What's the difference between housewife and housewive?
Housewife
Definition:
(n.) The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
(n.) A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work; -- called also hussy.
(n.) A hussy.
(v. t.) Alt. of Housewive
Example Sentences:
(1) A housewife, 42 years old, died from a chronic progressive neuro-psychiatric illness of 15 years duration characterized by memory disturbance, moria-syndrome, euphoria, social disorder and extrapyramidal symptoms combined with a severe bone disease.
(2) For example, an agricultural worker or housewife were 3.6 times more likely to have a 2nd birth than nonagricultural workers.
(3) A 38 year-old housewife had developed a growth-hormone secreting pituitary adenoma, and received a total of 50 Gy at the pituitary region.
(4) The authors report a rare combination of aneurysm and acoustic schwannoma in a 66-year-old housewife, who developed subarachnoid hemorrhage from a ruptured aneurysm arising from an arterial branch of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery on the tumor capsule.
(5) NWR may be celebrating its ruby anniversary but will an organisation born to alleviate the lot of the housewife survive to drink to its golden when, politically and personally, she is apparently dead and buried?
(6) The patient was a twenty-six year old housewife with a history of two repeated episodic headaches followed by gait disturbance, vomiting and cold sweating.
(7) A 72-year-old housewife was diagnosed to have glycosuria at the age of 67, but no medical treatment was done.
(8) A semi-structured questionnaire was designed, tested and applied to the housewife or whoever performed this role within the family.
(9) A 35-year-old housewife living in Seoul complained of a recurrent palpable abdominal mass.
(10) We circumcise all our children, they say it’s good for our girls,” said Naga Shawky, a 40-year-old housewife, as she walked along streets near Sohair’s home.
(11) A radical reworking of Douglas Sirk with Julianne Moore's 1950s housewife married to repressed homosexual Dennis Quaid, the film earned Haynes an Oscar nomination and confirmed him as a major talent, and one who'd outgrown the role of poster boy for New Queer Cinema.
(12) The Swabian Housewife : "One should simply have asked the Swabian housewife," said German chancellor Angela Merkel after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
(13) A 30-year-old previously healthy housewife presented with bilateral pulmonary infiltrates.
(14) She was a typical Mexican housewife who made sure dinner was on the table at 5.30pm.
(15) The eleven cases of sensitization to Allium sativum L (garlic) corresponded to women whose primary or secondary profession was that of a housewife.
(16) The authors report a case of two aneurysms at the bifurcation of the basilar artery in a 47-year old housewife.
(17) Trierweiler’s mother, Jeannie, had six children in less than five years and was a full-time housewife.
(18) A 26-year-old housewife was admitted to our hospital with a history of high fever after previous cesarean delivery.
(19) A 61-year-old housewife had complained of unilateral facial pain and had been treated as prolonged trigeminal neuralgia by a dentist.
(20) For the women with favorable attitudes toward employment, it appears that being a housewife had more detrimental effects on health than being employed.
Housewive
Definition:
(v. t.) To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize.
Example Sentences:
(1) Compared to our subjects, Coombs found spouses were either housewives or held lower level jobs rather than demanding careers, and consequently our subjects experienced greater difficulty meeting demands of everyday life (cooking, cleaning, child care).
(2) David, remember, was a woman who chose to cook – the granddaughter of a viscount, she had grown up in a house with staff - and as such, her work appealed to the upper middle classes rather than to the massed ranks of housewives in their new Formica-filled kitchens.
(3) These results suggest that Chlamydial infection in pregnant housewives is widely spread in Hokkaido and gives some disadvantage to pregnancy outcome and newborns.
(4) After a period on Radio Luxembourg he was offered the freelance job of disc jockey on the radio programme Housewives' Choice, on which Jacobs had to play record requests and punctuate them with anodyne chat.
(5) He says they talk about "the love, life and losses of [Real Housewives Of Atlanta star] NeNe Leakes," and that they're "designing the merchandise for the next season of [equally tacky reality show] Bad Girls Club: Evian bottles replaced with leopard print covers to conceal the brand on TV.
(6) Their traditions dictate that men work and women are housewives.
(7) The results can be summarized as follows: a. the times of the two main meals show a high stability, both in working and in free-days, at about 1230 for lunch and 1915 for dinner, with a higher variability for the dinner-time; b. there are no relevant differences between men and women; c. there is a progressive advance of the breakfast-time (together with sleeping and waking times) with oncoming age; d. industrial workers advance the breakfast-time, on work days, compared to housewives, clerks, artisans and tradesmen, while the latter delay dinner-time as compared to the others; e. shiftwork breaks up the usual timetables interfering with at least one of the main meals, according to the different shifts (morning, afternoon, night); f. morning types anticipate meal and sleeping times in comparison to evening types, both while working and, above all, on free-days.
(8) Ten housewives living in Suginami Ward, a residential area in Tokyo, were chosen as subjects of this study.
(9) There were no significant differences between the absorptions of ferrous ascorbate or of the haem iron in the standard meal by each group, but the housewives and the hospital patients absorbed significantly less of the non-haem food iron.
(10) Last summer, I spent several days in the British Library reading austerity cookbooks: survival manuals for housewives who had to cope with the rationing that would outlast the war by several years (butter, cheese, margarine, cooking fats and meat did not come off the ration until 1954).
(11) The disease affected mainly middle-aged housewives.
(12) Special efforts were made to detect the functional limitations of housewives and of the homebound.
(13) The subjects were 59 nursing students, 39 hospitalized patients, 61 housewives, 21 rural residents and 16 researchers.
(14) Billboards and placards sprang up around Egypt, showing him not in his familiar uniform but in a tracksuit, polo shirt or smart suit, with a discreet prayer bruise – a mark cultivated by some devout men by pressing their foreheads hard to the ground during prayer – calculated to set housewives’ hearts aflutter.
(15) The majority were married, had some 2ndary education, were unemployed housewives, and were breastfeeding at the time of the 1st visit.
(16) The women slaughterhouse workers had a significantly higher prevalence of dysmenorrhea (73.2%) than the housewives (52.5%) (alpha less than 0.001).
(17) In order to describe the health problems of women in the context of their activities both inside and outside the home, a descriptive study was carried out using a four-part questionnaire (sociodemographic characteristics, domestic activities, renumerated activities, and the Cornell Medical Index) to identify similarities and differences among nurses, teachers, secretaries, and housewives living in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1989.
(18) 70% of Italian and 16% of Swedish mothers were housewives.
(19) Two studies are presented where housewives responded much more negatively "in words" (in their intended purchases, as stated in a survey) that "in fact" (in actual purchasing), when faced with a price increase of food commodities.
(20) The experiments are completed by interviews with the housewives.