What's the difference between luminary and notable?

Luminary


Definition:

  • (n.) Any body that gives light, especially one of the heavenly bodies.
  • (n.) One who illustrates any subject, or enlightens mankind; as, Newton was a distinguished luminary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Later in the day, both presidents joined Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton at another Democratic luminary’s birthday party.
  • (2) Granta is rushing out 100,000 extra copies of Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries to capitalise on the first Booker prize win for the publishing house.
  • (3) Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute – employer of such luminaries as Iraq War stooge Judith Miller, invariably wrong William Kristol and racist hack Charles Murray – was willing to go even further than Marshall in placing the blame for women’s economic travails on alienation from “the family” and then further blaming women’s thoughts for turning women against where they belong.
  • (4) He has, after all, been such a boxing luminary for 17 years, as loud and bright as an atomic bomb, that only the purblind or the ignorant could have failed to notice the fire in his gloves, the wings on his heels.
  • (5) A no campaign that emphasised those shared experiences would have struck a deep chord: "This is a very loyal British country in its soul," the SNP luminary said to my astonishment – hastily stressing that Scots' attachment was to an emotional Britishness, not the British state.
  • (6) The consensus at the RSA conference, where luminaries from the security community are gathered, is that Washington will have a hard time convincing Silicon Valley engineers to invent a technical solution to resolve the standoff between Apple and the FBI .
  • (7) The Russian tycoon has said he wants to have an editorial board comprised of luminaries such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Lebedev's personal friend, and Tony Blair.
  • (8) The Webby awards, often described as "the Oscars of the internet", are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-member body of leading web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities.
  • (9) She does not make things easy for herself: she has organised her 800-page epic according to astrological principles, so that characters are not only associated with signs of the zodiac, or the sun and moon (the "luminaries" of the title), but interact with each other according to the predetermined movement of the heavens, while each of the novel's 12 parts decreases in length over the course of the book to mimic the moon waning through its lunar cycle.
  • (10) Australian film producer Jan Chapman has said she is “devastated” after her photo was mistakenly used in the Oscars’ In Memoriam montage, which celebrates film industry luminaries who have died in the past year.
  • (11) The artist turned film-maker, whose only feature film to date is the acclaimed 2009 John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy, reportedly beat out luminaries of the calibre of Joe Wright, Bennett Miller and Gus van Sant.
  • (12) Eleanor Catton's life swerved off its expected course almost exactly 12 hours before our meeting, the morning after her novel The Luminaries – a virtuoso work set amid the 1860s New Zealand gold rush – was named the winner of the 2013 Man Booker prize .
  • (13) Eleanor Catton is second favourite to win the Man Booker prize with her 823-page novel, The Luminaries, behind the favourite, Jim Crace.
  • (14) Criminals learning from NSA Intelligence agency hacking techniques will also be adopted by criminals, according to security luminaries speaking with The Guardian.
  • (15) But running for president can be tough, as political luminaries such as Hillary Clinton, Al Gore and George HW Bush have found.
  • (16) It's been suggested The Luminaries might be the Great New Zealand Novel, an idea that makes her uncomfortable.
  • (17) Cliff Richard was a supporter while other luminaries included Mary Whitehouse, Salvation Army leaders and senior clergy.
  • (18) It's been suggested recently that we've entered a new era of big books, with some highly praised novels, including The Luminaries and fellow Man Booker nominee The Kills , by Richard House , getting on for as much as 1,000 pages.
  • (19) She learned from the luminaries of the age: JB Priestley (whom she charges with taking an idea for a play from one she wrote), Bernard Shaw, Sybille Bedford, EM Forster, Elizabeth Bowen, Rebecca West, Ian Fleming, Cyril Connolly, Charlie Chaplin, Stephen Spender, Muriel Spark, who observed an argument at dinner "expressionlessly – like a bird witnessing a road accident".
  • (20) From these results we speculate that reserve cells located in the intercalated small ducts of Bartholin's gland may have the potential to differentiate into two cell types, myoepithelial and luminary cells, the former forming the pseudocysts.

Notable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being noted; noticeable; plan; evident.
  • (a.) Worthy of notice; remarkable; memorable; noted or distinguished; as, a notable event, person.
  • (a.) Well-known; notorious.
  • (n.) A person, or thing, of distinction.
  • (n.) One of a number of persons, before the revolution of 1789, chiefly of the higher orders, appointed by the king to constitute a representative body.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition to their involvement in thrombosis, activated platelets release growth factors, most notably a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) which may be the principal mediator of smooth muscle cell migration from the media into the intima and of smooth muscle cell proliferation in the intima as well as of vasoconstriction.
  • (2) Since it was established, it has stoked controversy about contemporary art, though in recent years it has been more notable for its lack of sensationalism.
  • (3) It is widely seen as a counter to China’s economic might in Asia, and the world’s second largest economy is notably absent from the list of signatories.
  • (4) Because of these different direct and indirect actions, a sudden cessation of sinus node activity or sudden AV block may result in the diseased heart in a prolonged and even fatal cardiac standstill, especially if the tolerance to ischemia of other organs (notably the brain) is decreased.
  • (5) Most notably, retroperitoneal lymph nodes in rabbits remained dark blue up to 28 days after hindlimb endolymphatic instillation of liposomal patent blue.
  • (6) And I want to do this in partnership with you.” In the Commons, there are signs the home secretary may manage to reduce a rebellion by backbench Tory MPs this afternoon on plans to opt back into a series of EU justice and home affairs measures, notably the European arrest warrant .
  • (7) The loss of enzyme activity in sulfur-rhodanese does not involve cysteinyl residues but can be correlated with the modification of guanidino groups, notably that of Arg-186, the side chain of which may play a role in substrate binding.
  • (8) Neurospora crassa mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid shows strict uniparental inheritance in sexual crosses, with a notable absence of mixtures and recombinant types that appear frequently in heteroplasmons.
  • (9) Notable amounts of free RI alpha eluted between the type I and II holoenzymes in all three tissues.
  • (10) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
  • (11) Notably, while the lead actors were all professionals, most of the cast members and musicians came from Providência itself.
  • (12) We now report on the Singapore Chinese experience, in which the following changes were notable: decreases in rates of cancers of the stomach and oesophagus and increases in rates of cancers of the lung, colon, rectum, skin (excluding melanoma), breast and ovary.
  • (13) The present article reports a study of how such lifestyle habits, notably alcohol and tobacco consumption, are addressed in medical consultations.
  • (14) Most notable was an average twofold increase in the relative amount of high mannose glycopeptides compared to complex glycopeptides for the leukemic cells.
  • (15) 1: Good news It's been a scarce commodity throughout the Osborne chancellorship, but he will have a decent amount of it to dish round the chamber – notably lower inflation and higher growth than was being forecast a short while ago.
  • (16) Diuretics may, however, be hazardous because of their effects on electrolytes-notably potassium-thereby increasing the risk of arrhythmias.
  • (17) The greater frequency of dysovulation in obese women, notably those who put on weight rapidly, is accompanied by numerous hormonal changes, including reduced sex hormone-binding globulin, increased ovarian and adrenal androgen production, increased peripheral aromatization of androgens to oestrogens, and altered gonadotropin pulsatile secretion.
  • (18) But like officials from most other countries represented here – with the notable exception of Britain – Chernishova acknowledges a "general consensus" in her country, in both the media and among the legal profession, on the value of the court's judgments.
  • (19) First, they bring about an increase in the concentrations of essential amino acids in the blood at the expense of the concentrations of certain non-essential amino acids, notably alanine and glutamine.
  • (20) 3) Aside from a high level of alkaline phosphatase, there were no notable abnormalities revealed in the biochemical blood tests.