What's the difference between circuit and vaudeville?

Circuit


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.
  • (n.) The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area.
  • (n.) That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
  • (n.) The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits.
  • (n.) A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.
  • (n.) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.
  • (n.) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
  • (n.) Circumlocution.
  • (v. i.) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
  • (v. t.) To travel around.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
  • (2) Hypertrophy is restricted to subdivisions of the inferior olive included in recurrent cerebello-mesencephalic-olivary circuits.
  • (3) The ability of autoregulate blood flow in the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) circuit is critical to prevent cavitation and air embolism.
  • (4) To explain some of these results a theoretical model is presented to demonstrate that while short circuiting can block the passive ionic movement, it will cause an increase in the energy consumption of the system and introduce certain important changes in the ionic barriers and e.m.fs.
  • (5) DNase I microspheres were then introduced into the extracorporeal circuit which resulted in an acceleration of degradation of acid precipitable 125I-nDNA.
  • (6) A wide range of development possibilities for the printed circuit microelectrode are discussed.
  • (7) Our results were consistent with the modern anesthesia standard in closed circuit t.i.
  • (8) One hour after terminating the extacorporeal circuit, the C.O.P.
  • (9) These effects are not accompanied by significant changes in the transmural electrical potential difference or short-circuit current.
  • (10) Evidence is reviewed suggesting that this latter system may involve a corticostriatal circuit.
  • (11) Several attempts at circuit interruption of type 1 atrial flutter by means of surgical or catheter techniques have been published.
  • (12) To eliminate pacing stimulus afterpotential and detect an evoked response, a hardware feedback circuit and a software template matching algorithm were used to produce a triphasic charge-balanced pacing pulse.
  • (13) Four blood filters included in the extracorporeal circuit were removed one by one at 30-minute intervals.
  • (14) In the ECMO patient, cardiac stun syndrome and electromechanical dissociation can be confused with low circuit volume, pneumothorax, or cardiac tamponade.
  • (15) The transport system was analyzed in terms of an equivalent circuit model comprising a proton motive force (PMF), an active conductance (LH) in series with the pump, and a parallel or passive conductance which may be ignored in this preparation.
  • (16) The type 3 pattern occurred when the antidromic wavefront of early premature beats captured the original circuit exit.
  • (17) Polymethacrylate coated charcoal was inserted in the dialysis circuit before the dialyzer.
  • (18) Since our system is adjusted with square waveforms and composed of a simple analog circuit, it can be compensated easily in real time.
  • (19) The circuit training exercise program, therefore, appears to be an effective method for improving the fitness level of alcoholic patients.
  • (20) Thus, neurons of the habenula and interpeduncular nucleus are under the direct and indirect influence of septal neurons within the limbic forebrain circuit.

Vaudeville


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song.
  • (n.) A theatrical piece, usually a comedy, the dialogue of which is intermingled with light or satirical songs, set to familiar airs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
  • (2) Imitating the white, vaudeville television love-to-hate wrestler Gorgeous George, his forecasts bragged the precise round he was going to win, sometimes combining such box-office larks with couplets of doggerel.
  • (3) | Lucia Graves Read more It was an attempt to resurrect the long-dead genre of vaudeville, only replacing acrobats with Rick Santorum and tenors with veterans.
  • (4) "Vaudeville distribution allows me to recoup my costs yet I would prefer being corporately presented."
  • (5) Throughout history, dwarves had been entertainers, often part of a circus or vaudeville show.
  • (6) Tyne Daly stars in Master Class at the Vaudeville theatre from 21 January to 28 April 2012 Guardian Extra members can get a top price ticket to A Round Heeled Woman for £35.
  • (7) Of all Jonathan's West End appearances, the one that stands out is an Uncle Vanya at the Vaudeville in 1988 starring Michael Gambon, Jonathan Pryce and Greta Scacchi.
  • (8) Vaudeville , London WC2 (0844-412 9675), 26 November to 17 January.
  • (9) "I felt like we were doing a vaudeville act - I mean, it's a sight-gag, I'm six-two, he's about five-two, so there's this immediate visual thing, you've almost won the game before a single pitch is thrown."
  • (10) Just a few days ago, I was on the stage of the Harvey in Brooklyn, a beaten-up vaudeville hall like the Bouffes, where Sam Mendes is about to launch his globe-spanning Bridge Project with a production of The Cherry Orchard, one of the plays with which Peter opened the Harvey in the 1980s.
  • (11) Both as a vaudeville show and a political rally, Trump’s event was lacking.
  • (12) Visual art Robert Rauschenberg: Botanical Vaudeville The late Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) has not had a major show in the UK in 30 years.
  • (13) Each week I took lessons from the theatre conductor or someone he recommended_ I had great ambitions to be a concert artist, or, failing that, to use it in a vaudeville act."
  • (14) Located on the east side, this classic spot feels like it's an old live theatre, with a dose of vaudeville sparkle.
  • (15) The cinema was built in 1929 as a vaudeville theatre, and between the 50s and 70s was used to screen erotic films and grindhouse fare, latterly with nude dancers accompanying the screenings.
  • (16) Still, last autumn G4S reckoned it had retired from vaudeville and dispatched a smart new PR team around London to tell critics all about its newfound professionalism.
  • (17) That play also opened at the Donmar before transferring to the Vaudeville theatre.
  • (18) He remained haunted by his father's remark about his literary debut: "It is not even drama - it is vaudeville."
  • (19) Several rightwing politicians accused Hollande of carrying out a love-life "vaudeville".
  • (20) The Grammy for best song that year, for instance, was won not by the Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations or the Four Tops’ Reach Out I’ll Be There but by the New Vaudeville Band’s jaunty jazz age pastiche Winchester Cathedral.

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