What's the difference between stew and steward?

Stew


Definition:

  • (n.) A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.
  • (n.) An artificial bed of oysters.
  • (v. t.) To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples.
  • (v. i.) To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.
  • (v. t.) A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.
  • (v. t.) A brothel; -- usually in the plural.
  • (v. t.) A prostitute.
  • (v. t.) A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.
  • (v. t.) A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
  • (2) But it includes other delicious things, too: pot-roasted squab, stewed rabbit, braised oxtail.
  • (3) Four University of the Free State students filmed themselves drinking in a bar and then one of them urinating into a stew before feeding it to five black staff members, four of them women, at their dormitory on the Bloemfontein campus accompanied by shouts of "take it, take it".
  • (4) We have included pig’s trotters in our recipe to give the stew a gelatinous richness, and you can also throw in some ears for the same effect.
  • (5) Despite the spring-heeled bounce in their hair-raising hardcore storm – and their productive affair with Funkmaster George Clinton – the Peppers’ soul stew remains predominantly, ragingly punky.
  • (6) By any measure Poland’s recent history is one of triumph It was a war that was as much personal as it was political, with enmities that had been stewing for a decade erupting as the lid of communist rule was lifted.
  • (7) But rather than stew in bitterness, Hodgson's departure seems to have focused the band in much the same way as getting dropped in their early days (in their incarnation as Parva) did.
  • (8) But it was sociable, too – Roberto organised a barbecue (with steaks from his cattle-farmer friend) and a fish supper (with octopus stew from his fisherman friend).
  • (9) Readers may recall the Burl Ives record about a poor, cold, tired hobo who sings about the fantastical land with "the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees, where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings …" Yup, that's where we're living now, although the chancellor might have ruled out "the lake of stew and of whiskey too", since whisky is up 36p a bottle, while stew tax remains unchanged.
  • (10) However often its members drop elderly patients or leave them to stew in their own pee, the RCN gracefully embraces the public's image of them as the National Union of Angels.
  • (11) GCSE results are a thin gruel to feed developing minds when what is needed is a rich stew Jeremy Cushing We won’t see real progress until politicians treat education more like medicine, supporting a coherent programme of gradual research-based improvements, creatively designed and carefully developed until they work well.
  • (12) The muscle and fatty tissue of 101 deep-frozen fattened stewing chickens was tested for Hg content.
  • (13) ID7720613 Restaurante da Praia, Praia da Arrifana, Algarve Stewed octopus with sweet potato is the speciality at this restaurant, which sits alone at the bottom of the steep access road that winds down to one of Portugal’s most beautiful and geologically interesting beaches.
  • (14) Gastric emptying and small bowel transit were measured by computer analysis of data from a scintillation camera using technetium Tc 99m-tagged chicken liver mixed with beef stew and were compared with the results in five control subjects.
  • (15) When they drive you from the detention centre to the courthouse, this is what happens: reveille even before the communal breakfast, stewing in your own sweat while hunched over in the "beaker" [a minuscule isolation cell for special prisoners inside the prisoner transport lorry], transport through the Moscow traffic jams – a minimum of two hours.
  • (16) The study provides data which suggest that the consumption of red meat, savoury meals (pizza, pies, stew, etc.)
  • (17) It was found that boiling in water and frying decreased twofold the ammonia content in meat, while stewing produced no effect.
  • (18) Over my week in the Netherlands, I’d tried other delicacies: locust tabbouleh; chicken crumbed in buffalo worms; bee larvae ceviche; tempura-fried crickets; rose beetle larvae stew; soy grasshoppers; chargrilled sticky rice with wasp paste; buffalo worm, avocado and tomato salad; a cucumber, basil and locust drink; and a fermented, Asian-style dipping sauce made from grasshoppers and mealworms.
  • (19) There must be something to marry with the richness of the stew, and nothing beats the fluffy inside of a camp-baked potato.
  • (20) GB Burlotto Barolo Monvigliero, Piedmont, Italy 2008 (£28, The Wine Society ) This has the classic barolo paradox of power (14.5% alcohol) and ethereal fragrance (rose floral and subtle earthiness), but there's a ripeness and generosity of fruit here that you don't always find in nebbiolo at this age: a treat for wild mushroom risotto or pulse-based stews.

Steward


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To manage as a steward.
  • (n.) A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to manage the domestic concerns, supervise other servants, collect the rents or income, keep accounts, and the like.
  • (n.) A person employed in a hotel, or a club, or on board a ship, to provide for the table, superintend the culinary affairs, etc. In naval vessels, the captain's steward, wardroom steward, steerage steward, warrant officers steward, etc., are petty officers who provide for the messes under their charge.
  • (n.) A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a Methodist church.
  • (n.) In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
  • (n.) In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recovery was assessed by means of a modified Steward coma scale.
  • (2) A 30-year-old steward told the Guardian that the conditions under the bridge were "cold and wet and we were told to get our head down [to sleep]".
  • (3) Molly Prince, managing director of the company, refuted the Guardian story with some lustily expressed but random facts: "CPUK have not only purchased tents for everyone (some stewards wanted to use their own but it was too wet to put them up, they insisted in having a go!).
  • (4) And it can be a good idea to apply to do a one-off to see if there’s an appetite to do more and whether you have enough people willing to be stewards.
  • (5) Dressed in saris, the hijras gave an air-steward style demonstration of how to wear the belt while directing saucy, suggestive remarks at the drivers watching them.
  • (6) "These actions are not coming from the stewards, they are coming from the lads."
  • (7) On Monday, police took over security at stadiums in Durban and Cape Town amid protests by stewards.
  • (8) Officers were pelted with missiles, including shards of glass from shattered shopfronts, as stewards from the demonstration called for calm and tried to separate police from protesters.
  • (9) We have created no framework in which owners are required to commit to companies over time, to steward their assets and to act as trustees for the living, breathing social organisations that companies are.
  • (10) I was raised in a traditional way and regard it as my job to be a steward of the land.
  • (11) In a real sense it not only pits 36-year-old Smith, a former BBC producer and lobbyist, against Dai Davies, former shop steward at the down defunct steel works, but Blairism against Bevanism and Nye's ghost.
  • (12) The action spread by phone in "a domino effect", stewards said.
  • (13) Two Navy stewards waited on us, only entering the room to serve food and drinks,” Comey writes.
  • (14) Ruth Dear Ruth… Will Hutton Photograph: Guardian There is a danger of utopian myth in this, rather like the Labour left and shop steward movement in the 1960s.
  • (15) "From redundancy payments through to the failed DMI project, the BBC has not always been the steward of public money that it should have been," said Tony Hall, the corporation's director general.
  • (16) What we found, particularly here in Parramatta, is that we have large numbers of clients coming who just want general information,” says Steward.
  • (17) Two hours later, as we trooped off into blinding Caribbean sun, the steward was still beaming.
  • (18) Then 26% of people said they trusted David Cameron and George Osborne most on the economy, compared with 24% who preferred Ed Miliband and Ed Balls as stewards of the nation's finances.
  • (19) Ronaldo side-stepped him and the invader was quickly brought to ground by a rugby tackle from one of the chasing stewards.
  • (20) "It is important that you follow all instructions given by stewards," said a spokesman.