What's the difference between guildhall and hall?

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.

Hall


Definition:

  • (n.) A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.
  • (n.) The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment.
  • (n.) A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times.
  • (n.) Any corridor or passage in a building.
  • (n.) A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house.
  • (n.) A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).
  • (n.) The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.
  • (n.) Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
  • (2) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
  • (3) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.
  • (4) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
  • (5) Conservative commentators responded with fury to what they believed was inappropriate meddling at a crucial moment in the town hall debate.
  • (6) "They haven't just got to be able to run like athletes," says Hall.
  • (7) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
  • (8) She then spent five years as director of mission and pastoral studies at Cranmer Hall.
  • (9) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
  • (10) But in Annie Hall the mortality that weighs most heavily is the mortality of his love affair.
  • (11) The people who will lose are not the commercial interests, and people with particular vested interests, it’s the people who pay for us, people who love us, the 97% of people who use us each week, there are 46 million people who use us every day.” Hall refused to be drawn on what BBC services would be cut as a result of the funding deal which will result in at least a 10% real terms cut in the BBC’s funding.
  • (12) Indeed, the BBC’s own recent Digital Media Initiative was closed by Tony Hall, having lost £100m.” The document is entitled “BBC3: An Alternative Strategy – Realising Value for the Licence Payer”.
  • (13) Everton announce plan for new stadium in nearby Walton Hall Park Read more The club has set aside £2.5m to commence work on the stadium should its funding proposals – that Elstone claims will give the council an annual profit – gain approval.
  • (14) Urinary iodine excretion was examined in 645 patients at Bad Hall, both before and after undergoing iodine balneotherapy.
  • (15) The basic study of medicine of the early 18th century is described with the help of the example of Halle university.
  • (16) The Hall-Kaster prosthesis thus presented improved flow characteristics in patients undergoing aortic valve replacement, which is considered of particular importance to the patients with a narrow aortic root.
  • (17) The Baseball Hall of Famer Barry Larkin's son Shane, who clearly had the more imaginative father of the three, was drafted 18th; he'll be playing for the Dallas Mavericks.
  • (18) But Richard Hall, director of infrastructure at Consumer Futures, a consumer watchdog, said Ofgem had "produced a lot of evidence that would persuade a third party that there is a trend [of rising prices]".
  • (19) "It's also very hard to evade a question that comes from a town hall person," she said during a discussion of the format and how the candidates will respond.
  • (20) Speaking in a debate in Westminster Hall on Tuesday, Kawczynski said: "What these employees are being told, some of whom have worked for the organisation for many years, is that if they do not set up their own companies and invoice the BBC through these companies, their contracts will be terminated.

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