What's the difference between purveyance and shipment?

Purveyance


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management.
  • (n.) That which is provided; provisions; food.
  • (n.) A providing necessaries for the sovereign by buying them at an appraised value in preference to all others, and oven without the owner's consent. This was formerly a royal prerogative, but has long been abolished.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He listed (1) a self-agency, representing the recognition of one's volition and capacity to act; (2) a sense of self-coherence, representing a sentience of what remains constant within one's own purveyance; (3) a sense of self-affectivity, representing the recognition of feelings, that is, the subjective aspect of affective living; and (4) a sense of self-history, representing a registration of continuity and a recognition of what "goes on being."
  • (2) Many of his adherents simply dismiss the damaging stories about Trump as “fake news” purveyed by a biased liberal media.
  • (3) Breezeblocks is the sort of idiosyncratic indie we'd imagine bands we've never heard such as Swell Maps or Arab Strap would have purveyed, affirming that there are quixotic imaginations at work here.
  • (4) Beads of the material that is commercially purveyed as Debrisan were used as a postoperative dressing after dermabrasion in 24 patients.
  • (5) The popular narrative – purveyed by the outraged, defiant, nouveau-Peckham youth vote – resists change.
  • (6) With similar acuity, the security expert Bruce Schneier homes in on the patronising cant about automated surveillance that is being purveyed by both intelligence agencies and internet companies.
  • (7) More informative are the vans purveying luxury services to the residents.
  • (8) Ed Miliband , the Labour leader, took a huge personal gamble by declaring war on probably the most influential newspaper in Britain accusing it of appalling lies by claiming his deceased father Ralph had hated Britain and purveyed a poisonous creed designed to destroy British institutions.
  • (9) In recent years, and during the campaign, the Osborne team relentlessly purveyed their own facts.
  • (10) Of all golden-age fallacies, none is dafter than that there was a time when politicians purveyed unvarnished truth.

Shipment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.
  • (n.) That which is shipped.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Freezing may be valuable while quality control procedures are performed following radiolabeling as well as if temporary storage or shipment of radioantibodies prior to patient dosing is undertaken.
  • (2) Russia has stepped up its battle against parmesan cheese, Danish bacon and other European delicacies, announcing it plans to incinerate contraband shipments on the border as soon as they are discovered.
  • (3) The results suggest that shipment and long-term storage of freeze-dried foot-and-mouth disease virus antigens is possible for use in the ELISA in the absence of refrigeration.
  • (4) He sold the first Tesco product – Tesco Tea – five years later when he bought a tea shipment from a merchant called TE Stockwell and combined their initials on the packaging.
  • (5) It also emerged that Cameron confronted Putin over arms supplies and had been personally involved in plans to prevent a Russian-manned shipment of three repaired attack helicopters and air defence systems reaching Syria.
  • (6) The first trial heard that Fleckney, a drug dealer known as "the chairman of the board", passed Clark information about drug shipments.
  • (7) The importation of a shipment of high-Se wheat from Australia in 1984 raised Se concentrations in breads and other wheat products two to four fold.
  • (8) The number of shipments in which Newcastle disease was found to be present in the birds is reviewed.
  • (9) Also in August, terrorist attacks were intensified, including speedboat strafing attacks on a Cuban seaside hotel "where Soviet military technicians were known to congregate, killing a score of Russians and Cubans"; attacks on British and Cuban cargo ships; contaminating sugar shipments; and other atrocities and sabotage, mostly carried out by Cuban exile organizations permitted to operate freely in Florida.
  • (10) Heins was speaking less than a week after RIM unveiled quarterly results with an operating loss of $643m (£409m) and handset shipments which dipped to their lowest level since spring 2009, amid a smartphone market growing at 50% annually.
  • (11) Michelle Wiese Bockman, markets editor of Lloyd's List, the shipping news and data provider, said the shipment provided "a signal that Libya is open to international trade and shipping.
  • (12) Aid shipments into the devastated city of Aleppo have yet to be allowed to reach civilians.
  • (13) Government restrictions, instituted in 2006, forbid the export of raw teff grain, only allowing shipments of injera and other processed products.
  • (14) The Sharq al-Awsat newspaper quoted a US official as saying Sudan had been warned in advance about the shipment.
  • (15) Similarly, 15 MAI strains were isolated from the lymph node pools of 12 deer from the 2 imported shipments.
  • (16) The former saw iPhone shipments rise from 26.9m in Q3 2012 to 33.8m in Q3 2013, but its market share dropped from 15.6% to 13.4% in that time.
  • (17) Analysts call shipments to intermediaries "sell-in"; the total number that actually reaches customers is "sell-through".
  • (18) PC calves had significantly less shrink after shipment and in 1971 significantly more rapid daily gain during the first weeks of the feeding period.
  • (19) While phablet shipments are still a small proportion of overall global smartphone shipments, they are seeing a marked increase in sales according to IDC's data.
  • (20) Areas with relatively poor adherence rates included pharmacy department preparation of investigational drug patient-information sheets (20.5%), maintaining information within the pharmacy on minimum stock levels (53.9%), mode of shipment (30.8%), time to receive investigational drugs after order placed (38.5%), acceptance of nursing transcriptions of oral orders (56.8%), including "investigational drug" on the dispensing label (55.8%), and approval of data sheets by the investigator and the institutional review board (40.5% and 37.8%, respectively).