What's the difference between servant and swain?

Servant


Definition:

  • (n.) One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper.
  • (n.) One in a state of subjection or bondage.
  • (n.) A professed lover or suitor; a gallant.
  • (v. t.) To subject.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was also acknowledgement for two long-term servants to the men’s game who will both leave the Premier League for Major League Soccer this summer.
  • (2) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
  • (3) I am one of those retired civil servants who has not received my pension.
  • (4) Senior civil servant Simon Case joined the UK’s EU embassy in March to lead work on the new partnership with the bloc, but EU diplomats are unsure how he fits into the picture.
  • (5) The report was addressed personally to Farr and says it is not to be seen by civil servants, only by him, ministers and their special advisers.
  • (6) "Public servants did nothing to cause the slump but are being asked to bear an unfair share of the burden.
  • (7) So sensitive is the case that Hunt, his civil servants and advisers are expected to rebuff any external lobbying – so they can base their judgement only on a analysis of the public interest issues raised by the proposed deal that was completed by media regulator Ofcom today.
  • (8) A series of reports, written by civil servants and approved by ministers, will be published from the spring of next year until 2014 to examine the impact of everything from directives to the European Court of Justice.
  • (9) Here, the balance of power is clear: the master is dominating the servant – and not the other way around, as is the case with Google Now and the poor.
  • (10) Unions warned it could lead to a system where civil servants were loyal to their political masters rather than the taxpayer.
  • (11) Similar measurements were made in subjects with essential hypertension (77 white and 23 black), and 48 healthy normotensive white civil servants.
  • (12) You've just joined Twitter – why would you recommend it to other civil servants?
  • (13) Public servants who loved their useful work find only a few hours waiting on tables.
  • (14) The package included pay rises for civil servants and security personnel.
  • (15) "There are idle MPs with no outside interests and there are fantastic public servants that do have them."
  • (16) Helena writes: Ilias Iliopoulos, a leading figure at ADEDY, Greece's union of civil servants, has just told me: “This is a warning to the government not to pass the measures.Today was a huge success as witnessed by all those in the armed forces and police who also participated because they, too, will be affected by these cuts.
  • (17) Because for more than a year, he had bent the rules, constantly and persistently, in the face of warnings from his most senior civil servants?
  • (18) The public servants’ ethos, their attachment to the civic realm, has been systematically trashed as mere unionised self-interest.
  • (19) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
  • (20) The current authors explored this issue in a cohort of 18,274 male civil servants, among whom there were 1,282 cancer deaths over 18-20 years of follow-up.

Swain


Definition:

  • (n.) A servant.
  • (n.) A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Val Swain, spokesperson for Netpol, a police monitoring group, said: "The Saturday protest is certainly an event that people are traveling to.
  • (2) In the future, says Kalixa’s Colin Swain, even window cleaners and other small trades people will be able to accept cards.
  • (3) Photograph: Jon Swaine for the Guardian However, the shop was then looted during Monday’s unrest, said the shop owner, who is Korean and speaks little English.
  • (4) Taking a value of the Swain-Scott nucleophilicity (n) of 2.5 for an average DNA nucleotide unit [Walles & Ehrenberg (1969) Acta Chem.
  • (5) There is no correlation between the Swain-Scott factors of monofunctional alkylants and their ability to induce chromosomal damage when compared in terms of pharmacological doses.
  • (6) The physical risk to Wesley himself is obvious and outrageous.” Earlier, the Guardian’s Jon Swaine posted pictures and video of heavily armed police pushing protesters back down the streets, and an image he believed to be of the two reporters being arrested.
  • (7) Updated at 1.27am BST 10.02pm BST US vice-president Joe Biden says MH17 was "blown out of the sky" , as the Guardian's Jon Swaine quotes him in full comments from his speech in Detroit.
  • (8) Nigel Swain University of Liverpool I just don’t recognise Viktor Orbán as a ‘tyrant’ | Tibor Fischer Read more • As a keen reader of his novels, I was disappointed with Tibor Fischer’s article.
  • (9) The Swains, with their tiny toilet, which empties into a leach pit – a hole in the ground used to compost faeces when there is no sewage system – are the face of progress.
  • (10) The nucleophilic selectivity (Swain-Scott's constant s) of chloroethylene oxide (CEO), an ultimate carcinogenic metabolite of vinyl chloride, was determined to be 0.71 using the 4-(p-nitrobenzyl)pyridine (NBP) assay (Spears method).
  • (11) In two examples which indicate how execution lengths have varied widely since the move to single-drug, 33-year-old Mario Swain was put to death on 8 November , 2012, for the murder of a woman a decade earlier.
  • (12) Entwistle's elevation creates another vacancy at the top of the corporation, with BBC1 controller Danny Cohen, another former Newsnight editor Peter Barron, who quit to join Google and Entwistle's number two Emma Swain, among the contenders to succeed him as head of BBC Vision.
  • (13) Val Swain, 44, another Fitwatch campaigner, said the post had been been a direct response to what she called the Telegraph's "rogues' gallery" and was never intended to divulge information that was not already "well known".
  • (14) On the basis of Orem's self-care framework, subjects' levels of knowledge in six criterion areas were assessed according to measurement criteria developed by Horn and Swain.
  • (15) Some examples of E lacking Knops, McCoy, Swain-Langley, and York antigens, a serologically related group, were not agglutinated.
  • (16) The presence of either excision-defective mutant can enhance the frequency of mutation (hypermutability) and this hypermutability can be correlated with the Swain-Scott constant S of specific AAs such that as the SN1 character of the DNA alkylation reaction increases, the difference in response between repair-deficient and repair-proficient females decreases.
  • (17) Their swains will arrive in white vests and ill-fitting suit trousers held up by braces.
  • (18) In the case of monofunctional agents, ENNG, ENU, DES and EMS there was a relationship between the induction of chromosome aberrations with the Swain-Scott S-value and O-alkylation with those agents with the lowest S-value and the highest proportion of O-alkylation producing chromosome aberrations at the lowest exposure concentrations.
  • (19) Two conceptual nursing models, Roy's adaptation model and Erickson and Swain's adaptive potential assessment model are explained, and knowledge is identified within these two assessment techniques for adaptation to stress.
  • (20) Some BBC insiders believe that Entwistle's No 2, Swain, is the most natural candidate to take over.