What's the difference between choir and consort?

Choir


Definition:

  • (n.) A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service.
  • (n.) That part of a church appropriated to the singers.
  • (n.) The chancel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bono then serenaded the archbishop with the U2 hit Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, backed by the gospel choir.
  • (2) He has plans to assemble choirs of 17 people in Derry, China and Brazil, and 17 Tutsis and 17 Hutus in Rwanda.
  • (3) Steel bands, choirs and dancers performed while the mass of people, many with their children, blew horns and whistles as they passed alongside parliament.
  • (4) As the cathedral clergy in their golden robes snaked in their stately procession around the nave, with the choir all in white and the bishops in white and scarlet, the theatre still seemed moving enough.
  • (5) Founded in 1982, Twenty Twenty is the company behind factual programmes such as The Choir, That'll Teach 'Em', Bad Lads Army, Brat Camp and current BBC2 show Grandad's Back in Business.
  • (6) Recent BBC2 hits included science series Wonders of the Solar System, the Springwatch-inspired Lambing Live, sitcom Miranda and The Choir follow-up Unsung Town.
  • (7) Bob gave a really touching speech before we started singing, so that really got everybody in the mind frame that we needed to be in to remind us that it’s fun but we’re here for a really serious reason.” Sandé added that the participants “sounded like a really powerful choir” when they sang the chorus.
  • (8) Musical interludes, courtesy of Gwyneth Paltrow, Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson and, in over the end credits, an enormous children's choir belting out Over the Rainbow were only marginally better received.
  • (9) Another hero of the punk era, Mick Jones of the Clash, who co-wrote My Daddy was a Bank Robber, was also present but the music was left to the choir and the Alabama Three who sang Too Sick to Pray.
  • (10) I hate it when people are very different online than they are in person, and she’s very unified,” says Choire Sicha, her former editor at Gawker.
  • (11) The people of Great Britain, with the co-ordination of a shoal of mullet, didn’t just put the Lewisham and Greenwich choir in with a bullet, they made sure to buy enough of Bieber’s own work that his generous spirit would be rewarded with chart spots two, three and five.
  • (12) At the 1996 Brit Awards he was accompanied on stage by a children's choir, prompting a stage invasion by Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, who claimed his attitude was "Messiah-like".
  • (13) He and his scraggy, kind old dog Gerard were based every evening at Leicester Square tube (exit 1), and for the past two years we met every week on my way home from choir.
  • (14) Those who refer to such gatherings as simply preaching to the choir miss the point.
  • (15) Shorter, a retired electrician from Kent, began singing for the first time after joining the care home’s newly formed choir last year.
  • (16) My friends and I had formed the choir at university, calling ourselves Coro Bajocuerda, which means “against the ropes”; it’s how we felt living under Pinochet’s oppressive regime.
  • (17) "This is the first time we've been able to throw out an idea like, 'Dude, it'd be cool to have a gospel choir', and it wouldn't get shot down."
  • (18) This meant that if a parent was involved in flower arranging or choir rehearsals at church, they stood a better chance of securing their child a place.
  • (19) This humiliating practice was nicknamed "the choir".
  • (20) The subjects were 22 male and female junior and senior high school Caucasians in a central Kentucky church youth choir.

Consort


Definition:

  • (n.) One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.
  • (n.) A ship keeping company with another.
  • (n.) Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union.
  • (n.) An assembly or association of persons; a company; a group; a combination.
  • (n.) Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.
  • (v. i.) To unite or to keep company; to associate; -- used with with.
  • (v. t.) To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate.
  • (v. t.) To attend; to accompany.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fructosamine concentration also remained high in consort with increased blood glucose concentration in cats with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus over extended periods.
  • (2) Other reactions include consort dermatitis and reactions to toothpastes, gum and perfumes in paper products, sanitary napkins, ostomy pastes, and detergents.
  • (3) These results suggest that these cytokines may function in consort as regulators of cellular growth and function in normal tissues.
  • (4) The INCA program converts Consort 30-generated fluorescence list mode data collected from Indo-1-stained cells to absolute intracellular calcium concentrations (nM Ca2+i).
  • (5) Unity state’s acting governor, Stephen Taker, and his consorts laughed off questions about whether government and allied forces had abducted women.
  • (6) The three companies work together as Consort Healthcare, with other projects including Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospital and Hope Hospital, Salford .
  • (7) When routine patch testing reveals a positive reaction, the dermatologist should consider exposure to the antigen not only in the patient but also through contact with the patient's consort.
  • (8) At the same age as Kaminski was consorting with fascist skinheads, I was a member of the Young Conservatives .
  • (9) Since then, he has been travelling across Russia and the former Soviet republics in what at times appears to be a concerted effort to consort with the region's least savoury politicians.
  • (10) The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was employed to detect human papillomavirus (HPV) 16 and 18 in cytological samples from the uterine cervix and in urine samples from the male consorts.
  • (11) The sexual consorts of confirmed and suspected STD patients must be promptly evaluated and treated of disease spread is to be curtailed.
  • (12) "The emphasis so far in Qatar has been on literacy, and our second challenge is how to move from literacy to literature to create a culture," said Abdel-Rahman Azzam, a spokesman for Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned, the emir's consort and the chair of the Qatar Foundation.
  • (13) In all but seven instances, the gonococci isolated from different sites of the same patient, or from a consort, had the same nutritional requirements and penicillin MIC.
  • (14) The executive offices overlook a construction site: the trust is part-way through a reconstruction project, funded by a £200m private finance initiative deal with Balfour Beatty and Consort Healthcare.
  • (15) And, if one is not at the zenith of adulation of the Pacific islanders who believe the Prince to be the penis-gourd-sporting Melanesian Messiah, then, at the very least, the example of Britain's longest-serving monarchal consort is deserving of our – and, more specifically, the Duchess of Cambridge's – interest.
  • (16) In 18 male consorts of females with positive cultures, asymptomatic bacteriospermia was found.
  • (17) In mice, only strange male pheromones block pregnancy; pheromones of the familiar male with which the female has mated have the capacity to block pregnancy but are ineffective with the consort female.
  • (18) Of 98 male patients with non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU) who had regular female consorts who received concurrent epidemiological treatment, NGU recurred in four (16%) men whose treated partners were initially chlamydia positive and 20 (27%) men whose treated partners were initially chlamydia negative.
  • (19) He became known as "Wally" after Wallis Simpson, consort of the abdicated Edward VIII and subsequent Duchess of Windsor.
  • (20) In most cases the role of a partner is performed by the consort (26.9%) or by a son or daughter (19.3%).