What's the difference between loner and solitary?

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.

Solitary


Definition:

  • (a.) Living or being by one's self; having no companion present; being without associates; single; alone; lonely.
  • (a.) Performed, passed, or endured alone; as, a solitary journey; a solitary life.
  • (a.) ot much visited or frequented remote from society; retired; lonely; as, a solitary residence or place.
  • (a.) Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted; silent; still; hence, gloomy; dismal; as, the solitary desert.
  • (a.) Single; individual; sole; as, a solitary instance of vengeance; a solitary example.
  • (a.) Not associated with others of the same kind.
  • (n.) One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret; a hermit; a recluse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The masses were solitary and located in the retroperitoneum (five cases), mediastinum (one case), and axilla (one case).
  • (2) No HRP-labeled axons were found in the facial and solitary nuclei and the cerebellum.
  • (3) No substance P binding sites were present in the central region of the parvocellular subdivision or the solitary tract.
  • (4) In solitary ulcers the ratio male: female was 1.1:1, while it was 2.2:1 in the cases in which a duodenal ulcer had been demonstrated, earlier or simultaneously with the gastric ulcer.
  • (5) Three of these patients, who had a solitary stone could successfully be treated by ESWL as monotherapy.
  • (6) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.
  • (7) Twenty-six of 41 patients with solitary liver cysts, some of them with ventriculation, received surgical treatment.
  • (8) Solitary diverticula were seen in three patients and in the fourth case there were three diverticula.
  • (9) The radiological differential diagnosis includes neuroblastoma, leukaemic infiltration, lymphoma, histiocytosis X, solitary and multifocal osteosarcoma and other deposits.
  • (10) Thus the solitary experience seems to be more influenced by disturbed individual dynamics, but in other cases social factors seem to be crucial.
  • (11) The prison suicide rate, at 120 deaths per 100,000 people, is about 10 times higher than the rate in the general population.” The report calls for a recently revised incentives and earned privileges regime to be scrapped and for an undertaking that prisoners with mental health problems or at known risk of suicide should never be placed in solitary.
  • (12) During the autopsy of a 24 year old woman, who died of cardiorespiratory insufficiency a large solitary tumour was found extending into the right ventricle of the heart and obstructing the pulmonary valve subtotally.
  • (13) Eighteen patients received implants for recurrent malignant astrocytoma (Group II) and 3 for recurrent solitary cerebral metastasis from adenocarcinoma of the lung (Group III).
  • (14) For whites, in addition to health and solitary activities, interaction with family and sex were also found to be significant.
  • (15) The adaptive value of sound signal characteristics for transmission in the underground tunnel ecotope was tested using tunnels of the solitary territorial subterranean mole rats.
  • (16) These results suggest distinct operating mechanisms of fast and slow rhythms in the solitary complex in vitro.
  • (17) With one probable exception all of the tumours were solitary.
  • (18) Government officials drew the public’s ire after charging Manning with three counts of misconduct following the suicide attempt, including two which carried possible penalties of indefinite solitary confinement.
  • (19) Solitary abnormalities on bone scan or chest film serve as an excellent examples of this dilemma.
  • (20) Membrane potential trajectories of 68 bulbar respiratory neurones from the peri-solitary and peri-ambigual areas of the brain-stem were recorded in anaesthetized cats to explore the synaptic influences of post-inspiratory neurones upon the medullary inspiratory network.