What's the difference between sell and simony?

Sell


Definition:

  • (n.) Self.
  • (n.) A sill.
  • (n.) A cell; a house.
  • (n.) A saddle for a horse.
  • (n.) A throne or lofty seat.
  • (v. t.) To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money.
  • (v. t.) To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray.
  • (v. t.) To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat.
  • (v. i.) To practice selling commodities.
  • (v. i.) To be sold; as, corn sells at a good price.
  • (n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Several selling VCs were also Google investors; one sat on Google's board.
  • (2) No one has jobs,” said Annie, 45, who runs a street stall selling fried chicken and rice in the Matongi neighbourhood.
  • (3) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
  • (4) If Clegg's concerns do broadly accord with Cameron's, how will the PM sell such a big U-turn to his increasingly anti-Clegg backbenchers?
  • (5) After two placings of shares with institutional investors which began two years ago, the government has been selling shares by “dribbling” them into the market.
  • (6) Meanwhile, Brighton rock duo Royal Blood top this week's album chart with their self-titled album, scoring the UK's fastest selling British rock debut in three years.
  • (7) The group set aside £3.2bn to cover PPI mis-selling in 2011.
  • (8) Even so, the release of the first-half figures could help clear the way for the chancellor, George Osborne, to start selling off the taxpayer’s 79% stake in the bank, a legacy of the institution’s 2008 bailout.
  • (9) It’s not like there’s a simple answer.” Vassilopoulos said: “The media is all about entertainment.” “I don’t think they sell too many papers or get too many advertisements because of their coverage of income inequality,” said Calvert.
  • (10) Giving voice to that sentiment the mass-selling daily newspaper Ta Nea dedicated its front-page editorial to what it hoped would soon be the group's demise, describing Alexopoulos' desertion as a "positive development".
  • (11) And we will sell those assets that can be managed better by the private sector.
  • (12) At the same time, however, he has backed the quality of the technology that the company is developing and resisted pressure to sell off underperforming businesses.
  • (13) In Wednesday’s budget speech , George Osborne acknowledged there had been a big rise in overseas suppliers storing goods in Britain and selling them online without paying VAT.
  • (14) Apple could quite possibly afford to promise to pay out 80% of its streaming iTunes income, especially if such a service helped it sell more iPhones and iPads, where the margins are bigger.
  • (15) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
  • (16) For an industry built on selling ersatz rebellion to teenagers, finding the moral high ground was always going to be tricky.
  • (17) The newspaper is the brainchild of Jaime Villalobos, who saw homeless people selling The Big Issue while he was studying natural resource management in Newcastle.
  • (18) She knew that Ford needed parts for the best-selling truck in America, and she knew how to make them.
  • (19) Japan needs to sell whale meat at a competitive price, similar to that of pork or chicken, and to do that it needs to increase its annual catch."
  • (20) Rawlins bought a stake in Stoke City in 2000, where he'd been a season ticket-holder from the age of five, after selling off his IT consultancy company and joined the board.

Simony


Definition:

  • (n.) The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Simoni Alberto Abu Taleb Mridha has to go home.
  • (2) The degradation of HMGal mirrors that of HMG-CoA reductase, demonstrating that the membrane domain of HMG-CoA reductase is sufficient to confer regulated degradation (Skalnik, D.G., Narita, H., Kent, C., and Simoni, R.D.
  • (3) This fusion protein, HMGal, has been localized to the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum of Chinese hamster ovary cells transfected with this chimeric gene, and its beta-galactosidase activity has declined in the presence of low density lipoprotein (Skalnik, D. G., Narita, H., Kent, C., and Simoni, R. D. (1988) J. Biol.
  • (4) Repression of synthesis of these enzyme systems by various concentrations of PTS sugars was studied in wild type cells, in pts mutants, and in pts crr double mutants described in the accompanying reports (Saier, M. H., Jr., Simoni, R. D., and Roseman, S (1976) J. Biol.
  • (5) Also, the Giardia-free rats and dogs are susceptible to their own Giardia (G. simoni and G. canis respectively).
  • (6) This observation can not be classified in the forms that are actually described: Klüken's and Simonis' plasmocytic reticulosis, plasmocytomas with osseous and medullar lesions, extramedullar plasmocytoma.
  • (7) Derek Jacobi bellowing "SIMONY" before vomiting on some pork.
  • (8) As we have shown recently (Roitelman, J., Bar-Nun, S., Inoue, S., and Simoni, R. D. (1991) J. Biol.
  • (9) A mutation of the b subunit of the Escherichia coli proton-translocating ATPase and mutations in the gene for the a subunit that suppress its effects have been previously described (Kumamoto, C., and Simoni, R. D. (1986) J. Biol.
  • (10) Another monoclonal antibody raised against Giardia simoni cysts from the Norway rat reacted with homologous cysts (rat) and cross-reacted with cysts from a cow.
  • (11) Both the SSD and the parental cells stably express HMGal, a model protein for studying the regulated degradation of HMG-CoA reductase, which consists of the membrane domain of HMG-CoA reductase fused to bacterial beta-galactosidase (Skalnik, D. G., Narita, H., Kent, C., and Simoni, R. D. (1988) J. Biol.
  • (12) In this report we revise a conclusion reached previously (Klionsky, D.J., Brusilow, W.S.A., and Simoni, R.D.
  • (13) A study was made of patients hospitalized with the diagnosis of colonic volvulus in two provincial hospitals of Camagüey during two different time periods (1979-1986 in the Amalia Simoni and 1978-1983 in the Manuel A. Domenech), for a total of 22 cases that represent 4.49% of the 489 patients admitted with a diagnosis of intestinal occlusion.
  • (14) 263, 6836-6841; Chun, K.T., Bar-Nun, S., and Simoni, R.D.
  • (15) This evidence is based upon a concanavalin A binding assay for in vivo glycosylation of an engineered glycosylation site in each of a series of mutants of the fusion protein, HMGal (Skalnik, D. G., Narita, H., Kent, C., and Simoni, R. D. (1988) J. Biol.
  • (16) The intracellular transport of phosphatidylcholine is distinct in several ways from the intracellular transport of cholesterol (Kaplan, M. R., and R. D. Simoni, 1985, J.
  • (17) A mutation of the b subunit of the Escherichia coli proton translocating ATPase was previously described (Porter, A. C. G., Kumamoto, C., Aldape, K., and Simoni, R. D. (1985) J. Biol.
  • (18) This paper is the first in a series which extends introductory studies of parinaric acid and its phospholipid derivatives as membrane probes (Sklar, L.A., Hudson, B., and Simoni, R.D.
  • (19) Of the studied species trophozoites of man (L. intestinalis), rabbit (L. duodenalis), vole (L. microti) and rat (L. simoni) have the same shape of the body but differ in absolute sizes.
  • (20) Each of these 11 calculated distances (ranging from 19 A to 32 A) was within 5 A of the corresponding distances measured previously for human albumin (Berde, C.B., Hudson, B.S., Simoni, R.D., and Sklar, L.A. 1979, J. Biol.