What's the difference between hallow and halloween?

Hallow


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Louis CK is exploding a few myths about one of pop culture's most hallowed spaces, the sitcom writers' room.
  • (2) Because the all-hallowed children must learn from their elders to exercise, every adult entering Hampstead Heath must hit the dirt for a set of 25 press-ups.
  • (3) 5.02pm BST PS: one last line from Dublin, from Henry McDonald: There was some pre-Hallowe'en ghoulish reaction to one aspect of the budget cuts from Fianna Fail, the main opposition party in Ireland .
  • (4) Thinking it was quite a lark we joined in and the ensuing 10-minute interval on the hallowed turf was a carnival atmosphere with much fun had by all, the highlight being the conga lines dancing to the chant of 'Bulstrode is a wanker'.
  • (5) Wednesday's decision by the UK supreme court in the case of Yunus Rahmatullah , a man detained by the British in Iraq, might seem to be about the hallowed writ of habeas corpus .
  • (6) But not everyone saw the Sun King - as the financial press dubbed him - in such hallowed terms, with an army of environmentalists, corporate responsibility experts and even investors turning against him despite wideranging attempts to position BP as a corporate champion of all their causes.
  • (7) As the floors rise, their balustrades are topped with thin bands of blue, red, yellow and green, reading as a stack of Olympic rings from the upper level – a mischievous retort to the International Olympic Committee's official ban on the use of their hallowed linked rings.
  • (8) Games were played and nobody ever thought of protecting the hallowed turf.
  • (9) President Obama broke new ground in his inaugural address when he elevated the 1969 Stonewall gay rights protest to the same hallowed position enjoyed in the American memory by the battle for women's equality and the civil rights struggle.
  • (10) They say the outpouring of condemnation at the "outrage" of a mosque close to the "hallowed ground" of the World Trade Centre site also goes hand in hand with the increasing acceptability of what they describe as hate speech.
  • (11) 7.40pm BST The ceremony continues .. Now dozens of large men pretending to be knights are doing fake battle on the hallowed Wembley turf.
  • (12) Ten hallowed concepts have been critically analyzed in the light of modern technology and contemporary experience.
  • (13) The BBC1 drama was up against the terrestrial premiere of the concluding part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 on ITV.
  • (14) It was first held in 1835 to honour the silver wedding anniversary of King Ludwig I of Bavaria and Therese, after whom the hallowed Oktoberfest site, the Theresienwiese, is named.
  • (15) In All Hallows' Eve, the focus is on forgiveness and the opportunity to correct relational mistakes while one is in a purgatorial state.
  • (16) It's a sign of the times that the world's most tradition-bound ensemble is now a web trailblazer, opening up the hallowed halls of Berlin's Philharmonie to an infinitely wider audience.
  • (17) The site has become a breeding ground for a new generation of visually inventive film-makers, for whom the ultimate status symbol is a place among the hallowed “staff picks” on its homepage.
  • (18) There was a time when the closest Christofer Toumazou thought he would get to the hallowed halls of Imperial College in London was when he was walking down Exhibition road on the way to the science museum, with the workshops of the esteemed institution visible on his right.
  • (19) In 2011 China delayed the local release dates for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and Transformers: Dark of the Moon to give propaganda epic Beginning of the Great Revival a clear run at the box office, while James Bond film Skyfall was similarly pushed back in 2012.
  • (20) Radcliffe in Harry Porter And The Deathly Hallows: 'There aren't many great parts out there for teenage boys, certainly not as good as Harry Potter.'

Halloween


Definition:

  • (n.) The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As for Halloween : The big parade in Greenwich Village has been postponed until next week.
  • (2) He added that the Halloween challenge will become an annual event for psychics and others who claim supernatural abilities.
  • (3) But I am trying to claw the innocent joy of Halloween out of the cold, deadened clutches of the Zombie of Forced Sexiness.
  • (4) Oh, wait... @HunterFelt October 31, 2013 Miles Bjornstam (@xeyednpainless) Appropriately enough for the day before Halloween, Stephen Drew has come back from the dead.
  • (5) October Everyone loves Halloween, and the PR team spots a perfect opportunity for Ed to mix this fun occasion with traditional politics: he'll do an old-school door-to-door canvas of local neighbourhoods, dressed as Freddie Krueger.
  • (6) Alex Wood, 22, claimed that he was simply reaching out for a friend’s mobile phone during a Halloween party where he was dressed as a pirate [see footnote].
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest At a Halloween party this year with her husband Stephen Belafonte and her three daughters (from left), Madison, Angel and Phoenix.
  • (8) Halloween should be an opportunity for people to show off their creativity, not their side boob.
  • (9) A few weeks ago she turned up at Jonathan Ross ’s fancy dress Halloween party as Scary Spice.
  • (10) Radiographic screening of Halloween candy is not effective.
  • (11) • For details of Fence's forthcoming Halloween Festival (in Glasgow on 31 October) and other dates, including New Year's Eve, see fencerecords.com .
  • (12) The Village Market complex in Gigiri district, which is also home to the US embassy and a United Nations outpost, has cancelled its Halloween family party this weekend.
  • (13) I know Halloween is SO last week, but if you can just hang on a tiny bit longer, we'll get the Strictly results show out of the way and move on.
  • (14) In the first study, 363 Halloween trick-or-treaters were instructed to only take one candy.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Halloween-tinged genre titles The Last Witch Hunter and Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension also failed to inspire audiences.
  • (16) Halloween’s ghoulish festivities have turned into a dangerous culture that brands mentally ill people as “psychos or schizos or freaks”, a government minister warns.
  • (17) "Binders full of women," his badly chosen phrase, became the meme of the night and will likely haunt him past Halloween.
  • (18) Toca Boo (£1.99) Toca Boo may have been released for Halloween, but its appeal will last all year round.
  • (19) It claims the top publisher for global Google Play games downloads in November was Chinese firm Tiny Piece – maker of kid-apps like Baby Pet Vet Doctor, Pets Nail Salon and Halloween Spa – ahead of Gameloft, EA, King, Rovio, Disney and others.
  • (20) In the Halloween solar storms in 2003, the crew on the International Space Station was forced to take shelter in a shielded compartment until the radiation risk had passed.

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