What's the difference between stade and wharf?

Stade


Definition:

  • (n.) A stadium.
  • (n.) A landing place or wharf.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) February 2015: Vinci, the French company that oversees venues including the Stade de France, named as the stadium operator.
  • (2) A force of 110 heavily armed officers, led by the elite tactical unit Recherche, Assistance, Intervention, Dissuasion (Raid), launched an assault on a third‑storey flat at 8 rue Corbillon, a few doors down from a primary school and a 15-minute walk from the Stade de France.
  • (3) Dias was killed on the spot, the sole victim of the Stade de France blasts.
  • (4) The Arsenal manager painted a vibrant picture of southern passion and of the atmosphere that it generates at the Stade Vélodrome.
  • (5) At the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, one stop from the Gare du Nord station that will welcome British fans, Didier Deschamps’ exciting side will attempt to pull the country out of the “spiral of negativity” that organisers say has blighted preparations in the opening game against Romania.
  • (6) He has already scored a hat-trick at Monaco's Stade Louis II ground in helping Atlético beat Chelsea 4-1 in the Uefa Super Cup last August.
  • (7) If the term psychopathology could be considered identical to psychiatric semiology, the words signs and symptoms go above the descriptive stade: the greek name sumptôma contains sun (with) and piptein (appear), while the word sign is an intellectual deduction of observed symptoms.
  • (8) The absence of remote metastases was verified by X-ray examinations of the skeleton and bone scintigrams, and stades were divided by means of lymphography.
  • (9) The match on Saturday between arch-rivals Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique Marseille at the Stade de France had been deemed a high-risk event and a first test for organisers of security measures required for Euro 2016.
  • (10) Chelsea have finally confirmed the arrival of Radamel Falcao from Monaco on a season-long loan with the Croatia international midfielder, Mario Pasalic, moving in the opposite direction to spend the forthcoming campaign at Stade Louis II.
  • (11) The French public prosecutor, François Molins, revealed on Saturday that the 26-year-old had been charged with terrorism offences after telling investigators he was supposed to blow himself up at the Stade de France, where President François Hollande was watching France play Germany, but backed out at the last minute.
  • (12) The Spanish side had won 1-0 at the Stade Vélodrome, but Michy Batshuayi levelled the tie just before half-time.
  • (13) 52 patients with diabetic retinopathy stade III or IV (after Thiel) received on both eyes a photocoagulation treatment.
  • (14) Defour’s status at his former club fell to pariah and caused a graphic banner to be unfurled when he returned to the Stade Maurice Dufrasne in Anderlecht colours.
  • (15) These modifications are the more often present in stade 0 (normal radiologic aspect) and do not increase with radiological evolution (stades I, II, III).
  • (16) Or to Marseille’s Stade Velodrome, into which he carried the colours of Paris Saint-Germain.
  • (17) Angio-immunoblastic lymphadenopathy, which has been recently individualized, is seen clinically as a stade III or IV haematosarcoma.
  • (18) This examination permit a knowledge of the in situ stades and permit to make adapted surgical treatment.
  • (19) I only allow myself to think what it would be like if we were playing in a full house at the Stade de France,” Coleman says.
  • (20) Diarra lost his cousin Asta Diakité among the more than 130 people killed in Friday’s attacks across the French capital while the former Arsenal and Chelsea midfielder was playing for his country at the Stade de France.

Wharf


Definition:

  • (n.) A structure or platform of timber, masonry, iron, earth, or other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, or the like, and usually extending from the shore to deep water, so that vessels may lie close alongside to receive and discharge cargo, passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier.
  • (n.) The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
  • (v. t.) To guard or secure by a firm wall of timber or stone constructed like a wharf; to furnish with a wharf or wharfs.
  • (v. t.) To place upon a wharf; to bring to a wharf.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What the Qataris own in Britain • HSBC Tower, the bank’s global headquarters in Canary Wharf • The Shard on the south bank of the Thames (95%) • Harrods, bought in 2010 for a reported £1.5bn • The Olympic Village in east London • Numbers 1-3 Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park – this week denied planning permission to be turned into a £200m single home • A 50% stake in the Shell Centre on London’s South Bank • Half of One Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive apartment block • The former US embassy building in Grosvenor Square • The site of Chelsea Barracks in west London, being turned into a luxury housing estate • 20% slice of Camden market • Stakes in Barclays, Sainsbury’s, the London Stock Exchange and Heathrow • And coming soon: Canary Wharf, after the controlling group capitulated and recommended a £2.6bn bid to shareholders Julia Kollewe
  • (2) It is expanding for the first time since the 2008 banking crisis with plans for 30 buildings, including 3,100 homes, at Wood Wharf at its eastern edge.
  • (3) Qatar’s royal family may have snapped up Canary Wharf for £2.6bn this week, adding to its London portfolio of Harrods and the Shard skyscraper, but the Gulf billionaires’ property spree has finally run into a dead end – a humble town hall bureaucrat.
  • (4) Jimi Heselden, who latched on to an international craze for the upright, motorised "green commuter machines", was testing a cross-country version when he skidded into the river Wharfe which runs beside his Yorkshire estate.
  • (5) Richard Rogers had just set up his office at Thames Wharf, in Hammersmith, and he was keen for the development to be not just offices but a community: this meant having somewhere for everyone to eat.
  • (6) Overseas investment funds Facebook Twitter Pinterest JP Morgan’s offices in Canary Wharf, London.
  • (7) As well as the shard investment, the Qataris last October came to the rescue of debt-laden Songbird, which owns Canary Wharf, and became its largest shareholder.
  • (8) TonyRidge Strid Wood, Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire Exploring the woodland at either side of the River Wharfe, where it flows through this spectacular, narrow gorge, is a splendid experience at any time of the year.
  • (9) Only a fortnight ago, it reportedly bought HSBC’s 44-storey global headquarters in Canary Wharf for just over £1.1bn.
  • (10) What’s the EU ever done for us?” Zak Kelly, 21, asks me this standing next to a brand new complex of buildings and facilities that wouldn’t look out of place in Canary Wharf.
  • (11) It’s not Canary Wharf, though, it’s Ebbw Vale, a former steel town of 18,000 people in the heart of the Welsh valleys, where 62% of the population – the highest proportion in Wales – voted Leave.
  • (12) The Qataris have been rebuffed in their attempt to buy Canary Wharf and add yet another London landmark to a string of trophy assets in the capital.
  • (13) In London, for instance, the insincere granite cladding of Canary Wharf owes much to his example.
  • (14) The company had an address in Canary Wharf and an impressive website, and was being promoted by enthusiastic brokers who told of how the company was expanding at a rapid rate.
  • (15) A more relevant figure might be that the old City and Canary Wharf each has around 45,000 fully fledged bankers.
  • (16) HS2AA director Hilary Wharf said: "Since the start of this project there has been a sorry story of the government trying to avoid important environmental protection requirements which are enshrined in law.
  • (17) Yet Canary Wharf is this big, swell, ugly, garish, comforting exception, a place so consummately about banking that the escalator from the tube runs straight into a bank, the bank runs straight into the Waitrose and I have never found out how you get to the street (is there a street?).
  • (18) Trinity Mirror chief executive Sly Bailey, gazing across London from her Canary Wharf eyrie as she contemplates how to capitalise on the Burrell coup and permanently reverse the downward fortunes of the Daily Mirror and its Sunday stablemates, will not be cheered by the reminder that while blondes may have more fun, moguls have more muscle.
  • (19) The Gherkin office tower in the City was bought by Brazilian billionaire banker Joseph Safra for more than £700m last month, while the Qatari Investment Authority acquired HSBC tower in Canary Wharf for more than £1.1bn.
  • (20) Beyond it will rise a visual wall of glass skyscrapers along the river's south bank, two at Blackfriars, another behind Tate Modern, a higher King's Reach tower at London Bridge and at Bermondsey the 1,000ft "glass shard", taller even than the highest structure at Canary Wharf.

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