What's the difference between local and vicar?

Local


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local custom.
  • (n.) A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district.
  • (n.) On newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
  • (2) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
  • (3) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
  • (4) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
  • (5) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
  • (6) This scintigraphic localization of osteomyelitis seldom has been reported.
  • (7) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
  • (8) This computer is connected to a fileserver via a local area network and is used exclusively for data acquisition.
  • (9) In addition autoradiography was performed to localize labelled cells in the inner ear.
  • (10) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
  • (11) Community owned and run local businesses are becoming increasingly common.
  • (12) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
  • (13) This study was designed to investigate the localization and cyclic regulation of the mRNA for these two IGFBPs in the porcine ovary, RNA was extracted from whole ovaries morphologically classified as immature, preovulatory, and luteal.
  • (14) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
  • (15) Angiopathic and traumatic influences conditioned by metabolism, apart from local peculiarities are taken into consideration.
  • (16) Immunofluorescence analysis of Pr-28 antigen showed that the antigen was localized mainly in perinuclear cytoplasm.
  • (17) The authors report 4 new cases of heterotopic pancreas in children with prepyloric, jejunal, Meckel's diverticulum and mesenteric localization.
  • (18) The Nazi extermination of Jews in Lithuania (aided enthusiastically by local Lithuanians) was virtually total.
  • (19) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
  • (20) The amino-terminal region of a 70 kDa mitochondrial outer membrane protein of yeast and the presequence of cytochrome c1, an inner membrane protein exposed to the intermembrane space, are thought to be responsible for localizing the proteins in their final destinations after synthesis in the cytosol.

Vicar


Definition:

  • (n.) One deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another; a substitute in office; a deputy.
  • (n.) The incumbent of an appropriated benefice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The statutory age of retirement for clergy is 70, although vicars’ terms can be extended by his or her bishop.
  • (2) Rev Andrew Foreshew-Cain, vicar of St James church in West Hampstead, London, who last month became the second Church of England priest to marry his same sex partner , said on Twitter that the treatment of Pemberton was "further evidence of the profound homophobia at the heart of the church" .
  • (3) An alliance of Church of England parishes meeting this week for the first time could be the first step towards a split, the vicar leading the talks has suggested.
  • (4) "Well, it was quite an education for me, whose grandparents on both sides had been vicars."
  • (5) While Auden and Britten are much grander characters than, say, Maggie Smith's nervy vicar's wife in Bed Among the Lentils or Thora Hird's Doris in A Cream Cracker Under the Settee trying to stave off the care home, they share the same disappointments – loneliness, self-doubt, age.
  • (6) The curveball came when he shared vocal duties on Live Forever with Martin, whom he has variously compared unfavourably with a vicar, a geography teacher and a presenter of the children’s TV show The Tweenies.
  • (7) And yet the vicar of HTB, Nicky Gumbel , is almost certainly a more influential figure in England than Welby, his notional boss.
  • (8) The unresolved problem, as King complained a year ago at Mansion House, was that the Bank had become like a vicar whose congregation attends weddings and burials but ignores the sermons in between.
  • (9) My husband went to see the local vicar, who lives in a modest vicarage beside the old one, and met there other neighbours from nearby streets.
  • (10) One encounters these inner-city vicars who don't seem to mind what you believe – some will even say that the resurrection is but a metaphor – but don't be fooled.
  • (11) Journalists remind us that the prime minister is a vicar’s daughter.
  • (12) A vicar of Waresley used to visit this wood every week for divine inspiration, walking the paths, writing sermons in his head.
  • (13) It may not be the funniest TV show ever created, but it is substantially funnier than My Hero, The Kevin Bishop Show, My Family, The High Life, Waiting For God, Keeping Up Appearances, The Thin Blue Line, 3 Non Blondes, Touch Me I'm Karen Taylor, Plus One, Grownups, Little Miss Jocelyn, Early Doors, The Sketch Show, Outnumbered, The In-Betweeners, Katy Brand's Big Ass Show, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Hyperdrive, The Vicar Of Dibley, Ideal, Benidorm, and Still Game, and nobody bangs on about how bad they are.
  • (14) They came from all walks of life – we had shop workers, property developers, a single mother, even a vicar, which I did think was strange.
  • (15) A vicar once explained to me that the reason the congregation stands for much of the music at Evensong is that, "It's not a concert."
  • (16) P Hunt, who went to Vicars Hill school in Boldre, may not realise it, but his 'HISTRY' exercise book is now in the British Library.
  • (17) Welby, an Eton-educated former oil industry executive who joined the church as a vicar in Warwickshire, will be enthroned at Canterbury cathedral in front of 2,000 guests, including Prince Charles and the prime minister, David Cameron.
  • (18) When you finish eighth in a byelection on 451 votes, behind a local vicar and self-styled "White Knight", where are you?
  • (19) May, the provincial vicar’s daughter, has done her time tramping the streets, stuffing envelopes, working the local Conservative association circuit.
  • (20) In his memoir , Brown’s former aide Damian McBride candidly describes the thrill of having the ear of one of the most powerful men in the land – though he confesses the prime minister would “stare at [him] sullenly for a moment or two, then say: ‘Get me Ed Balls.’” I certainly met plenty of chiefs of staff and spin doctors who jealously guarded their privileged access to a particular politician and their status as that MP’s “vicar on Earth”.