What's the difference between greet and respect?

Greet


Definition:

  • (a.) Great.
  • (v. i.) To weep; to cry; to lament.
  • (n.) Mourning.
  • (v. t.) To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token.
  • (v. t.) To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad.
  • (v. t.) To accost; to address.
  • (v. i.) To meet and give salutations.
  • (n.) Greeting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
  • (2) Governor General Quentin Bryce, the monarch's representative in Australia and the first woman to fill the role, had greeted the Queen by curtsying.
  • (3) Here's Rob Booth talking to me from there: Updated at 6.31pm BST 6.14pm BST Disappointment at the Ecuadorian embassy Outside the Ecuador embassy in Knightsbridge a handful of Assange supporters greeted the decision with disappointment.
  • (4) He was greeted in Kyoto by Abe, with the men dispensing with the formal handshake that starts most head of governments' greetings in favour of a full body hug.
  • (5) When the plane bringing his friend in touched down, they were greeted with a recorded welcome from the Queen telling them that they had now arrived in a safe country.
  • (6) This was greeted by a furious wall of sound from Labour, which only grew when he added: "The last government failed to prioritise compassionate care … they tried to shut down the whistleblowers …" It was pure party-political point-scoring, matched in spades by Labour's Andy Burnham.
  • (7) China greeted the announcement of Liu Xiaobo’s win with fury: a foreign ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, attacked the event as a “political farce”.
  • (8) The sugar tax was greeted with hostility by the industry and Wright argues that the levy, introduced by the chancellor in the budget , will be undermined by flawed analysis of its impact.
  • (9) As a non-executive director of the football club, it is understood he was largely "meeting and greeting" opposing clubs' directors on matchdays, but he was consulted on financial issues, the appointment of managers and major signings.
  • (10) The same-sex marriage bill became law, greeted with delight by the gay community and suspicious resentment by many Tories.
  • (11) The ghastliness of this American shock jock, who, though still obscure to most Britons, is said to be the third most popular radio host in the States, perhaps explains why news of his continued exclusion from the UK was greeted last week with utter indifference.
  • (12) Someone you haven't seen for a while greets you with a surprised cry of "You look well!".
  • (13) In any village in South Kivu, his arrival is much like the arrival of the pope – throngs of people greet him, thousands of women whose lives he has saved or healed or touched celebrate him.
  • (14) Popular magazines, greeting cards, and cartoons weave themes about time into the fabric of other messages.
  • (15) After that the new pope will be brought out to greet the crowd.
  • (16) Louis Pasteur's vaccine against rabies, introduced 100 years ago, was greeted by the American medical community with a mixture of praise and skepticism.
  • (17) They were the same two men who greeted Abu Ali as he crawled through a hole in the border fence to freedom on the night of 25 May 2015, just over four months after he had entered Isis territory.
  • (18) Yet he never revealed the open resentment with which some of the Kennedy loyalists greeted Johnson.
  • (19) 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.
  • (20) Once through the door, Romney will be greeted warmly by Cameron.

Respect


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To take notice of; to regard with special attention; to regard as worthy of special consideration; hence, to care for; to heed.
  • (v. t.) To consider worthy of esteem; to regard with honor.
  • (v. t.) To look toward; to front upon or toward.
  • (v. t.) To regard; to consider; to deem.
  • (v. t.) To have regard to; to have reference to; to relate to; as, the treaty particularly respects our commerce.
  • (v.) The act of noticing with attention; the giving particular consideration to; hence, care; caution.
  • (v.) Esteem; regard; consideration; honor.
  • (v.) An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another.
  • (v.) Reputation; repute.
  • (v.) Relation; reference; regard.
  • (v.) Particular; point regarded; point of view; as, in this respect; in any respect; in all respects.
  • (v.) Consideration; motive; interest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The absolute recoveries of diazepam, nordazepam and flurazepam in human milk were 84, 86 and 92% and in human plasma 97, 89 and 94%, respectively.
  • (2) Between 25 and 40 degrees C, the thermal dependencies of VR and f were approximately constant (Q10's of 1.31 and 1.36 got VR and f, respectively).
  • (3) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
  • (4) Maximum increases in portal plasma secretin concentrations of 143, 146 and 190% and maximum increases in VIP of 116, 155 and 147% after, respectively, intraduodenal 0.1 M NaHCO3, 0.1 M Na2CO3, and 0.025 M NaOH were found.
  • (5) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
  • (6) Although Jeggo's Chinese hamster ovary cells were more responsive to mAMSA, novo still abrogated mAMSA toxicity in the mutant cells as well as in the parental Chinese hamster ovary cells 2,4-Dinitrophenol acted similarly to novo with respect to mAMSA killing, but neither compound reduced the ATP content of V79 cells.
  • (7) The results demonstrated that K2PtCl4 was bound to a greater degree than CDDP in this system with 3-5 and 1-2 platinum atoms respectively, bound per transferrin molecule.
  • (8) We conclude that only one of the alleles was amplified and that either allele could be amplified with respect to both the SphI and PvuII polymorphisms.
  • (9) Contact angles of Silafocon A and PMMA were relatively uninfluenced by front surface radii between 7.7 and 8.85 and 7.3 to 8.8 mm, respectively.
  • (10) Four cytotoxic antibiotics, bikaverin, duclauxine, PSX-1 and vermiculine, were examined with respect to their interference with glycolysis and respiration and their possible ionophoric or cytolytic activity.
  • (11) The results show that endolymph is extremely inhomogenous with respect to calcium potentials.
  • (12) These effects are similar to those reported for AVP and phorbol esters, activators of protein kinase C. Forskolin and isoproterenol, which induce cAMP accumulation, activated extractable topoisomerase II (maximum 5-15 min after treatment), but not topoisomerase I. Permeable cyclic nucleotide analogs dBcAMP and 8BrcGMP selectively activated extractable topoisomerase II and topoisomerase I activities, respectively.
  • (13) The ORF2 showed homology with the Escherichia coli regulatory gene ompR, and ORF4 showed homology with E. coli and Rhizobium meliloti regulatory genes fnr and fixK, respectively.
  • (14) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
  • (15) The overall recoveries of activated ER following chromatography on DEAE-cellulose were significantly lower than the recoveries of the nonactivated ER, 71 and 85%, respectively.
  • (16) MAF-G activity was inhibited by mitomycin C and colchicine, which inhibit DNA synthesis and mitosis, respectively, but not by 2-deoxy-D-glucose, an inhibitor of glucose metabolism.
  • (17) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
  • (18) In patients with less favourable disease status the 2-year overall and DFS were 73% and 50% respectively.
  • (19) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
  • (20) Statistically significant differences were found mainly in the randomized trial, where during the first and second years, respectively, adenoidectomy subjects had 47% and 37% less time with otitis media than control subjects and 28% and 35% fewer suppurative (acute) episodes than control subjects.