What's the difference between jakes and privy?

Jakes


Definition:

  • (n.) A privy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The company also confirmed on Thursday as it launched its sports pay-TV offering at its new broadcasting base in the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, that former BBC presenter Jake Humphrey will anchor its Premier League coverage.
  • (2) Jake Schmidt, international climate policy director at the green campaigning group Natural Resources Defence Capital, said: "There's a cultural mismatch between the Qatari team and this process.
  • (3) "As a stylist Brown gets better and better: where once he was abysmal he is now just very poor," wrote Jake Kerridge in the Daily Telegraph .
  • (4) Jake Shears – who as the Scissor Sisters' frontman has helped keep disco alive this past decade – acknowledges the near-shock value of all this live performing in the dance realm: "It sounds incredible, like a giant fresh glass of water that so many people have been thirsty for for so long," he says.
  • (5) In response to a question from the host, Jake Tapper, about allegations that the Russian ambassador “is a spy”, Rubio said: “It is not a mystery to anyone that virtually every embassy in Washington DC has some intelligence component associated with it.” Fact check: what did Trump's tweets about Obama's 'wiretaps' mean?
  • (6) On the opposite side there are obviously a few people who are full of a lot of hatred.” Jake Johnstone, who was was wearing the pink triangle of the 1980s Act Up movement, said: “Obviously we had the Paris attacks and everyone was shocked by it, but because Orlando was an attack on the LGBT community it feels very personal and a lot of people feel deeply affected by it.
  • (7) The writer Jake Arnott recalled that on his meeting with Reynolds, the latter had quoted William Burroughs: "Steal everything in sight."
  • (8) Then Jake Connor, an 18-year-old who replaced Scott Grix for only his second senior appearance and looked admirably composed from the start, exploited some hesitant defence down Warrington's left to ground the ball in an Atkins tackle.
  • (9) 1.05am BST Jake Peavy Dave Leese (@dl_1009) @Busfield @LengelDavid I especially like watching a pitcher who's been declared legally blind, have a go at hitting a 90mph fastball October 26, 2013 Yes, the Sox starter is legally blind without corrective lenses.
  • (10) Styled as a mock film trailer, the three-and-a-half minute clip features Sean Penn, Jake Gyllenhaal, Don Cheadle, Guillermo Díaz, Emmy Rossum, Blake Lively, Rashida Jones and Kidada Jones.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump comments on death of Dwyane Wade’s cousin – video Welcome to Iowa, where Trump's purple patch could turn a blue state red Read more Pence rejected a suggestion by CNN host Jake Tapper that lax gun safety laws in his own state, Indiana, may be stoking violence in Chicago.
  • (12) "As an American and a Villa fan, I at once am thrilled and deeply sympathetic re: the selection of Heskey," writes Jake McIntyre.
  • (13) Sergeant Nigel Coupe, 33, Corporal Jake Hartley, Privates Anthony Frampton and Daniel Wade, all 20, and Privates Daniel Wilford, 21, and Christopher Kershaw, 19, all died when their Warrior armoured vehicle was caught in a large explosion .
  • (14) The chairman of the production company that will oversee live output for BT Sport, which has signed up Jake Humphrey as its main anchor and will shortly unveil another major signing, said it was determined to differentiate itself from rivals.
  • (15) Heavily involved in Arsenal’s first three goals – and scoring the second himself – Walcott looked very much a winger in form on an afternoon when, despite Sam Clucas’s impressive efforts in Mike Phelan’s midfield, home hopes were wrecked by Jake Livermore’s 40th-minute dismissal.
  • (16) Graham waited before weighting a pass into Jake Livermore's path as the midfielder ran diagonally across him into the Albion penalty area and, though Ben Foster rushed out to block, Livermore hit his first-time shot firmly under the Albion goalkeeper.
  • (17) The Titans, meanwhile, will now probably stick with young QB Jake Locker, who was a first-round draft last year.
  • (18) This year alone she stars in three films: ensemble climbing thriller Everest , alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley; Guy Ritchie’s Cold War caper The Man From UNCLE ; and Justin Kurzel’s richly cinematic take on Macbeth , starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.
  • (19) Corporal Jake Joseph Hartley, 20 Hartley, known as JJ, was fit and motivated, yet always under-stated, Stenning said.
  • (20) Greggs on a roll The most important City news of last week was, of course, provided by Jake Gyllenhaal , the film actor who made his name in some critically acclaimed cowboy movie ( City Slickers ?).

Privy


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.
  • (a.) Secret; clandestine.
  • (a.) Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
  • (a.) Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
  • (n.) A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party.
  • (n.) A necessary house or place; a backhouse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He or she is privy to all facets of care that are being administered to the patient.
  • (2) A system for detecting such cases was established through liaison with other hospital peer review committees or any physician or nurse who was privy to specific information and willing to submit it in writing.
  • (3) He privately told the privy counsellors' committee of inquiry set up to review the events leading up to the invasion: "If I may be very frank and rather rude, you had to keep the ball in the air with the Argentines.
  • (4) I can therefore tell all members of this house that the cross-party charter will be on the agenda at a specially convened meeting of the privy council on 30 October.
  • (5) The use of self-topping aqua privies, discharging through sewers to oxidation ponds, has made possible the economic installation of water-carriage systems of waste disposal in low-cost high-density housing areas.In the oxidation ponds, typhoid bacteria appear to be more resistant than indicator organisms; helminths, cysts and ova settle out; there are no snails and, if peripheral vegetation is removed, mosquitos will not breed.
  • (6) The privy council’s antiquated oath, which is supposed to remain secret, also requires members to promise “not (to) know or understand of any manner of thing to be attempted, done, or spoken against Her Majesty’s person, honour, crown, or dignity royal”.
  • (7) They were challenged by Democratic senator Ron Wyden who, as a member of the committee, has for years been privy to classified briefings that he cannot discuss in public.
  • (8) Under the agreement, the royal charter must be granted by the Privy Council which meets on 8 May and then sealed by the Queen.
  • (9) Asked about the invitation, Cameron’s official spokesman would only say that the prime minister had been clear in public that all privy counsellors were entitled to security briefings if they asked for them.
  • (10) "So why are the government rushing it through to the privy council, which they control through the cabinet?
  • (11) "Creating some sort of privy power seems quite an interesting alternative to Leveson's recommendations for statue, which we oppose," said Cooper.
  • (12) The privy council only provides the flummery which camouflages their autocracy.
  • (13) Not being privy to the processing and presentation of SPZ Ag, we postulated that a different order of processing of the authentic, i.e., SPZ-associated CS protein vs soluble rCS protein might be responsible for the generation of different T cell specificities.
  • (14) Today, the privy council is headed by Nick Clegg and is made up of all cabinet ministers and a number of junior ministers.
  • (15) I believe in having all the information, as much of it as I possibly can, rather than making a decision or statement about whether I totally agree or disagree when I wasn't privy to the situation."
  • (16) He was also considering a new bill which would ensure the charter could not be changed by the Privy Council and could only be changed by a "super majority" – perhaps two thirds – vote in the Lords and the Commons.
  • (17) There is the scope for members of the national security council, privy councillors, to ask questions and the like to better understand the work that the agencies do.
  • (18) But Ashworth said the public deserved answers, "given that Mr Rock had a senior role at the heart of government and was privy to the most sensitive information".
  • (19) Speaking to journalists at a Broadcasting Press Guild lunch in London, Whittingdale said: "There is a real possibility that the Queen or privy council will refuse to recommend any royal charter when there is disagreement between the parties or disagreement between the government and industry.
  • (20) During the time of the Norman kings the privy council was the main body which governed Britain, fulfilling the kind of role that cabinet performs today.

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