What's the difference between pleasance and pleasure?

Pleasance


Definition:

  • (n.) Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness.
  • (n.) A secluded part of a garden.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Long Word... Long Word... Blah Blah Blah... I’m So Clever is at the Pleasance Courtyard, to 30 August JOE LYCETT Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Lycett.
  • (2) Alex Horne: Monsieur Butterfly is at the Pleasance Courtyard, 15-29 August JOSEPH MORPURGO Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joseph Morpurgo.
  • (3) At the Pleasance Courtyard, Have I Got News for You regular Reginald D Hunter will perform a show called Work in Progress …and Niggas , for which tickets cost £13.
  • (4) His debut show Spontaneous Comedian is at the Pleasance.
  • (5) James Acaster: Kettering confidential Read more The Story Beast Pleasance Courtyard, to 31 Aug He’s really loud and tells stories in a made up language and fills the stage with this big, bold, hugely expressive performance.
  • (6) The director of the Pleasance, one of the fringe's "big four" venues, said producers would need support finding and paying for foreign staff.
  • (7) • Nish Kumar is at the Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, 6-28 August Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nish Kumar: What can a satirist do with our post-truth politics?
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Katy Brand Pleasance Courtyard , 6-29 August “Not something I do a lot any more,” is how Katy Brand described live comedy when interviewed by the Guardian two years ago.
  • (9) Played out in the Pleasance Courtyard amid the unsuspecting crowd, the audience have access to what the actors are saying via wireless headphones while real life continues all around.
  • (10) • Susan Calman is at the Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, 5-28 August Jo Enright Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘What a cheek’ … Jo Enright in 1992.
  • (11) Phil Wang: Philth is at Pleasance Courtyard, to 30 August
  • (12) • Adam Riches is at the Pleasance Dome until 24 August.
  • (13) Her latest show Get Up Stand Up is at the Pleasance.
  • (14) • Al Lubel is at the Pleasance Courtyard , Edinburgh, until 24 August.
  • (15) Anthony Alderson , director of the Pleasance theatre, said on Sunday that the clash with the 2012 games had posed a "real challenge" to next year's festivals because they would soak up all the best lighting, sound and staging technicians in the UK.
  • (16) It was on late in the Pleasance Attic and drunk people would show up and think it was comedy.
  • (17) Pleasance Courtyard, to 31 Aug One of the fringe’s best kept secrets, I do not believe she’s ever written a bad show so that makes her a pretty safe bet I’d say.
  • (18) A primary school teacher by day, his debut show, Spontaneous Comedian (Pleasance) , is a lovely ragbag of absurd juxtapositions and left-field observations.
  • (19) Twins: ­ Pret A Comedy Pleasance Courtyard, to 30 Aug Jack Barry and Annie McGrath doing laid-back sketches and telling everyone they’re twins.
  • (20) • Tim Key is at the Pleasance Courtyard until 25 August.

Pleasure


Definition:

  • (n.) The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or the enjoyment of something good, delightful, or satisfying; -- opposed to pain, sorrow, etc.
  • (n.) Amusement; sport; diversion; self-indulgence; frivolous or dissipating enjoyment; hence, sensual gratification; -- opposed to labor, service, duty, self-denial, etc.
  • (n.) What the will dictates or prefers as gratifying or satisfying; hence, will; choice; wish; purpose.
  • (n.) That which pleases; a favor; a gratification.
  • (v. t.) To give or afford pleasure to; to please; to gratify.
  • (v. i.) To take pleasure; to seek pursue pleasure; as, to go pleasuring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
  • (2) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
  • (3) Walking for pleasure was generally the most common physical activity for both sexes throughout the year.
  • (4) I like to think of Shakespeare as one delicious smorgasbord that I have a lifelong pleasure in eating.
  • (5) Saudi Arabia As one might imagine, Saudi television rather wants for the bounty we enjoy here - reality shows in which footballers' mistresses administer handjobs to barnyard animals, and all those other things which make living in the godless west such a pleasure.
  • (6) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
  • (7) Data from human and animal studies indicate a correlation between ictal pleasure or reinforcement and the subject's ability to induce seizures.
  • (8) I have had the awe-inducing pleasure of standing alone among the giant trees, both sequoias and redwoods, and hearing nothing but the chatter of the squirrels and the high wind in the tallest branches.
  • (9) Nondrinkers reported a greater likelihood of both positive and negative effects; heavier drinkers reported more pleasurable effects.
  • (10) A survey last year found that almost 4 million British adults never read books for pleasure , and as in Pellerin’s case, a lack of time was the dominant factor.
  • (11) We like to enjoy ourselves, if you enjoy the way you play you’ll win a lot of games.” It is a long time, and several managers, since Sunderland fans have derived any sustained pleasure from observing their team in action and sure enough, watching Allardyce’s charges was once again, a somewhat gruelling experience.
  • (12) (Like humans, they have sex for pleasure as well as for procreation.)
  • (13) But a big part of the High Line's success is its planting and landscaping, which is intelligent, imaginative and well considered, in the way it converts industrial relics into a place of urban pleasure.
  • (14) There is an enjoyment that comes with owning it, a pleasure, but also he is an astute businessman.
  • (15) He confessed to over-indulgence in this pleasure at some stages of his life, and to the recreational use of drugs.
  • (16) The opposite of a guilty pleasure: a guilty torture.
  • (17) We would have been denied the pleasure of seeing the official Tongan team anorak, for a start, and it was a bit special, wasn’t it?
  • (18) "It gives them a sense of pleasure when they believe that they've destroyed me or taken me down.
  • (19) No changes in plasma beta-endorphin or ACTH concentrations were observed with pentagastrin nor after the meal, despite the combination of very high sensory pleasure with intake of a very large amount of food.
  • (20) It was the book that turned me on to the intoxicating pleasure of theatre criticism and – well-thumbed and much borrowed from – it has stayed with me ever since.

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