What's the difference between voyager and voyageur?
Voyager
Definition:
(n.) One who voyages; one who sails or passes by sea or water.
Example Sentences:
(1) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(2) He set sail on his $15m yacht Sorcerer II on an unending voyage with the mission, along the way, "to put everything that Darwin missed into context" and map the whole world's genetic components.
(3) The countdown has begun for Tim Peake’s exciting voyage into space .
(4) Possible mechanisms of changes developing in conditions of long-term voyage, especially the role of the state of the vegetative nervous system, and possibilities of prophylactic measures stimulating the weakening of dysfunctional disturbances are discussed.
(5) She was perhaps surprised to hear that the whole scheme of the thing came to Gaiman when, severely jet-lagged and sleep-deprived on a stopover in Reykjavik, he saw the tourist centre's diorama of Leif Erikson's voyage to America.
(6) Cyclist Mark Beaumont, 28, from Fife, was also on board making a documentary about the voyage for the BBC.
(7) The peculiarities of the circulatory functions were examined in sailors following nautical voyages of varying duration and directly on board during a 6-month cruise.
(8) China blasted off its Long March-7 new generation carrier rocket on a successful inaugural voyage on Saturday from a new launch centre, state media reported, as the country races ahead with an ambitious space program.
(9) The sea voyage takes roughly 1½ hours; tickets start at €10pp; advance booking is recommended during high season Ventotene Facebook Twitter Pinterest The piazza in Ventotene.
(10) The trip's leader, Huigen Yang, told Reuters this week that Chinese shipping companies, encouraged by the ship's success, may be planning a commercial voyage along the same route as soon as this summer.
(11) But it is also the incantatory darkness of dreams and visions, death and memory, as an observing consciousness creeps into the "blinded bedrooms" of the town's inhabitants, hushing and inviting us on: "Come now, drift up the dark, come up the drifting sea-dark street now in the dark night seesawing like the sea ... " Blind Captain Cat is dreaming of long-ago sea voyages and long-dead lovers; twice-widowed Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard of her henpecked husbands; Organ Morgan of musical extravaganzas; Polly Garter of babies; Mary Ann Sailors of the Garden of Eden; Dai Bread of "Turkish girls.
(12) Just as important, legal channels must be created for refugees to claim asylum without undergoing deadly voyages across the sea or hidden in trucks.
(13) Shipowners have said it can save them €180,000-€300,000 on each voyage.
(14) Eighty naval cadets, unaccustomed to sailing in heavy seas reported during voyages on the high seas, symptoms of seasickness every hour for 4 consecutive hours after ingestion of 1 g of the drug or placebo.
(15) Nine galleries narrate the tale, from context-setting in boomtown early 1900s Belfast, through construction and fitting-out, all the way to the launch and catastrophic maiden voyage.
(16) The Tornados, based at Akrotiri in Cyprus, rely on Voyager air-to-air refuelling tanker aircraft to sustain long-distance air patrols.
(17) It took some 1500 years to double this number by the time of Columbus' voyage to America.
(18) Sorensen has sailed deep into ice at both poles for 30 years, but this voyage is different, he says.
(19) During their voyage, they traverse the three acinus zones, and since in each they produce different enzymes, each zone represents a differentiation state of the advancing cell.
(20) It all amounts to increasing uncertainty at Leeds, the latest squall on their voyage through choppy waters.
Voyageur
Definition:
(n.) A traveler; -- applied in Canada to a man employed by the fur companies in transporting goods by the rivers and across the land, to and from the remote stations in the Northwest.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a series of experiments over a 10 year period on Alexis St. Martin, a 19 year old Canadian voyageur with a traumatic gastric fistula, Beaumont was the first to describe many important aspects of the digestive process.