What's the difference between monarch and regent?

Monarch


Definition:

  • (n.) A sole or supreme ruler; a sovereign; the highest ruler; an emperor, king, queen, prince, or chief.
  • (n.) One superior to all others of the same kind; as, an oak is called the monarch of the forest.
  • (n.) A patron deity or presiding genius.
  • (n.) A very large red and black butterfly (Danais Plexippus); -- called also milkweed butterfly.
  • (a.) Superior to others; preeminent; supreme; ruling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
  • (2) Governor General Quentin Bryce, the monarch's representative in Australia and the first woman to fill the role, had greeted the Queen by curtsying.
  • (3) Its investments have included the airline Monarch, which has returned to profit after nearly collapsing a year ago, Morrisons convenience stores , and the now defunct Comet electrical goods chain.
  • (4) However the NCPO did prosecute 56 people for the crime of criticising the monarch, with one man sentenced to 60 years – which was later halved – for Facebook posts.
  • (5) Officials revealed that the monarch’s London residence needs a total overhaul to tackle a series of problems common to homes occupied by older people: the palace needs rewiring, new plumbing, asbestos removing, and redecoration inside and out.
  • (6) In June, Chen Feng, the founder of Hainan, appeared to confirm his interest in Monarch.
  • (7) Indeed, the word establishment is testament to its one-time importance: the term is likely to derive from the fact that the Church of England is the country's "established church", or state religion, with the monarch serving as its head.
  • (8) If implemented, the ESM will reverse the greatest 19th-century political achievement in Europe: the transfer of the power to determine taxation and expenditure from unaccountable monarchical governments to formally accountable parliaments.
  • (9) Under a convention dating back to 1728, the monarch must consent to any parliamentary bill affecting the crown.
  • (10) The appropriately named Monarch pub in Camden, north London, is jumping on the jubilee bandwagon by hosting a free "Monarchy in the UK" music night on bank holiday Monday and will be showing the football during the European championships.
  • (11) But only Victoria, the monarch, found much use for it and long before the second world war the Hoo line had become a little-used byway.
  • (12) Queen Victoria’s physician was a great proponent of the value of tincture of cannabis and the monarch is reputed to have used it to counteract the pain of menstrual periods and childbirth.
  • (13) To crush any residual affinity for the monarchy, British propaganda against Thibaw “went into high gear”, said Thant Mtint-U, painting the monarch as an ogre, despot and drunkard.
  • (14) If that means you have to build strong relationships sometimes with regimes that you don’t always agree with, that I think is part of the job and that’s the way I do it and that’s the best way I can explain it.” Government buildings flew the union flag at half mast for 12 hours on the day of the death of the king last month on the instructions of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which said it was acting in line with protocol for the death of a foreign monarch.
  • (15) During the 19th century, Iranians lost vast territories in disastrous wars and corrupt monarchs sold everything of value in the country to foreigners.
  • (16) The colonies of migrating monarch butterflies that spend the winter in a patch of fir forest in central Mexico were dramatically smaller this season than they have been since monitoring began 20 years ago, according to the annual census of the insects released this week.
  • (17) "We will share a monarch, we will share a currency and, under our proposals, we will share a social union, but we won't have diktats from Westminster for Scotland and we won't have Scottish MPs poking their nose into English business in the House of Commons," said Salmond.
  • (18) Grieve said it was crucial that, under the British constitution, the monarch was not seen to be biased towards any political party, or to become entangled in political controversies.
  • (19) Monarch would be turning around its planes at Sharm at a quieter period of the day, later on Friday afternoon.
  • (20) Since then, the crown estate has run the royal lands and paid all its revenue surpluses to the Treasury (a record £230m last year), although every new monarch has to decide whether to confirm this arrangement.

Regent


Definition:

  • (a.) Ruling; governing; regnant.
  • (a.) Exercising vicarious authority.
  • (a.) One who rules or reigns; a governor; a ruler.
  • (a.) Especially, one invested with vicarious authority; one who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign.
  • (a.) One of a governing board; a trustee or overseer; a superintendent; a curator; as, the regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
  • (a.) A resident master of arts of less than five years' standing, or a doctor of less than twwo. They were formerly privileged to lecture in the schools.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An ‘approved’ poster in the student center at Regent University.
  • (2) Her parents, Apiruj and Wanthanee Suwadee, were found guilty of violating Article 112 of Thailand’s criminal code which says anyone who “defames, insults or threatens the king, the queen, the heir-apparent or the regent” will be punished with up to 15 years in prison.
  • (3) They were banging on their shields and chasing these people up Regent Street.
  • (4) What the Qataris own in Britain • HSBC Tower, the bank’s global headquarters in Canary Wharf • The Shard on the south bank of the Thames (95%) • Harrods, bought in 2010 for a reported £1.5bn • The Olympic Village in east London • Numbers 1-3 Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park – this week denied planning permission to be turned into a £200m single home • A 50% stake in the Shell Centre on London’s South Bank • Half of One Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive apartment block • The former US embassy building in Grosvenor Square • The site of Chelsea Barracks in west London, being turned into a luxury housing estate • 20% slice of Camden market • Stakes in Barclays, Sainsbury’s, the London Stock Exchange and Heathrow • And coming soon: Canary Wharf, after the controlling group capitulated and recommended a £2.6bn bid to shareholders Julia Kollewe
  • (5) Similarly, on the south side of the nearby Regent's Canal stand huge blocks of modern private apartments; two-bed flats here have a £600,000 price tag .
  • (6) According to Vince McCartney of Holborn Studios, “there will be a corridor of steel and glass from King’s Cross to Limehouse” – a distance of about five miles along the Regent’s Canal – as waterside spaces are made into flats.
  • (7) People have felt part of this right throughout the season,” said Bodiat, 19, a student from Regent College who had come out with four other friends all wearing blue headscarves.
  • (8) I’m a tax exile.” The high-profile property developer – who with his brother, Nick, developed the superluxe One Hyde Park apartment complex for London’s oligarchs and is now converting a row of seven houses overlooking Regent’s Park into a single 4,600 sq metre London mansion – even named his twins Isabella Monaco Evanthia and Cayman Charles Wolf.
  • (9) Squatters inside the building, a former police station in Beak Street, off Regent Street, accused police of heavy-handed tactics after they were led out by officers who forced their way in after a tense standoff lasting more than three hours.
  • (10) Had something happened to his spouse, Prince Philip would have served as Regent until his son came of age.
  • (11) Serological survey of the other primates in the Regent's Park collection did not reveal the presence of the surface antigen in 2 gorillas, 11 orang-utans, and 2 gibbons, although surface antibody was present in the serum of 1 gorilla and 2 orang-utans.
  • (12) The Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park won best musical revival for Hello Dolly!
  • (13) Right now, there are properties for sale for tens of millions of pounds around London's Regent's Park.
  • (14) A typical sales pitch comes from Pendragon Management in London , with an office address in Regent Street.
  • (15) "As a leader, I have always followed the principles I first saw demonstrated by the regent at the 'great place'," Mandela recalled.
  • (16) It gets even worse when you are proud of the fact that you went to Pat Robertson’s God Hates Facts pay-and-print diploma mill Regents University, where you wrote , “Every level of government should statutorially and procedurally prefer married couples over cohabitators, homosexuals, and fornicators.” So it gets fantastically worse when you describe your marriage as on “hold” and live during the trial with your parish priest, Rev Wayne Ball of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, whose assignations Talking Points Memo delicately summarizes as thus : Ball, then pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Norfolk, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of frequenting a bawdy place.
  • (17) Cotton was a founder of the American College of Surgeons and served as Regent of the College as well as on the Committee on Fractures.
  • (18) At that time there were nine wolves still left on the island, and Isle Royale National Park Superintendent Phyllis Green said: “The decision is not to intervene as long as there is a breeding population.” Regent Honeyeater breeding program boosts population of endangered bird Read more In just one year, that “breeding population” is all but extinct.
  • (19) The New West End Company, which represents 600 retailers on Oxford Street, Bond Street and Regent Street, estimated about 1 million shoppers had visited their stores over the weekend – fewer than the 1.2 million customers they had expected based on last year's figures.
  • (20) But no – we just run down Piccadilly Circus and into Regent Street, then Oxford Street.