What's the difference between arena and coliseum?

Arena


Definition:

  • (n.) The area in the central part of an amphitheater, in which the gladiators fought and other shows were exhibited; -- so called because it was covered with sand.
  • (n.) Any place of public contest or exertion; any sphere of action; as, the arenaof debate; the arena of life.
  • (n.) "Sand" or "gravel" in the kidneys.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the trial Arena admitted involvement in criminal activity, but insisted he was innocent of the murders.
  • (2) This "gender identity movement" has brought together such unlikely collaborators as surgeons, endocrinologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists, and research specialists into a mutually rewarding arena.
  • (3) I first saw them live at the location of the terror attack, Manchester Arena – then the MEN – aged 15, a teen at a gig with my friends, as many of the Grande’s fans were.
  • (4) Arena's final April issue goes on sale next Thursday, 12 March.
  • (5) Joe Gregory, parked outside the arena while waiting to pick up his girlfriend and her sister from the concert, captured its impact on his car’s dashcam.
  • (6) Scaf criticised the Muslim Brotherhood for its premature announcement of the results and stated it was "one of the main causes of division and confusion prevailing the political arena".
  • (7) With gratitude and rejoice, we commemorate the return to International arena.
  • (8) Flank marks, attacks, bites, and retreats were scored over a 15 min test period during which steroid-injected animals were paired in a neutral arena with vehicle-injected conspecifics.
  • (9) Flats by the basketball arena, which will be the site of the first ‘legacy neighbourhood’, Chobham Manor.
  • (10) Despite her own success in that arena arriving seemingly overnight, Debicki rarely sets foot in LA.
  • (11) The Senate refused to agree to this, but did agree to a $430m cut to the Arena budget.
  • (12) It followed the quiet death last month of Arena, which expired due to old age and lack of personality.
  • (13) Prince began ambushing fans in February this year, playing his first big shows since 1995 as he took over arenas in Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and Leeds as well as intimate venues in London and Manchester.
  • (14) In 2004, fewer than 100,000 tickets were sold for arena standup gigs.
  • (15) Celebrities from Justin Bieber to Spike Lee were on hand for the opening of a spectacle that mixes circus tricks with the music of the late King of Pop – a pairing that has already proved lucrative for Cirque on the road with the arena show, Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour .
  • (16) They were crestfallen at the end, Van Buyten departing the arena close to tears with this surely the 36-year-old’s last involvement at a major finals.
  • (17) A retrospective evaluation of 136 newborns treated with mechanical ventilation between 1983 and 1989 at the chilean's southernmost regional hospital of Punta Arenas is presented.
  • (18) Bayern's director of sport, Matthias Sammer, had earlier played down reports suggesting that Thiago was heading to the Allianz Arena.
  • (19) As a result, the procedure, on ethical grounds, has a small place in the arena of family planning.
  • (20) To use a slightly dodgy analogy, standing one's moral ground in the midst of free-market capitalism might be a delusion akin to the idea of Socialism In One Country: if you believe in the usual left-liberal bundle of causes, politics is probably the best arena to pursue them, rather than fixating on what you do with your money.

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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