What's the difference between herald and usher?

Herald


Definition:

  • (n.) An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character.
  • (n.) In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms.
  • (n.) A proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces; as, the herald of another's fame.
  • (n.) A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger.
  • (n.) Any messenger.
  • (v. t.) To introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since the first sections opened, the project has been heralded as a model example of urban redevelopment and the line has contributed to the gentrification of Manhattan’s Lower West Side.
  • (2) Kang Hyun-kyung writes for the Korea Times, not the Korean Herald.
  • (3) He may be the herald of a changing morality, and even more, his art may become an instrument for such change.
  • (4) It has been established that the structure of depressive phases in sluggish simple schizophrenia includes specific psychopathological signs heralding defect formation and united by the notion "transitory syndrome".
  • (5) Castin' makes me feel good: Ghostbusters' diverse team is a victory Read more Dan Aykroyd heralds Ghostbusters cast as 'most magnificent women in comedy' Read more “There’s three drafts of the old concept that exists,” said Aykroyd.
  • (6) Obama expressed a hope that the decision by Republican House speaker John Boehner to allow moderates in his party to vote with Democrats to end the shutdown may herald a new era of bi-partisan co-operation in the House of Representatives .
  • (7) Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart has reduced her stake in Fairfax Media, publisher of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age newspapers, less than three weeks after she increased her investment in the group.
  • (8) Busulfan is not known to cause sideroblastic changes, so this was considered to herald a transformation into acute leukemia.
  • (9) The Audiant Bone Conductor has been heralded as an aid for use in conductive hearing loss; however, its possible use in unilateral sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) has also been proposed.
  • (10) Clinical presentation was most often heralded by symptoms and signs of hydrocephalus with focal neurological findings being a less prominent feature.
  • (11) The letters, bearing the prince's heraldic badge, were effective.
  • (12) If intraoperative stroke was heralded by permanent electroencephalographic changes, these were not related to the moment of cross-clamping.
  • (13) In Dublin, the general mood was summed up by the Evening Herald headline, referring to a slogan from an car advert featuring Henry: "It's Va Va Gloom".
  • (14) The Council of Mortgage Lenders, which devised the scheme with the HBF and the government, heralded the return of 95% deals, which it said would give a "welcome boost to housing market confidence".
  • (15) This has already been heralded as a “win” for the host nation and welcomed by the Australia’s Labor opposition.
  • (16) The transgenic rat therefore heralds an exciting new dimension in hypertension research.
  • (17) People can get bogged down in the process, because as you would expect is the normal way of events in these matters we take the legal advice, we act upon it, we mitigate the risks as best we can, but in the end the most important point here is the Australian public wants from their government a piece of legislation that will keep them safe as possible and that is what we are proposing.” The last cabinet discussion was the subject of an extraordinary leak to the Sydney Morning Herald , which showed ministers angry that the proposal had been sprung on them without a submission or documentation.
  • (18) News Limited is the Australian arm of the global company News Corporation and publishes more than 140 newspaper titles across the country including the major tabloid titles down the east coast, the Daily Telegraph, the Herald-Sun and the Courier-Mail as well as the national broadsheet the Australian.
  • (19) The former deputy editor of the Sunday Herald, David Milne, has been appointed online editor for the new site.
  • (20) The anticipated "big reveal" had been published in the New Zealand Herald several hours before the town hall extravaganza.

Usher


Definition:

  • (n.) An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc.
  • (n.) An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.
  • (v. t.) To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; -- sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Before the last election the government promised to usher in a 'golden age' for the arts.
  • (2) Wearing a brown leather fedora and dark sunglasses, the 69-year-old was ushered into a waiting van shortly after dawn and taken to the western port city of Kobe, the headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi.
  • (3) She ushers us into the kitchen, where a large metal pot simmering on the hotplate emits a spicy aroma.
  • (4) Moments later Gary is being ushered out in a blur of drivers and batmen and image-straighteners.
  • (5) The kind of president, like Ronald Reagan, Lyndon Johnson or Franklin Roosevelt, who ushers in a paradigmatic shift in American politics or society, or both.
  • (6) Usher's syndrome is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by congenital sensorineural hearing loss and retinitis pigmentosa (RP).
  • (7) In a keynote speech at the Lyndon B Johnson presidential library in Austin, Texas, America's first black president said he and others of his generation had greatly benefited from the era of civil rights ushered in by the legislation that was passed by Johnson in 1964.
  • (8) Cases of hereditary syndromes were found: Usher syndrome, 2 cases; Goldenhar syndromes, 2 cases (brother and sister); Waardenburg syndrome, 1 case; von Recklinghausen's syndrome, 1 case.
  • (9) Usher disease was diagnosed in 12%, Bardet-Biedl syndrome constituted 5%, and the frequency of Spielmeyer-Vogt disease was 1% of all prevalent RP-cases.
  • (10) We examined retinas from five patients with RP and four controls and found morphologic defects in the connecting cilia of one RP patient with type 2 Usher syndrome (86% abnormal, P less than .0001) but not in our sample of patients with X-linked (n = 2), simplex (n = 1), or autosomal dominant (n = 1) RP.
  • (11) Marginalised and wronged groups have been able to use online campaigns to usher us all forward into a more enlightened era in which we are more open-minded about the LGBQT community, disability, race, religion and so forth.
  • (12) They see the changes that STPs will usher in as the best way to achieve three key aims: to improve people’s health; to tackle the fact that there is still far too much variation in the quality of care many patients receive; and to address the £30bn gap in NHS funding which is projected to have emerged by 2020-21.
  • (13) Describing the moment McKellen knocked on his dressing room door he said: “I ushered him in nervously, expecting notes for my poor performance or indiscipline – I was a foolish, naughty young actor.
  • (14) Furtado's decision has intensified the spotlight on other pop stars, including Mariah Carey, Beyoncé and Usher, who performed at parties for the sons of Muammar Gaddafi .
  • (15) As examples, ultrastructural findings in neural presbycusis, Meniere's disease and Usher's syndrome are presented.
  • (16) Pundits say the technology ushers in a manufacturing revolution.
  • (17) After a stirring speech urging the ushering in of a new era of politics delivered to a packed convention hall in the Ghanaian capital Accra, Obama and his family toured the white-walled slave fortress to the sound of beating drums and chanting from a huge crowd outside.
  • (18) The modern tools of molecular biology and improved understanding of scientific and social issues are expected to usher in an exciting new era in research on diarrheal diseases.
  • (19) After a two-hour show featuring performances from artists including Taylor Swift, Usher and Nicky Minaj, Beyoncé was joined onstage by her beaming husband Jay Z and daughter Blue Ivy.
  • (20) He was flanked by a triumvirate of aides, the excitable and matronly chief usher, a man at a computer screen who looked like a bedraggled version of Prince William, and a shaven-headed man who did absolutely nothing all day except fall asleep midway through the morning session.