What's the difference between cello and violoncello?

Cello


Definition:

  • (n.) A contraction for Violoncello.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His father, an insurance salesman, played the cello and his mother the piano.
  • (2) I'm sitting there, and nobody else seemed to have seen the elephant in the room – that this cello bow, with all this stuff fitted on it, bore no relation to a real cello bow.
  • (3) Stability tests included: (1) use test designed to simulate patient use from a single bottle of 100 tablets over a one-month period; (2) an open plate study wherein tablets were exposed to the atmosphere for 100 days; (3) strip packaging of tablets using foil-foil or foil-cello systems; (4) placement of tablets in medication cups for a seven-day period; (5) repackaging 30-tablet batches in a variety of common prescription containers.
  • (4) The ticket cost a fortune, they made me pay extra for my cello.
  • (5) Dilla was, perhaps, the only hip-hop producer to have studied the cello ("Not the instrument of choice in the ghetto," as his mother puts it in the sleevenotes) as a child, and his work is full of the sort of subtle but powerful differences that a composition-based education might provide, as Atwood-Ferguson noticed when he broke down the pieces ahead of arranging them for the orchestra.
  • (6) It was about being told that a girl couldn't play guitar when you're sitting in school next to girls playing violin and cello and Beethoven and Bach.
  • (7) His next project may or may not be a cello sonata called Get Lucky.
  • (8) The MUGase hydrolysed cellobiose, cellotriose, cellotetraose, cellopentaose and cellohexaose to glucose, by sequentially cleaving glucose residues from the non-reducing end of the cello-oligosaccharides.
  • (9) They wanted her to conform (study quietly, Qur’an class, Scottish country dancing), but she wanted to rebel (drama, playing cello, debating societies).
  • (10) Our current band is called Quattrio , in which I play recorder, Cath plays violin, Rita plays harpsichord and Jo played cello, but had to leave the group last year.
  • (11) The purified component showed little capacity for hydrolysing highly ordered substrates (e.g., cotton fibre), but poorly ordered substrates (e.g., H3PO4-swollen cellulose), and the soluble cello-oligosaccharides cellotetraose and cellohexaose, were readily hydrolysed; cellobiose was the principal product in each case.
  • (12) Performers will include cellist, singer and conductor Simon Wallfisch, grandson of 89-year-old Anita Lasker-Wallfisch – a surviving member of the women’s orchestra in Auschwitz, who played cello for the notorious Dr Josef Mengele.
  • (13) This was where Daniel Albrecht, a 21-year-old cello student from Berlin, had his head beaten so badly that he needed surgery to stop bleeding in his brain.
  • (14) Turnover numbers for hydrolysis of the umbelliferyl cello-oligosaccharides were calculated, and these, along with the other analytical data collected on the products of hydrolysis of the normal, reduced and radiolabelled cello-oligosaccharides, suggested that the various endoglucanases had different roles to play in the overall hydrolysis of cellulose to sugars small enough to be transported through the cell membrane.
  • (15) It is a total shambles,” he said, hauling his cello red-faced through the crowds.
  • (16) The case was complicated by non-traumatic ulnar entrapment neuropathy interfering with the patient's profession as a musician (cello).
  • (17) Perla had a tiny, four-string pink guitar that looked like a toy, her sisters Rozika and Franziska played on quarter-sized violins, Frieda struck on the cimbalom, Micki played both a half-sized cello and accordion, while the energetic Elizabeth took on the drums.
  • (18) The beta-glucosidase removed glucosyl residues from the non-reducing end of the [1-3H]cello-oligosaccharides in a multiple attack mode with little tendency to attack the substrates repetitively.
  • (19) Thirty-eight had CELLO and 41 had a histologically normal cardia.
  • (20) The enzyme differed from the major cellulases (EC 3.2.1.4) of pea in: (a) susceptibility to inhibition by cello-oligosaccharides, (b) polysaccharide substrate specificity, (c) inducibility by auxin, (d) requirement for salt in the extraction buffer and (e) activation by 2-mercaptoethanol.

Violoncello


Definition:

  • (n.) A stringed instrument of music; a bass viol of four strings, or a bass violin with long, large strings, giving sounds an octave lower than the viola, or tenor or alto violin.

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