What's the difference between inn and resort?

Inn


Definition:

  • (n.) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode.
  • (n.) A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel.
  • (n.) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person; as, Leicester Inn.
  • (n.) One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers; as, the Inns of Court; the Inns of Chancery; Serjeants' Inns.
  • (v. i.) To take lodging; to lodge.
  • (v. t.) To house; to lodge.
  • (v. t.) To get in; to in. See In, v. t.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) BBC1 will also screen a three-part adaptation of PD James' Death Comes to Pemberley, the Jane Austen homage in the 200th anniversary year of Pride and Prejudice, as well as a three-part adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn and Remember Me, a ghost story by Gwyneth Hughes (Five Days, The Girl).
  • (2) Updated at 2.56pm GMT 12.51pm GMT They also think the worst is over at the Cove House Inn, according to Steven Morris.
  • (3) I adored Chez Elles in Brick Lane's Banglatown; and Otto's , on Gray's Inn Road, looks set to be the capital's next insider secret, with a menu that doesn't appear to have met the 21st century: it does canard à la presse, for goodness sake.
  • (4) The chief executive of the Australian Industry Group, Innes Willox, said speeding up the pace of innovation could help create a more diversified and resilient economy after the mining investment boom.
  • (5) Also ruled inadmissible was the account of a former chambermaid from the Holiday Inn in Leicester, who came forward during his trial with evidence to say she had discovered him in the bath with a girl she believed, but couldn’t be sure, was about 12.
  • (6) Ben Stephenson, the BBC's controller, drama commissioning, said: "I think actors not being clear is one part of it, but my understanding about the complaints about Jamaica Inn was more complex than that, so I think it's probably not right to just single out that, but clearly we want actors to speak clearly."
  • (7) There are two different classes of humoral growth factors for arterial smooth muscle and endothelial cells that age of potential relevance for the development of macrovascular disease inn diabetes mellitus: hormones (growth hormone, insulin like growth factor I and II, insulin) and locally released growth factors of platelet origin.
  • (8) Four hundred and one patients with acute myocardial infarction of less than 4 h duration were randomized to receive intravenous thrombolytic treatment with either 80 mg of full length unglycosylated single-chain-urokinase plasminogen activator (INN saruplase) or 1.5 million IU of streptokinase delivered over a 60 min period.
  • (9) They’d lost their dog and their house, and are now living in a Premier Inn.
  • (10) INN exepanol-HCl, KC 2450), metoclopramide and domperidone on the resting pressure of the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) were studied in anesthetized and conscious beagle dogs using pull-through manometrical methods.
  • (11) Dr Abby Innes European Institute, LSE • If David Cameron really wants to clean out the Augean stables of corruption, he should not use international summits to insinuate that corruption is only a foreign problem.
  • (12) For a precise analysis of angiotensin II (ANG) effects on human gastric muscle, we dissected longitudinal (lo) and circular (ci) strips from fundus (Fu), corpus (Co) and antrum (An), and circular muscle from the inner and outer part of the pyloric sphincter (Py-inn and Py-out) and from duodenum.
  • (13) There was the time he met Steve McQueen in Cornwall in 1970 and joined him as a pillion passenger on a spontaneous four-day off-road motorbike trip, staying in "Devonshire country inns", during which bonding experience McQueen revealed to him, as he had to no one else, his violence toward his first wife, the criminality of his childhood and his premonitions of death (a story which, 40 years on, forms the basis of Steve McQueen: Living on the Edge , recently lucratively serialised in the Sunday Times ).
  • (14) Among its assets are a Waitrose supermarket depot in Milton Keynes and a Holiday Inn hotel in Cornwall.
  • (15) Manuel said Obama had done this by designating large landscapes as well as places significant to landmark social movements, including labor activist Cesar Chavez’s home ; the Stonewall Inn , where a 1969 police raid kicked off a new front in the LGBT equality movement; and a park dedicated to the work of Harriet Tubman , a former slave who helped other slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
  • (16) If I'd been holding a pen from Premier Inn, it wouldn't have stuck.
  • (17) Across the wider Whitbread group, third-quarter comparable sales were up 3.3%, with the group's Premier Inn hotel chain making gains against declining revenues in the hotel industry.
  • (18) A mixture of the (Z)- and (E)-isomers (Broparestrol, INN) is used in dermatology.
  • (19) At the Meadow Inn hotel, these statistics are embodied in a depressing tableau of punters slouched on stools, jabbing at flashing buttons.
  • (20) A monoclonal antibody (INN-CH-16) was prepared which reacts with a cell surface antigen termed chicken activated T lymphocyte antigen.

Resort


Definition:

  • (n.) Active power or movement; spring.
  • (v. i.) To go; to repair; to betake one's self.
  • (v. i.) To fall back; to revert.
  • (v. i.) To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage.
  • (v.) The act of going to, or making application; a betaking one's self; the act of visiting or seeking; recourse; as, a place of popular resort; -- often figuratively; as, to have resort to force.
  • (v.) A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place of frequent assembly; a haunt.
  • (v.) That to which one resorts or looks for help; resource; refuge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (2) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
  • (3) I told a police officer and a support worker that as a last resort I was thinking of getting on contact with Ash again.
  • (4) Indicators of the blood kinin system were studied in 57 persons including 42 patients with asthma and 15 healthy persons (control group) in the Kislovodsk health resort area.
  • (5) Still, there are some aspects of Palin’s channel to recommend it to the devoted movement conservative that isn’t necessarily already a fan of hers – especially its obviating the need to resort to Palinology.
  • (6) The differentiation between the various modes of involvement is essential as some of them may be confused with recurrence and the clinician might resort to unnecessary drastic measures like enucleation.
  • (7) Bilateral nephrectomy is reserved as a last resort.
  • (8) The low incidence of these complications (7.8%) is largely due to the systematic resort to the Leadbetter-Politano ureterovesical anastomosis, except in one case (uretero-ureterostomy due to the shortness of the graft).
  • (9) Lawyers have also resorted to various pieces of criminal legislation.
  • (10) Where to stay: Beachside bungalows at Coco Grove Beach Resort cost £19 per person.
  • (11) He told LBC radio that “resorting to that sort of language is possibly not in the national interest.
  • (12) It’s especially not appropriate for a citizen seeking election to this house or selection to the ministry canvassing for money and support to seek to damage individuals’ reputation by commencing court actions for what could only be an improper purpose.” Palmer said the former treasurer, Joe Hockey, had been staying at the resort at the time and “walked past the table” where they were sitting and “merely sat down to have a coffee”.
  • (13) The exploration resorted to fiberendoscopy of esophageal follow-through, pharyngoesophageal manometry, radiocinema, and MRI for some of the latter patients.
  • (14) Feckless Tom Bertram is a haunter of seaside resorts.
  • (15) At home, he’s besieged by leadership speculation of sufficient intensity to see his conservative allies resort to public verbal knife-fights.
  • (16) The deal gave Penn a Las Vegas casino for a fraction of what it cost to build the 390-room resort.
  • (17) The leaders of the world's eight wealthiest countries, including Russian president Vladimir Putin and German chancellor Angela Merkel, are due to meet at the luxury Lough Erne resort in Co Fermanagh for the conference on 17-18 June.
  • (18) The crackdown has alarmed activists and outspoken intellectuals, with some resorting to exile.
  • (19) He is totally comfortable around Wall Street and bankers.” Trump’s effort to characterize himself as without obligation to the financial sector despite his long record of loans and debt restructuring during episodic turbulence in his business career, including the bankruptcy of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts in 2004, is likely to raise eyebrows.
  • (20) Alan Pardew's side have forgotten how to win at home and, resorting to too many aimless long, high balls, could find no way beyond the excellent James Collins and his fellow West Ham United defenders.