What's the difference between guild and guildhall?

Guild


Definition:

  • (v. t.) An association of men belonging to the same class, or engaged in kindred pursuits, formed for mutual aid and protection; a business fraternity or corporation; as, the Stationers' Guild; the Ironmongers' Guild. They were originally licensed by the government, and endowed with special privileges and authority.
  • (v. t.) A guildhall.
  • (v. t.) A religious association or society, organized for charitable purposes or for assistance in parish work.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some populations of fish and wildlife are members of the same guilds as subpopulations of humans.
  • (2) The truth was that he had failed his maths O-level at his local school and completed a City and Guilds in catering at Glasgow College of Food Technology.
  • (3) Janet Gilder, registered manager at care home Mary Feilding Guild, started as a nurse before working her way up the ranks in older people’s care.
  • (4) For months, Tom McCarthy’s journalistic thriller Spotlight has been at the head of the pack – further bolstered by its recent Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations.
  • (5) Meanwhile, a number of writers have publicly come out against the second deal – including Ursula Le Guin, who resigned from the Authors Guild amid accusations that it was making a "deal with the devil" and selling its members "down the river" .
  • (6) He deplored permissivism, and was not frightened of being quoted to that effect; he was a member of the British Catholic Stage Guild, and served as its vice-president for some time.
  • (7) It is suggested that guilds, defined as a group of human individuals or a group of nonhuman species that use their environment in a similar way, be used as experimental probes to assess the effects of chemicals on ecosystems and humans.
  • (8) Efficacy (HAM-D21, Clinical Global Impressions Scales for Severity and Improvement, Patient Global Impressions Scale for Improvement, Guild Memory Test) and adverse events were evaluated weekly.
  • (9) They seem to have almost an infinite arsenal of different types of weapons,” said Rachel Lederman, attorney for the National Lawyers Guild (NLG).
  • (10) Despite Hooper's triumph at the Directors Guild of America awards a month ago , which are generally considered an accurate barometer of the Academy's intentions (only six times in their 63-year history have they not correlated), momentum had seemed to be falling back into the hands of David Fincher, who took both the Golden Globe and the Bafta two weeks ago.
  • (11) Guild (1932) stated the general requirements for processing signals in color vision system and a digital format of his paradigm is developed in this paper.
  • (12) It is not simply that she became a highly successful artist in an age when guilds and academies closed their doors to women.
  • (13) In a strongly-worded letter of resignation the award-winning science fiction and fantasy author said the Guild's decision to support Google in its plans to digitise millions of books meant she could no longer countenance being a member.
  • (14) Speaking to journalists at a Broadcasting Press Guild lunch in London, Whittingdale said: "There is a real possibility that the Queen or privy council will refuse to recommend any royal charter when there is disagreement between the parties or disagreement between the government and industry.
  • (15) UK Music head Feargal Sharkey said last night the group had joined with the Entertainment Retailers' Association and the Music Producers' Guild to compile a common response to the government's consultation.
  • (16) The Authors Guild doesn’t seem to understand how self-publishing works.
  • (17) Gandolfini won several awards for his role in The Sopranos, including both the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series.
  • (18) Woodstock Vintage has beautiful things, from amazing linen to silverware, and I love the galleries, like What If The World , celebrating young, contemporary South African artists, and Southern Guild, which showcases the best of local design.
  • (19) Bovey Tracey is a pretty town on the edge of Dartmoor and is the home of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen , an acclaimed showcase for contemporary craft and design in an enormous Victorian watermill.
  • (20) Censorship eased On 12 September Iran's independent House of Cinema – the main film guild, shut down under Ahmadinejad – is reopened.

Guildhall


Definition:

  • (n.) The hall where a guild or corporation usually assembles; a townhall.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The HLF is giving £935,700 to the Dylan Thomas centre which opened in the city's former Guildhall in 1995 and is run in partnership with the University of Wales .
  • (2) Grim Lib Dem activists leaning quietly at the bar talked of faint hopes of holding on to one of their two seats, while the Green party MEP Keith Taylor sat on his own on a folding chair at the front of the art deco Guildhall, waiting to learn if he was newly unemployed.
  • (3) Among the high-ranking officials scheduled to meet Hoban in the Guildhall, in the heart of the City, tomorrow, are senior figures from international banking groups Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank , Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse as well domestic players such as Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays Capital which have large investment banking businesses.
  • (4) The supreme court's current chief executive, Jenny Rowe, has been widely praised for helping establish the court after the judges moved out of the House of Lords in 2009 to the former Middlesex Guildhall in Westminster, directly opposite parliament.
  • (5) To be the true global champion of free trade in this new modern world, we also need to do something to help those families and communities who can actually lose out from it.” Britain cannot afford to stand still in the era of such vast and sweeping changes to political orthodoxy, May will say at London’s Guildhall.
  • (6) Speaking in Guildhall Square, he said the party hopes to win Itchen at the next election “whenever it is called”, and added: “September is fine by me.” He told the crowd: “If the Conservatives are unable to govern, they should step aside.
  • (7) The singer and the Canadian film-maker travelled from their home in Berkshire in a black car, arriving at the Windsor guildhall to be greeted by crowds of fans.
  • (8) The influence of the corporation is underlined by speeches by the prime minister, the chancellor, and the mayor of London who outline their plans at sumptuous banquets in the Guildhall or Mansion House.
  • (9) She was taken to hospital following the incident outside the Turtle Bay restaurant in Guildhall Square on 18 September.
  • (10) A temporary exhibition opens this week in the Guildhall, near the site, and next year a permanent new visitor centre will open, possibly on the same day that the russet bones are re-interred in a newly designed tomb in the cathedral.
  • (11) Daniel Craig in brief Born 2 March 1968 Career Studied at the National Youth Theatre and Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
  • (12) He left school and his native Chester at 16 to pursue acting, first at London’s National Youth Theatre, then at Guildhall.
  • (13) Among gay celebrities, Sir Elton John and David Furnish will plight their troth on December 21 at Windsor Guildhall, where Prince Charles married Camilla Parker-Bowles.
  • (14) At 1pm, about 80 porters walked into the Guildhall and sat on the public seats.
  • (15) I think this is a matter for the German government as it is for the Australian government to manage in their own way.” Turnbull’s response came in answer to a question to both himself and Merkel about whether Europe had anything to learn from Australian border control policies, and whether the chancellor accepted Abbott’s advice about the risks of “misguided altruism”, which was delivered at the second Margaret Thatcher Lecture at London’s Guildhall in October.
  • (16) Family and friends held a protest vigil outside Derry's Guildhall on Friday.
  • (17) If you were in the Guildhall Square in the group that was involved in this attack and you haven’t come forward yet, you will be a suspect.
  • (18) Further business meetings and banquets Xi will then visit Huawei Technologies, a leading Chinese telecommunications company, followed by a banquet hosted by the Lord Mayor and the City of London at the Guildhall.
  • (19) There was another big entrance this week when the fourth season of Game of Thrones had its European premiere at the Guildhall i n London on Tuesday evening.
  • (20) Barry Ife, principal of the Guildhall school of music and drama in London's Barbican, said: "It takes time to develop an artist: in the case of singers, it's a question of physical maturity as well as emotional and artistic maturity.

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