What's the difference between husband and wife?

Husband


Definition:

  • (n.) The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.
  • (n.) A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman.
  • (n.) One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist.
  • (n.) A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.
  • (n.) The male of a pair of animals.
  • (v. t.) To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.
  • (v. t.) To cultivate, as land; to till.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a husband.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
  • (2) Some 10 years after arriving in Sheffield with her husband and three-year-old son, Bazzie is a success story.
  • (3) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
  • (4) Prostitute visit is a main risk factor, irrespective of whether the husband had a history of sexually transmitted diseases or not.
  • (5) In each of the four study sites, focus group discussions or in-depth interviews were held with potential acceptors, current NORPLANT users, discontinuers, husbands of women in these three groups, and service providers.
  • (6) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
  • (7) His verdict of her that "she danced on the graves of her husband's victims.
  • (8) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
  • (9) Byrom had been scheduled to die by lethal injection last week for hiring a man to shoot dead her abusive husband, Edward, at their home in Iuka in June 1999.
  • (10) MLC's were carried out between the cells from the serum donor and her husband in the presence of nonimmune AB serum and the test serum.
  • (11) Last week the prosecution dropped a series of allegations that Gail Sheridan, also 46, had lied on her husband's behalf by providing a series of false alibis to cover up his affairs and trips to Cupids.
  • (12) The director of the Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, Alexandra Hildebrandt, keeps a tally started by her late husband Rainer, the museum’s founder, which currently lists 1,720 victims.
  • (13) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.
  • (14) [Disclosure: Newly-elected Elise Stefanik, the youngest woman elected to Congress, is a college friend of my husband’s.]
  • (15) According to calculations by the Resolution Foundation, a couple with two children in which the husband works full-time and the wife works part-time on or just above minimum wage stand to lose a total of £720 a year by 2020.
  • (16) ‘It’s hard to understand why we have all had to go through this’ – Angelene Wright, 66, from Lincolnshire I’m a carer for my 64-year-old husband who is in the final stages of multiple sclerosis.
  • (17) Braff will direct and play the lead role of a father, actor and husband struggling to find his identity.
  • (18) The wife shared four major histocompatibility (HLA) antigens with her husband.
  • (19) Husband's self-care activities, uncertainty, and husband's physical and mental symptoms were concerns that spouses frequently reported at T2.
  • (20) My husband believes in human rights, democracy and transparency.

Wife


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.
  • (n.) The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a man in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married woman; -- correlative of husband.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
  • (2) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
  • (3) This study reports the analysis of a transvestite man through focusing on his marital interaction and his wife's complementary behavior to his perversion.
  • (4) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
  • (5) Another, discussing public attitudes towards the police, said: "I've lost count of [the number of] people who said: 'It's only cos you've got a uniform … if you didn't have the uniform on, I'd come and fuck you and this, that and the other … I hope your wife dies of cancer and your kids die of cancer.'"
  • (6) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
  • (7) The arrest of the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, as well as a photographer and her partner, is a brutal reminder of the distance between President Hassan Rouhani’s reforming promises and his willingness to act.
  • (8) Five days later a French "honeymoon" couple, Alain Jacques Turenge and his wife Sophie Turenge, were arrested.
  • (9) Originally, it was to be named Le Reve, after one of the Picassos that Wynn and his wife own; but, as of last month, it is to be called Wynn Las Vegas, embodying a dream of a different kind.
  • (10) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Davis protests against his wife Kim’s jailing.
  • (12) FBI assistant director David Bowdich said that Syed Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, were radicalized long before they went on a rampage at a community center in southern California last Wednesday, but would not specify whether he meant months or years.
  • (13) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
  • (14) Sharif Mobley, 30, whose lawyers consider him to be disappeared, managed to call his wife in Philadelphia on Thursday, the first time they had spoken since February and a rare independent proof he is alive since a brief phone call with his mother in July.
  • (15) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
  • (16) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
  • (17) Andrew and his wife Amy belong to Generation Rent, an army of millions, all locked out of home ownership in Britain.
  • (18) Dr Fiona Stewart, a public health sociologist and Nitschke’s wife, told Guardian Australia she had replaced Nitschke as Exit International’s director.
  • (19) "I rang my wife to tell her," he says, "and she just laughed."
  • (20) (BBC) "I received the letter two months ago and was told to keep quiet about it or it might be taken away, so my wife and I kept quiet about it.