What's the difference between seller and surname?

Seller


Definition:

  • (n.) One who sells.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Seller reports are key to identifying bad buyers and ridding them from our marketplace," says eBay.
  • (2) We are going to see a sharp fall unless sellers hold the sector up by making aggressive offers.
  • (3) Over the past year, under the rule of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi , security forces have ousted street sellers from the core of the city centre and prominent locations such as Ramses Square, home to Cairo’s main train terminal.
  • (4) Miles Shipside, Rightmove director, said: "The number of new sellers is slightly up on the same period last year, though perhaps as a reflection of their urgency to sell, or to compensate for the distraction of the achievements served up by Team GB, they have dropped their asking prices more aggressively than summer sellers in previous years."
  • (5) April 2009 Newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson dies during G20 protests in London after being struck by police.
  • (6) The former tea seller who started his political career with a far right Hindu revivalist organisation promised "good times ahead".
  • (7) Property experts said a lack of new homes coming on to the market ahead of the general election squeezed prices upwards as sellers awaited the outcome of the vote.
  • (8) The IPCC held back from independently investigating the death, even after discovering witnesses had come forward to say they had seen Tomlinson attacked by a police officer, and photographs had emerged showing the newspaper seller lying at the feet of riot police.
  • (9) For the first time this year, the asking prices posted on the Rightmove website for homes in London fell by 0.5% in early June, compared with the month before, in part due to a rapid increase in sellers rushing to cash in on rising prices.
  • (10) Figures for Amazon are harder to obtain, but UK sellers believe Chinese sellers are leading the field in many product lines on its site, too.
  • (11) Turkey would be a risk too far when there are safe havens such as the US starting to offer a return on safe investments The nervous state of markets these days means there is generally either a surplus of buyers or a surplus of sellers; only rarely have we seen periods of calm with roughly equal numbers.
  • (12) She travelled to the UK three times in 2009, the year her second album, Fearless, became the biggest seller in the US.
  • (13) "It's both a protest and a safety measure," said one tobacco seller.
  • (14) The simplicity and reliability of the fluorescent-antibody technique and the occasional serious complications of prophylactic anti-rabies measures make the diagnostic use of Seller's method at best undesirable and at worst dangerous.
  • (15) "We are not sellers; we are distributors," he said.
  • (16) Aortography demonstrated acute dissecting aneurysm of the ascending, arch and descending aorta (DeBakey type I) as well as aortic valve regurgitation (Seller's II degree).
  • (17) Not only does this prevent sellers from evaluating buyers in the same way, but if a seller's rating is affected by detrimental comments, they are not allowed to know which buyer left these and are therefore unable to contest them.
  • (18) "New-seller asking prices are good lead indicators of the current mood of the market, and those who have put their property up for sale in the last month are obviously aware that potential buyers are thinner on the ground at this time of year and need to be tempted to act by cheaper prices."
  • (19) Some people believe that it just works but the reality is that the online buyer-seller relationship can falter at any one of a number of hurdles.
  • (20) Because another top seller is the relaunched, reinvented Furby , which has returned, smarter and more likely to claim a year-long role at the forefront of your child's nightmares than ever.

Surname


Definition:

  • (n.) A name or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name.
  • (n.) An appellation added to the original name; an agnomen.
  • (v. t.) To name or call by an appellation added to the original name; to give a surname to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After excluding isonymous matings the chi-square values for unique and nonunique surname pairs remained significant for both religious groups.
  • (2) 7.20pm BST An email from Artie Prendergast-Smith This could be a long night of long surnames.
  • (3) However, the overall pattern of results for rare surnames showed a measure of agreement with what is already known of the genetics of twinning.
  • (4) Yassine, who declined to provide his surname, is the son of a Parisian jewellery designer and a "not that famous" French artist.
  • (5) Both the father and mothers' surnames are passed on in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, but the father's name is more often used day-to-day.
  • (6) The program kept asking what my surname at birth was - annoying, since, despite getting married in 1994, I've had the same surname all my life.
  • (7) Because many Southern California Indians have Spanish Surnames and most do not reside on an Indian reservation it is shown that the suicide statistics may represent an over-estimation of actual Mexican-American suicidal deaths while simultaneously representing an under-estimation of the suicides among American Indians of the region.
  • (8) Her fellow tenants at 28 Barbary Lane, Mona Ramsey and Brian Hawkins had surnames drawn from my Southern father's self-published family history.
  • (9) My surname, though, is so late in the alphabet that I'm normally one of the "62 others".
  • (10) There was a convergence of Spanish surname rates toward the other White rates for nearly all sites, regardless of whether other Whites showed increasing, decreasing, or stable rates.
  • (11) Great news for Arsenal fans, who, if the summer transfer of Mesut Özil was anything to go by, love nothing more than to pull people up on the internet for accidentally forgetting to add diacritics to people's surnames.
  • (12) The following March, it was ceremonially opened by none other than Tony Blair, who was presented with a Middlesbrough FC shirt bearing his surname.
  • (13) But it clashed with other things.” Asked what his reaction would be now, he said: “I’d jump at it.” Blessed – who is also fondly remembered for another sci-fi role, appearing as Prince Vultan in the movie Flash Gordon – appeared to be a little confused about the Doctor’s surname, inaccurately suggesting the “Who” of the title was actually the character.
  • (14) To some the disadvantages of having a famous surname can be almost as significant as the advantages.
  • (15) On the example of 7 populations of the regional level allowability of using surnames with frequencies exceeding 0.001 in adequate estimation of the population structure indices is shown.
  • (16) Since given names show none of the localisation seen in surnames, the surname geography is ascribable to genetic rather than cultural factors of personal naming.
  • (17) Eponymous syndrome nomenclature now includes the names of literary characters, patients' surnames, subjects of famous paintings, famous persons, geographic locations, institutions, biblical figures, and mythological characters.
  • (18) This study examined the correlations between academic achievement and factor specific, as well as global, measures of self-concept for 314 fourth and sixth grade boys and girls divided into grade level groups with and without Spanish surnames.
  • (19) Valid contrast studies were possible in only one region within the city for all three groups and in six regions for white excluding Spanish-surnamed and nonwhite.
  • (20) Born in July 1954, Christopher Murray Paul-Huhne (his surname until he went to Oxford) has always been something of a Marmite politician, attracting both loyalty and affection, as well as brickbats and disdain.