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Usher vs Displace - What's the difference?

usher | displace |

As verbs the difference between usher and displace

is that usher is to guide people to their seats while displace is to move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.

As a noun usher

is a person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.

usher

English

(wikipedia usher)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.
  • A male escort at a wedding.
  • A doorkeeper in a courtroom.
  • (dated) An underteacher, or assistant master, in a school.

    • Derived terms

    * usherette

    Verb

  • To guide people to their seats.
  • * 1836 , , Sketches by Boz , "The curate. The old lady. The half-pay captain."
    • Her entrance into church on Sunday is always the signal for a little bustle in the side aisle, occasioned by a general rise among the poor people, who bow and curtsey until the pew-opener has ushered the old lady into her accustomed seat, dropped a respectful curtsey, and shut the door;
  • To accompany or escort (someone).
  • * 1898 , , The Rise of the Dutch Republic , page 509
    • Margaret was astonished at the magnificence of the apartments into which she was ushered .
  • (figuratively) To precede; to act as a forerunner or herald.
  • * 1912 , Elizabeth Christine Cook, Literary Influences in Colonial Newspapers, 1704-1750 , page 31
    • Thus the Harvard poets and wits ushered The New England Courant out of existence.
  • (figuratively) to lead or guide somewhere
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 29 , author=Keith Jackson , title=SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0 , work=Daily Record citation , page= , passage=McCoist unexpectedly ushered back a defender of his own with Kirk Broadfoot taking over from Steven Whittaker. There was, of course, another change, Kyle Bartley stepping in at centre-half to replace suspended Dorin Goian.}}

    Derived terms

    * usher in

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    displace

    English

    Verb

    (displac)
  • To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
  • To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
  • (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.

    • Derived terms

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