What's the difference between guy and tourist?

Guy


Definition:

  • (n.) A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened.
  • (v. t.) To steady or guide with a guy.
  • (n.) A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot.
  • (n.) A person of queer looks or dress.
  • (v. t.) To fool; to baffle; to make (a person) an object of ridicule.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Guy Jobbins, a Cairo-based British water scientist who heads Canada's International Development Research Centre climate change adaptation programme for Africa, says understanding of the issue has rocketed in the past few years.
  • (2) The guy upstairs, I heard he was maybe affiliated with Islamic Jihad, but he wasn't there.
  • (3) They had to be seen as the good guys, and not as either this administration or that administration.” Comey left the justice department in 2005 for Lockheed Martin, the largest military contractor in the US, and eventually an investment firm and Columbia Law School.
  • (4) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
  • (5) If you’ve been to a red brick university in the past 10 years then chances are you know the guy.
  • (6) As for Scotland Soccer Club, Altidore's deputy at franchise level, Steven Fletcher, is gonna be the guy that the hosts will look to kick the soccer ball in to the soccer goal interior.
  • (7) "This is the guy we've all seen in Borders or HMV on a Friday afternoon, possibly after a drink or two, tie slightly undone, buying two CDs, a DVD and maybe a book - fifty quid's worth - and frantically computing how he's going to convince his partner that this is a really, really worthwhile investment."
  • (8) Opposition spokesman Matthew Guy said it was unclear how the government intended to fund the project given the federal government was yet to come to the table.
  • (9) How many other countries celebrate Guy Fawkes Night?
  • (10) The Fed is also painting itself as one of the Good Guys in the Libor scandal, pointing out that it spotted the problems in 2008, and promptly tipped off the Brits.
  • (11) "While the country is sunk in misery, families are ruined and children are growing up in poverty, this guy turns up and we pay €91m for him.
  • (12) Davenport, possibly in a fit of pique at having been knocked out, said playing Mauresmo was like 'playing a guy'.
  • (13) He laughs: "I've had a few guys buck up against me, but that's all right because some of us enjoy the bucking."
  • (14) There are three kinds of motivation: the intrinsic motivation which means the guy is naturally demanding of himself that he wants to be the best, and he has always that inner dissatisfaction with what he has achieved.
  • (15) He's the sort of guy who takes form every experience something good and uses it in the future.
  • (16) It seems to have brought his own beliefs into sharper focus: "Watching the film, and I've seen many cuts, I'm a guy who fights the idea of heaven but what I do respect is that there is a greater power than anything we understand, and for me the film is about that.
  • (17) If I’m the bad guy because I’m not the guy they want me to be, then so be it.” Over the last year he resolved his promotional woes in court and has since signed with Jay Z’s Roc Nation Sports – along with Miguel Cotto the nascent sports agency’s highest-profile signing in boxing.
  • (18) Jenny Lewis - Just One Of The Guys [Official Music Video] Oh boy!
  • (19) Still, he reiterates that he'd never heard of "this guy," Mayor Sokolich, until yesterday.
  • (20) Romney contends the president is a nice guy who has failed to make things better.

Tourist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who makes a tour, or performs a journey in a circuit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
  • (3) Yorkshire is going to get a lot of tourists after this."
  • (4) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
  • (5) There is little doubt that when it opens next Thursday, One New Change will be jam-packed with City workers and tourists.
  • (6) Yesterday streams of worshippers and tourists entered Sir Christopher Wren's building for Sunday services, apparently unconcerned by events outside.
  • (7) It has been a place of pilgrimage for many centuries and a tourist attraction probably since Roman times.
  • (8) Co-founder Cyndi Anafo’s mother used to run a Ghanaian grocery in the covered market that has recently been rebranded Brixton Village, a target destination for food tourists and wealthy Londoners.
  • (9) During five separate excursions (1989-90), observations were made of occurrence, harvesting, use, and marketing of psychoactive fungi by local Thai natives (males and females, adults and children), foreign tourists, and German immigrants.
  • (10) It sells itself to British tourists as a holiday heaven of golden beaches, flamenco dresses and well-stocked sherry bars, but southern Andalucía – home to the Costa del Sol – has now become the focus of worries about the euro.
  • (11) The result, you would have to say, is pretty much exactly that: bordered on one side by the library and town hall, and on the other by the tourist office, the 600 sq ms of Rjukan's market square, to be comprehensively remodelled next year in celebration, now bathes in a focused beam of bright sunlight fully 80-90% as intense as the original.
  • (12) The Hard Rock Cafe has long been famous for its queue, but that was so odd it was a tourist attraction, something people pointed and laughed at.
  • (13) 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.
  • (14) Complexo do Alemão Mariluce, centre, with a group of tourists in Complexo do Alemão.
  • (15) Among them, tourists, servicemen and merchant seamen are the groups most at risk.
  • (16) Wang said Taiwan’s people wanted the peaceful development of ties, wanted Chinese tourists and business relations, and wanted to live in a climate of peace.
  • (17) We are a nation in a state of transition, and, whatever you believe about the spiritual dimension of Mount Kinabalu, it’s important for all Malaysians that tourists treat us with respect.
  • (18) It was reported that the Greek tourist board had asked TV networks to keep the crowd volume low amid fears Greek fans in the stadium would drown out the German national anthem with jeers.
  • (19) Shay Given could have been mistaken for just another Irish tourist on the Algarve until he was forced to work just after the half-hour, saving a couple of long-range strikes by Liam Walker.
  • (20) The tourist industry has received a welcome boost from the decline in the Australian dollar.