What's the difference between guest and invited?

Guest


Definition:

  • (n.) A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay.
  • (v. t.) To receive or entertain hospitably.
  • (v. i.) To be, or act the part of, a guest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Among the guests invited to witness the flypast were six second world war RAF pilots, dubbed the “few” by the wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.
  • (2) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
  • (3) The duo were given a standing ovation as they took to the stage helped by Evans and guest presenter Robbie Savage.
  • (4) But by the end of Tony Abbott’s heartfelt speech to 600 guests gathered at a huge fundraiser for the referendum movement on Thursday night, no one was any the wiser.
  • (5) When Trump had slept over at the family’s residence in upstate New York, Goldberg’s mother prepared breakfast for him in the morning and mistakenly poured salt instead of sugar all over their guest’s cornflakes.
  • (6) This design feature is well illustrated by the continuing guest for a lithium ion-selective electrode compatible with the high levels of sodium interference in blood.
  • (7) The computed very low helix content of the alanine homopolymer agrees with experiments on block copolymers and on host-guest random copolymers.
  • (8) The judge’s order to close the case came two weeks before US President Barack Obama is to be guest of honour at India’s Republic Day celebrations on 26 January.
  • (9) Last month, Black Lives Matter Toronto staged a sit-in during the city’s gay pride march, which the group had been invited to join as an honored guest.
  • (10) I will not find out the charge until I go to trial, so I just do not know.” Fowle, a 56-year-old equipment operator for the city of Moraine, Ohio, said he was originally detained at a large tourist hotel in Pyongyang and later moved to what he described as a suite-style room in a guest house, which he did not name.
  • (11) Having a British shoe designer to work with "felt like a really nice connection because we are opening in London," said Tom Mora, head of women's design, as a scrum of guests jostled for a better Instagram shot of the models behind him.
  • (12) Eighty six of 106 (81%) guests attending a party were followed up after an outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni enterocolitis.
  • (13) The official guest list for Friday’s anniversary event included senior government, party and military officials, but not Kim, whose weight gain in recent months has been blamed on a liking for rich food and attempts to strengthen his physical resemblance to his grandfather and North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung.
  • (14) Sanitary measures including toilet hygiene and boiling milk and water were recommended to avoid illness, and the guests departed.
  • (15) Saakashvili, a studio guest on CNN, said that it would be wrong to underestimate Ukraine’s military strength, adding that its officer corps was of a high calibre and that a “considerable chunk” of Russian officers were ethnically Ukrainian.
  • (16) As there was little doubt, among Arab observers and commentators, that Bourguiba, the seasoned politician, knew perfectly well what he was doing – that this was the best way to offend his hot-blooded guest.
  • (17) "There was clearly inappropriate behaviour by some of the other guests and I deeply regret that this happened.
  • (18) He did so, the judges asserted, because he was facing related charges in another case involving accusations that he paid for sex with an underage prostitute who was also a "bunga bunga" guest.
  • (19) But Nick Loening, owner of Ecoyoga in the Scottish Highlands, is evangelical about the benefits of a good soak and gently insistent that his guests make the most of the various bathing options at his retreat – regardless of the weather.
  • (20) The remaining 25,500 tickets will be allocated to sponsors, corporate hospitality, broadcasters, Uefa guests, national associations and local organisers.

Invited


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Invite

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (2) That is why you will be held relentlessly to account for those choices; why what you said in February invites forensic scrutiny.
  • (3) Among the guests invited to witness the flypast were six second world war RAF pilots, dubbed the “few” by the wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.
  • (4) All children enrolled in grade 2 were invited to join the study.
  • (5) The wives and girlfriends who were originally invited to accompany their playing partners on the World Cup tour have had their invitations formally rescinded.
  • (6) They plan to continue the hour-long demonstrations daily, potentially inviting arrest under laws introduced last year that allowed some protests to be criminalised.
  • (7) In response to the Advisory Committee on training in Nursing recommendations EONS in association with Marie Curie Memorial Foundation organized a workshop, where representatives of the 12 member states of the EEC, actively involved in cancer nursing education, were invited to prepare a core curriculum in cancer nursing education.
  • (8) Questionnaires were sent to 305 patients who during a three and a half year period had been invited to participate.
  • (9) Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born campaigner against religious laws, had been invited to speak to the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society next month.
  • (10) And when they do that in high dudgeon, they invite iconoclasm – something fashion has proved adept at for just as long.
  • (11) "It is also very surprising that the government is advising families with disabled children, and children suffering trauma following serious abuse, to invite a stranger into their home."
  • (12) They also made it clear that they would seek to use the award to bring their two countries closer together and said they would invite their prime ministers, Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan and Narendra Modi of India, to the award ceremony in Oslo in December.
  • (13) They begin when authorities invite us to exclude neighbors from the community by associating them with a global threat.
  • (14) They invite the viewer to get off on the same things the killer is getting off on.
  • (15) We all do different things.” She was front and centre at Ashley’s side in footage shot last week by Sky News cameramen, who were also part of the “selected media” entourage invited to Shirebrook to launch the group’s charm offensive.
  • (16) In the Commons on Monday , John Whittingdale, the culture secretary who only in February chaired the committee that concluded “No future licence fee negotiations must be conducted in the way of the 2010 settlement”, ducked the invitation to explain how exactly the same thing had just happened again.
  • (17) Collier usually attends in his place, but Guardian Australia has been told he was not invited to next month’s meeting, in the hope that omitting him might encourage Barnett to board a plane.
  • (18) Angela Merkel says she's very pleased to accept the invitation to Davos, at a time when global economic growth is modest.
  • (19) The fiery energy she radiated on stage and her motormouth, ragga-influenced raps brought her to the attention of So Solid Crew, who invited her to collaborate.
  • (20) Tales invites you to be straight or gay or a bit of both, or even a 93-year-old transsexual.

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