What's the difference between allegretto and allegro?

Allegretto


Definition:

  • (a.) Quicker than andante, but not so quick as allegro.
  • (n.) A movement in this time.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thus, this fragment likely represents the complement of a larger hormone-bound fragment that we have previously described (Allegretto, E. A., and Pike, J.W.

Allegro


Definition:

  • (a.) Brisk, lively.
  • (n.) An allegro movement; a quick, sprightly strain or piece.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But as introspective anguish in the opening Largo twists suddenly into a turbulent, rushing allegro molto, Christy and Chloe turn their faces away from the stage and stare at each other, startled and wide-eyed, as if to say: "Did you hear that ?
  • (2) To establish a reference range, we measured intact parathyrin (parathyroid hormone, PTH) in 245 healthy postmenopausal women, ages 42-75 years, with use of the Allegro Intact PTH Kit from Nichols Institute Diagnostics.
  • (3) Employing a new intact PTH immunoradiometric assay (Allegro-Nichols), we reassessed the effects of pregnancy on parathyroid function.
  • (4) Simon Goodley : It may seem like the start the start of a Jasper Carrott joke, but the Reliant Robin, the Austin Allegro, and MGB V have qualified as "classic cars" – exempting them from road tax and potentially boosting their value.
  • (5) In a hyperthyroid-euthyroid comparison, three of the procedures, the Magic-Lite, Delfia, and Allegro, differentiated the two with 97% accuracy, the Stratus procedure with only 90% accuracy.
  • (6) We compared four sensitive procedures for thyrotropin (TSH)--Corning's Magic-Lite, ElectroNucleonics' Delfia, Baxter's Stratus, Nichols' Allegro--for their ability to completely discriminate TSH concentrations in sera in euthyroidism, hyperthyroidism, and hypothyroidism.
  • (7) In his book, Crap Cars, Richard Porter summed up the Allegro - which at launch boasted a square steering wheel - thus: "The Godfather of the crap car....The only bit they got even vaguely right was the rust-proofing".
  • (8) Independent variables--age, menopausal status (binary) and intact serum PTH by Allegro immunometric assay.
  • (9) The movie is slower, darker and more cynical than anything Aaron Sorkin would write, and West Wing addicts might well find this a little bit adagio compared to the galloping allegro of Sorkin's rat-a-tat style.
  • (10) Sondheim has often said that his career has been an exercise in figuring out what went wrong with the second half of Allegro , the Rodgers and Hammerstein flop that mystified audiences, in the middle of their run of huge successes.
  • (11) Results by the assay correlate well with those by a cAMP-based bioassay and the Nichols Allegro immunoradiometric assay.

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