What's the difference between guest and visit?

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.

Visit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.
  • (v. t.) To go or come to see for inspection, examination, correction of abuses, etc.; to examine, to inspect; as, a bishop visits his diocese; a superintendent visits persons or works under his charge.
  • (v. t.) To come to for the purpose of chastising, rewarding, comforting; to come upon with reward or retribution; to appear before or judge; as, to visit in mercy; to visit one in wrath.
  • (v. i.) To make a visit or visits; to maintain visiting relations; to practice calling on others.
  • (v. t.) The act of visiting, or going to see a person or thing; a brief stay of business, friendship, ceremony, curiosity, or the like, usually longer than a call; as, a visit of civility or respect; a visit to Saratoga; the visit of a physician.
  • (v. t.) The act of going to view or inspect; an official or formal inspection; examination; visitation; as, the visit of a trustee or inspector.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, this deficit was observed only when the sample-place preceded but not when it followed the interpolated visits (second experiment).
  • (2) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
  • (3) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
  • (4) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
  • (5) Eighty-two per cent of patients with falciparum malaria had recently returned from Africa whereas 82% with vivax malaria had visited Asia.
  • (6) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
  • (7) 2009 Visits the US for first time to address the UN general assembly.
  • (8) A recent visit by a member of Iraq's government from Baghdad to Basra and back cost about $12,000 (£7,800), the cable claimed.
  • (9) We found no statistically significant difference in one-year, biochemically validated, sustained cessation rates between the group offered the long-term follow-up visits (12.5%) and the group given the brief intervention (10.2%).
  • (10) Cameron famously broke with the past, and highlighted his green credentials, by posing with huskies on a visit to Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic in 2006.
  • (11) Women who make their first visit during their first pregnancy are more likely than those who are not pregnant to receive a pregnancy test or counseling on matters other than birth control.
  • (12) On the initial visit, the best corrected acuity with spectacles was determined and a potential acuity meter reading was obtained; this test suggested potential for visual recovery in two of the three patients.
  • (13) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
  • (14) "For a better world, not only for the Iranian people but for the next generation across the globe, I earnestly hope that President Rouhani will receive a warm welcome and meaningful responses during his visit to the UN."
  • (15) In each of the clinics I visit I ask how much the surrogates are paid.
  • (16) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
  • (17) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
  • (18) The speed of visiting holes and the development of a preferred pattern of hole-visits did not influence spatial discrimination performance.
  • (19) Adjustment for possible mechanisms correlated with social class (marital status, smoking, time of first antenatal visit) decreased the higher occurrence of low birthweight infants in the low educational groups.
  • (20) Prostitute visit is a main risk factor, irrespective of whether the husband had a history of sexually transmitted diseases or not.