What's the difference between lighthouse and pharo?

Lighthouse


Definition:

  • (n.) A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On my last day, I drive to Cape Point and walk up to the lighthouse.
  • (2) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
  • (3) 1980 was his best year for opera: the Cologne company (whose music director, John Pritchard, became a staunch supporter) brought Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte and Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto, Glasgow provided Berg's Wozzeck and Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen, and the festival itself produced a distinguished world premiere in Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse.
  • (4) • Park website Cape Disappointment state park Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cape Disappointment lighthouse.
  • (5) First lit in 1817, the lighthouse opened to visitors for day tours and overnight stays earlier this year and has superb coastal walks and beaches nearby.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dameon at North End Lake Port Elizabeth harbour to Cape Recife lighthouse (15km) .
  • (7) The beach itself is a long and fine one, with South Atlantic breezes cooling the heels of groups of novice surfers in wetsuits and ladies being massaged in the thatched treatment hut close to the lighthouse.
  • (8) After lunch, take a walk up to the lighthouse to see superb views of the coastline from the cliffs.
  • (9) Someone once described the Lighthouse Family ’s output as soul music for people who don’t like soul music, and May’s Boris punchlines are comedy for people who don’t like comedy.
  • (10) Other popular Mackintosh designs in his home town of Glasgow include the Lighthouse, the Willow Tearooms and House for an Art Lover in Bellahouston Park.
  • (11) Bowie was like a like a lighthouse that guided those people and made them feel it was alright to be different, to try things out and dye your hair and wear strange clothes.
  • (12) Clifford Newbold, an architect who was involved in the design of Milbank Tower and Dungeness Lighthouse, had hoped to restore the palace to its Georgian splendour, but he died last year.
  • (13) From the lighthouse I can see the entire span of False Bay, surely one of the greatest marine environments on earth – and a place still waiting for recognition.
  • (14) Look out for a cast-iron lighthouse, 6,000-year-old burial chambers, and Worms Head island.
  • (15) This set includes six mini-figures including the pilot, rescuer, "stricken people", two water cannons, a submarine, dinghy and lighthouse.
  • (16) But Lottie is also a pirate queen, a lighthouse keeper and a geeky robot girl – all inspired by real women such as computer programmer Ada Lovelace and lighthouse keeper Grace Darling, neither of which had to wear a pink uniform.
  • (17) Dating from 1863, the lighthouse is still operational and open for visits (€3 and 146 steps to the top) but is, curiously, now in the middle of the pine forest.
  • (18) I have to bake my own bread, home-school my children … and, of course, prepare the lighthouse for the celebrations.” The 400th anniversary will be marked with a televised “parade of sails” around the island.
  • (19) Rainy-day attractions include the alternative slot machines and eccentric inventions on Southwold Pier and the working lighthouse , which offers guided tours (adults £3.50, children £2.50).
  • (20) The route becomes untamed towards Pine Lodge, perfect for a live music jam at Ziggy’s , and the gravelly trip out to the Cape Recife point and lighthouse is surely worth the journey.

Pharo


Definition:

  • (n.) A pharos; a lighthouse.
  • (n.) See Faro.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pharo also claimed that Wade had turned down the scoop about MPs’ expense claims because she had spent so much on a book by former glamour model Katie Price.
  • (2) In his early career, Pharo said, he was sued by paedophile Jimmy Savile.
  • (3) The Sun journalists – crime editor Mike Sullivan, former managing editor Graham Dudman, executive editor Fergus Shanahan and newsdesk executive Chris Pharo – are not expected to return to their News International jobs until the police investigation concludes.
  • (4) In his last couple of months as PM he was coming down here often Freya Pharo “It shouldn’t lose any of its magic,” Hackett said, addressing concerns that the pub’s atmosphere would change with its owners.
  • (5) He wasn’t here as prime minister, he was just here for a drink with his family.” Pharo was interrupted in the middle of her sentence by the phone ringing again.
  • (6) Pharo said MacKenzie had got Wallis to fire someone he didn’t like, but his boss fired someone else.
  • (7) Pharo spent the first hour and a half of his testimony painting the picture of the Sun under Brooks’ predecessor Kelvin MacKenzie.
  • (8) I simply don’t think we’re looking at anything like the full picture,” Pharo said.
  • (9) Pharo had replied to the email containing the edict, by saying this would “dramatically increase my workload”.
  • (10) Lauder Professor Emeritus of Public Health, Mary Elizabeth Tennant, Associate Professor Emeritus of Nursing (Public Health), A. Pharo Gagge, Emeritus Fellow, John B.
  • (11) Pharo said Wallis later “humiliated” him by making him the subject of the paper’s Dear Deidre agony aunt column.
  • (12) That‘s what grates you isn’t it, that the company’s shopped you?” Pharo replied: “No, what really grates me is that the company has provided a fraction of the evidence in this case and we fitted the bill.” Wright asked him how these missing emails could exculpate him, suggesting they were a “smoke screen” in his trial.
  • (13) With two charges dropped, Pharo now faces four charges of conspiring to commit misconduct in public office.
  • (14) Pharo said “what you might get is a protracted process of her stalling on the payments”, before clarifying to the judge that in two to 3% of cases there would be “no payment at all”.
  • (15) They never figured out why she ended up at Cadsden,” Pharo mused.
  • (16) In the witness box Pharo said he had no training on the payment of public officials in the Sun over a career that has spanned more than 20 years.
  • (17) There was really no way of auditing it properly and it had been set up by the company to facilitate getting stories,” Pharo told jurors.
  • (18) Pharo, who faced three charges, was accused of knowing about both sources and a third source, a Chelsea police officer who was said to have been leaking to another Sun journalist, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
  • (19) Pharo replied: “That’s not true.” Pharo said this was not so.
  • (20) Marks also told the jury to find Pharo not guilty of a further charge, count 6, which alleged a conspiracy to pay a serving soldier in the armed forces for a tip about Sandhurst between 12 and 30 April 2006.

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