What's the difference between royalty and sire?

Royalty


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being royal; the condition or quality of a royal person; kingship; kingly office; sovereignty.
  • (n.) The person of a king or sovereign; majesty; as, in the presence of royalty.
  • (n.) An emblem of royalty; -- usually in the plural, meaning regalia.
  • (n.) Kingliness; spirit of regal authority.
  • (n.) Domain; province; sphere.
  • (n.) That which is due to a sovereign, as a seigniorage on gold and silver coined at the mint, metals taken from mines, etc.; the tax exacted in lieu of such share; imperiality.
  • (n.) A share of the product or profit (as of a mine, forest, etc.), reserved by the owner for permitting another to use the property.
  • (n.) Hence (Com.), a duty paid by a manufacturer to the owner of a patent or a copyright at a certain rate for each article manufactured; or, a percentage paid to the owner of an article by one who hires the use of it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A slew of figures from showbusiness, royalty and sport have also been linked with offshore companies in the documents.
  • (2) The commonwealth and state government gets royalties, but it’s not being shared with the Indigenous communities,” he said.
  • (3) He claimed payroll tax and coal royalties – which go to state coffers – would deliver a profit on the rail investment after three years.
  • (4) There is a risk of stranded assets, job losses and royalty shortfalls.
  • (5) You looked pretty overwhelmed when you went up to accept the award... Oh, maybe it's something about America not having royalty.
  • (6) Chipmaker ARM is the biggest faller in London, as analysts fret about a slowdown in royalty revenues.
  • (7) Streaming music service Spotify has now paid out more than $500m (£311m) in royalties to rightsholders since its launch in 2008, according to chief executive Daniel Ek.
  • (8) Worse still, she was threatened with violence by neighbours who thought the film portrayed them in an unflattering light; she also faced prosecution for claiming benefit without disclosing her royalties.
  • (9) "I certainly have seen the benefits that can come from [oil] royalties.
  • (10) But the Kumamoto governor was a fan, and cannily waived licensing fees for Kumamon, encouraging manufacturers to use him royalty-free.
  • (11) These men were described in the document as Epstein’s “adult male peers, including royalty”.
  • (12) The company has already paid out in excess of $500m in royalties, a sum that makes up 70% of the company's revenue.
  • (13) It was backed by the Newman government, which said it would create 10,000 jobs and contribute $22m in royalties to the state’s annual revenue.
  • (14) In a singularly painless contest the money would either be paid to the band as a royalty, which would take that money out of the system and put it into things like houses and groceries and college educations.
  • (15) "Clearly Arm's licensing and royalty momentum seems set to continue in coming quarters as well, not withstanding the broader weakness in the overall semiconductor industry," said analyst Janardan Menon at broker Liberum.
  • (16) The singer's royalties and fees will go to the Amy Winehouse Foundation, to which Fred Perry will also make a seasonal donation.
  • (17) Collier reiterated that royalties would not fill the gap left by federal money, but said Redman’s offer of using the development fund was a “positive commitment” that could be used to support those communities determined to be “sustainable”.
  • (18) That’s also 100 million times that an artist, songwriter, music label – or anyone else involved in the chain of creating and distributing music – was likely denied the opportunity to earn any royalties, revenues or sales.
  • (19) Photograph: Dean Sewell The PAC report states the expansion would safeguard 1,187 jobs over the next 14 years, provide $567m in royalties and there would be “substantial adverse economic impacts” to the towns of Singleton and Cessnock if the project doesn’t go ahead.
  • (20) "I'm still getting royalties as if it were full price … so I'm a really happy bunny," said James.

Sire


Definition:

  • (n.) A lord, master, or other person in authority. See Sir.
  • (n.) A tittle of respect formerly used in speaking to elders and superiors, but now only in addressing a sovereign.
  • (n.) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
  • (n.) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
  • (n.) The male parent of a beast; -- applied especially to horses; as, the horse had a good sire.
  • (v. t.) To beget; to procreate; -- used of beasts, and especially of stallions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sires of the cows had been divergently selected on yearling weight (YW) and total maternal (MAT) EPD to form four groups: high YW, high MAT EPD; high YW, low MAT EPD; low YW, high MAT EPD; and low YW, low MAT EPD.
  • (2) Beyond 20 mo, weights were adjusted to a constant condition score within breed of sire.
  • (3) Genetic parameters were estimated from sire components of variance and covariance obtained from a multiple-trait restricted maximum likelihood procedure.
  • (4) Simmental sires had significantly heavier calves at birth and S and H dams tended to have more calving difficulty and lower survival rates.
  • (5) Micromanipulation of sperm and ova has been suggested as a means to produce progeny of two sires instead of a sire and dam.
  • (6) Each sire family consisted of a sire, his foals, and the dams of those foals.
  • (7) Records of birth weight (BW), weaning weight (WW) and condition score (CS) from 1,467 Brahman and Brahman X Angus crossbred calves from Brahman and crossbred Brahman sires and Brahman, crossbred Brahman and Angus dams were collected at the Subtropical Agricultural Research Station, Brooksville, Florida, from 1971 to 1982.
  • (8) Live BW, carcass data, and organ data taken at 34 days of age on approximately 1,000 quail of both sexes from 110 sires and 290 dams were utilized to estimate genetic parameters from the initial generation of a selection study.
  • (9) Weaning weight records of 44,357 Australian Angus calves produced by 1,020 sires in 90 herds were used to evaluate the importance of sire x herd interactions.
  • (10) Additive relationships among sires and maternal grandsires were included.
  • (11) The purebred animals represented progeny of 107 sires.
  • (12) Repeatabilities and heritabilities of days to first service, days open, and number of services per conception were estimated from 235,589 records on 80,333 Holstein cows, daughters of 306 sires obtained from the Quebec Dairy Herd Analysis Service, by REML.
  • (13) Calves of mature dams were all sired by Limousin bulls and slaughtered at 12 mo.
  • (14) In single purpose dairy populations, sire models gave biased estimates of genetic parameters even when all data were included in the analysis.
  • (15) By including an artificial sire and an artificial dam and choosing appropriate merit values for the artificial matings, this problem can be solved by efficient "transportation" algorithms.
  • (16) A study of 24 offspring from one sire, heterozygous for W10 and Eu28R, showed that offspring inheriting Eu28R from the sire were significantly more likely to have antibodies to BLV than offspring inheriting the opposing W10 haplotype.
  • (17) Forty-three Hampshire or Suffolk-sired ram lambs were weaned at 60 d of age (average 23.6 kg of BW) and assigned to a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement of treatments consisting of 1) basal diet (control = BAS), 2) BAS with 6% whole canola seed (CS), 3) BAS with 4.9% deoiled soy lecithin (SL), and 4) BAS with 6% CS and 4.8% SL (CSSL).
  • (18) The correlation between sire of fetus effect and sire of cow effect on three production traits - milk yield, fat yield, and protein yield - in first lactation cows was investigated.
  • (19) Corresponding numbers of sires were 298, 289, 305, and 313.
  • (20) A sire-maternal grandsire mixed model with relationships was used to analyze the data to yield BLUP for the sire and maternal grandsire effects.