What's the difference between amphitheater and coliseum?

Amphitheater


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Amphitheatre

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Speaking to a packed amphitheater of developers here, Alphabet’s flagship company on Wednesday unveiled a hot-rodded personal assistant it says will let people control their homes, book movies, search the internet, ask follow-up questions about an Italian restaurant and sort through dog pictures using voice commands.
  • (2) The abdominal cavities of 50 patients were explored in a specially constructed intraoperative radiotherapy operating amphitheater at the Medical College of Ohio.
  • (3) Nine patients were operated in the COMROC IOEBRT operating amphitheater and five were found to have disease sufficiently limited to allow for IOEBRT.
  • (4) Charcot suggested the name "Parkinson's disease," although he could not resist the comment in his amphitheater lecture series at the Salpêtrière that French physicians (unnamed) had probably described the disorder before 1817.
  • (5) Camping is available seasonally at Ghost Ranch and year-round up the road at Echo Amphitheater.
  • (6) It's not much more than a grassy knoll amphitheater: you'll need to bring a blanket or a chair, and perhaps sneak in your own booze.
  • (7) One hundred fifty-one tumor fragments were collected in the neurosurgical operating amphitheater immediately after removal.
  • (8) At Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, park rangers last September confiscated an unmanned aircraft after it flew above 1,500 visitors seated in an amphitheater and then over the heads of the four presidents carved into the mountain.
  • (9) Check listings for details Zoo Amphitheater Photograph: Michael Durham It's an unlikely pick, but if planned properly, a concert on a lawn with Asian elephants at your back can be a magical evening out.
  • (10) The Microsurgical Laboratory of Paris Hospitals' Anatomy Amphitheater has been organizing an initiation into microsurgery since 1976 and the University Diploma of Microsurgical Techniques of Paris VI University since 1977.
  • (11) Twenty-five patients with a diagnosis of unresectable adenocarcinoma of the pancreas were explored in the Clement O. Miniger (COMROC) IOEBT operating amphitheater at the Medical College of Ohio.
  • (12) A newly recognized confined space, the environment of the surgical amphitheater in which the surgical patient undergoes general anesthesia, has been added.

Coliseum


Definition:

  • (n.) The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Britain’s Got Talent review – Simon Cowell is looking like Caligula after a dull day at the Coliseum Read more The show, won last year by boy band Collabro, began eight years ago with 4.9 million viewers, rising to 8.8 million for its second series launch before hitting the 10 million mark for the first time in 2009 with 10.3 million.
  • (2) In the course of further discussions, ENO expressed a wish to develop an approach and plan which would incorporate the lower planning figure while maintaining a full season at the Coliseum.
  • (3) It moved to the Coliseum only in 1968, for example.
  • (4) Liverpool Empire (0870-606 3536), to 22 November; Coliseum , London WC2 (020-7845 9300), 7-18 January.
  • (5) In 1990, on Nelson Mandela’s first trip to the US after being released from prison, he spoke at the Oakland Coliseum, acknowledging the Campaign Against Apartheid ­– one of the leading campus divestment organizations – and thanking the American students who had held firm in the divestment campaign.
  • (6) We will work, too, with the wider community outside the Coliseum, to develop emerging talent and new audiences.
  • (7) It's the Detroit Tigers vs the Oakland Athletics at O.co Coliseum in the fifth and final game of the ALDS .
  • (8) I am delighted that he has joined us at a time of great change for the company.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ENO will on Thursday announce a pared-down 2016-17 season, with eight operas at the Coliseum in London.
  • (9) We also suggested that the company explore ways to make the Coliseum into a more viable operation, recognising the important national role the Coliseum plays as a venue for both opera and ballet .
  • (10) It could be that Kramer gets that balance right for ENO, and proves to be genuinely imaginative in what he programmes at the Coliseum and, one hopes, in other spaces .
  • (11) His work in opera is quite limited to date – he is currently working at the Coliseum on ENO’s forthcoming Tristan and Isolde , which opens in June, but his previous experience consists of half a dozen shows, two for ENO – Birtwistle’s Punch and Judy at the Young Vic , and Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle in the main house – together with Carmen for Opera North , Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna in Manchester and Pelléas et Melisande and Die Zauberflöte elsewhere in Europe.
  • (12) He points out that before the Coliseum, there were no other dance festivals in the US on anything like that scale.
  • (13) Sanders packed the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Madison, filling its 10,000 seats to show his bid to snatch the Democratic nomination from frontrunner Hillary Clinton isn’t a longshot.
  • (14) They’ve made me the person I am.” La Sylphide, performed by Queensland Ballet , is at the Coliseum, London, 4-8 August.
  • (15) Under the television lights at the North Charleston Coliseum, where Trump yet again took pride of place in center stage and Cruz stood right beside him in recognition of his second-place ranking, the senator accused the billionaire of peddling “extreme” “birther issues” that only four months ago Trump himself had dismissed as immaterial .
  • (16) Presumably, though, he will also want to continue his wider directing career in parallel with what he does at the Coliseum, and in choosing someone for what will be a key role in the coming seasons, but for someone who may well be away from the company for significant periods of time, the ENO board is taking a calculated risk.
  • (17) In 2009, he directed Bartok’s only opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, at the Coliseum and is currently directing Tristan and Isolde for ENO, opening in June.
  • (18) Cressida Pollock, the former McKinsey consultant who is now ENO’s chief executive, has come up with a new business model which will, in the short term at least, see fewer productions at the company’s home, the London Coliseum.
  • (19) Also bizarre was the sewage "mystery mass" at Oakland's Coliseum which sent umpires, Mariners and A's scurrying for higher ground – which happened to be the Raiders locker room.
  • (20) Festival theatre , Edinburgh (0131-529 6000), 13 December to 3 January; Birmingham Hippodrome (0844-338 5000), 28 November to 13 December; Coliseum , London WC2 (020-7845 9300), 11 December to 4 January.

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