What's the difference between leader and mentor?

Leader


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.
  • (n.) One who goes first.
  • (n.) One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.
  • (n.) A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins.
  • (n.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
  • (n.) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery.
  • (n.) A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses.
  • (n.) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.
  • (n.) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. ; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached.
  • (n.) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
  • (n.) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.
  • (n.) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
  • (n.) a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
  • (2) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
  • (3) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
  • (4) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
  • (5) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
  • (6) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
  • (7) Fatah leader Yahya Rabah said the organisation would celebrate "with our brothers in Hamas", the Ma'an news agency reported.
  • (8) We have examined the in vitro membrane assembly characteristics of a variety of leader peptidase mutants and found that domains required for insertion in vivo are also necessary for insertion in vitro.
  • (9) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
  • (10) For this to work, its leaders had to be able to at least influence the behaviour and tactics of the militant operators on the ground.
  • (11) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
  • (12) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
  • (13) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
  • (14) He is a leader and helps manage the defence, while Pablo Armero can be a bit of a loose cannon but he is certainly a talented player.
  • (15) Gove said in the interview that he did not want to be Tory leader, claiming that he lacked the "extra spark of charisma and star quality" possessed by others.
  • (16) But to treat a mistake as an automatic disqualification for advancement – even as heinous a mistake as presiding over a botched operation that resulted in the killing of an innocent man – could be depriving organisations, and the country, of leaders who have been tested and will not make the same mistake again.
  • (17) "It's a very open question as to whether this will come," said a diplomat in Brussels, adding that Cameron could find himself in the lonely position of being the sole national leader urging a renegotiation.
  • (18) The nucleoprotein gene is located proximal to the 3' end of the genome and is preceeded by a putative leader sequence.
  • (19) The PUP leader told the ABC his announcement would have international significance.
  • (20) The prime minister insisted, however, that he and other world leaders were not being stubborn over demands that the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad, step down at the end of the peace process.

Mentor


Definition:

  • (n.) A wise and faithful counselor or monitor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The mentor's administrative or academic rank, rather than gender, was the chief determinant of sponsoring effectiveness.
  • (2) The chances of Sam Allardyce becoming the next England manager have been enhanced by his willingness to help the Football Association to mentor a young assistant who would be groomed as his successor.
  • (3) Activities include mentoring, help with employment and, increasingly, help with mental-health vulnerabilities.
  • (4) One of her heroes, one of her mentors was Saul Alinsky,” he said, referring to the radical community organiser whose book, Rules for Radicals, he claimed contains an acknowledgement of Lucifer.
  • (5) One of Prime’s founder members, Linklaters, provides tutoring, mentoring, work experience, and careers events to 2,500 young people in Hackney each year through its Realising Aspirations programme , according to a company spokesperson.
  • (6) Mentoring relationships experienced by Army Nurse Corps officers in head nurse or nursing supervisor roles were examined via a survey questionnaire.
  • (7) They are hungry for training, education, youth clubs, arts and sports opportunities, and mentoring advice.
  • (8) His business mentor was Andre Rousselet, a close friend of François Mitterrand, who appointed him to run the well-known French taxi firm Taxi G7 where he made his fortune.
  • (9) Here are our tips for breaking out of the rut: Find a mentor Is there a female leader in your organisation you admire?
  • (10) Graham has been a mentor to Zuckerberg since they met in 2005 and joined Facebook's board in 2009, but passed on the chance to buy into the company during its early funding rounds.
  • (11) Those chairmen who had mentors were more likely to have these characteristics: (1) to have completed a subspecialty fellowship, (2) to command a larger departmental budget (greater than $4 million), (3) to have been a board examiner before appointment, and (4) to have received support in obtaining their appointment from recognized leaders in the specialty.
  • (12) It was at sixth-form college in Luton that Saungweme signed up with Career Academies UK, a charity that helps young people find work experience and mentors.
  • (13) Finally, we try to recruit and mentor likely candidates for current or future vacancies.
  • (14) She attributes her own path to university and her Modern Heritage business partly to having a strong female role model in the shape of a business mentor.
  • (15) Nato's exit strategy in Afghanistan appeared to be in serious jeopardy on Tuesday, after it emerged that the US military command had set fresh limits on joint operations with Afghan troops in the wake of a rapid increase of "green-on-blue attacks" involving local soldiers turning their guns on their foreign mentors.
  • (16) Discussing the subject of youth unemployment, David Miliband said young people in work should mentor those out of work.
  • (17) Lendl and Mauresmo are former world No1s but he is an unsmiling martinet with a cutting line in sarcasm, she a mentor who chooses her words like a schoolteacher.
  • (18) The deposed leader was due to meet leftwing allies in Nicaragua today for an emergency summit likely to be dominated by Zelaya's mentor, the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez .
  • (19) Documents seen by the Guardian detail a schedule for the mayor to take the axe to funds currently directed towards mentoring, volunteering, supplementary schooling, healthy eating and services for young people excluded from schools.
  • (20) Over my career I have mentored and supported a range of different women.