What's the difference between jester and narr?

Jester


Definition:

  • (n.) A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.
  • (n.) A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He may not be able to cling to his status as the nation's court jester, however, without the BBC's patronage.
  • (2) We have come to expect this from Trump – the court jester of global politics,” said Issa Falaha, a Beirut banker.
  • (3) They had noticed the Jester's pro-censorship credentials, deducing he must be receiving help.
  • (4) Updated at 4.24pm BST 4.19pm BST Snooker books: Infinite Jester from Leicester, by David Foster Wallace.
  • (5) Racist jokes (some of which would have gone over my roof rack if I had been a Top Gear viewer) and an assault cost him his BBC slot , but he keeps his perch in the Murdoch press and, so I suspect, as court jester in the Cotswolds.
  • (6) The, ahem, Jester from Leicester (it's no Sheriff of Pottingham) did pretty well to get out of last night's second session with a three-frame deficit and keep himself well in this match, but O'Sullivan is looking pretty close to his brilliant best.
  • (7) For days, from their darkened chatrooms, the Anonymous ones had been watching a hacker called the Jester who seemed to be co-ordinating a series of attacks on internet service providers hosting WikiLeaks.
  • (8) ; The Season Saga; The Clod Hoper, Belly Laughs, The Little Woman, Pulp Fairies; The Grumpy Court Jester (BBC Children’s television – Playdays); Fact of Faith (BBC Radio Drama Young Writer’s Festival); The Victim (Royal Court Young Writer’s Festival & InterPlay Festival, Australia).
  • (9) I used to have a laugh and a joke with the compere, Richard Beare, and he gave me the nickname the Jester from Leicester.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cheech and Chong in Up in Smoke The idea that the genre could have greater aspirations is only a surprise because we’ve become used to stoner characters as affable, harmless, bong-toting jesters awesomely out of kilter with the adult world: Cheech and Chong, Floyd from True Romance , Jay and Silent Bob, Harold and Kumar.
  • (11) That's no joke for The Jester", reckons Gary Naylor.
  • (12) If I was King and he was my jester he'd be off to the gibbet."
  • (13) Selby, 23, the man called the jester from Leicester, had played his most damaging practical joke to date.
  • (14) Once again, Liverpool's sage and jester, Jimmy McGovern, is the voice of the people (for him, the destruction of Edge Lane, ostensibly for a road-widening of a matter of inches, was the last straw).
  • (15) As court jesters tweaking the nose of the powerful, they are quite possibly helping to keep the nation sane.
  • (16) The paper carried a picture of the Australian prime minister dressed as a court jester, with a simple headline: “THE WRONG TONE” .
  • (17) The lyrics reference sexual disease, brown dwarf stars, court jesters and dictators, all delivered in a strangulated baritone, as if Walker's testicles were being squeezed.
  • (18) Party politics: why grime defines the sound of protest in 2016 Read more Despite all this, Stormzy is more than just the jester of the grime scene.
  • (19) He added Johnson was a “court jester” but not a serious politician and said that the Conservatives Johnson had divided would not be loyal to him after leaving the EU.
  • (20) In 2008 Wright quit the BBC's Match of the Day claiming that the corporation is out of touch and that he was expected to be a "comedy jester".

Narr


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The similarities suggest that narL may also participate in such a two-component regulatory system and that the narR gene, which lies upstream of narL, may encode a second component required for nitrate control of gene regulation.
  • (2) The man from Narre Warren, who sources have named as Abdul Numan Haider, is alleged to have stabbed two officers – one from the Australian federal police (AFP) and one from Victoria police – as he arrived at Endeavour Hills police station in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs, police said.
  • (3) Different degree cross-resistance was established with quinine, chloroquine, dabequine, mefloquine; a high fansidar's efficacy in respect to NArRs was observed.
  • (4) The unnamed man, from Narre Warren, is understood to have stabbed two officers – one from the Australian federal police (AFP) and one from the Victoria force – as he arrived at Endeavour Hills police station in the Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs.
  • (5) Worshippers at the Hallam mosque in Narre Warren described Haider as a gentle man.
  • (6) The NArRs P. berghei strain which has 200 times lower sensitivity to artemisin was formed.

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