What's the difference between minister and notebook?

Minister


Definition:

  • (n.) A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
  • (n.) An officer of justice.
  • (n.) One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs.
  • (n.) A representative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business.
  • (n.) One who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church duly authorized or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments.
  • (n.) To furnish or apply; to afford; to supply; to administer.
  • (v. i.) To act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular.
  • (v. i.) To supply or to things needful; esp., to supply consolation or remedies.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
  • (2) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
  • (3) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
  • (4) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
  • (5) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
  • (6) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
  • (7) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
  • (8) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
  • (9) Eighty people, including the outspoken journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk from the Nation newspaper and the former education minister Chaturon Chaisaeng, who was publicly arrested on Tuesday, remain in detention.
  • (10) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
  • (11) The surge the prime minister talks about can only be achieved by coordinating assets across 43 forces.
  • (12) Among the guests invited to witness the flypast were six second world war RAF pilots, dubbed the “few” by the wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.
  • (13) Speaking to a handpicked audience of community representatives, the prime minister said he had not allowed the EU to get its way.
  • (14) The prime minister’s spokeswoman said: “We think this can be done in line with EU and international law and it is important it is introduced and set up in the right way.
  • (15) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
  • (16) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
  • (17) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
  • (18) The citizenship debate is tawdry, conflated and ultimately pointless | Richard Ackland Read more On Wednesday, the prime minister criticised lawyers for backing terrorists.
  • (19) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
  • (20) The prime minister insisted, however, that he and other world leaders were not being stubborn over demands that the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad, step down at the end of the peace process.

Notebook


Definition:

  • (n.) A book in which notes or memorandums are written.
  • (n.) A book in which notes of hand are registered.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Reality set in once you got home to your parents and the regular neighborhood kids, and your thoughts turned to new notebooks for the school year and whether you got prettier while you were away and whether your crushes were going to notice.
  • (2) Only Olly Robbins, the permanent secretary to the Department for Exiting the European Union , had a slim notebook (shut) and pen.
  • (3) He opened a small notebook as a demonstration of how the al-Qaida justice system had resolved 42 cases in a fortnight.
  • (4) He also unveiled a new ultra-thin notebook, the MacBook Air, but Apple is no longer best known for its computers.
  • (5) The first scratch of an HB pencil across the fresh page of a new notebook.
  • (6) What I like best is hearing that The Golden Notebook is on reading lists for political or history classes.
  • (7) As the contest meandered and the stadium went close to quiet there was a jocular moment when Pardew hopped in irritation at a United challenge and the manager dropped his ever-present notebook on the pitch.
  • (8) Featuring handwritten lyrics and prose drawn from his notebooks and scraps of paper he kept in ringbinders, the selection was put together with the help of journalist Jon Savage .
  • (9) There's a squeeze ball, with "Red Ed – the unions' squeeze" on it, some "guess who" cards (see 3.32pm and you'll get the general idea) and "Ed Miliband's detailed plan for reducing the deficit" (a blank notebook).
  • (10) In my handbag, there’s generally a book, a spare book, and a notebook.
  • (11) He had written the name "Ian" in the top left hand corner of some of the pages in his notebooks which contained that information.
  • (12) The disgraced former MSP has instructed his lawyers to pursue the NoW and the convicted private investigator Glenn Mulcaire for breach of privacy after details about his home address and mobile phone were found in two of Mulcaire's notebooks in a police raid four years ago.
  • (13) Here was a woman, "dismal, drab, embarrassing," sodden with "self-pity," who in the Golden Notebook had single-handedly set back the women's movement "a good long way".
  • (14) I loved her earlier writing about her life in Africa, which was relaxed and vivid, and which I recognised again when The Golden Notebook 's story took it to Africa, but when it moved to London the style became clumsier.
  • (15) Major works: The Grass is Singing, 1950; In Pursuit of the English,1960; The Golden Notebook, 1962; The Memoirs Of A Survivor, 1975; The Good Terrorist, 1985; Under my Skin, 1994.
  • (16) At King's College London, where Jarman was a student, immersive exhibition Pandemonium includes rarely seen Super-8 films and elaborate notebooks, while Tate Modern is screening his final film, Blue.
  • (17) I remember being so stunned by the figure I scribbled it at the top of my notebook, as a reminder to ask him about it.
  • (18) In my notebook, I map out the contours of his lecture in a series of headings.
  • (19) The market for PCs (desktops and fixed-keyboard notebooks) will be flat, at best, but Microsoft – and computer makers – have a lot staked on "convertibles" with detachable keyboards, and touchscreen laptops.
  • (20) He and Doris Lessing will be discussing The Golden Notebook on Wednesday January 17 at the Newsroom, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1 at 7pm.