What's the difference between hermit and saint?

Hermit


Definition:

  • (n.) A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.
  • (n.) A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Larvae of the hermit crab Clibanarius vittatus were reared on a diet of Artemia nauplii.
  • (2) Visual pigment absorption spectra were measured in single photoreceptors of a stomatopod, a crayfish, a hermit crab, and five species of brachyuran crab.
  • (3) It has charted the world's highest peaks, the ocean floor, the Amazon rainforest and even provided a glimpse into the hermit state of North Korea.
  • (4) The use of Hermite integration to replace the integration in the combined model likelihood provided the parameter estimates closest to those stimulated.
  • (5) Established by St Kevin in the 6th century, the site has an arched gateway, a 30m-high round tower, a roofless cathedral, and St Kevin's Cell, the ruins of a beehive-shaped stone hut, thought to have been the hermit's home.
  • (6) It was also suggested that a three-dimensional Hermite transform can be used to code spatiotemporal events.
  • (7) It would also force the United Nations to rethink its approach to the hermit state.
  • (8) I disagree with the ban as it has turned me into a hermit.
  • (9) Shell-living Pagurus longicarpus hermit crabs were grown in one species of shell.
  • (10) Number of deaths for each year of age were calculated by application of "two dimensional semi-Hermite method" after estimation of number of deaths for age 80, 81,......84, using Sprague interpolation factors.
  • (11) The present paper reports on a case of mycobacteriosis in a colony of Hermit-Ibises, in which a so far unknown serovar of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare has been isolated.
  • (12) It is possible that North Korea's hardline sabre-rattling shines a spotlight onto internal power struggles inside the hermit kingdom.
  • (13) The orientation of fibers within coordinate planes bounded by epicardial and endocardial surfaces is interpolated linearly, with transmural variation given by cubic Hermite basis functions.
  • (14) We dispute the claim that Hermite functions (similar to derivatives of Gaussians) minimize a joint uncertainty relation in space and spatial frequency.
  • (15) Instead, the Hermite functions arise as the eigenfunctions of a space-variant differential operator used to model the contrast sensitivity of human observers.
  • (16) The active stiffness of ventral superficial abdominal muscle (VSM) of the hermit crab, Pagurus pollicarus, was measured with ramp stretches of different amplitudes and velocities.
  • (17) The effects of penicillin and picrotoxin on the increase in membrane conductance produced by gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) at the hermit crab neuromuscular junction were investigated.
  • (18) He is, they say, a virtual hermit in his seven-bedroom north London home, a fearful wreck persecuted by his own perfectionism.
  • (19) With reference to the experimental investigations of Lloyd (1975) and following the suggestions of L'Hermite (1977) and Vaidya (1977) this tumour regression is interpreted as being due to the antimitotic effect of Bromocriptin via inhibition of c-AMP and DNA.
  • (20) It also heaps additional financial pressure on the already sanctioned hermit regime of leader Kim Jong-un by aiming at cutting down on money laundering and narcotics trafficking, two major illicit activities believed to be funneling millions of dollars into Kim’s inner circle.

Saint


Definition:

  • (n.) A person sanctified; a holy or godly person; one eminent for piety and virtue; any true Christian, as being redeemed and consecrated to God.
  • (n.) One of the blessed in heaven.
  • (n.) One canonized by the church.
  • (v. t.) To make a saint of; to enroll among the saints by an offical act, as of the pope; to canonize; to give the title or reputation of a saint to (some one).
  • (v. i.) To act or live as a saint.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
  • (2) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
  • (3) A prospective study of notified cases of tuberculosis started on treatment during 1984 in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis situated in the northern suburb of Paris was undertaken with the help of the Ministry of Health, and the National Committee for the Prevention of Tuberculosis.
  • (4) What punishment will Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain face?
  • (5) Ibrahimovic is available on a free, having departed Paris Saint-Germain after winning four Ligue 1 titles, and has agreed personal terms worth £220,000 a week, making him one of the highest earners in the Premier League .
  • (6) In 1992 he enrolled for an MA at Central Saint Martins.
  • (7) They will be rivalled by Paris Saint-Germain, who had hoped to sign England’s most capped left-back last summer, while the player’s representatives have not ruled out a move to a rival Premier League team.
  • (8) Sonic opens on 18 September at Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent.
  • (9) An epidemiological study of dermatophytes was achieved during the years 1983-1984 in the Mycology Laboratory of Saint-Louis' Hospital.
  • (10) The likes of almond, blackberry and crocus first made way for analogue, block graph and celebrity in the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2007, with protests at the time around the loss of a host of religious words such as bishop, saint and sin.
  • (11) Their only win in that sequence was the less than convincing 3-2 triumph over Viktoria Plzen , the Group D whipping boys, in Saint Petersburg earlier in the month.
  • (12) This paper present a statistical study on the population of 775 psychiatric emergencies that arrived at the emergency service of Saint-Luc Hospital in Brussels (Belgium), between September 1, 1986 and December 31, 1986.
  • (13) Both Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain are believed to have fallen foul of the FFP rules with sponsorship deals related to each clubs' owners.
  • (14) The Saints, who started the day third in the table, went marching on thanks to their own swish play and some staggering defending by the visitors.
  • (15) Case studies of two anorectic women from Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, show that for some anorectics self-starvation is encoded in religious idioms and symbols about the body, food, and self.
  • (16) He has set up a "trade and growth" board for Scotland and will soon lead Scotland's "largest ever trade delegation to Brazil", a visit which will take place on St Andrew's Day, the patron saints day beloved by the nationalists.
  • (17) Rose, a Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design fine art graduate, said she is determined that the rules should be changed "as this treatment is becoming more commonplace for Crohn's disease sufferers and I would not want any other woman to have to go through this ordeal".
  • (18) The Saints reward for the historic win is a divisional playoff in Seattle next weekend.
  • (19) It sealed a deserved three points for the Saints, who had been the better side for most of the contest.
  • (20) Fifty-eight households were studied in the Red Pond community, the site of the established smelter and several backyard smelters, and 21 households were studied in the adjacent, upwind Ebony Vale community in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica.