What's the difference between helm and tiller?

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.

Tiller


Definition:

  • (v. t.) One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
  • (n.) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.
  • (n.) A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.
  • (n.) A young timber tree.
  • (v. i.) To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering.
  • (n.) A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1.
  • (n.) The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself.
  • (n.) The handle of anything.
  • (n.) A small drawer; a till.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
  • (2) But he will not be attending conference every day, and will have his hands firmly off the tiller as far as editorial matters are concerned.
  • (3) The effects of fescue endophyte content (low, 16 or high, 44% of tillers examined) and of N fertilization rate (low, 134 kg N.ha-1.yr-1 or high, 336 kg N.ha-1.yr-1) upon serum prolactin (PRL) in Angus steers were examined.
  • (4) In the dental hospital Münster 25 adhesive bridges have been incorporated for the last two years by the Silicoater method, which has been developed by Kulzer with the assistance of Musil and Tiller.
  • (5) This allows a very Blakean moment: he discovered a photograph of the Tiller Girls doing a horse routine with hooves on their hands.
  • (6) Those concerns were heightened last year when the deputy mayor, Kit Malthouse, said he and Johnson "have our hands on the tiller" of the Met and had taken control of the force away from the home office.
  • (7) The cohort of viscose rayon workers previously described by Tiller et al has been reconstructed and followed up to the end of 1982.
  • (8) To correct his trajectory now, in the year before a general election, he will need to grab hold of that tiller and yank it so hard to the right he will send flying the sunbathers on the deck of his dangerously left-leaning ship.
  • (9) Dipper samples were taken from rice fields at six phases of maturity (fallow, ploughed, nursery, newly transplanted, after tillering, mature).
  • (10) That, I believe, is a far more positive and practical Scottish contribution to progressive policy than sending a tribute of Labour MPs to Westminster to have the occasional turn at the Westminster tiller – particularly in the circumstances ofas the opposition's policy increasingly converging with that of the coalition on the key issues of the economy and public spending.
  • (11) Talking about the first attempt on Tiller’s life, before Roeder, he laughingly refers to perpetrator Shelley Shannon as a terrible shot, because she shot him in both arms, when presumably aiming for his chest.
  • (12) Usually thanks to my wife: her role is often to lash me to the tiller and keep me there long enough to get through the bad patches.
  • (13) The squad of players available to Hughton clearly had the talent to make an immediate return but the Championship needs a steady hand at the tiller.
  • (14) And maybe we should borrow a tiller at this point or buy one?
  • (15) Sandrine Tiller, programmes adviser on humanitarian issues, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), London, UK, @MSF_UK @sandrinetiller Identify our own weak spots: While it is true that many external factors have made delivering humanitarian aid more difficult, we also have a responsibility to look more closely at ourselves.
  • (16) Tillers of C. dactylon and E. indica from the three sites were subjected to a series concentrations of Pb(NO3)2.
  • (17) They tried everything they could to put George Tiller out of business,” Curtis says.
  • (18) Panel Sandrine Tiller, programmes adviser on humanitarian issues, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) London, UK, @MSF_UK @sandrinetiller Sandrine’s expertise is in the politicisation of aid and the current state of the aid system.
  • (19) Here’s a press baron who doesn’t interfere; who maintains a careful distance; who doesn’t want tea in Downing Street; who goes outside the UK and outside the media when he has to make crucial appointments: a steadying hand on a tiller far away.
  • (20) Tiller’s Wichita clinic, one of the few in the country to perform late-term abortions, was for years one of the most prominent battlegrounds over abortion.