What's the difference between jackman and retainer?

Jackman


Definition:

  • (n.) One wearing a jack; a horse soldier; a retainer. See 3d Jack, n.
  • (n.) A cream cheese.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • Week in Geek sees Ben Child hoping James Mangold will get it right for The Wolverine , a second attempt to spin off Hugh Jackman's X-Men character.
  • (2) The membrane capacities reas determined in a guanine PRT deletion strain (Jackman and Hochstadt, '76).
  • (3) Best actor in a comedy or musical It's Hugh Jackman , for Les Miserables, obviously.
  • (4) They also have experimented with unexpected choices as hosts, which worked nicely with the song-and-dance talents of Hugh Jackman three years ago.
  • (5) Jackman said: “Legal aid isn’t available to cover the costs of applying to the European court of human rights.
  • (6) Hugh Jackman sang Quiet Please, There’s a Lady On Stage at the end of the ceremony and bagpipers from the New York City police department played on the streets as mourners filed out of Temple Emanu-El, many dabbing their eyes.
  • (7) Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, the Hemsworth brothers ... they're everything Americans idealize about manhood.
  • (8) Diamond’s live version of Coming to America , in which he wears a blue sequined shirt and sports fiercer sideburns than Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, needs to be watched on a regular basis.
  • (9) He has fared better on stage, with Weisz in Harold Pinter’s The Betrayal and with Hugh Jackman in A Steady Rain.
  • (10) Otherwise, it was a great night for Harvey Weinstein , whose campaigning for Django Unchained netted two wins (for Tarantino’s script and Christoph Waltz in Supporting Actor), for Les Mis (two acting wins, For Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway) and for Austrians (with, in addition to Waltz, Michael Haneke taking home Best Foreign Film).
  • (11) Angela Jackman, a partner at law firm Simpson Millar, which has represented A and B, said that while the NHS would look after women and girls from Northern Ireland who fell ill while in Britain the same health service would not fund terminations for them.
  • (12) The bearded Jackman, back as host after a nine-year absence, greeted many of the night's featured performers as he cheerfully bounded past them backstage.
  • (13) In the 1980 romance Somewhere in Time , Christopher Reeve rewound to woo a bygone Jane Seymour; in 2001's Kate & Leopold , a 19th-century Hugh Jackman raced forward into the arms of a present-day Meg Ryan.
  • (14) McGowan said Barnett's non-attendance was "reprehensible and unforgivable", and his priorities were out of whack, given he reportedly attended a Hugh Jackman event and a football game instead.
  • (15) Hugh Jackman and the Actors' Equity Association will both receive special Tony Awards at this year's ceremony, which takes place on 10 June.
  • (16) The announcement follows a recent production of The Wolverine, starring Australian actor Hugh Jackman, which was filmed in Sydney after the government paid Fox Studios $13.6m.
  • (17) A friend persuaded him to try acting and he ended up taking his first lesson, a drop-in class, with Hugh Jackman.
  • (18) The nominations were announced in New York by the actors Jonathan Groff and Lucy Liu – joined very quickly by a surprise guest in the shape of Hugh Jackman, who will present the main awards on 8 June.
  • (19) If Hispanic women can believe in Hugh Jackman in X-Men or Aaron Taylor-Johnston in Godzilla, why is Hollywood so insistent that a white American man paying for a movie ticket remains so incapable of seeing himself in a character of a different ethnic background?
  • (20) There was also a medley by the cast of this year's musical hopeful, Les Misérables, with Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman giving their lungs an airing.

Retainer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, retains.
  • (n.) One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on.
  • (n.) Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery.
  • (n.) The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause.
  • (n.) The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right.
  • (n.) A fee paid to engage a lawyer or counselor to maintain a cause, or to prevent his being employed by the opposing party in the case; -- called also retaining fee.
  • (n.) The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
  • (2) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
  • (3) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
  • (4) The cis isomer was retained longer in liver, particularly in mitochondria, but had low retention in that portion of the endoplasmic reticulum isolated as the rough membrane fraction.
  • (5) Despite this alteration in subcellular distribution, the mutant polypeptide retained the ability to induce fibroblast transformation by several parameters, including the ability to display anchorage-independent growth.
  • (6) They retained the ability to make this discrimination when the coloured stimuli were placed against a background bright enough to saturate the rods.3.
  • (7) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
  • (8) ITV retained its quasi-feudal structure until the 1990s.
  • (9) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
  • (10) Ultraviolet difference spectrophotometry indicates that the inactivated enzyme retains its capacity for binding the nucleotide substrates whereas the spectral perturbation characteristic of 3-phosphoglycerate binding is abolished in the modified enzyme.
  • (11) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
  • (12) The most serious complications following operative treatment are retained bile duct calculi (2.8%), wound infection and biliary fistulae.
  • (13) Bivalent F(ab')(2) also retains its insulin-like effects.
  • (14) In this study, a technique is described by which large obturators can be retained with an acrylic resin head plate.
  • (15) At the end of the dusting period those animals treated with normally charged dust had significantly more chrysotile retained in their lungs than animals exposed to discharged dust.
  • (16) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
  • (17) Formula fed infants retained more nitrogen and gained weight faster.
  • (18) As an extension of the previous study which indicated that mesoglea is a primitive basement membrane which has retained some characteristics of interstitial extracellular matrix, the present study was undertaken to analyze the role of mesoglea components during head regeneration in Hydra vulgaris.
  • (19) The resulting cell lines have a stable phenotype and retain the changes which result from transformation even after extended passaging.
  • (20) Protein synthesis in cell-free extracts from resistant or susceptible bacteria was equally susceptible to inhibition by Cd(2+), but spheroplasts from resistant bacteria retained their resistance.

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