What's the difference between scottish and tartan?

Scottish


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
  • (2) One rat strain (TAS) is susceptible to the anticoagulant and lethal effects of warfarin and the other two strains are homozygous for warfarin resistance genes from either wild Welsh (HW) or Scottish (HS) rats.
  • (3) A second Scottish referendum has turned from a highly probable event into an almost inevitable one.
  • (4) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
  • (5) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
  • (6) He was really an English public schoolboy, but I welcome the idea of people who are in some ways not Scottish, yet are committed to Scotland.
  • (7) He won the Labour candidacy for the Scottish seat of Kilmarnock and Loudon in 1997, within weeks of polling day, after the sitting Labour MP, Willie McKelvey, decided to stand down when he suffered a stroke.
  • (8) Heads you 'own it' Ian Read, the Scottish-born accountant who runs the biggest drug firm in the US carries in his pocket a special gold coin, about the size and weight of a £2 piece.
  • (9) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
  • (10) Ian Read, Pfizer's Scottish-born chief executive, said the tax structure would protect AstraZeneca's revenues from the 38% rate of corporation tax in the US.
  • (11) A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches , consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.
  • (12) The Scottish National party will campaign confidently for independence, not just as an end in itself but as the means by which the people of Scotland can best fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations; by which the Scottish economy can grow more strongly and sustainably; and by which Scotland can take its rightful place as a responsible member of the world community.
  • (13) Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone in 2014, has described the pain of battling the virus inside a hospital isolation unit.
  • (14) The Scottish Government strongly believes the site has a positive future and we will continue to work with the UK Government and all other parties concerned to find a solution that supports the workers affected and the wider Scottish economy.
  • (15) My colleague Sean Farrell reported last night that the Scottish government had been looking for a buyer for the site .
  • (16) Colleagues involved in similar Telegraph stings this week included Michael Moore, the Scottish secretary, Ed Davey, a business minister, and Steve Webb, the pensions minister.
  • (17) The Scottish Affairs select committee that is investigating the blacklisting has uncovered documents showing that the police unit monitoring political activists met the blacklisting agency in 2008 to discuss sharing information.
  • (18) Scottish voters could be offered even greater freedoms on taxation and social policy after Labour said it would consider "radical" new powers under devolution.
  • (19) Nowadays, many of the core welfare state functions have been devolved to the Scottish parliament.
  • (20) The only Spanish voice heard in Catalonia is that of the Madrid government, which seems oblivious to the implications of the groundswell of pro-independence sentiment, much as at Westminster politicians missed the shift in Scottish opinion until just before the referendum.

Tartan


Definition:

  • (n.) Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern.
  • (n.) A small coasting vessel, used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The three rooms are plush and contemporary with tartan trim.
  • (2) If the scenes in Faro are anything to go by he has the Tartan Army’s backing to do precisely that.
  • (3) Its annual conferences were a mishmash of Highlands conservative women in tartan skirts, angry socialists from the central belt and, unique to the party, an embarrassing array of men in kilts armed with broadswords and invoking the ghosts of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
  • (4) The fact is, you can’t quite see the tartan rainbow when you’re living right under it.
  • (5) Lance Payton, a freelance hairdresser in his late 40s from Bath, who joined the Tories seven years ago, is one exception in his green-and-pink tartan suit.
  • (6) So, should you incur a public-spirited 50,000-volt warning shot – perhaps for brandishing your pension book in an aggressive manner or because a young PC has mistaken your tartan shopping trolley for a piece of field artillery – don't accidentally shout "Oh fuck!"
  • (7) Tom Young, 63, a retired British Gas worker wearing a red tartan scarf, said Berwick was "the forgotten area of Northumberland".
  • (8) As is regularly observed by the tartan twitterati, Scotland has twice as many pandas as Conservative MPs, so Tories popping north to advise the natives on their voting duty are liable to prove counter-productive.
  • (9) The models' hair was styled into outsize saucers, their lashes and brows powdered white; they wore Black Watch tartan and scowled as they stomped.
  • (10) Next in line was the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, that’s IHMC, in Pensacola, and in third place was Tartan Rescue from Carnegie Mellon University National Robotics Engineering Center.
  • (11) "What she seems to be is a bridge between 1950s nationalism, which might be regarded as old-fashioned tweed and tartan SNP, and the modern social democratic SNP that is being forged in Holyrood."
  • (12) Oscar Marsh, aged 10, already has plans for the panda toy he has just been bought from the gift shop at Edinburgh zoo, which is filled with row after row of pandas in tartan skirts, panda toffees, panda-shaped shortbread tins, panda hats and earmuffs.
  • (13) But by dint of iron discipline and a little luck, we made it to the ground on time and found the Tartan Army in good heart; as ever, it was full of booze, hope and humour.
  • (14) The Tartan Army, as its fans are collectively known, is well-known for its open and passionate rivalry with the ancient and traditional foe, England, although one recent opinion suggested more Scots are either neutral or back England than don't.
  • (15) Then over the cardigan you wear a gold leather bodice and then a giant tartan coat.
  • (16) That tartan rug is a heather-hued heath before my hearth (alliteration too!).
  • (17) Jogging on forest grounds and cinder paths is less strenuous compared to asphalt tracks or tartan paths.
  • (18) "We want a striker" was the next chant to emanate from the Tartan Army; Mackie was operating in that lone role after the withdrawl of Miller.
  • (19) Tartan, for instance, for all its treasured place in the royal family's dressing-up box, appears to be as innocuously iconic to nationalists, in the approach to the referendum, as are tributes to William Wallace and celebrations of Bannockburn, in which around 11,000 English soldiers died.
  • (20) 11.35am: My colleague Kevin McCarra also believes England fans have turned over a new leaf: I have been watching the amiable England fans in Port Elizabeth and, troublingly for a a jock like me, I realised they have taken over the Tartan Army's determinedly good-natured approach now that Scotland no longer bother with major tournaments.

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