What's the difference between shack and tramp?

Shack


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn.
  • (v. t.) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
  • (v. t.) To wander as a vagabond or a tramp.
  • (n.) The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.
  • (n.) Liberty of winter pasturage.
  • (n.) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Without the money to begin building permanent homes, residents of Barkobot are living in temporary tin shacks.
  • (2) Nan had gone away for a weekend Prayathon and Mack had taken Katie and Missy to a shack in Oregon.
  • (3) There are wild beaches for those prepared to tote their own supplies, but most have a shack selling drinks, ice-creams and snacks.
  • (4) OK, so it wouldn't beat London's MeatLiquor in a fight, but it'd certainly knock seven shades out of Shake Shack and Five Guys with both hands tied behind its back.
  • (5) Depictions of them by the likes of the Daily Mail as destitute Roma, desperate to leave shacks in the shanty towns of Sofia, are denounced as discriminatory and ill-informed.
  • (6) "The government did not fund the empower shack, though they helped us speed up the approval process," said Andy Bolnick, founder of iKhayalami , the NGO that built the shack in Khayelitsha township.
  • (7) Back then, as is now the case, Germany was governed by a “grand coalition”: the two biggest parties, the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats, had shacked up.
  • (8) Brilliant young author rails against the "phony" nature of modern life but, unlike many before him, does not eventually sell out and conform but puts his money where his mouth is and moves out to the proverbial shack in the woods to pursue his vision.
  • (9) Dozens more were injured, robbed and driven from their shacks at Bitter Creek.
  • (10) An old worker, laid off on the eve of retirement, reluctantly opens a love shack for illicit couples.
  • (11) He had a seaside shack with one bedroom containing a solid silver four-poster bed.
  • (12) Some signs breathed – there were cats in baskets, rats and parrots in cages, vultures tethered to wine shacks, and so on, often with bells around their necks.
  • (13) Momepele currently lives in a shack in the eNsimbini settlement in Chesterville, near Durban.
  • (14) He and the other new arrivals were put up in a derelict shack, with plywood walls, a tin roof and no fan to ease the humid air.
  • (15) We walked past field after field of strawberries, and clusters of wooden shacks.
  • (16) When ships dock here from Antarctica and when daytrippers return after retracing Darwin’s trip across the Beagle Channel a surprising high proportion of passengers utter the same words: “Let’s go to the Irish pub!” The Dublin is no carbon copy from the motherland; instead it has a distinct local look – a shack-like structure, corrugated frontage (green, of course) and small-paned windows.
  • (17) Blocking-out involves the local people who demolish the old clutter of shacks and rebuild them.
  • (18) Three Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 (PLCs) were used to capture and transfer the charting by phone into the hospital information system (HIS).
  • (19) Under a pink mosquito dome in a shack among the filthy alleyways of sector two of the Malakal protection of civilians (PoC) camp lies 11-day-old Pul.
  • (20) Their children and grandchildren still live in these shacks, held together with salvaged tin and timber.

Tramp


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
  • (v. i.) To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country.
  • (v. i.) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
  • (v. i.) To travel; to wander; to stroll.
  • (n.) A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp.
  • (n.) A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond.
  • (n.) The sound of the foot, or of feet, on the earth, as in marching.
  • (n.) A tool for trimming hedges.
  • (n.) A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Communist party mouthpiece newspaper the People’s Daily said in an editorial that the tribunal had ignored “basic truths” and “tramped” on international laws and norms.
  • (2) I couldn't handle the hangovers: waking up in the sticky filth of the Colony Room on the floor; sweating my way though meetings at White Cube; going to meet Larry [Gagosian] on the Anadin, the Nurofen, the Berocca and the Vicks nasal spray, looking like an alcoholic tramp.
  • (3) They left him with an enduring sympathy for the poor and marginalised, embodied in his Little Tramp character .
  • (4) She would tramp to the village phone box and wait for some ringing and then quiz me about eating greens and clean handkerchiefs and comprehensively diss my dad, who had left home to "find himself" – in the arms of a local paramour.
  • (5) The only other person Drake ever wrote a song for was, bizarrely enough, Millie, of My Boy Lollipop, who recorded a reggae song of his called May Fair, one of those “quaint” pieces of observation – a rich lady getting in a chauffeured limousine while a tramp ambles past at the exact same moment.
  • (6) May, the provincial vicar’s daughter, has done her time tramping the streets, stuffing envelopes, working the local Conservative association circuit.
  • (7) In her day this was a gritty neighbourhood and it hasn’t changed much, with a shabby market by the metro station and blocks of peeling townhouses; this is the real, old Paris, the world she sang about, with its desperate cast of thieves and tramps and lovers.
  • (8) "Personally I longed for human society and for exercise (a good long tramp for example), but no doubt Odilo had his reasons".
  • (9) Instagram photos showed them tramping around New York, bowler hatted and hand in hand.
  • (10) This tireless, Glasgow-built cargo ship has been tramping between Kampala and Mwanza, Tanzania's second most populous city, for more than 40 years.
  • (11) The Clos was created in 1933 by the city of Paris on what was previously, according to a municipal tin placard, "a waste land, the refuge of tramps and a playground for local children".
  • (12) Diplomats and staff tramped across the rain-soaked grass of the UN’s Rose Garden on the banks of the East River to watch.
  • (13) A tramp who smacks himself repeatedly about the body.
  • (14) But as we tramp back to the village, it’s worth mourning that golden age of privacy, and the city that allowed people to reinvent themselves like the characters in Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side.
  • (15) His work has often been obliquely autobiographical – never quite his story, but yes, he was a history boy back in the day preparing for Oxford; yes, you could draw comparisons with the repressed gay man he plays in A Chip in the Sugar; yes, he did give refuge to a tramp who parked her van in his driveway for 15 years, and so it goes.
  • (16) Gideon wondering how many coins there are in a pound then snorting through his nose as he draws a penis murdering a tramp on his satchel.
  • (17) And I can tramp through snowstorms late at night when no one is stirring and feel the kind of excitement John Muir (father of the US national parks) must have felt when he spent a stormy night up a tree just to embrace it and know what it endured in the absence of reportorial creatures.
  • (18) And, like tramps, we expect to be moved on, sooner or later, as more and more of London’s public space becomes private.
  • (19) Richard, a long-time mountain devotee, agrees: "As someone who's tramped over its slopes many, many times, I simply don't understand how a mountain can be valued at £1.75m to pay off tax.
  • (20) Elevated affective excitability was the most common of all psychopathy-like disorders, followed by the syndrome of home leaving and tramping, the aggressive-sadistic syndrome, and mental instability.