What's the difference between phoenix and sacred?

Phoenix


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Phenix.
  • (n.) A genus of palms including the date tree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Phoenix will next be seen in James Gray's Lowlife, a historical drama about immigrants in 1900s New York.
  • (2) Fines’ best actor nod fell in the comedy movie category, which he shared with Michael Keaton in Birdman, Bill Murray in St. Vincent, Joaquin Phoenix in Inherent Vice and Christoph Waltz in Big Eyes.
  • (3) They not only started the season with journeyman windmill dunk specialist Gerald Green on their roster – he was one of Phoenix's starters.
  • (4) The needles were from a commonly grown palm, Phoenix canariensis.
  • (5) SUNS 104, TIMBERWOLVES 95 In Phoenix, Grant Hill scored 15 of his season-best 20 points in the second half as Phoenix pulled away to beat weary Minnesota.
  • (6) Stanton had come, along with a senior representative of BP, to address the people of Phoenix, a small community on the east bank of the Mississippi.
  • (7) It was found that controlled studies are few in number and available only for correctional institutions, not for Daytop, Synanon, or Phoenix House.
  • (8) Phoenix is also said to be considering a role in Gus van Sant's next film, Sea of Trees , which would tally more closely with his recent career trajectory.
  • (9) He would like to have $10m a year to charter a new boat, a 45-knot Australian-built catamaran ferry named HSV-2 Swift, which is two and half times the size of the Phoenix.
  • (10) All jokes aside, we hope his music’s an art project along the lines of Joaquin Phoenix’s I’m Still Here, otherwise it’s just embarrassing.
  • (11) For example, Phoenix Community Housing, a housing association in Lewisham, south-east London, retains only a small proportion of the proceeds from each right-to-buy sale under current legislation.
  • (12) Her agent, Max Eisenbud, confirmed on Thursday that the former British No1 will play in two ITF $25,000 tournaments, in Surprise, near Phoenix, Arizona from 16 February, then Rancho Santa Fe, near San Diego, the following week.
  • (13) Cultural analyst Sherry Turkle warns we’re rapidly approaching a point where: “We may actually prefer the kinship of machines to relationships with real people and animals.” Certainly we have long had a fascination with these half-women, from The Bionic Woman in the 1970s to Her in 2013 , where Joaquin Phoenix fell in love with his computer’s operating system.
  • (14) A systematic evaluation comparing the hand-pumped device with a new, pneumatic external pressure device (Infusor-1, Medical Innovations, Inc., Phoenix, AZ) is presented.
  • (15) In the Boston, Buffalo, Dallas, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York, Newark, Phoenix, and Washington, DC, areas cocaine-related ER episodes decreased for at least the last two consecutive semiannual periods.
  • (16) Flagstaff in Arizona had 11 inches of snow early Sunday, while metro Phoenix and other parts of central Arizona were drenched with several inches of rain, causing the cancellation of sporting events and parades.
  • (17) Yes, because my mum was out with Phoenix, shopping, and I didn’t want to shock her.
  • (18) Observations at the urban site were compared with similar measurements at nearby non-urban sites and with the results of studies at two larger cities in the desert southwest, Phoenix and Tucson, AZ.
  • (19) The Australian Skills Quality Authority announced on Tuesday it had decided to cancel Phoenix’s registration as a provider of VET services, a move the ACN plans to challenge in the administrative appeals tribunal.
  • (20) Nobody does inner turmoil better than Phoenix, who's excelled at angst ever since his troubled teen in 1989's Parenthood, and he's exceptional in Her.

Sacred


Definition:

  • (a.) Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a sacred place; a sacred day; sacred service.
  • (a.) Relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular; religious; as, sacred history.
  • (a.) Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.
  • (a.) Hence, not to be profaned or violated; inviolable.
  • (a.) Consecrated; dedicated; devoted; -- with to.
  • (a.) Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As commander in chief, I believe that taking care of our veterans and their families is a sacred obligation.
  • (2) He sought only to help the Syrian people and I ask you for all that is sacred to help us and allow him to return home safely to those he loves and those who love him.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Cantlie in Syria in 2012.
  • (3) My Paul Nuttalls routine has floated back up the U-bend | Stewart Lee Read more Nuttall told Marr that “nothing should be a sacred cow in British politics.
  • (4) But among the football-faith community the legendary Anfield Road stadium is not considered a sacred site for nothing, and on this memorable night everyone felt what mighty magic can be summoned here.” Describing the match as “a classic in the illustrious history of these two clubs for years to come”, the commentator Daniel Theweleit also believed that the atmosphere at Anfield put Dortmund’s own famed fan culture into the shade: “Even those who have watched the club for centuries agreed that Dortmund has never achieved this kind of intensity.” Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung found satisfaction in seeing the German coach Jürgen Klopp exporting his magic touch across the Channel.
  • (5) 'If you meet, you drink …' Thus introduced to intoxicating liquors under auspices both secular and sacred, the offering of alms for oblivion I took to be the custom of the country in which I had been born.
  • (6) The Bernabéu blockade was dismantled, by necessity, in favour of an approach far closer the sacred Real tradition.
  • (7) Money should not shape the outcome; this sacred and ancient landscape is irreplaceable and unique for so many reasons, we cannot afford to get this wrong.
  • (8) Many in Khomeini’s inner circle opposed making peace, arguing that the “sacred defence” had to continue until Saddam’s rule collapsed.
  • (9) It is a sacred moment, and you feel blessed merely to have witnessed it.
  • (10) In short, Bamako remains uneasy, and the "sacred union" of the last few days can only be temporary.
  • (11) Cynics will tell you Camra’s membership know all about identity crises – once the rebels of the 1970s, they’re now mostly older dads and grandads – purists upholding Camra’s “cask only” creed as sacred.
  • (12) McLaughlin, the daughter of LaDonna Brave Bull Allard , a Standing Rock Sioux tribe member and founder of the Sacred Stone camp , is one of hundreds of women who have led the growing movement to stop the $3.7bn project threatening their land and culture .
  • (13) We concluded that the sacU gene does not affect sacB expression at the level of secretion but acts on a target within sacR.
  • (14) Faces of the North Dakota pipeline protest: 'Sacred land is who we are' Read more When I asked that question, I was thinking about what I heard from climate activist and environmental lawyer Carolyn Raffensperger, who had spent time at the camp earlier and has a long history in the area.
  • (15) Druids and New Age followers still claim the site as their sacred place.
  • (16) The performances come after the intended release on 24 September of the new LP, which is Sting's first album of original material since 2003's Sacred Love.
  • (17) But what is fundamental, sacred even, is the audience.
  • (18) The only thing she wouldn't do was We Shall Overcome, too sacred to perform on a whim she tells me when I meet her later, besides which - and here she giggles - "we probably won't overcome.
  • (19) Frustrated not over economics but “sacred rights”, they were willing to sacrifice “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor” against the world’s mightiest empire.
  • (20) It’s a great tragedy.” All Yazidi celebrations, such as weddings and the party-like annual pilgrimage to their sacred temple, Lalish, have been put on hold.