What's the difference between helm and steerage?

Helm


Definition:

  • (n.) See Haulm, straw.
  • (n.) The apparatus by which a ship is steered, comprising rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used of the tiller or wheel alone.
  • (n.) The place or office of direction or administration.
  • (n.) One at the place of direction or control; a steersman; hence, a guide; a director.
  • (n.) A helve.
  • (v. t.) To steer; to guide; to direct.
  • (n.) A helmet.
  • (n.) A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain.
  • (v. t.) To cover or furnish with a helm or helmet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The former Arsenal and France star has signed a three-year contract to replace the sacked Jason Kreis at the helm of the second-year expansion club and will take over on 1 January, the team said.
  • (2) I will not be alone in watching closely to see what difference – if any – it makes to have a (highly competent) woman at the helm of an organisation which remains, with its notorious “canteen culture”, still a boys’ club in so many ways.
  • (3) Blatter announced his decision to resign during a hastily scheduled press conference, stating he will leave Fifa after 17 years at the helm.
  • (4) Hours later, Nixon called in his CIA chief, Richard Helms, and, according to Helms's handwritten notes, ordered the CIA to prevent Allende's inauguration.
  • (5) Furthermore, Representative Hogan and Senator Helms have entered into both houses a constitutional amendment designed to protect the fetus "from the moment of conception."
  • (6) Dominic Chappell’s Retail Acquisitions consortium, which was at the helm when BHS called in the administrators, received payments of at least £17m from the retailer in just 13 months, according to evidence seen by MPs.
  • (7) With him at the helm, Tesco not only risks missing out on female talent, it will also alienate customers.
  • (8) However, Dieter Helm believes these challenges can be overcome with political will.
  • (9) Team Cameron will play the ball, not the man, and let voters decide for themselves | Toby Helm Read more Those who preached so often to their party about the necessity of winning general elections proved to be useless at winning a Labour one.
  • (10) Now it appears to have been reactivated with Greengrass at the helm, just as the director's latest film, Captain Phillips , is due to premiere at the Toronto film festival.
  • (11) António Horta-Osório, chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group, has completed a "clean sweep" of the executive team he inherited when he took the helm in March.
  • (12) But there are plenty of pieces of anti-Cuban legislation and trade embargoes still in force, including the sweeping and draconian 1996 Helms-Burton act , which penalises foreign companies trading with Cuba.
  • (13) The change follows an approach by Sky News to Buckingham Palace last year and is something of a coup for the broadcaster, which will take the helm over a two-year period which will see two royal weddings, the diamond jubilee and the London Olympic Games.
  • (14) The Italian, who will hand Darren Bent and Jack Wilshere their first competitive starts at the Millennium Stadium, was quick to insist he remains the right man to coach the national team after a little over three years and 34 matches at the helm.
  • (15) The call to Andrew Bailey – who took the helm of the FCA in July after a long career at the Bank of England – is made in a report published on Tuesday which says there should be an overhaul of the way financial regulators are run.
  • (16) My miscommunication on a number of points has caused upset and offence, and for this I am sorry.” Roberts, who is from Lancashire, has been at Saatchi & Saatchi’s helm for 20 years and is also the company’s head coach, a mentoring role.
  • (17) (1986) observed no such effects using cell kinetic methods with 3H-thymidine instead of the stathmokinetic method applied by Tutton and Helme.
  • (18) Lille were a club whose glory days of the 1940s and 1950s seemed a distant memory but Puel transformed them into genuine title contenders in his six years at the helm, finishing as runners-up in 2004-05.
  • (19) As a former colleague, Sarah Helm, has recalled : “Johnson’s half-truths created a new reality … correspondents witnessed Johnson shaping the narrative that morphed into our present-day populist Euroscepticism.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Trump supporter at a campaign rally in Maryland in April.
  • (20) Although football's political structures showed faith in the man at the helm, there are questions whether the storm has yet abated.

Steerage


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship.
  • (n.) The effect of the helm on a ship; the manner in which an individual ship is affected by the helm.
  • (n.) The hinder part of a vessel; the stern.
  • (n.) Properly, the space in the after part of a vessel, under the cabin, but used generally to indicate any part of a vessel having the poorest accommodations and occupied by passengers paying the lowest rate of fare.
  • (n.) Direction; regulation; management; guidance.
  • (n.) That by which a course is directed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet many of his images dwell on less glamorous urban realities: immigrants arriving in steerage at the docks and the poor huddled masses dwarfed by buildings.
  • (2) A closed culture, overendowed with powers and as-seen-on-TV weaponry, frequently insolent and seemingly answerable to no one, the uncomfortable role of the police is increasingly to batten down the hatches in steerage while the privileged centile, Westminster in their pockets, pull away in the lifeboats.
  • (3) And not the kind of commercial organisation which, like Microsoft once was, sends all its executives steerage wherever they travel.