What's the difference between headline and headliner?

Headline


Definition:

  • (n.) The line at the head or top of a page.
  • (n.) See Headrope.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
  • (2) The headline controversy is that, for the first time, following changes to the regulations, women can be paid for donation.
  • (3) In the midst of all the newspaper headlines and vigils you can sometimes lose sight of the man who was on death row.
  • (4) The problem is that every day that this solution has been delayed the price (more precisely: the headline figure) has gone up.
  • (5) The Sun editor also said his newspaper was wrong to use the word "tran" in a headline to describe a transexual, saying that he felt that "I don't know this is our greatest moment, to be honest".
  • (6) • The headline on this article was amended on 20 January 2015.
  • (7) But Amelia will, in five years' time, be the headliner, in the places where music counts.
  • (8) The two polls underline the extent to which the coalition parties have been hit by a budget that has led to a slew of bad headlines over the granny tax, pasty tax and charities tax.
  • (9) In a month where the price of the paper increased its price to £1.40 on weekdays and £2.30 on a Saturdayand launched the "Own the Weekend" advertising campaign, the headline figure increased by 0.11% to 204,440, the third month-on-month increase in a row.
  • (10) The trip raised millions for Comic Relief but prompted some uncharitable headlines after it emerged in July that Parfitt had billed the taxpayer £541.83 for "specialist clothing" – and a further £26.20 for the cost of picking it up in a cab.
  • (11) New laws to give parents more flexible leave and strong commitments to family-friendly working hours will be among the headline measures.
  • (12) This surely represents a new chapter in the European debt crisis, and it could be headlined The Day The Eurozone Finally Woke Up.
  • (13) But over the Christmas period the Cahuzac story has continued to dominate headlines as some newspapers suggested Hollande might have a cabinet reshuffle both to detract from the Mediapart allegations and to draw a line under government disagreements over the handling of France's crisis-hit steel industry.
  • (14) Hardy headlines as an ex-con named Bob Saginowski who is trying to live out a quiet life away from crime as a bartender.
  • (15) In recent weeks a number of suicides apparently linked to financial despair have hit the headlines.
  • (16) "Agreement in suspension", read the headline of the reformist Etemaad.
  • (17) The work, The Spear, by Brett Murray, unleashed a brouhaha that has hogged headlines for more than a week in South Africa and earned that inexhaustible accolade "painting-gate".
  • (18) • The headline and subheading on this article was changed on 8 October 2010
  • (19) It is not only the misleading newspaper headlines about this U-turn which are causing confusion.
  • (20) Maybe it suits headline writers because it's short and not too sweary.

Headliner


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
  • (2) The headline controversy is that, for the first time, following changes to the regulations, women can be paid for donation.
  • (3) In the midst of all the newspaper headlines and vigils you can sometimes lose sight of the man who was on death row.
  • (4) The problem is that every day that this solution has been delayed the price (more precisely: the headline figure) has gone up.
  • (5) The Sun editor also said his newspaper was wrong to use the word "tran" in a headline to describe a transexual, saying that he felt that "I don't know this is our greatest moment, to be honest".
  • (6) • The headline on this article was amended on 20 January 2015.
  • (7) But Amelia will, in five years' time, be the headliner, in the places where music counts.
  • (8) The two polls underline the extent to which the coalition parties have been hit by a budget that has led to a slew of bad headlines over the granny tax, pasty tax and charities tax.
  • (9) In a month where the price of the paper increased its price to £1.40 on weekdays and £2.30 on a Saturdayand launched the "Own the Weekend" advertising campaign, the headline figure increased by 0.11% to 204,440, the third month-on-month increase in a row.
  • (10) The trip raised millions for Comic Relief but prompted some uncharitable headlines after it emerged in July that Parfitt had billed the taxpayer £541.83 for "specialist clothing" – and a further £26.20 for the cost of picking it up in a cab.
  • (11) New laws to give parents more flexible leave and strong commitments to family-friendly working hours will be among the headline measures.
  • (12) This surely represents a new chapter in the European debt crisis, and it could be headlined The Day The Eurozone Finally Woke Up.
  • (13) But over the Christmas period the Cahuzac story has continued to dominate headlines as some newspapers suggested Hollande might have a cabinet reshuffle both to detract from the Mediapart allegations and to draw a line under government disagreements over the handling of France's crisis-hit steel industry.
  • (14) Hardy headlines as an ex-con named Bob Saginowski who is trying to live out a quiet life away from crime as a bartender.
  • (15) In recent weeks a number of suicides apparently linked to financial despair have hit the headlines.
  • (16) "Agreement in suspension", read the headline of the reformist Etemaad.
  • (17) The work, The Spear, by Brett Murray, unleashed a brouhaha that has hogged headlines for more than a week in South Africa and earned that inexhaustible accolade "painting-gate".
  • (18) • The headline and subheading on this article was changed on 8 October 2010
  • (19) It is not only the misleading newspaper headlines about this U-turn which are causing confusion.
  • (20) Maybe it suits headline writers because it's short and not too sweary.

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