What's the difference between canto and cento?

Canto


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
  • (n.) The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Eric Canto delivers his concession speech in Richmond, Virginia.
  • (2) Whole tracts of Pound's Cantos are "found" passages lifted verbatim from secondary sources.
  • (3) Doubles from £33, B&B Pousada Canto Bravo, Ilhabela Bonete beach Accessible only by foot or boat, Canto Bravo sits, illuminated mostly by candlelight, on the isolated beach of Bonete (pictured), regarded as one of Brazil’s finest.
  • (4) Alan Fairlamb, professor, University of Dundee , Dundee, Scotland Make drug research available to all, but keep co-ordinated when using it : The Tres Cantos Open Lab Foundation founded by GlaxoSmithKline is an interesting example of open science.
  • (5) In the opening canto, Dante is "full of sleep", and when he meets Paolo and Francesca he is so moved by their story that he drops into unconsciousness – "as if I were dying, as a dead body falls".
  • (6) The wonderful Villa Balthazar is run by Swedish couple Petra and Felix, who have turned their home in the tropics into a dreamy retreat on Praia do Canto beach.
  • (7) "Canto 25 specifically points us to this spot," Langton insisted.
  • (8) In 1979 he celebrated his appointment as principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra with a typically electrifying concert of Brian Ferneyhough, Brahms – the First Piano Concerto, with his long-term concerto partner Maurizio Pollini – and Tchaikovsky, to whose symphonies he always brought a bel canto beauty of line.
  • (9) Patchett, who won the prize 10 years ago for Bel Canto, is shortlisted for State of Wonder, a gripping Amazonian adventure story about the search for a drug that could change women's lives.
  • (10) It is no longer restricted to large, faceless hotels; I was here to visit the island’s first glampsite, Canto das Fontes .
  • (11) Earlier work had suggested an intra-axonal dissemination for this virus (M. C. Dal Canto and H. L. Lipton, Am.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Canto das Fontes glamping site, Madeira The reality turned out to be rather different.
  • (13) • Where to stay: If you want comfort, Canto Bravo .
  • (14) The company has offered developers in neglected medicines laboratory space at a centre in Tres Cantos, near Madrid.
  • (15) joedolce.net The National Anthem of Italy – Il Canto degli Italiani , which translates as The Song of the Italians – is a lively patriotic lyric, a musical mix between a church hymn and a military march.
  • (16) Photograph: Alamy Canto das Fontes is a magical place: just two tipis on a banana farm on Madeira’s sunny south coast.

Cento


Definition:

  • (n.) A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed in a new order.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In February 2003, he appeared at the Carnevale di Cento in Ferrara, where the crowd jeered and heckled before pelting him with eggs.
  • (2) She had to write 10 poems, including, impressively, a sonnet, a villanelle and a cento, but thinks her narrative poem Metamorphosis was her best.

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