What's the difference between portman and postman?
Portman
Definition:
(n.) An inhabitant or burgess of a port, esp. of one of the Cinque Ports.
Example Sentences:
(1) Incumbents facing competitive re-election battles in November, including Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Marco Rubio of Florida, Rob Portman of Ohio, John McCain of Arizona and Richard Burr of North Carolina, voted for that bill, which had the backing of the NRA.
(2) But it is difficult to replicate at scale and run in a way that’s accountable for public money.” Kids Company hit back at suggestions that it was poorly managed and its effectiveness could not be demonstrated, pointing to research by the London School of Economics, Cambridge University and the Tavistock and Portman NHS trust which recognised the impact of its work.
(3) His body was found on the pavement of Portman Avenue, in East Sheen, an affluent west London suburb, shortly before 7.45am on 9 September last year, just after flight BA76 from Luanda, the Angolan capital, passed overhead.
(4) However, Henry Ashworth, chief executive of the industry-funded Portman Group, denied drink ads are irresponsible.
(5) And while some of the 12-member panel still shudder at the memory , four of them – Paul Ryan, Patty Murray, James Clyburn and Rob Portman – got the band back together, with 25 other lawmakers from both parties and both houses.
(6) The Human Rights Campaign, which lobbies for gay rights, welcomed Portman's conversion, saying he "made the basic and courageous choice to put parenting before politics."
(7) The Portman Group's chief executive, Henry Ashworth, said: "We now need to improve our understanding of why this positive culture change is taking place, and what is fuelling the misunderstanding of parents.
(8) Hotel Chevalier is about a young couple, played by Portman and Schwartzman, reuniting for a (possibly final) tryst.
(10) So, in Closer, 2004's sexually charged chamber piece in which four beautiful people (Portman, Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Clive Owen) fall in and out of love and lust, she asked Nichols, the director, to remove scenes in which her character - a pink-haired stripper - gets her kit off.
(11) He asks Natalie Portman for her phone number, suggests that Jon Hamm might consider changing his name to Jon Sausage, and pretends to be his own twin brother while wondering if Sean Penn has a sibling named Ballpoint.
(12) And when you see Portman naked and leaning in profile on a dresser, she's posed deliberately, artfully, bony elbows protecting her modesty.
(13) Oddly enough, Thor (in which Chris Hemsworth plays the Nordic god, come to save us all from Christopher Ecclestone) does pass, since it features a scene in which Natalie Portman and Kat Dennings discuss nuclear physics.
(14) But suffering from crises of confidence - surely that's not Portman?
(15) But dress sense isn't the thing that preoccupies most people when they think of Portman.
(16) Portman said he and his wife had a rethink two years ago after Will, at the time in his first year at Yale, informed them he was gay.
(17) Senator Rob Portman pointed the way by evolving on gay marriage last week .
(18) And in the end, fake-free Natalie Portman, who always wants to be true to the art - nudity if required, porn sites be damned - found a film she could relate to.
(19) Unlike the Portman merger, where Portman branches shut down overnight or converted to Nationwide branding, both the Derbyshire and Cheshire will retain their names and branch networks - Nationwide says this will continue indefinitely as there are no plans to integrate the two smaller organisations.
(20) Some of Harvard’s most prominent graduates – from Hollywood star Natalie Portman to environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr and the scholar Cornel West – called on the world’s richest university to dump fossil- fuel companies from its $36bn endowment.
Postman
Definition:
(n.) A post or courier; a letter carrier.
(n.) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions; -- so called from the place where he sits. The other of the two is called the tubman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cultural critic Neil Postman once observed that you can't use smoke signals for philosophical discussions: the communication channel simply doesn't have the necessary bandwidth.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The shiny new Postman Pat and his helicopter.
(3) Together with his late wife Janet, he wrote 37 titles including perennial favourites The Jolly Postman and Burglar Bill, and by himself he is the author of many more, including The Pencil, and Woof!
(4) "The Postman Always Rings Twice was my starting point," explained Packham.
(5) They were widely derided for being the "Postman Pats" of international terrorism, but the Welsh nationalists' prolific firebombing campaign of holiday cottages begun at the end of the 1970s caused havoc in the rural idyll of the Lleyn peninsula.
(6) The man who has been in charge of the FTSE 100 company since 2005 said his business hero was Margaret Thatcher and that his first job was as a Christmas postman in Essex at the age of 16.
(7) But not in a world where only the postman rings twice.
(8) The Detroit native and longtime postman looks down at the freshly cut grass of old Tiger Stadium for a moment, adding, “If [owners] don’t get their way, they threaten to leave.
(9) Arthur Stone, a 53-year-old postman from Burton upon Trent, is believed to be the first person in Britain to have been rescued by a housing association from having his home repossessed.
(10) Dr Panda’s Postman (£1.79) Another appearance for that moonlighting doctor, this time in Dr Panda’s Postman (or Mailman, as it’s known in the US).
(11) The few passers-by - I have seen no one except the postman for the past two days - stop to tell me that I live in "un petit coin de paradis" - a little bit of heaven.
(12) The assistant gives it to a messenger, who gives it to the postman.
(13) He says it was only a few years ago, when combining postman duties with playing for St Ives Town, that he expected his career to veer in a different direction.
(14) Family members, friends, colleagues, strangers, the postman – they all want to know when I will stop taking the pill and are unable to accept my answer.
(15) By the time the local postman rides, stunned, into frame on his bike, Robbie Ryan already has the shot.
(16) Three members of a farming family and their local postman contracted orf.
(17) Seventy years after the event, one of them would still cry at the memory of the postman bringing the death notice in a brown War Office envelope to her home in Edinburgh.
(18) But the day after Norris's funeral the Detroit Free Press carried just one story from Lansing - about a postman who has been on the same beat for 50 years.
(19) Her hair is left uncovered, except when the postman rings and she goes down to collect a parcel.
(20) Ron Goff, 67, a retired postman and perhaps the only other white resident of Vickie Place, had little sympathy for black motorists who cried racism when stopped and fined.