What's the difference between itinerant and tramp?

Itinerant


Definition:

  • (a.) Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler.
  • (a.) One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Active surveillance components included an itinerant chest clinic and survey chest roentgenography program, epidemiologic case investigations, and skin testing.
  • (2) After an itinerant childhood, overshadowed by abandonment and infidelity, Yates claimed to have experimented with sex and heroin at an early age.
  • (3) Porters, rickshaw drivers, nurses, patients, students, bureaucrats, doctors and itinerant holy men all stand to eat their heavily subsidised meals, priced at no more than 5 rupees (5p) and eaten at ferocious speed with fingers from tin plates.
  • (4) You itinerate based on those failures - or as they say in technology "fail early and often", to develop a model that works.
  • (5) Hearing the story, I realise that present contentment – enjoying the gym, pool, doctor, bar and other conveniences – masks itinerant pasts, full of adventure.
  • (6) The most significant factors associated with partial immunisation were found to be the socioeconomic and educational status of the children's fathers and itinerancy.
  • (7) People were crushed when their new concrete homes collapsed, a risk they would not have faced in their itinerant life on the grasslands.
  • (8) Ivermectin's ability to inhibit worm migration through the tissues is discussed, with respect to the role of itinerant males in the reproductive cycle of Onchocerca volvulus.
  • (9) An interview with Cameron Crowe done over the course of that year for Rolling Stone gives a flavour of the time, Bowie living an itinerant lifestyle around spooky, decadent LA, culminating in a megalomaniacal rant: “I believe that rock’n’roll is dangerous.
  • (10) Such a reasoning strongly denounces the psychosocial problems of women, but tends to forget the vulnerability of men which is nonetheless clearly evident in official statistics on suicide, dependence on alcohol and other drugs, violence and itinerancy.
  • (11) Wasn’t reform exactly what was offered to the masses of the Hijaz by Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab, the mid-18th century itinerant preacher who allied with the House of Saud?
  • (12) She left Michigan when her daughter was 16 and became itinerant, sleeping in her truck, because unlike plastic or drywall, metal emitted no chemical fumes and was safe.
  • (13) Tadini, an Italian by birth, was an itinerant ophthalmologist living in the second half of the eighteenth century.
  • (14) Sharma, the itinerant vendor, laughed at the idea of a refrigerated barrow, or an air-conditioned home.
  • (15) Born Jeane Jordan, in Oklahoma, she was the daughter of an itinerant and unsuccessful oil prospector.
  • (16) There were no books in Darwish's own home and his first exposure to poetry was through listening to an itinerant singer on the run from the Israeli army.
  • (17) This surgery was frequently performed by itinerant mendicants, charlatans, and also by the more legitimate members of the surgical community living in the 13 states at the time of the Revolution.
  • (18) The main activities involve itinerant screening in the communities and group screening at the workplaces.
  • (19) Some Malians have sympathy with the Tuareg, who are dispersed across Saharan Africa , and whose culture and itinerant lifestyle are disappearing.
  • (20) Poor motivation, itinerancy and alcohol abuse were the most common factors causing difficulty.

Tramp


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
  • (v. i.) To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country.
  • (v. i.) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
  • (v. i.) To travel; to wander; to stroll.
  • (n.) A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp.
  • (n.) A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond.
  • (n.) The sound of the foot, or of feet, on the earth, as in marching.
  • (n.) A tool for trimming hedges.
  • (n.) A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Communist party mouthpiece newspaper the People’s Daily said in an editorial that the tribunal had ignored “basic truths” and “tramped” on international laws and norms.
  • (2) I couldn't handle the hangovers: waking up in the sticky filth of the Colony Room on the floor; sweating my way though meetings at White Cube; going to meet Larry [Gagosian] on the Anadin, the Nurofen, the Berocca and the Vicks nasal spray, looking like an alcoholic tramp.
  • (3) They left him with an enduring sympathy for the poor and marginalised, embodied in his Little Tramp character .
  • (4) She would tramp to the village phone box and wait for some ringing and then quiz me about eating greens and clean handkerchiefs and comprehensively diss my dad, who had left home to "find himself" – in the arms of a local paramour.
  • (5) The only other person Drake ever wrote a song for was, bizarrely enough, Millie, of My Boy Lollipop, who recorded a reggae song of his called May Fair, one of those “quaint” pieces of observation – a rich lady getting in a chauffeured limousine while a tramp ambles past at the exact same moment.
  • (6) May, the provincial vicar’s daughter, has done her time tramping the streets, stuffing envelopes, working the local Conservative association circuit.
  • (7) In her day this was a gritty neighbourhood and it hasn’t changed much, with a shabby market by the metro station and blocks of peeling townhouses; this is the real, old Paris, the world she sang about, with its desperate cast of thieves and tramps and lovers.
  • (8) "Personally I longed for human society and for exercise (a good long tramp for example), but no doubt Odilo had his reasons".
  • (9) Instagram photos showed them tramping around New York, bowler hatted and hand in hand.
  • (10) This tireless, Glasgow-built cargo ship has been tramping between Kampala and Mwanza, Tanzania's second most populous city, for more than 40 years.
  • (11) The Clos was created in 1933 by the city of Paris on what was previously, according to a municipal tin placard, "a waste land, the refuge of tramps and a playground for local children".
  • (12) Diplomats and staff tramped across the rain-soaked grass of the UN’s Rose Garden on the banks of the East River to watch.
  • (13) A tramp who smacks himself repeatedly about the body.
  • (14) But as we tramp back to the village, it’s worth mourning that golden age of privacy, and the city that allowed people to reinvent themselves like the characters in Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side.
  • (15) His work has often been obliquely autobiographical – never quite his story, but yes, he was a history boy back in the day preparing for Oxford; yes, you could draw comparisons with the repressed gay man he plays in A Chip in the Sugar; yes, he did give refuge to a tramp who parked her van in his driveway for 15 years, and so it goes.
  • (16) Gideon wondering how many coins there are in a pound then snorting through his nose as he draws a penis murdering a tramp on his satchel.
  • (17) And I can tramp through snowstorms late at night when no one is stirring and feel the kind of excitement John Muir (father of the US national parks) must have felt when he spent a stormy night up a tree just to embrace it and know what it endured in the absence of reportorial creatures.
  • (18) And, like tramps, we expect to be moved on, sooner or later, as more and more of London’s public space becomes private.
  • (19) Richard, a long-time mountain devotee, agrees: "As someone who's tramped over its slopes many, many times, I simply don't understand how a mountain can be valued at £1.75m to pay off tax.
  • (20) Elevated affective excitability was the most common of all psychopathy-like disorders, followed by the syndrome of home leaving and tramping, the aggressive-sadistic syndrome, and mental instability.