What's the difference between maidenhead and town?

Maidenhead


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being a maiden; maidenhood; virginity.
  • (n.) The state of being unused or uncontaminated; freshness; purity.
  • (n.) The hymen, or virginal membrane.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Official papers released at the Public Records Office in Kew last year explained how Mr Simpson covered for his wife's adultery and took responsibility for the failure of the marriage by arranging to be found with a woman in a bedroom of a hotel in Maidenhead.
  • (2) Mrs Turney, who lives near Maidenhead, Berkshire, downloaded a model complaint letter from a website after watching a TV documentary about bank charges.
  • (3) "It wasn't as successful as we hoped," he said at the headquarters of Intuit, a financial software and services firm, in Maidenhead.
  • (4) It would be nice to see my old mate Michael Parkinson there but he doesn't come to games any more - he lives down near Maidenhead and supports Reading these days.
  • (5) The events surrounding his doomed bid were the subject of the BBC documentary called Campaign Confessions: Losing My Maidenhead.
  • (6) OS Map: Explorer OL6 – Lake District: south-western area Henley-on-Thames to Maidenhead Chilterns Cliveden estate along the Thames Path national trail, Buckinghamshire.
  • (7) The 24-year-old, from Maidenhead in Berkshire, who has cerebral palsy, also secured a British Paralympic record 11 medals in one Games for the equestrian team.
  • (8) Pumping hope into the economy is now considered worth alienating every Conservative council and MP whose voters live under the flightpath of planes using the new runway, including Mrs May’s own Maidenhead constituents.
  • (9) But hey, I grew up in maidenhead, so what do I know?
  • (10) In Windsor and Maidenhead, the attainment gap between white British pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) is around 12 percentage points, whereas in nearby West Berkshire it’s 33 percentage points.
  • (11) She also voiced concern about how local groups would cope with extra demands, saying grants to the voluntary sector had been frozen for the last five years in Windsor and Maidenhead and an expected "performance reward grant" of £100,000 for increasing volunteer numbers was likely to be halved or removed completely.
  • (12) "This year's formula grant – the main general grant from government to local authorities – was on average £300 per head more in the north-east than the south-east with Newcastle receiving £653 per head, compared for example to £150 per head in Windsor and Maidenhead.
  • (13) In Windsor and Maidenhead the Conservative council leader, David Burbage, was more forthcoming.
  • (14) Grammar schools attract considerable support from Maidenhead families.
  • (15) The carbonised reek of the weekend barbecue was unknown, except in the riverside gin palaces of Maidenhead and Bray.
  • (16) Let’s be clear, the 0.7% commitment remains and will remain,” she said during a factory visit in her Maidenhead constituency.
  • (17) AbbVie operates in Britain out of Maidenhead, Berkshire.
  • (18) Dr Jonathan Romain, of Maidenhead synagogue, said: "I am totally sympathetic to the black depression that overtakes those who commit suicide, and certainly want to prevent any future ones, but Clarkson has done everyone a favour by saying out aloud that, while people have the right to end their lives, they should not do so in a way that scars others.
  • (19) Billy bookcases and the ​definitive meatball – inside the new Ikea museum Read more Rory Firth, 40, from Maidenhead, said: “It was just bedlam.
  • (20) Staff who have worked on the preparatory stages have described it as an "unbelievable" engineering challenge, which stretches from Maidenhead on the western fringes of London through the centre of the capital to Canary Wharf in the Docklands and Shenfield in Essex.

Town


Definition:

  • (adv. & prep.) Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.
  • (adv. & prep.) Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.
  • (adv. & prep.) Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities.
  • (adv. & prep.) The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.
  • (adv. & prep.) A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country.
  • (adv. & prep.) The court end of London;-- commonly with the.
  • (adv. & prep.) The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country.
  • (adv. & prep.) A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
  • (2) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (3) A more substantial decrease was found in Aberdeen and the larger towns near to Aberdeen than in the smaller towns further from the city.
  • (4) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.
  • (5) Nearly four months into the conflict, rebels control large parts of eastern Libya , the coastal city of Misrata, and a string of towns in the western mountains, near the border with Tunisia.
  • (6) The case was tried in a town called St Francisville, the closest courthouse to Angola.
  • (7) The autopsy findings in 41 patients with University of Cape Town aortic valve prostheses were studied.
  • (8) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
  • (9) He said: "This is a wonderful town but Tesco will suck the life out of the greengrocers, butchers, off-licence, and then it is only a matter of time for us too.
  • (10) Conservative commentators responded with fury to what they believed was inappropriate meddling at a crucial moment in the town hall debate.
  • (11) The article reflects the experience in the work of the manual therapy consulting-room at the Smela town hospital named after N. A. Semashko in Chernigov Province from November 1985 to December 1987 inclusive.
  • (12) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
  • (13) But no one was sure, and in this information vacuum the virus reached nearby towns and crossed borders.
  • (14) But last year Rosi Santoni, one of the relatives who helped look after her, said she had plenty of family to care for her and had many friends in the town.
  • (15) He wound up repossessing the cars of workers who fled town after the bust.
  • (16) It was shown that: although the oral hygiene level was very low and no dental treatments were performed, caries level was very low--although gingivitis rate was high, advanced periodontitis rate was low--the frequency of interincisive diastema (one subject out of 4 in the 15-19 age group), the progressive decline of tooth cutting, a traditional practice, in town people but the large extent of cola use (one adult out of two).
  • (17) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
  • (18) Referee: Peter Bankes (Merseyside) This gnome, who lives in the shrubbery of Guardian gardening expert Jane Perrone, will be rooting for Luton Town this afternoon.
  • (19) Barbacoas is a small port town in south-west Colombia, which linked the southern regions of the country in the 19th and 20th century.
  • (20) In 2013, the town’s municipal court generated $221,164 (or $387 for each of its residents), with much of the fees coming from ticketing non-residents.

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