What's the difference between king and overlord?

King


Definition:

  • (n.) A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and struck with a hammer.
  • (n.) A chief ruler; a sovereign; one invested with supreme authority over a nation, country, or tribe, usually by hereditary succession; a monarch; a prince.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, holds a supreme position or rank; a chief among competitors; as, a railroad king; a money king; the king of the lobby; the king of beasts.
  • (n.) A playing card having the picture of a king; as, the king of diamonds.
  • (n.) The chief piece in the game of chess.
  • (n.) A crowned man in the game of draughts.
  • (n.) The title of two historical books in the Old Testament.
  • (v. i.) To supply with a king; to make a king of; to raise to royalty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
  • (2) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
  • (3) King Salman of Saudi Arabia urged the redoubling of efforts to “eradicate this dangerous scourge and rid the world of its evils”.
  • (4) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
  • (5) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
  • (6) Andrew Bachelor AKA King Bach (@KingBach) Andrew Bachelor.
  • (7) When Martin Luther King was assassinated, they sent state troopers to my high school in east St Louis.
  • (8) The growth of the subantarctic King penguin chick is distinguished from that of other penguins by its long winter fasting period (from 2 weeks to 3 months).
  • (9) #kflead May 21, 2014 The King's Fund IKS (@kingsfund_lib) Hope you enjoyed @GregSearle2012 's #kflead workshop!
  • (10) The grand patriarch, battling dissent and delusion, coming in for another shot, a new king on the throne, an impossible future to face down.
  • (11) In a statement, a St James's Palace spokesman said: "The Duchess of Cambridge has been discharged from the King Edward VII hospital and will now head to Kensington Palace for a period of rest.
  • (12) A total of 202 cultures of yeasts were isolated and characterized from king crab and Dungeness crab meat.
  • (13) King crabs (Family Lithodidae) are among the world's largest arthropods, having a crab-like morphology and a strongly calcified exoskeleton.
  • (14) Corruption scandals have left few among the Spanish ruling class untainted, engulfing politicians on the left and right of the spectrum, as well as businesses, unions, football clubs and even the king’s sister .
  • (15) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
  • (16) Overhead wire problems were causing delays on the east coast mainline into London King's Cross.
  • (17) The King-Denborough syndrome (KDS) is characterized by dysmorphic features, myopathy, and malignant hyperthermia (MH).
  • (18) Senators Ron Wyden and Angus King Tweeted their support.
  • (19) Go Kings go!” The pun-filled press release issued by De Blasio also helpfully included the lyrics to Sinatra’s and Newman’s classic tunes, in case anyone had forgotten.
  • (20) Now, the position of King and Rosewell is essentially that, in the absence of the deficit reduction programme, the financial markets would lose confidence in Britain and interest rates on government debt would rise sharply.

Overlord


Definition:

  • (n.) One who is lord over another or others; a superior lord; a master.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What he liked best was to talk to the cricket pro, Bert Wensley, formerly of Sussex, about such heroes as Maurice Tate, Duleepsinhji and HT Bartlett, and to encourage Bert to enlarge on his reasons for describing Sir Home Gordon, Bart, the overlord of Sussex cricket, as a "shit" - the first time we heard that word.
  • (2) It was launched on Wednesday with a party at the Mandarin Oriental hotel next door – an event so glittering that Formula One overlord Bernie Ecclestone was in attendance and überchef Heston Blumenthal did the catering.
  • (3) Believe the hype and he was a cross between a mafioso overlord and "HRH Victor Meldrew" (the epithet is David Starkey's).
  • (4) If the oligarchs of Silicon Valley feel empowered to sink outlets that they disagree with, our robot overlords will be here sooner than we think.
  • (5) Deliciously, The Internship is distributed by Searchlight's corporate overlord, 21st Century Fox.
  • (6) A year would have been the sort of seemly distance that might permit us to stop worrying and love our all-powerful tech overlords again.
  • (7) Bear that in mind while the feral overlords, with no real life experience, steal from the poor to bail out the rich.
  • (8) Seeing as I've already broken the fashion ranks by revealing the Great 57th Birthday Denim Swag Haul, I shall further anger my style overlords by confessing I strongly disagree with this rule.
  • (9) Instead of being a geeky orphan with money problems, the new Peter Parker (played by Andrew Garfield) was set up as a brooding teen (still with money problems) whose lack of mum and dad is linked in some mysterious manner to the seemingly omnipotent Oscorp and its shadowy overlord.
  • (10) She will be our discount dictator, perhaps, when her permatanned, pouting overlord has annexed us as a puppet state.
  • (11) Humans are part of nature, not its overlords, and caring for ourselves and for nature is inseparable in caring for our common home.
  • (12) Chinese people's long-standing animus toward their erstwhile colonial overlord is, of course, very real.
  • (13) As the US disengaged, Iran stepped in and, in the years since the US withdrawal, has acted as an overlord in neighbouring Iraq.
  • (14) This is entirely unfair to This Is 40 , no matter what one thinks of Apatow and his current status as Total Overlord of American Comedy.
  • (15) He will remain editor-in-chief, which he says will be more than a titular role, but plans to be an "enabler" rather than an overlord.
  • (16) Take out the results against the Bundesliga’s southern overlords and you’ll get an average points return against the 16 others in the league that has markedly decreased from 2.34 (2011-12) to 2 (2012-13) and 2.1 (2013-14).
  • (17) Its fate, and its chaotic confrontation with the eurozone’s overlords, is going to shape all of Europe’s future.
  • (18) On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the launch of Operation Overlord , Livingston has detailed memorabilia relating to the allied commander and the wartime president Franklin D Roosevelt , as well as other White House-related and sporting items.
  • (19) "I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords," Jennings wrote next to his last answer, displaying one human quality conspicuously absent in Watson – a sense of humour.
  • (20) My Dalek is not fit to serve at the court of his mighty citrus overlord.