What's the difference between loner and sociable?

Loner


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) George, a loner who was said to have stalked and photographed hundreds of women, always maintained his innocence.
  • (2) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
  • (3) Cho Seung-hui was revealed to be a troubled loner of South Korean descent who left behind a disturbing note of grievances against his university saying: "You caused me to do this."
  • (4) This study focuses on drug use, delinquency and lifestyle correlates of LONERS and SOCIALS.
  • (5) "If the great male detectives are archetypically loners, female detectives are doubly so.
  • (6) "One of the big problems with being a loner is that one does not get helpful reality checks from people who can challenge disordered thinking," Mr Depue wrote.
  • (7) He has a reputation for being something of a loner – often choosing to eat lunch alone in the canteen – and one former colleague described him as "a space cadet, he finds it difficult to emphathise with people not as bright or focused as him".
  • (8) He says that he's a loner, but constantly tells affectionate anecdotes about his mates.
  • (9) As the former Tory leader and arch-Eurosceptic Iain Duncan Smith described Douglas Carswell as a backbench loner, Redwood said the "so-called eight" had been plucked from the dining list of the Ukip donor Stuart Wheeler who used to support the Tories.
  • (10) Colin Stagg , a classic "loner", was wrongly accused of the murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common in 1992, not least because he seemed like such a likely customer.
  • (11) The portrait of addiction is often one of tragedy – young lives cut short, or loners cut off from family and friends.
  • (12) But detectives admit they still do not know how “true loner” Mair, who had no social network, got hold of it.
  • (13) Police described the shooter as a “loner” and, bizarrely, pointed out out that he had shown an appreciation of the rapper Professor Griff, a founding member of the hip hop group Public Enemy, and an outspoken proponent of Afrocentrism, on Facebook.
  • (14) The police can't protect us, the government can't protect us, there are no more charismatic loners to protect us and the euro is defunct.
  • (15) As a child she was a shy, melancholic loner riddled with very early-onset teenage angst.
  • (16) He is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey but who knew more hockey stats than anyone else; who became an economist while his two brothers became accountants because, as he said, he did not have the personality to be an accountant.
  • (17) Tim Cushing made one of my favorite points of [last] week in his Tuesday post " Former NSA boss calls Snowden's supporters internet shut-ins; equates transparency activists with al-Qaida ", when he explained that "some of the most ardent defenders of our nation's surveillance programs" – much like proponents of overreaching cyber-legislation, like Sopa – have a habit of "belittling" their opponents as a loose confederation of basement-dwelling loners.
  • (18) In the classic Hollywood movie, whether the hero is cop, cowboy, private eye, rebel or drifter, there comes a moment when this solitary, self-sufficient loner faces the bad guys all by himself.
  • (19) Loners with pistols, strange men creeping into the royal bedroom at two in the morning: such events can be put down to obsessive and deranged personalities.
  • (20) 's sample of drug abusers, were more likely to be categorized as "loners," "rebels," and "pessimists" than was the general population sample.

Sociable


Definition:

  • (n.) A gathering of people for social purposes; an informal party or reception; as, a church sociable.
  • (n.) A carriage having two double seats facing each other, and a box for the driver.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Its buildings, arranged around a sociable courtyard and a slice of towpath, also nourish a community of businesses that sustain between 250 and 300 jobs, all of which could go if the site’s new owner, Galliard Homes, has its way.
  • (2) The sociable friendly infants received higher scores on both cognitive tests than the less sociable babies did.
  • (3) Emotionality, activity, sociability and impulsivity (EASI) and components of each trait were studied in a sample of 137 pairs of young twins (two to six years of age) and their parents (548 individuals).
  • (4) But fear not - if you'd like to find companionship or love, sign up here to view profiles of the kind of erudite, sociable and friendly folk who would never normally dream of going out with you.
  • (5) But it was sociable, too – Roberto organised a barbecue (with steaks from his cattle-farmer friend) and a fish supper (with octopus stew from his fisherman friend).
  • (6) If you’re not sociable you don’t last long,” says Alex, “but if you can get along with people you make friends for life almost immediately, from all over the world.” She isn’t alone.
  • (7) Manifest in the preschool years, autism always affects sociability, communication, and the child's repertoire of activities and interests.
  • (8) The multiple motive hypothesis of physical attractiveness suggests that women are attracted to men whose appearances elicit their nurturant feelings, who appear to possess sexual maturity and dominance characteristics, who seem sociable, approacheable, and of high social status.
  • (9) Tests set up with isolated mice of two groups (aggressive and "fearful") evidenced that diazepam and medazepam weaken the behavioral manifestations of the partner's avoidance, increase sociability in "fearful" mice and help to regain the ability for elementary intraspecies contacts.
  • (10) The results have shown the improvement not only in movement possibilities of the patients, but also the improvement in majority of the psychological parameters (IQ, emotionality, sociability scale etc.
  • (11) I can understand why this blurring of boundaries has happened: TV is a very informal, sociable industry.
  • (12) She's sociable, she loves children - we've got four.
  • (13) Measures of the home environment were, however, correlated with measures of infant sociability (assessed inside and outside the test situation): sociable infants had sociable mothers.
  • (14) Their sociability is seen in their attraction to peers, their directing to peers of such distinctively social behaviors as vocalizations, smiles, and gestures, and the predominantly friendly nature of their behavior.
  • (15) Strong relationships were found between both measures of sociability and both measures of cognitive competence.
  • (16) Secure classification in the Strange Situation was associated with quality of secure-base behavior at home (i.e., higher Q-sort security scores) and with sociability, but not with dependency scores.
  • (17) Individual unfolding that depends on the sociable conditions is mainly discussed in two parts of interrogation: What form and idea of aged people does the society have?
  • (18) He's a very nice chap and very sociable, but I don't think at this stage he's of any use to the newspaper," he confesses.
  • (19) It also made them feel more alert, steady, sociable, and strong.
  • (20) ; millions of excess neurons = 8900, 8650, 8550; IQ = 107, 100, 85); maturational delay (age to walk alone, age of first intercourse, age of death); sexual restraint (ovulation rate, intercourse frequencies, sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS); quiescent temperament (aggressiveness, anxiety, sociability); and social organization (law abidingness, marital stability, mental health).