What's the difference between chalet and wooden?

Chalet


Definition:

  • (n.) A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland.
  • (n.) A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thankfully, mazot guests can also use the lounge and dining room in the Chalet Les Mazots, a lovely wood-panelled home full of antique chairs, chests and cabinets, built by a family of silk manufacturers from Leon who chose the location for their farm for its south-facing views of Mont Blanc.
  • (2) "We tried to get in contact with her at the chalet and we couldn't – she'd left," said her mother Helen, who was at the Rosa Khutor slopes with her father Pete.
  • (3) As a child growing up in the 1960s she loved comics and books including Elinor Brent-Dyer's Chalet School stories , but a career as a writer was not on her radar because she never came across black writers or characters.
  • (4) It also has catered chalets in Italy, such as Chalet Heidi in Arabba , in the Dolomites, catered for the week 3 February for £629pp.
  • (5) But of us four girls since, Pippa died of cancer, Gilly was killed in a plane crash (on the way to my chalet in Switzerland) and Penny – the brightest of us all, the head girl at Rodean – has Alzheimer’s.
  • (6) "I'm not an educated person with any proper schooling," Fury said last year outside the Swiss-style chalet that had been his home in Essen for eight long weeks.
  • (7) He spent two months in a Swiss jail, followed by several months under house arrest at his chalet in the Swiss ski resort of Gstaad, before authorities said they would not be extraditing him.
  • (8) Brigitte's in summer, and the mazot's interior The one I stayed in last March, Brigitte's Mazot, is very cute and just for two; it's down an icy path through the garden behind the main Chalet Les Mazots, not a mazot itself, but a gorgeous 1930s chalet with eight bedrooms (sleeping 14), individually rented by other guests.
  • (9) Here are some examples: in Chamonix , Chamois Blanc 7 is a cute little apartment, with modern decor and lots of pine panelling, sleeping four from €600 in February and March, or €500 in April; while in the Tarentaise, 20 minutes from lovely Sainte-Foy , which has nice runs, great hiking into the backcountry and is within a short drive of La Rosière and Les Arcs, La Tillette is a super-stylish modern chalet sleeping eight, with massive windows and white interiors, L'Occitane toiletries and off-piste skiing to the door.
  • (10) The chalet is just off the main street and has a sauna.
  • (11) Accommodation ranges from tents in a covered long house, small bamboo huts, a raised platform named “the honeymoon suite” and the relative luxury of riverside chalets.
  • (12) • £2,499pp (£625pp) for a family of four (two adults, two children aged two to 10), staying at Chalet Verwall on 23 December.
  • (13) He was said to have used his time under Swiss house arrest at his luxurious Gstaad mountain chalet to work intensely on the film.
  • (14) The hall where it was held is only a stone’s throw from Jaywick , the jumble of former holiday chalets and potholed streets that is reckoned to be the poorest council ward in England: on the face of it, a symbol of the kind of deep social problems that tend to be synonymous with political apathy.
  • (15) We spent several nights at a friendly little chalet-style hotel called Rilindja, hiking around the local villages and eating fresh river trout.
  • (16) Hoenle's cabin, Twentysix , is set in a small crescent of huts designed by one Vic Hallam, who launched the buildings as Anderby Chalets in 1959.
  • (17) For something more affordable, a double chalet at Mango Drift costs from £20 (+265 999 746122, mangodrift.com ) 13 Traverse the 'island in the sky': Mount Mulanje, Malawi Mount Mulanje, Malawi.
  • (18) Low Cost Holidays has seven nights for £485pp self-catering, including flights with easyJet, at the Yagoda & Malina Chalets , among pine trees.
  • (19) The simple chalet where I am staying the night was home at various times to house guests including Elizabeth David and the writer Sybille Bedford, and to James Baldwin (Richard's "petit-ami"), his soulmate and sometime romance; a perfect little trio of portraits of the author of The Fire Next Time , asleep and contemplating the world over coffee, are grouped on one wall.
  • (20) Chalet La Falaise in Les Carroz , which has 144 pistes in Le Grand Massif , sleeps 10 in four bedrooms, and costs £1,600 for the whole self-catering property for the weeks starting 2 and 9 March.

Wooden


Definition:

  • (a.) Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.
  • (a.) Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
  • (2) It’s a bright, simple space with wooden tables and high stalls and offers tastings and beer-making workshops.
  • (3) A model system of exfoliated normal human cervicovaginal squamous cells, exfoliated rodent tumor cells, and acellular, viscous, mucuslike material was used to investigate cell deposition on smear preparations made with three different instruments: plastic spatulas, wooden spatulas, and brush-tipped collectors.
  • (4) I’m staying in a mobile home called a njalla , designed by artist and architect Joar Nango, which sits on wooden skis that allow you to drag it to a spot of your choosing.
  • (5) 11.21pm GMT Tweets Jeremiah Tittle (@WWWJT) @LengelDavid @Paolo_Bandini @HunterFelt @GdnUSsports remove the wooden beam from your own eye before you remove the speck from the umpires'.
  • (6) Up to 100 children may have died in the weekend’s catastrophic shipwreck in the Mediterranean, a relief agency has said as prosecutors in Sicily arrested the alleged commander of the wooden fishing vessel and a member of his crew.
  • (7) On buccal tooth surfaces, the cleaning effect of a multitufted nylon brush was superior to that of a wooden toothpick or unwaxed dental floss.
  • (8) Wooden construction results in low cost and minimizes radiation scatter problems associated with higher density materials.
  • (9) The teak-coloured wooden garages will be open for business from Monday for drive-in customers in a country where prostitution has been legal since 1942 on the outskirts of the Swiss city.
  • (10) When Philip Roth accepted the biennial International Booker prize honouring some 60 years of his fiction, from Goodbye, Columbus to Nemesis , he sat at a wooden table in the studio adjoining his airy Connecticut retreat looking as much like a retired priest, or judge, as the Grand Old Man of American letters, pushing 79.
  • (11) Tourists take the children out, to the zoo or downtown,” said the head of one orphanage of 16 children, a small wooden house built on stilts in flooded fields.
  • (12) They are furnished with raised wooden floors, good beds, small kitchens and even wood-burning stoves; six have front decks.
  • (13) The patient acquired this fungus by cutting his chin on a wooden floor.
  • (14) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
  • (15) However, this method was much less efficient (31% survival of micro-organisms) on site 3 (wooden surface) than methods 2 (7% survival) and 3 (1% survival).
  • (16) A wooden block is glued to the sound claw and parenteral antibiotics are administered for four to six days.
  • (17) Kondoli was pushing a makeshift wooden cart with the family's bedding and pots and pans, but it looked as if it was about to fall apart.
  • (18) Corrective measures: Chagas: Since brick houses have replaced the wooden ones for several years, new infections are unlikely.
  • (19) Peterson is accused of using a wooden switch to spank his 4-year-old son.
  • (20) The rustic rooms have clay tiles and wooden furniture, and the walls are brightened up with local fabrics.