What's the difference between yeoman and yeomanry?

Yeoman


Definition:

  • (n.) A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.
  • (n.) A servant; a retainer.
  • (n.) A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry.
  • (n.) An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 35:1249-1255) and in mitogen-stimulated normal human lymphocytes (Yeoman et al.
  • (2) Yeomans said there was not one simple solution, but the federal government needed to take a leadership role and involve all three levels of government.
  • (3) Justin Peters at Slate has done yeoman's work in addressing this issue.
  • (4) Photograph: Mark Yeoman Yet the orthodoxy prevails.
  • (5) Chicago’s Homan Square 'black site': surveillance, military-style vehicles and a metal cage Read more William Yeomans, who worked in the civil rights division from 1981 to 2005, and served as its acting attorney, said the allegations about off-the-books interrogations and barred access to legal counsel reported by the Guardian merited a preliminary investigation to confirm them, a first step toward a full civil rights investigation.
  • (6) Yeomans said it was not just the very poor who were adversely affected by high house prices.
  • (7) Yeomans said the North Carolina legislation represented "a sad day" for democracy in the US.
  • (8) A nuclear nonhistone protein which decreases in chromatin during growth (Yeoman, L. C., et al.
  • (9) Nonhistone protein BA has been shown to decrease in amount in the chromatin of growth- stimulated normal rat liver (Yeoman et al.
  • (10) How British hearts swelled with pride though, when Beckham was sent off during a Spanish league game in 2004 after calling a linesman a " hijo de puta " (son of a bitch) – even though we knew, really, that he remained a monoglot yeoman with a squeaky voice.
  • (11) We have previously shown that a 30 kDa DNA-binding protein isolated from rat cell nuclei exhibits the chemical and immunological properties of glutathione S-transferase Yb subunits [Bennett, Spector & Yeoman (1986) J.
  • (12) The name of Manchester City winger James Milner features prominently on his shopping list , although Liverpool, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur are also interested, but a bid of £10m might convince City suits to sell their Yorkshire yeoman.
  • (13) Two yeoman warders in medieval tunics, who had come from London with the constable of the Tower of London, Lord Dannatt, stood with their backs to the south door of the cathedral, as if the Tudors or Lancastrians might try to break in at any moment.
  • (14) I had long ago decided I was going to do everything I could with my yeoman-like work ethic to become as much of a maker as I am a taker.
  • (15) Ruth Yeoman is head of the academic research, leadership education and organisation development work at the centre for mutual and employee-owned business that is part of Oxford University.
  • (16) Protein C23 (Mr 110 000, pI = 5.5), a major phosphoprotein in the nucleolus of mammalian cells, has been shown to contain 1.3 mol% of NG,NG-dimethylarginine (DMA) [Lischwe, M.A., Roberts, K.D., Yeoman, L.C., & Busch, H. (1982) J. Biol.
  • (17) William Yeomans, a law professor in Washington and a former chief of staff in the Justice Department, said Texas and North Carolina may just be the start of a series of legal battles over voter rights in states across the country.
  • (18) Read more Mission Australia’s chief executive, Catherine Yeomans, said surging house prices were sending people into crisis accommodation for months instead of weeks and pushing them to the fringes of society.
  • (19) A DNA-binding nonhistone protein, protein BA, was previously demonstrated to co-localize with U-snRNPs within discrete nuclear domains (Bennett, F. C., and L. C. Yeoman, 1985, Exp.
  • (20) Donald Yeomans, of Nasa's near-Earth object programme, said in an interview posted on space agency's website : "There are three possibilities when this comet rounds the sun.

Yeomanry


Definition:

  • (n.) The position or rank of a yeoman.
  • (n.) The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders.
  • (n.) The yeomanry cavalry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I find it very embarrassing when people ask what they should call me – then, I stumble.” Although he had to start learning the management of the family estates instead of taking up an army career as intended, Grosvenor did serve with the Territorials, in the Queen’s Own Yeomanry cavalry regiment, rising through the ranks, attending the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and eventually becoming a major-general and assistant chief of the defence staff with responsibility for the army reserves and cadets.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Duke of Westminster greets the Prince of Wales during the celebrations for The Queen’s Own Yeomanry’s 40th anniversary in 2011.
  • (3) From 1939 he served in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, was mentioned in dispatches and awarded a military OBE in 1944.
  • (4) As a teenager, she was a key witness in a celebrated murder case, the 1941 shooting of the 22nd Earl of Erroll, and at 17 she joined the first aid nursing yeomanry in the Women's Territorials during the second world war.
  • (5) Dunsby, who is from Somerset and worked as an analyst for the MoD, was a member of the Army Reserves (The Royal Yeomanry).
  • (6) And partly because I could (figuratively speaking) hear my father moving about in the basement.” Like many baby boomers, Motion, a youthful 61, lives in the shadow of the second world war, still coming to terms with the wartime career of his father, Richard, who landed at Gold Beach on D-Day as a 20-year-old tank commander with the Essex Yeomanry.
  • (7) But now he is the unlikely, urbane champion of an English yeomanry in rebellion against Brussels, and he can turn up for a solo gig at Nottingham’s Albert Hall, and get cheered to the rafters.
  • (8) Dunsby was a member of the Army Reserves (The Royal Yeomanry).
  • (9) He was an officer in the Lanarkshire Yeomanry, but an injury to his back limited his activity during the war.

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