What's the difference between kidderminster and town?
Kidderminster
Definition:
(n.) A kind of ingrain carpeting, named from the English town where formerly most of it was manufactured.
Example Sentences:
(1) The new Worcester facilities will be better and safer than the old Kidderminster hospital.
(2) The ambulance drove past Kidderminster's closed A&E on a 50 minute journey to Worcester, where Mr Jones was pronounced dead after 20 minutes.
(3) "It was intended to down grade Kidderminster when the new Worcester hospital comes on-stream in 2002.
(4) When Kidderminster College decided to seek a merger in the spring of 2013, it was in a sound financial position.
(5) David Collins Kidderminster, Worcestershire • I have always found that the culprit in a TV murder mystery ( Letters, 7 August ) is invariably the character who says, “How can I help you, Inspector?” They are normally pouring tea at the time.
(6) Dobson says that Kidderminster has similarly gained from pooling resources.
(7) Every politician has learned the lesson of the Kidderminster effect, when a local hospital consultant swept to victory in Wyre Forest in the 2001 general election, in defence of the A&E department at his hospital.
(8) "But by announcing that Kidderminster was virtually going to be turned into a cottage hospital, that led to a crisis in staffing.
(9) Rufus Norris on Trevor Argent I met Trev when I joined his decorating team on a block of flats in Kidderminster, probably in 1984.
(10) Last September, Kidderminster's accident and emergency facilities were downgraded to a minor injuries unit.
(11) Kidderminster had one of the smallest incomes of general further education colleges in the country, before its merger with Newcastle College Group (NCG).
(12) Back in Wyre Forest, Clive Joyce, editor of the local paper, notes that complaints from readers about the NHS have mushroomed since Kidderminster's A&E department closed.
(13) He found himself in the Worcestershire town of Kidderminster and attended a community church where another experience of an attempted gay conversion began.
(14) In order to assess support for this peaceful but possibly effective protest, interested readers should write to me at 11 Church Walk, Kidderminster DY11 6XY or taylorr@rtact.freeserve.co.uk.
(15) "You're ... you're ... that butcher from Kidderminster".
(16) In February that decision had fatal consequences when a pensioner, John Jones, who lived five minutes from Kidderminster hospital, had a heart attack.
(17) But while the loss of services at Kidderminster has made for politics with instant appeal, not all the facts stack up on Dr Taylor's side.
(18) The MP, a junior minister in the Lord Chancellor's department, whose wife practises as a GP locally, accuses Health Concern of distorting the facts to whip up alarm among the voters of Kidderminster.
(19) Mr Lock insists: "The general election, whenever it comes, is not going to be a referendum on Kidderminster hospital.
(20) At the start of October, the 35-year-old mother from Kidderminster was broke.
Town
Definition:
(adv. & prep.) Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.
(adv. & prep.) Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.
(adv. & prep.) Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities.
(adv. & prep.) The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.
(adv. & prep.) A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country.
(adv. & prep.) The court end of London;-- commonly with the.
(adv. & prep.) The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country.
(adv. & prep.) A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.
Example Sentences:
(1) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(2) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(3) A more substantial decrease was found in Aberdeen and the larger towns near to Aberdeen than in the smaller towns further from the city.
(4) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.
(5) Nearly four months into the conflict, rebels control large parts of eastern Libya , the coastal city of Misrata, and a string of towns in the western mountains, near the border with Tunisia.
(6) The case was tried in a town called St Francisville, the closest courthouse to Angola.
(7) The autopsy findings in 41 patients with University of Cape Town aortic valve prostheses were studied.
(8) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
(9) He said: "This is a wonderful town but Tesco will suck the life out of the greengrocers, butchers, off-licence, and then it is only a matter of time for us too.
(10) Conservative commentators responded with fury to what they believed was inappropriate meddling at a crucial moment in the town hall debate.
(11) The article reflects the experience in the work of the manual therapy consulting-room at the Smela town hospital named after N. A. Semashko in Chernigov Province from November 1985 to December 1987 inclusive.
(12) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
(13) But no one was sure, and in this information vacuum the virus reached nearby towns and crossed borders.
(14) But last year Rosi Santoni, one of the relatives who helped look after her, said she had plenty of family to care for her and had many friends in the town.
(15) He wound up repossessing the cars of workers who fled town after the bust.
(16) It was shown that: although the oral hygiene level was very low and no dental treatments were performed, caries level was very low--although gingivitis rate was high, advanced periodontitis rate was low--the frequency of interincisive diastema (one subject out of 4 in the 15-19 age group), the progressive decline of tooth cutting, a traditional practice, in town people but the large extent of cola use (one adult out of two).
(17) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(18) Referee: Peter Bankes (Merseyside) This gnome, who lives in the shrubbery of Guardian gardening expert Jane Perrone, will be rooting for Luton Town this afternoon.
(19) Barbacoas is a small port town in south-west Colombia, which linked the southern regions of the country in the 19th and 20th century.
(20) In 2013, the town’s municipal court generated $221,164 (or $387 for each of its residents), with much of the fees coming from ticketing non-residents.