What's the difference between shelter and shroud?

Shelter


Definition:

  • (n.) That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.
  • (n.) One who protects; a guardian; a defender.
  • (n.) The state of being covered and protected; protection; security.
  • (v. t.) To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect.
  • (v. t.) To screen or cover from notice; to disguise.
  • (v. t.) To betake to cover, or to a safe place; -- used reflexively.
  • (v. i.) To take shelter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
  • (2) • young clownfish will lose their ability to "smell" the anemone species that they shelter in.
  • (3) Housing charity Shelter puts the shortage of affordable housing in England at between 40,000 and 60,000 homes a year.
  • (4) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrians queue for water at a shelter in Hirjalleh, a rural area near the capital Damascus.
  • (6) The proposed new law gives victims of violence access to redress and protection, including restraining orders, and it requires local governments to set up more shelters.
  • (7) Others seek shelter wherever they can – on rented farmland, and in empty houses and disused garages.
  • (8) Around a third of Gaza's 1.8 million people have been displaced, many now living in United Nations shelters.
  • (9) Millions have been driven out of their homes, seeking shelter in neighbouring countries and in safer parts of their homeland.
  • (10) The UK donated £114m which funded shelter for 1.3 million people and clean water for 2.5 million.
  • (11) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
  • (12) The banalities of a news conference take on a strange significance when the men who summon the world's cameras are members of a feared insurgent group that banned television when they ruled Afghanistan and sheltered al-Qaida.
  • (13) For services to Elderly People through the Minnie Bennett Sheltered Accommodation Home for the Elderly in Greenwich South East London.
  • (14) An unwanted pregnancy is one more nightmare for a displaced woman; campaigners argue that contraception and access to safe abortion should be treated with the same urgency as water, food and shelter.
  • (15) She is just one of many people who have contacted Shelter about cuts to SMI payments.
  • (16) After leaving the RCA, the pair continued to work on the idea of shelters that could be dropped into disaster zones or areas of military conflict and swiftly assembled.
  • (17) The discrimination in the policy of successive South African governments towards African workers is demonstrated by the so-called 'civilised labour policy' under which sheltered, unskilled government jobs are found for those white workers who cannot make the grade in industry, at wages which far exceed the earnings of the average African employee in industry.
  • (18) The quality of the re-insertion also depends on the care possibilities available to the patient: sectorial follow-up, job-aid centre, sheltered workshops, associative apartments, leisure.
  • (19) Nico Stevens from Help Refugees said at least 150 people had so far lost their shelters, but many of those had remained in the camp, sleeping in tents or communal buildings.
  • (20) The only way for the government to turn this crisis around is to urgently invest in genuinely affordable homes Campbell Robb, Shelter The Land Registry – whose data is viewed by many as the most comprehensive and accurate – said the typical price of a home reached £181,619 in June.

Shroud


Definition:

  • (n.) That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
  • (n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
  • (n.) That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
  • (n.) A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
  • (n.) The branching top of a tree; foliage.
  • (n.) A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.
  • (n.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
  • (n.) To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.
  • (n.) To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.
  • (v. i.) To take shelter or harbor.
  • (v. t.) To lop. See Shrood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The underlying pathology was shrouded by incomplete abortion.
  • (2) It introduces a welcome trenchancy into subjects often shrouded in misty rhetoric.
  • (3) At recent climate change conferences, a coffin has been paraded through the halls of delegates covered in a shroud and attended by mourners.
  • (4) Its lines soften, its edges fade; it shrinks into the raw cold from the river, more like a shrouded mountain than a castle built for kings.
  • (5) Two of them begged for a rescue mission in phone calls yesterday, as the battles raged through a powerful sandstorm that shrouded the city from journalists and anxious refugees who have been watching the fighting from the safety of Turkish soil, just a few hundred feet away.
  • (6) The same intrepid, almost naive, fascination with a world shrouded in the icy fog of snobbery, deference, and class-consciousness animated Sampson.
  • (7) Tehran, surrounded by mountains and with millions of cars on its congested streets, has long been regarded as one of the world's most polluted cities, but the heavy smog that has recently shrouded its streets has been described as the worst in its history.
  • (8) "But the fact is that the whereabouts and fate of Gao have been shrouded in mystery by the Chinese government for far too long.
  • (9) Monarchy, of whatever stamp, shrouds society in class, when we can least afford it.
  • (10) See the bullet holes in street lamps... the shrouded vision in the clouds and the fog of the buildings from which the shots came... the photographs of those who lost their lives.. the people who put themselves on the line for the future of Ukraine.” Kerry said he spoke spontaneously with Ukrainians gathered there, who pleaded with him not to go back to life as it was under Yanukovych.
  • (11) We hope that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice will finally decide to comply with the law, and cease attempting to shroud in secrecy one aspect of their job that, above all others, should be conducted in the light of day."
  • (12) It sits amid north Glasgow’s famous Red Road tower blocks, shrouded and still awaiting demolition since organisers had second thoughts about blowing them up to mark the Commonwealth Games.
  • (13) Prolonged exposures of fracture faces under the protection of liquid nitrogen-cooled shrouds have shown that, because of the consequent drastic reduction of condensable gases in the specimen area, no detectable condensation contamination of exposed fracture faces occurs within 15 min at a specimen temperature of 108 degrees K. This shows that a complicated ultrahigh vacuum technology is not required for high resolution freeze- etching.
  • (14) How many other "invisible" stories are out there, shrouded by thick legal mist?
  • (15) As usual, the government applied the OSB media strategy to shroud the matters in secrecy.
  • (16) "Those are dead people in front of our house and the smell is awful," called out a woman from the balcony, her face shrouded in cloth to protect her from the stench.
  • (17) If this is how it behaves in the middle of one of Australia’s biggest cities, how does it conduct itself when shrouded behind the secrecy of “on water operations”?
  • (18) On these days, the smog clings to the city like a thick grey shroud, and its residents are ghost-like shadows moving through the haze.
  • (19) Consider an example from June of last year, when rampant fires across parts of Sumatra, Indonesia, shrouded the skies of Sumatra and neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia in a thick, choking haze.
  • (20) What happened next has always been shrouded in mystery.