What's the difference between inn and tavern?

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.

Tavern


Definition:

  • (n.) A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three male college seniors were asked to drink beer at their normal rate in a simulated tavern setting.
  • (2) Storing the coins offline, as TradeFortress now recommends, is technologically more complex – and also makes it harder to spend them in the real world (for example, if attempting to buy a beer in Hackney's Pembury Tavern ).
  • (3) Seeing a sign for a bar, I hiked up an iron staircase to the Esquire Tavern (155 East Commerce St), and felt as if I'd stepped on to the set of a Sam Peckinpah film.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A New York City police officer calls for help as he kneels near a victim of the Fraunces Tavern bombing.
  • (5) Like his first opera, 1972’s Taverner , this was music composed at white-heat, and in retrospect no composer could have maintained such intense creativity indefinitely.
  • (6) The three other finalists were The Drovers Rest in Carlisle, the Kelham Island Tavern in Sheffield and The Yard of Ale, a micropub in Broadstairs, Kent.
  • (7) Zylberberg, who was on the islands last month with many Argentinian participants in the Falklands marathon, was filmed doing exercises outside the Globe Tavern in the islands' capital, Port Stanley, running past the offices of the Penguin News newspaper and doing step-ups at a British war memorial.
  • (8) "Detroit is a city like no other these days," said McEwan, whose two-year-old mini-tavern rarely has a room free.
  • (9) The bar of my favourite hotel, the Belmont ( belmontdallas.com , stylish rooms from $99), patios at Bryan Street Tavern ( bryanstreettavern.com ) and The Cedars Social ( thecedarssocial.com ) are some of the locations affording great views.
  • (10) Maxwell Davies himself thought that the 50s were his best period, but the general consensus is that beyond the oft-performed expressionist scores, his really great work is Taverner, which has not been seen since its inaugural production.
  • (11) In Fairplay we passed up the grill at McCall’s Park Bar – a rowdy tavern packed with hunters and cowboys – in favour of spaghetti at the Valiton Hotel .
  • (12) At the bottom of Les Molliettes lift, +33 450 342208 bethnalgreengirl La Taverne d'Alsace, Val d'Isère La Taverne d'Alsace, Val d'Isère This restaurant, part of Hotel Kandahar but with a separate entrance, doesn't get much hype but serves gorgeous Alsatian food that's not too stodgy – like choucroute and excellent ham hock.
  • (13) When the pub's operators moved out, the Catford Bridge Tavern became a squat - at least until the group of around 20 residents were evicted last month.
  • (14) Persons going to taverns, lounges, nightclubs and private clubs differ in social characteristics and these attributes are related to the activities and social functions associated with the various types of public drinking establishments.
  • (15) It was predicted and found that the taste-rating task led to more frequent sipping, smaller sip volume and a steeper decline in sipping across the 15 min drinking period than a procedurally similar tavern-evaluation task.
  • (16) This is their first collection and ranges over anarchist community builders, tough river pilots, militant socialist trade unionists, new women, coffee taverns, riots and garden suburbs.
  • (17) From the raucous taverns of the Shire to the dreaming spires of Gondor, there will be palpable relief today.
  • (18) "As I came through Highbury & Islington tube station at lunchtime today, the number of be-kilted Scotsman who were queueing up for photos outside the Famous Cock Tavern with irony intent was surely greater than the most optimistic YES vote," reports Stuey X.
  • (19) Dick Taverne House of Lords • Mr Blair is right to speak up for Britain’s role in the European Union , an organisation which clearly needs a lot of help at the moment, apparently trapped in a northern European mindset of well-intentioned universal principles applied with totalitarian consistency.
  • (20) Close up your counting house on Christmas Eve and watch your clerk slide homewards along the ice slide on Cornhill, before slouching around the corner to take your “melancholy dinner” in the “usual melancholy tavern”.