What's the difference between olympian and titan?

Olympian


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Olympic

Example Sentences:

  • (1) [In 2014 I saw two Oscars … one was this super-Olympian, very successful, who seemed totally in control and even physically tall with his prostheses.
  • (2) I also have a son who is a show-jumping pupil at an Olympian's academy and my youngest son, still at school, wants to be a tree surgeon.
  • (3) In one photograph displayed on TV monitors in the courtroom, spots of blood were seen next to some of the trophies won by the double-amputee Olympian and multiple Paralympic champion.
  • (4) Around 160 will take part including 30 Olympians and seven Olympic medallists.
  • (5) An intriguing merging between Olympian and local deities had occurred (the Romans being relaxed and pragmatic about that kind of thing, unless the Christians were involved).
  • (6) Some of the 52 Olympians, with dozens of medals between them and including 12 Sochi competitors, have also criticised the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and multinational sponsors for not doing more to force Vladimir Putin's administration to scale back the legislation.
  • (7) Nineteen Olympic golds (23 medals in total) confirm him as the most decorated Olympian of all time, which presumably now affords him a spot on Mount Rushmore.
  • (8) That "pocket of calm" is every Olympian's holy grail.
  • (9) My favourite Coe moment of the past fortnight was seeing the Olympian in Chief held in a queue behind the back of the stands before the start of the triathlon by a super-efficient volunteer on the "Olympic Family" gate.
  • (10) Now let’s see how the two-time Olympic gold medal winner compares to other Olympians.
  • (11) If an appeal court found him guilty of murder, the former Olympian could face at least 15 years in prison.
  • (12) Inspired by Jack London's 1903 book People of the Abyss about how imperial London treated its East End poor, Lindqvist reflects on the same subject a century on as the capital of imperial shame postures and struts Olympian.
  • (13) For most of Britain’s two-wheeled Olympians this has been a stressful week, with the resignation of British Cycling’s technical director, Shane Sutton , but unlike her colleague on the track squad, Armitstead will be barely affected.
  • (14) This is a culture where Holger Osieck, the manager of the Australian football team, can say "women should shut up in public "; where the former boxing world champion Amir Khan can warn female boxers, "When you get hit it can be very painful" ; and where the American network NBC can air a slow-motion montage of female athletes wobbling, like Olympians who have wandered, obliviously, into porn.
  • (15) Before these Olympics began, there were one or two articles and features about Pindar, how in Athens he earned his living singing odes to the great Olympians, so their names would live down the decades and centuries.
  • (16) February 15, 2013 9.44am GMT A police officer holds a gun that was allegedly used in the shooting of Reeva Steenkamp, the girlfriend of Olympian athlete Oscar Pistorius.
  • (17) ThreatConnect’s Toni Gidwani, formerly of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, told the Guardian that the breach came after the revelation of widespread cheating by Russian Olympians.
  • (18) Roux was trying to reinforce the Olympian's story that he shot the model by mistake on 14 February 2013 and then desperately broke through a locked toilet door to help her.
  • (19) The Hatfield Olympian had operated at the best available level domestically, but Lee, seasoned during a long spell in America under the late Manny Steward, had elite-level experience and a track record of resilience.
  • (20) It had obviously been a harrowing experience, one of Pachauri's senior associates told me, but he never lost his Olympian calm or his warm collegiality, turning out every weekend as usual -- at the age of 70 -- to play for TERI's redoubtable cricket team.

Titan


Definition:

  • (a.) Titanic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "With the full backing of British Gymnastics, the trainers who helped take Smith and Tweddle to Olympic glory are ready to turn the nation's pop stars, actors, newsreaders and chefs into heroes of the high bars and titans of the tumble track," it added.
  • (2) Titanic's trailer is two minutes 37 seconds of lifeboat-related stampeding intercut with women swishing about in big hats doing seasick Dowager Countess expressions.
  • (3) So what was shocking to me about Titanic was that the guy gave his life for the woman and not for his country – I just couldn’t understand that mindset.” “The other shocking thing about that movie was that it was set 100 years ago, and I realised that our country is in the 21 st century and we still haven’t reached that level of development,” she said.
  • (4) In 1982 BCCI was described as "on its way to becoming the financial equivalent of the SS Titanic!".
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Palmer was unaware the Coalition's Direct Action bill was before the Senate You are very naïve when it comes to politics, my girl Figuring out how Palmer envisages this could ever eventuate is one aim as we sit down the next morning for an interview in the resort’s “Titanic II room”, adjacent to the resort’s foyer, pool room and empty breakfast bar.
  • (6) ITV's Titanic, also written by Fellowes, was produced in Canada and Hungary.
  • (7) The Titans tour has had a difficult birth this summer.
  • (8) Where other titans became “Old Farts” overnight – “ No Elvis, Beatles or Rolling Stones in 1977” as the Clash had it – Bowie stayed revered.
  • (9) New type of drone called an ‘atmostat’ Titan Aerospace was founded in 2012, with research and development facilities in New Mexico, aiming to create a new type of drone called an “atmostat”, which could fulfil the role of a near-Earth satellite at a fraction of the cost and without needing to be launched into orbit.
  • (10) Malema is in a titanic struggle with Zuma, who once declared him a future president, and has been brought before the ANC's disciplinary committee on charges of bringing the party into disrepute.
  • (11) Jaguars 29-20 Titans Surely, but surely the Jacksonville Jaguars are going to get their first win of the year in Tennessee this afternoon.
  • (12) Titanic now comes in behind 1977's Star Wars, 1965's The Sound of Music, 1982's ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, and even the 1956 Charlton Heston biblical epic The Ten Commandments.
  • (13) 12.03pm BST Afternoon The Titanic was supposed to be an unsinkable ship, immune to the perils of the seas and so forth.
  • (14) A monodimensional electrophoretic method for the separation of glycosaminoglycans on Titan III Zip Zone cellulose acetate plate based on their different electrophoretic mobilities in barium acetate and different solubilities in ethanol was applied to the Chemetron electrophoretic equipment.
  • (15) In each patient one side of the dentition was treated with the Sonicflex and the other with the Titan-S sonic scalers.
  • (16) The stuff of those islands mostly ended up in Singapore, which needs titanic amounts to continue its programme of artificially adding territory by reclaiming land from the sea.
  • (17) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
  • (18) Mike Pratt, 38, Norfolk Cronus Titan 23 November 2016 4:23pm The UK economy has been swamped with low wages and I see it very difficult for this ever to be resolved without joe public yet again having to take a bullet for the rich.
  • (19) Modern ultrasonic transducers mainly employ lead zirconate titanate (PZT) but vinylidene fluoride trifluoroethylene copolymer (P (VDF-TrPE)) is becoming more competitive.
  • (20) Though he loves sport, he is now sworn off attending NFL matches at the MetLife stadium after attending a Jets v Titans game with his girlfriend and being “vilified from the parking lot to my seat for wearing a scarf”.