  • (13) Two Navy stewards waited on us, only entering the room to serve food and drinks,” Comey writes.
  • (14) Ruth Dear Ruth… Will Hutton Photograph: Guardian There is a danger of utopian myth in this, rather like the Labour left and shop steward movement in the 1960s.
  • (15) "From redundancy payments through to the failed DMI project, the BBC has not always been the steward of public money that it should have been," said Tony Hall, the corporation's director general.
  • (16) What we found, particularly here in Parramatta, is that we have large numbers of clients coming who just want general information,” says Steward.
  • (17) Two hours later, as we trooped off into blinding Caribbean sun, the steward was still beaming.
  • (18) Then 26% of people said they trusted David Cameron and George Osborne most on the economy, compared with 24% who preferred Ed Miliband and Ed Balls as stewards of the nation's finances.
  • (19) Ronaldo side-stepped him and the invader was quickly brought to ground by a rugby tackle from one of the chasing stewards.
  • (20) "It is important that you follow all instructions given by stewards," said a spokesman.

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