What's the difference between jewellery and precious?

Jewellery


Definition:

  • (n.) See Jewelry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I had jewellery, so I pawned all that, and I taught yoga – that paid the school fees.
  • (2) "She [Simpson] was one of the most stylish women of the day, and there is a lasting fascination with their lives together which shows no sign of going away," said Bryony Meredith, head of Sotheby's jewellery department.
  • (3) Yassine, who declined to provide his surname, is the son of a Parisian jewellery designer and a "not that famous" French artist.
  • (4) In 43 the primary eczema was on the hands, in 38 under costume jewellery, suspenders, ect.
  • (5) Cars, furniture, books, dishes, TVs, highways, buildings, jewellery, toys and even electricity would not exist without water.
  • (6) Anas, a nurse, had wanted her children to stay but she relented and sold her gold jewellery when her son Salim found a way to get to Brazil, where he now has asylum after failing to reach the US.
  • (7) There was a shop that I knew of because I've been in there a couple of times before and I knew they sold costume jewellery and stuff.
  • (8) Jimmy Savile told hospital staff he interfered with patients' corpses, taking grotesque photographs and stealing glass eyes for jewellery, over two decades at the mortuary of Leeds general infirmary.
  • (9) He’s nine now but he has seen it.” Others using the vault feared they had lost jewellery, family heirlooms, cash and essential documents, he added.
  • (10) 1928's Downton Abbey jewellery collection If it's the jewels and the glitz that gets you going on Downton, then you'll be pleased to know that you can emulate the luxury of Lady Edith from as little as £11.25 (via ACHICA) – though what Lady Mary would make of such cheap imitations doesn't bear thinking of.
  • (11) My suspicion is there was something [the thieves] were specifically after, otherwise why would they have taken some and left others?” The stolen goods would range from family heirlooms, personal jewellery and dealers’ stock, he said.
  • (12) This may be a gift of cosmetics, jewellery or clothing, or may be food related.
  • (13) However, in an interview with the Guardian the families questioned the claims made by the police that the girls had funded the trip with stolen family jewellery.
  • (14) China is poised to overtake India to become the world's biggest market for gold this year thanks to soaring investment purchases of bullion and steadily rising jewellery sales, according to the World Gold Council's annual report.
  • (15) In recent months many companies have sprung up offering to buy gold jewellery and other items in exchange for cash.
  • (16) I know for a fact that some of my work colleagues have got boxes down there and we are talking about hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pounds in goods.” Malka said the safe-deposit boxes were used to store both jewellery and loose diamonds in packets.
  • (17) The costumes look remarkably grand for home theatricals, the jewellery is startlingly convincing, and the band evidently comprises moonlighting members of the Royal Horse Guards.
  • (18) The tie-up with Argos is more surprising as the camping to jewellery retailer’s range of products overlaps more closely with Sainsbury’s range of non-food goods.
  • (19) The elements you use in jewellery come from the earth,” explains Leane, “metal, gemstones.
  • (20) American viewers mourning the death of Dan Stevens' character Matthew Crawley at the end of the show's Christmas special will be able to drown their sorrows with Downton wine, wear Downton jewellery and grow Downton roses, as part of a merchandising push aimed at capitalising on the drama's phenomenal global success.

Precious


Definition:

  • (a.) Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone.
  • (a.) Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections.
  • (a.) Particular; fastidious; overnice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
  • (2) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
  • (3) It didn’t come off, and Leicester emerge with the most precious of wins.
  • (4) He says there are many optimistic tales to tell – migrant families, he says, are helping to drive up standards in local schools – but such stories tend to get lost in an online world that has precious little interest in them.
  • (5) The bond strength of the specimens brazed with the non-precious alloy was largely unaffected.
  • (6) "When Lee was born the family adored him, he was a precious gift given to us."
  • (7) The song also features Tatum's Magic Mike co-star Olivia Munn and Precious actress Gabourey Sidibe – plus a cameo role for Miley Cyrus who gets trapped under a vending machine.
  • (8) Sharply escalating the sanctions regime against Tehran, the EU also froze the Iranian central bank's assets in Europe and banned gold, precious metals and diamond transactions.
  • (9) Earlier, he said in a newspaper editorial that last month's natural disasters and the nuclear crisis presented Japan with "a precious window of opportunity to secure the 'rebirth of Japan' ".
  • (10) Today, we have come to a broader and more nuanced understanding of this age-old imperative: how to better balance the development needs of a growing world population – so all may enjoy the fruits of prosperity and robust economic growth – with the necessity of conserving our planet's most precious resources: land, air and water.
  • (11) Hunt questioned what real actions arose out of the report and said that it contained far too many consultations with precious little action.
  • (12) Four pilots with "extensive experience" in transporting some of the world's most precious cargo, including white rhinos and penguins, were on the flight.
  • (13) The list of organisations to which he was prepared to give precious time was impressive, and included the Booker Prize management committee, the British Association for American Studies, the SDP arts policy committee, the Eastern Arts Association, the King's Lynn literary festival and the Norwich festival.
  • (14) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
  • (15) He tried it in November 2014 in Belgium and, although Wales got a precious point and drew 0-0, Bale spent too long waiting for the ball that never came.
  • (16) Elaboration however is subject to operator interpretation and often eliminates precious information from the areas of interest.
  • (17) Martin Precious, 60, was a hairdresser at a high-end London salon with celebrity clients until severe depression forced him to give up his job.
  • (18) Besides that, instead of wire made, elements for support and stabilization cast of semiprecious and non-precious alloys also give much better results.
  • (19) He had been trapped in his cabin by a second explosion as he went to retrieve his precious cameras.
  • (20) St Pancras himself, of whom precious little is known, is buried in Rome, a long way from the charred and soiled remains of the 19th-century slums of Agar Town that were demolished to make way for the Midland Railway's steamy entrance into London.