What's the difference between guild and merchant?

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.

Merchant


Definition:

  • (n.) One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader.
  • (n.) A trading vessel; a merchantman.
  • (n.) One who keeps a store or shop for the sale of goods; a shopkeeper.
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or employed in, trade or merchandise; as, the merchant service.
  • (v. i.) To be a merchant; to trade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For example, the Bank of England was nationalised in 1946, but remained in effect the voice of merchant bankers in the City.
  • (2) A total of 2,208 male subjects, enrolled as merchant marine seamen at the Civitavecchia (Italy) harbor from 1936 to 1975 were followed up through 1989 in order to evaluate their mortality experience.
  • (3) Among them, tourists, servicemen and merchant seamen are the groups most at risk.
  • (4) He sold the first Tesco product – Tesco Tea – five years later when he bought a tea shipment from a merchant called TE Stockwell and combined their initials on the packaging.
  • (5) RAAF aircraft have been joined in the search by six merchant ships, with one Norwegian automobile carrier still in the area, and another on its way.
  • (6) Born Pauline Crispin in Liverpool, the younger daughter of an insurance company manager, she was educated at Merchant Taylor's Girls school at Great Crosby, Northampton High school, and Sutton High school.
  • (7) Keating was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, and educated at Merchant Taylors' school in Middlesex and Trinity College Dublin, where he read English and French.
  • (8) Eight months before the general election, the “shrink the offer” merchants are back in the ascendant.
  • (9) Command and control servers for Shylock, so named as its code contained quotes from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, were located and seized by international law enforcement bodies, including the FBI, the German Federal Police and Europol.
  • (10) Inhalation is clearly related to the development of lung cancer in (copper) smelting and arsenical pesticide manufacturing, and also in heavily exposed wine merchants who had an additional source of exposure by ingestion.
  • (11) Consider it a metaphor: faced with a choice between saving for the future of those who have given years and decades in service to their employers, or handing some money to those who may have taken a paper stake for the most fleeting of moments, big British business favours the fast-buck merchants, every time.
  • (12) The stylish, varnished wooden interior and whitewashed walls has a slightly Danish feel, but General Merchant’s brunch-y, all-day menu is inspired by Australian cafe culture, where good coffee and pan-global fusion plates are the norm.
  • (13) "The administration's proposals … will be harmful to our US merchant marine, harmful to our national defence sealift capability, harmful to our farmers and millers and bad for our economy," said chairman James L Henry.
  • (14) He thinks it's complicated – though in the case of Shylock , his reworking of the Merchant of Venice , he is prepared to be specific.
  • (15) As Jeffreys says: “Imhotep becomes himself an iconic figure, not only architect – and possibly not one at all in the technical sense – but an early power merchant.
  • (16) This week a Danish cargo vessel carrying tons of the world's deadliest chemical weapons will sail into an Italian port and carefully begin transferring its lethal cargo to an ageing US merchant ship .
  • (17) A block north of the waterfront on Merchant Road, workmen up ladders are carefully painting corinthian capitals with yellow limewash and adjusting teak window frames, putting the finishing touches to a restoration project that offers a different model for saving heritage structures, while training local builders in the process.
  • (18) Lawyer Tony Merchant deposited more than US$800,000 into an offshore trust.
  • (19) But the rise of Ukip looks to me to be legitimising a very different view, in which the average English person will be characterised as an avowed Eurosceptic, a fierce opponent of immigration, a hang-'em-and-flog-'em merchant, and a hater of government.
  • (20) James Agate (1877‑1947) started out as a Manchester cotton merchant, moved to London as a shopkeeper, then rose to prominence as the most brilliant theatre critic of his day.