What's the difference between orate and preach?

Orate


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Remarkably, few of the avid conference organizers, and few of their fiery orators, ever stop to think just what resource flow has actually been constricting.
  • (2) So it is little surprise that a campaign, led by orators as persuasive as Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, promising to address all these anxieties in one fell geostrategic swoop, should be gaining in popularity.
  • (3) In an active life he was doctor, dentist, orator, editor, publisher, Harvard medical student, explorer, dabbler in Central American politics, army officer, and Reconstruction office seeker.
  • (4) He may not be the greatest orator, sometimes stressing the wrong word in a sentence or stumbling over his Autocue, and he may not deliver media-managed soundbites with the ease that the PM does, but he is good with the public.
  • (5) He read Virgil , Ovid , Horace and Juvenal in the original, as well as Roman senatorial orations.
  • (6) There is a kind of assassination, a funeral oration and someone with blood on his hands.
  • (7) But he'd been doing a bit of holiday cover for daytime DJs, and he has a tendency to, as he puts it, "ramble on": he recently treated the nation to a nine-minute oration on the shortcomings of Madonna's gig at Hyde Park.
  • (8) The 1976 Cushing orator takes a critical look at federal medical programs today, and at the health desires and needs of the public.
  • (9) The 1978 Cushing Orator shows the role of rhetoric in the process by which various specialties change in response to sociological and legislative demands.
  • (10) CV Sir Michael Marmot Age 65 Lives London Education University of Sydney; University of Berkeley PhD Career 1971-85: epidemiologist, University of Berkeley; research professor of epidemiology and public health, University College London 1986-present: chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health set up by the World Health Organisation in 2005; led the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (Elsa) 2004: won the Balzan Prize for Epidemiology 2006: gave the Harveian Oration 2008: won the William B Graham Prize for Health Services Research 2010 (February): published the report, Fair Society, Healthy Lives, based on a review of health inequalities he conducted at the request of the British government 2010-2011: president of the British Medical Association Family married, three children Interests tennis, playing viola The Marmot Review NHS Confederation Conference The Black Report
  • (11) Read more The MEPs responded to his oration with a mixture of boos, groans, shouts and ironic applause.
  • (12) Le Pen makes headlines and is a good orator – smooth and tough at the same time.
  • (13) The 1977 Cushing Orator looks at the question of neurosurgical manpower and its relation to national health policies, proposed or abandoned.
  • (14) These results suggest that by forming heterodimers, more elab-orate control of transcription can be achieved by creating receptor combinations with differing activities.
  • (15) Scholes, meanwhile, has spent most of the past two decades captivating football fans with incisive passing, but rarely with his public utterances, which have almost always seemed to bore the orator as much as his listeners.
  • (16) "He's a good orator all right," said Des Pokrzywnicki, a Warburtons stalwart of 11 years.
  • (17) When Rubio’s campaign launched last April, he drew immediate comparisons to another young orator: Barack Obama.
  • (18) Among them were her husband Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, two of the most skilled orators American politics has ever known and, as the men Clinton seeks to succeed, predecessors with whom her own rhetorical gifts are often compared.
  • (19) A gifted orator, he uses hyperbole and alarmism to great effect, pandering to popular prejudices.
  • (20) King was winding up what would have been a well-received but, by his standards, fairly unremarkable oration.

Preach


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to deliver a sermon.
  • (v. i.) To give serious advice on morals or religion; to discourse in the manner of a preacher.
  • (v. t.) To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.
  • (v. t.) To inculcate in public discourse; to urge with earnestness by public teaching.
  • (v. t.) To deliver or pronounce; as, to preach a sermon.
  • (v. t.) To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.
  • (v. t.) To advise or recommend earnestly.
  • (v.) A religious discourse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some of these grime artists, if they’re telling you to vote, young people are going to listen.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest “Preach!” Speakers on the Grime 4 Corbyn panel debate.
  • (2) US Banker magazine, which ranked her the fifth most powerful female banker in the US, has quoted her as admitting to preaching a work-life balance but admitting: "I don't have much of one myself."
  • (3) Chief executive Lloyd Blankfein has been touring the world in recent weeks, preaching the virtues of restraint, self-discipline and responsibility.
  • (4) He has chosen to live in a modest Vatican hotel room instead of the grandeur of the apostolic palace; and he has dropped some of the papal pomp, while preaching the Roman Catholic church's need to identify with the world's poor.
  • (5) Governments, from the Sunni side the Saudi government, on the Shia side the Iranian government, have been putting fortunes of money into making sure that extremist mullahs are preaching in mosques around the world, and in building and developing schools in which a whole generation is being educated in extremism — and trying to prevent other forms of education.” • This article was amended on 13 January 2015 because an earlier version referred to “Oscar-winning filmmaker and author Sam Harris”.
  • (6) How could it happen in the world's largest democratic country and the land of Gandhi, who preached against all forms of violence?
  • (7) Hezza has given interviews to any passing newspaper today to preach his case, just as he did when he challenged Margaret Thatcher for the Tory leadership in November 1990.
  • (8) And those who preach or teach extremism, those who say we should not respect other Australians, those who seek to gnaw away at that social fabric, are not helping the Australian dream.
  • (9) HTB's services, the preaching, even the miracles, are all slick and informal and the atmosphere seems to most people genuinely friendly.
  • (10) Team Cameron will play the ball, not the man, and let voters decide for themselves | Toby Helm Read more Those who preached so often to their party about the necessity of winning general elections proved to be useless at winning a Labour one.
  • (11) He is right when he describes the poisonous narrative they preach and I welcome his comments that British Muslim communities have a powerful and important role to play in dealing with a situation that is becoming increasingly grave.
  • (12) Whereas the founding fathers of democratic South Africa preached non-racialism, Malema has caused uproar with his singing of the protest song Shoot the Boer‚ a reference to Afrikaner farmers.
  • (13) The gendered nature of posts – from pictures of me in underwear to comments about how fertility affects my decision-making – also shows we’ve still a long way to go to be a movement that practises the equality it preaches.
  • (14) The grace that Reverend Pinckney would preach about in his sermons.
  • (15) A network of activists linked to Osama bin Laden and other major figures in the new global jihad were active in France, preaching and recruiting.
  • (16) (Of course, she was also perfectly aware of the feminist content, what it said about the disgusted-attracted-contemptuous male gaze, but she preferred the art to ask the questions, discomfit, not preach.)
  • (17) They converted and started to insult us, saying we do not believe in the oneness of Allah because of our love for saints.” Every Pakistani knows these preaching, self-righteous conservatives ... but you never expect them to indulge in violence Nadeem Farooq Paracha Like so many others, the Malik family were helped along in their religious journey by the experience of living as guest workers in the oil-rich Arab world.
  • (18) Rather than talk of nationalisations, Podemos preaches public control and accountability.
  • (19) Rowan Williams was preaching in the Danish capital as crucial UN climate change talks entered their second and final week.
  • (20) But even monarchists should recognise that the Queen has survived some four decades of her son’s often eccentric preaching on numerous topics.