What's the difference between tour and verger?

Tour


Definition:

  • (n.) A tower.
  • (v. t.) A going round; a circuit; hence, a journey in a circuit; a prolonged circuitous journey; a comprehensive excursion; as, the tour of Europe; the tour of France or England.
  • (v. t.) A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies.
  • (v. t.) anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn; as, a tour of duty.
  • (v. i.) To make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
  • (2) In a new venture, BDJ Study Tours will offer a separate itinerary for partners on the Study Safari so whilst the business of dentistry gets under way they can explore additional sights in this fascinating country.
  • (3) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
  • (4) Tracks were almost exclusively written on tour, including this jolting number, with an additional four tracks recorded in the studio.
  • (5) Originally from Pyongyang, the tour guide explains that a “merited artist” from Mansudae, North Korea’s biggest art studio in Pyongyang, was responsible for the main piece, but that it took 63 artists almost two years to complete.
  • (6) The wives and girlfriends who were originally invited to accompany their playing partners on the World Cup tour have had their invitations formally rescinded.
  • (7) That is why he once considered a move to the Foreign Office, and why he will be touring Europe’s capitals over the coming months, starting with Paris this week.
  • (8) Groups on both sides have published blog posts, and some offer tours of the area and its history.
  • (9) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
  • (10) Findings and impressions of a member of a British medical support group who toured the health services in newly independent Mozambique in September 1975.
  • (11) I encourage you to visit your local care home on Friday to take part in the activities, from dance classes to tours of care homes.
  • (12) Sources said that when Mitchell toured the Commons tea rooms on Wednesday and Thursday, he was taken aback by the opposition to him staying put, despite Cameron's support.
  • (13) The US had said a Kenyatta win would have "consequences" and, when president Barack Obama undertook on a tour of Africa in June and July, he did not visit his ancestral home.
  • (14) But this no-nonsense venue, just 10km but a world away from parliament, is the latest stop in a national pro-renewables tour that is making the Abbott government decidedly uncomfortable.
  • (15) Sera collected in winter contain significantly (p less than 0.05) higher concentrations of the first tour--14.9, 13.4, 9k9, and 7.5%, respectively--than do sera collected in summer; thyrotropin concentrations are similar in samples collected during winter and summer (p greater than 0.05).
  • (16) Subs: Jones, Toure, Alberto, Aspas, Cissokho, Rossiter, Smith.
  • (17) Morrissey has cancelled his entire US tour, citing a respiratory infection and 'acute fever ' he claims he caught from his support act, Kristeen Young.
  • (18) We haven’t toured that much, for many different reasons.
  • (19) Here's a tribute from the historic Apollo theater in Harlem, New York City: Touré (@Toure) Photo: The Apollo Theater in Harlem remembers Nelson Mandela.
  • (20) On The Go (+44 (0)20 7371 1113, onthegotours.com ) offers five days in Shanghai with a day tour from £349pp (excl.

Verger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.
  • (n.) An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc.
  • (n.) The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.
  • (n.) A garden or orchard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This description of the group was endorsed Dr Philippe Verger, a WHO official and secretary of the UN panel on glyphosate.
  • (2) The kinetic results presented in the form of double reciprocal plots of initial velocity against bulk PC or interfacial PC concentration were linear according to the Verger et al.
  • (3) Verger told the Guardian: “ILSI is not an independent body.
  • (4) In comparison to the previous procedure reported by Verger, R., de Hass, G.H., Sarda, L and Desnuelle, P. (1969) Biochim.
  • (5) Finally the isoenzymes were separated on CM-cellulose as in the Verger procedure, but under slightly modified conditions.
  • (6) kinetic model (Verger, R., Mieras, M. C. E., and de Haas, G. H. (1973) J. Biol.
  • (7) We previously reported that the inhibition of pancreatic and Rhizopus delemar lipases by proteins is due to the protein associated with lipid and is not caused by direct protein-enzyme interaction in the aqueous phase [Gargouri, Y., Piéroni, G., Rivière, C., Sugihara, A., Sarda, L., & Verger, R. (1985) J. Biol.
  • (8) Several 2-acylaminophospholipid analogues have been demonstrated to behave as potent competitive inhibitors of porcine pancreatic phospholipase A2 (De Haas, G.H., Dijkman, R., Ransac, S. and Verger, R. (1990) Biochim.
  • (9) Verger said: “Every year we evaluate 10-30 compounds, and I can tell you that a lot of them are more dangerous and potent than glyphosate.
  • (10) A. Virtanen, R. Verger, and P. K. J. Kinnunen (1987) Biochim.
  • (11) (Gargouri, Y., Moreau, H., Piéroni, G. and Verger, R. (1988) J. Biol.