Banquet vs Beast - What's the difference?
banquet | beast |
A large celebratory meal; a feast.
(archaic) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats.
* Massinger
To participate in a banquet; to feast.
* Milton
(obsolete) To have dessert after a feast.
* Cavendish
To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
* Coleridge
Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.
(more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
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*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
(slang) A large and impressive automobile.
(slang, prisons) A sex offender.
* 1994 , Elaine Player, Michael Jenkins, Prisons After Woolf: Reform Through Riot (page 190)
* 1994 , Adam Sampson, Acts of Abuse: Sex Offenders And the Criminal Justice System (page 83)
(figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
* 2000 , Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon , Berkley (2001), ISBN 9780425180969,
* 2006 , Heather Burt, Adam's Peak , Dundurn Press (2006), ISBN 9781550026467,
* 2011 , :
(British, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
(slang) great; excellent; powerful
* 1999 , "Jason Chue", AMD K6-2 350mhz, FIC VA503+, LGS 64mb PC100 sdram'' (on newsgroup ''jaring.pcbase )
* 2012 , Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits (page 37)
As nouns the difference between banquet and beast
is that banquet is a large celebratory meal; a feast while beast is any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.As verbs the difference between banquet and beast
is that banquet is to participate in a banquet; to feast while beast is to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.As an adjective beast is
great; excellent; powerful.As a proper noun Beast is
a figure in the Book of Revelation (Apocalypse), often identified with Satan or the Antichrist.banquet
English
Noun
(en noun)- We'll dine in the great room, but let the music / And banquet be prepared here.
Verb
- Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets , I would not taste thy treasonous offer.
- Where they did both sup and banquet .
- Just in time to banquet / The illustrious company assembled there.
beast
English
(wikipedia beast)Noun
(en noun)- Boxer was an enormous beast , nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.
citation, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
- Shouts had been heard: 'We're coming to kill you, beasts .' In desperation, Rule 43s had tried to barricade their doors
- For many prisoners and in many prisons, antipathy towards 'nonces' or 'beasts' is little more than an idea
page 905:
- Even unopposed, the natural obstacles are formidable, and defending his line of advance will be a beast of a problem."
page 114:
- He'd be in the hospital a few days — broken collarbone, a cast on his arm, a beast of a headache — but fine.
- And, oh, poor Atlas / The world's a beast of a burden / You've been holding up a long time
Derived terms
* beastly * saddle beastSee also
* belluine (suppletive adjective)Derived terms
* beast fable * beast of burden * beast of draft * beast of prey * beastie * beastly * beastmaster * beauty and the beast * king of beasts * lobola-beast * belly of the beastVerb
(en verb)Adjective
(en adjective)- There is another type from Siemens which is the HYB 39S64XXX(AT/ATL) -8B version (notice the "B" and the end) which is totally beast altogether.
- Translation: a piece of crap, but the rest of the car was totally beast .