What's the difference between shipwright and wright?

Shipwright


Definition:

  • (n.) One whose occupation is to construct ships; a builder of ships or other vessels.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although it looks like a giant seaside souvenir shop ornament, it is a remarkably faithful model of Victory with 31 sails set and six furled as on the day of Trafalgar, built from traditional shipwright's materials.
  • (2) A 40-year historical cohort study of medical wastage among about 550 shipyard welders and 1100 controls (shipwrights and engine fitters), all employed at the same shipyard, was carried out.
  • (3) A shipwright developed a delayed bullous irritant dermatitis from contact with a bis-tri-butyl tin oxide (TBTO) containing antifouling paint.
  • (4) Abbott began with a homily to his shipwright grandfather and a story about how, as a schoolboy, he paddled his timber canoe in Sydney Harbour’s Lane Cove National Park.

Wright


Definition:

  • (n.) One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wright said he had recently shown a family moving from London around a four-bedroom house with a paddock, on sale for £375,000.
  • (2) Wright said that he was told the other two pages of documents were not provided because of freedom of information subsections concerning privacy, "sources and methods," and that can "put someone's life in danger."
  • (3) The publicity surrounding the Rotherham child exploitation scandal, which triggered the resignation of Shaun Wright, the previous PCC, did not translate into a high turnout, with only 14.65% of the electorate casting a vote.
  • (4) In Colchester, David Sherwood of Fenn Wright reported: "High tenant demand but increasingly tenants in rent arrears as the recession bites."
  • (5) The procedure for using the batch stainer with Wright's stain is outlined.
  • (6) The four members of the committee are all masters of wine, and the chairman is a retired diplomat, Sir David Wright.
  • (7) Previous experiments have shown that heparin inhibits induction of c-fos and c-myc protooncogene mRNA in rat VSMC stimulated by phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) but not when stimulated by epidermal growth factor (EGF) (Pukac, L. A., Castellot, J. J., Wright, T. C., Caleb, B. L., and Karnovsky, M. J.
  • (8) ‘It’s hard to understand why we have all had to go through this’ – Angelene Wright, 66, from Lincolnshire I’m a carer for my 64-year-old husband who is in the final stages of multiple sclerosis.
  • (9) We must open our hearts to one another and listen,” Wright, 31, said after the service.
  • (10) Wright, two new flavonoids (I, II) and six known flavonoids (III-VIII) were isolated.
  • (11) This is the scrubber that Comer paid for, Lackner conceived and Wright built.
  • (12) After spending a good five minutes sketching out the vast scale of the economic and social challenge facing the town, Wright is careful to stress that Hartlepool still has plenty to fuel its inherent optimism.
  • (13) The sugar tax was greeted with hostility by the industry and Wright argues that the levy, introduced by the chancellor in the budget , will be undermined by flawed analysis of its impact.
  • (14) We have previously shown that this defect is localized to the expression of terminal N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) glycoproteins in the plasma membrane (Elmer and Wright, '83).
  • (15) He said Watts was a “pleasant lady” but described Wright as a “cold fish Craig”.
  • (16) 34 min: England turn the screw, with Wright-Phillips and Ashley Cole combining beautifully down the left flank, before the full-back brings a crucial interception out of Ricardo Clark when he pulls the ball back into the penalty area from the touchline.
  • (17) Entopolypoides macaci (Babesiidae) was diagnosed on the basis of morphology from peripheral blood smears stained with Wright's stain.
  • (18) One of Inside Out's presenters, Matthew Wright, last week described the programme's proposed budget cut as "a joke" .
  • (19) A simple device for measuring ventilatory function, the airflowmeter, was found to be at least as sensitive as the Wright peak-flow meter in detecting histamine-induced bronchoconstriction in asthmatic patients.
  • (20) In that speech, Wright suggested that Manning was “overwhelmed” that the Sean MacBride award had recognized “her actions as actions for peace.” Yet the former soldier insists that she has never perceived her actions in transmitting more than 700,000 classified US classified documents to WikiLeaks in 2010-11 as an act for peace.

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