What's the difference between phaeton and stanhope?
Phaeton
Definition:
(n.) A four-wheeled carriage (with or without a top), open, or having no side pieces, in front of the seat. It is drawn by one or two horses.
(n.) See Phaethon.
(n.) A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas, / Melitaea, Phaeton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; -- called also Baltimore.
Example Sentences:
(1) The next version of the luxury Phaeton saloon car will be electric and VW will develop a standardised electric toolkit to fit all passenger cars and light commercial vehicles.
(2) The next version of the Phaeton saloon car will be electric and VW will develop a standardised electric toolkit for all vehicles.
(3) Greece’s new leader, they cried, was like the mythological figure Phaeton who, when given the reins of the sun chariot for a day, lost control and, almost destroyed the earth.
(4) On the surface, the World Economic Forum remains an ostentatiously exclusive event in a drab Alpine town, where icy side roads lead to shuttered Edwardian villas and every hotel has blacked-out Volkswagen Phaetons parked outside.
(5) An examination of seven proteins, presumably encoded by seven structural gene loci, in three local populations of the supposedly sedentary and colonial butterfly, Euphydryas phaeton revealed that three (43 per cent) were polymorphic with three to five alleles each.
Stanhope
Definition:
(n.) A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived.
Example Sentences:
(1) The BBC will then work with the developers Stanhope on a three-year project to turn TV Centre into a new creative hub where the corporation will retain a studio presence alongside planned residential, office and leisure premises.
(2) The Stanhope chief executive, David Camp, said: "Stanhope is working in partnership with the BBC to deliver a publicly accessible mixed use remodelling of these iconic buildings and redevelopment of the adjoining land.
(3) It was left to Americans Michael Moore (at the Roundhouse in London in 2002) and Doug Stanhope to remind us that speaking truth to power can equal electrifying standup.
(4) "We've come to know each other ..." At school, Stanhope says he was too dark to be considered the class clown and, after a spell as a "fraud telemarketer" ("borderline legal stuff, trying to scam people basically"), he decided to give stand-up comedy a go at an open-mic in Las Vegas.
(5) One of the thrilling things about Stanhope's material is that, when it really works, it offers a refreshingly honest take on life, often exposing our own double standards.
(6) Sir Mark Stanhope, the head of the navy, told the committee that the aircraft carrier Ark Royal and its jumpjet Harriers would have been used to bomb Libya had they not been axed.
(7) Hanging on a wall in Doug Stanhope's Arizona home is a framed letter, written in 1979 by his school psychiatrist.
(8) Stanhope said if the death had been a traffic accident police would be open about it and would not cite the coroner’s involvement as an obstacle to discussing it.
(9) The chiefs of the three services are paid slightly different salaries: • Sir Mark Stanhope, chief of the naval staff, is paid between £185,000 and £189,999.
(10) Ann Cleeves, creator of the Vera Stanhope and Shetland novels, said she is concerned about a trend she believes has entered ever more morbid territory following the worldwide success of Stieg Larsson 's Millennium trilogy.
(11) Stanhope reiterated this and said the government had acknowledged more spending was necessary.
(12) I don't want to create things to be angry about, I'd sooner start doing happy shit' Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian After pulling out, Stanhope switched his allegiances to Ron Paul – "I look at it like I look at football teams, it's a bit of fun so I root for the underdog" – then switched again to Barack Obama once Paul was knocked out of the race.
(13) In a briefing at Admiralty House, Stanhope said: "How long can we go on as we are in Libya?
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest World-weary pilgrims make their way to the Greek river of forgetfulness in John Roddam Spencer Stanhope’s ‘The Waters of Lethe’ (1880).
(15) Stanhope denied this would involve a review of the cuts set out in last year's Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR).
(16) The park has two campsites , Stanhope and Cavendish, with pitches from £12 a night, and the historic Dalvay-by-the-Sea hotel , once an oil tycoon’s summer home, with 25 antiques-filled rooms and cottages from £120 room only.
(17) "You could close down chicken shops, but you're not going to take away the need," Stanhope says.
(18) Stanhope's remarks come amid growing concern within the Ministry of Defence (MoD) about the prolonged nature of the Libya effort and its cost.
(19) Stanhope also admitted that the navy was having to buy more Tomahawk cruise missiles from the US to replace the ones it had already fired.
(20) Based on all this, a certain sense of apprehension is perhaps the natural response to meeting Stanhope.