What's the difference between hostess and steward?

Hostess


Definition:

  • (n.) A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house.
  • (n.) A woman who entertains guests for compensation; a female innkeeper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tales of tips to hostesses and waitresses of £50,000 also abounded.
  • (2) At school we had careers talks about being florists or air hostesses – or if we were really lucky, getting to Lucie Clayton [finishing school].
  • (3) As hostess – a throwback to the days when flight attendants were described that way – he has appointed Amanda Miller, his gatekeeper in the reality show The Apprentice .
  • (4) While the shop assistants are aware they're playing the role of knicker pimp, of jolly hostess, I wonder if the male customers are aware of their own role, a role learned from the 1970s: flustered man in lingerie department.
  • (5) On board the plane, the air hostess gives me a pair of socks.
  • (6) Now 89 years old, she’s still involved in politics, traveling to Washington now and again and working with the local League of Women Voters – but when she played hostess to some of Houston’s other politically active senior women, she nonetheless made sure the finger sandwiches were artfully arranged on a painted plate instead of the plastic serving dishes provided by the catering company.
  • (7) His mother, Nancy, was the first woman MP, the dominating hostess of Cliveden.
  • (8) The authors have attempted to obtain basic information on the level of knowledge concerning STDs and on the sexual behaviour of highly sexually promiscuous individuals for use in the organization of future STD control programmes; the information was obtained from a population of 213 bar hostesses, 66 unlicensed prostitutes, and 115 male sufferers from STDs.
  • (9) His connections in Paris extended to people linked to the arts in the 1930s, such as the hostess and collector Marie-Laure de Noailles.
  • (10) Whitehorn cooked The Dish - a foolproof combination of braising steak, flour, herbs, tomato paste and vegetables - twice last week, and not one of her guests asked if the hostess couldn't please call up for a takeaway curry.
  • (11) Ruth Ellis, the nightclub hostess who was the last woman to be executed in Britain, was killed for political reasons.
  • (12) The modernisation of the Guides has gathered pace since the appointment of a new chief executive in 2012, and while a generation ago badges including homemaker, hostess and needlewoman may have inadvertently limited members’ vision to their own front door, the new badge is intended to expand their geographical and political horizons.
  • (13) In order to see whether weanling normophagic rats with hypothalamic obesity (VMNL rats) become hyperphagic and more obese than when fed lab chow, and to see in addition whether there is a possible sex difference in whatever response is found, male and female VMNL rats were fed lab chow for 14 days after lesion production and then, for the following 42 days, they received Hostess HoHos, potato chips, marshmallows and french fries in addition to lab chow.
  • (14) In addition, first aid equipment including a resuscitator (respirator)--to be used by the trained cabin attendants--and over-the-counter medications in a Hostess Purse are also carried.
  • (15) Now her main job is as "hostess of the White House", allowing her to invite stars such as Beyoncé to her bashes, as she did last Saturday.
  • (16) Tiger Woods , who began the year by breaking the all-comers cocktail waitress and nightclub hostess record, is the runaway winner of Injunction of the Year for the one obtained by his lawyers, preventing the publication in Britain of any images of Woods naked or having sexual intercourse, "while denying that Woods was aware of the existence of any such images".
  • (17) The tone is that of a cocktail party hostess greeting an uninvited guest whom she would quite like to throw out but has decided to tolerate.
  • (18) November 4, 2012 10.21pm GMT Campaigning in Ohio, Joe Biden comes dangerously close to his Onion parody persona, after he stopped off at a Cleveland diner this afternoon: As he paid for his coconut cream pie and cheesecake, the vice president spoke with hostess Amira Nasrallah, a senior at nearby Lakewood High School.
  • (19) Hostess, based in Irving, Texas, also wanted to quickly shutter its business, because has been spending about $1m a day in payroll without any income since it halted operations last week.
  • (20) Staff must include on-call doctors who can be helped by at-home physicians and many competent paramedics: nurses, health workers, stretcher-bearers, X-ray handlers, drivers, operators, secretaries, social workers, hostesses...

Steward


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To manage as a steward.
  • (n.) A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to manage the domestic concerns, supervise other servants, collect the rents or income, keep accounts, and the like.
  • (n.) A person employed in a hotel, or a club, or on board a ship, to provide for the table, superintend the culinary affairs, etc. In naval vessels, the captain's steward, wardroom steward, steerage steward, warrant officers steward, etc., are petty officers who provide for the messes under their charge.
  • (n.) A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a Methodist church.
  • (n.) In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
  • (n.) In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recovery was assessed by means of a modified Steward coma scale.
  • (2) A 30-year-old steward told the Guardian that the conditions under the bridge were "cold and wet and we were told to get our head down [to sleep]".
  • (3) Molly Prince, managing director of the company, refuted the Guardian story with some lustily expressed but random facts: "CPUK have not only purchased tents for everyone (some stewards wanted to use their own but it was too wet to put them up, they insisted in having a go!).
  • (4) And it can be a good idea to apply to do a one-off to see if there’s an appetite to do more and whether you have enough people willing to be stewards.
  • (5) Dressed in saris, the hijras gave an air-steward style demonstration of how to wear the belt while directing saucy, suggestive remarks at the drivers watching them.
  • (6) "These actions are not coming from the stewards, they are coming from the lads."
  • (7) On Monday, police took over security at stadiums in Durban and Cape Town amid protests by stewards.
  • (8) Officers were pelted with missiles, including shards of glass from shattered shopfronts, as stewards from the demonstration called for calm and tried to separate police from protesters.
  • (9) We have created no framework in which owners are required to commit to companies over time, to steward their assets and to act as trustees for the living, breathing social organisations that companies are.
  • (10) I was raised in a traditional way and regard it as my job to be a steward of the land.
  • (11) In a real sense it not only pits 36-year-old Smith, a former BBC producer and lobbyist, against Dai Davies, former shop steward at the down defunct steel works, but Blairism against Bevanism and Nye's ghost.
  • (12) The action spread by phone in "a domino effect", stewards said.
  • (13) Two Navy stewards waited on us, only entering the room to serve food and drinks,” Comey writes.
  • (14) Ruth Dear Ruth… Will Hutton Photograph: Guardian There is a danger of utopian myth in this, rather like the Labour left and shop steward movement in the 1960s.
  • (15) "From redundancy payments through to the failed DMI project, the BBC has not always been the steward of public money that it should have been," said Tony Hall, the corporation's director general.
  • (16) What we found, particularly here in Parramatta, is that we have large numbers of clients coming who just want general information,” says Steward.
  • (17) Two hours later, as we trooped off into blinding Caribbean sun, the steward was still beaming.
  • (18) Then 26% of people said they trusted David Cameron and George Osborne most on the economy, compared with 24% who preferred Ed Miliband and Ed Balls as stewards of the nation's finances.
  • (19) Ronaldo side-stepped him and the invader was quickly brought to ground by a rugby tackle from one of the chasing stewards.
  • (20) "It is important that you follow all instructions given by stewards," said a spokesman.

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