What's the difference between cocktail and trio?

Cocktail


Definition:

  • (n.) A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.
  • (n.) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins.
  • (n.) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.
  • (n.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cocktails of two or more BsAbs, selected to bind to multiple epitopes on ribosome-inactivating proteins and perhaps also on unwanted cells, could provide an important new strategy in immunotherapy.
  • (2) The work reported was done as part of an intensive investigation on toxic and radioprotective properties of three substances, ATP, AET and serotonin, administered singly or in combination to mice, with a view to identifying optimal dose ratios for cocktails.
  • (3) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
  • (4) These monoclonal antibody cocktails were drug conjugated and administered intravenously.
  • (5) The breakfast meetings, cocktails, roundtables and press conferences will all be without incident.
  • (6) The stains-cocktails are well preserved for 4-5 weeks and may be used repeatedly.
  • (7) The onset of tolerance to morphine analgesia was studied in 34 female Wistar rats immediately after they drank a dextrose-saccharin cocktail or tap water for 6 or 24 hours.
  • (8) A group calling itself Fight Xenophobia contacted AFP to claim the attack, which it said was carried out with “Molotov cocktails”.
  • (9) But the cocktails take centre stage and are like drinkable pieces of art – try the margarita or the pisco sour.
  • (10) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
  • (11) By utilizing the gamma-emitting isotope of selenium, Se-(8-azidoadenosyl)[75Se]selenomethionine eliminates the need for the impregnation of acrylamide gels with fluorographic enhancers and dilution of liquid samples into scintillation cocktails, as is required with the commonly used methyl-3H-labeled and 35S-labeled S-(8-azidoadenosyl)methionine.
  • (12) Keith Richards , after all, used to indulge in speedballs of cocaine and heroin with such regularity that he cheerily referred to the toxic cocktail as "the breakfast of champions".
  • (13) Sometimes she would take me out for cocktails and get diplomatic cars from embassies to take me home.
  • (14) He looks younger than even the freshest-faced incarnation: skin smooth and honeyed, sipping an almond milk cocktail in one of London's few raw-food vegan restaurants ("I plan to live into my hundreds").
  • (15) MAbs were screened in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) against three different antigen cocktails: S-form LPS from three P. aeruginosa strains, R-form LPS from six P. aeruginosa strains and, as a negative control, R-form LPS from Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli.
  • (16) Thirty-five normal-hearing listeners' speech discrimination scores were obtained for the California Consonant Test (CCT) in four noise competitors: (1) a four talker complex (FT), (2) a nine-talker complex developed at Bowling Green State University (BGMTN), (3) cocktail party noise (CPN), and (4) white noise (WN).
  • (17) There is no easy win against terrorists, Tunisia will be pursuing a cocktail of solutions,” said one London-based security expert.
  • (18) This study illustrates the approach that we have taken to individualize the cocktail of MoAbs for the development of patient-specific therapeutic immunoconjugates.
  • (19) Rhodes said Obama had not been briefed about the arrest of three activists alleged to have been planning to throw molotov cocktails at Obama's campaign headquarters in Chicago as well as the home of Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel.
  • (20) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?

Trio


Definition:

  • (n.) Three, considered collectively; three in company or acting together; a set of three; three united.
  • (n.) A composition for three parts or three instruments.
  • (n.) The secondary, or episodical, movement of a minuet or scherzo, as in a sonata or symphony, or of a march, or of various dance forms; -- not limited to three parts or instruments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Additional allotype information is presented for five previously reported South American tribes (Cayapo, Piaroa, Trio, Xavante and Yanomama).
  • (2) 'Devastated' Peter Greste calls on Egypt's president to pardon trio Read more “It’s ironic that the conviction was for tarnishing Egypt’s reputation when ... this [case] is what’s tarnished Egypt’s image,” Clooney told BBC News.
  • (3) Social and sexual behaviors were analyzed as a function of trio type (sibling or nonsibling) and fate (survivor or nonsurvivor) across 12-h time blocks.
  • (4) Fulham were helped by United being forced into a trio of substitutions at the interval, as Rafael succumbed to a twisted ankle, Cleverly had double vision and Evans had back trouble.
  • (5) The trio were arrested after a brief performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour of a song calling for the Virgin Mary to "chase Putin out".
  • (6) We can’t have confidence in a plan that plays fast and loose with global warming and fails to accelerate Europe’s shift to 100% renewable energy.” Wendel Trio, the director of Climate Action Network-Europe, said: “Like all other countries, the EU needs to ensure its policies are coherent with what was agreed in Paris, and needs to substantially increase its targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050.
  • (7) The report condemns the trio for giving evidence to the committee last month that was "misleading, possibly deliberately".
  • (8) Deacetylation of the resulting disaccharide derivative, followed by benzylidenation, and condensation with 2,3,4-trio-O-acetyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl trichloroacetimidate (10) afforded ethyl 4-O-[3-O-allyl-4,6-O-benzylidene-2-O-(2,3,4-trio-O-acetyl- alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)-beta-D-galactopyranosyl]-2,3-di-O-benzyl-1-thio - alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside (11).
  • (9) Dryhurst said the trio were walking in single file out of the arena when the blast struck, breaking Booth’s jaw and her daughter’s legs.
  • (10) The trio of Glaswegian builders buying me drinks comprised half the audience.
  • (11) The club would like to thank the trio for their efforts and a further statement will be made in due course.” Luzon’s exit is the fourth managerial change since the Belgian businessman Roland Duchatelet took over the south London club in January 2014.
  • (12) Croatia will have one of the most creative central midfield trios in the tournament, with Barcelona’s Ivan Rakitic joined by Real Madrid’s Luka Modric and Mateo Kovacic.
  • (13) So we’ve decided to call it The Grand Tour .” Ex-Top Gear trio Clarkson, Hammond and May to launch DriveTribe website Read more May said he was underwhelmed by the name.
  • (14) There are strong indications that Episode VII will centre on the key trio of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Han Solo, played by original stars Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford.
  • (15) They sound like a trio of preppy clothing companies, but in fact they are some of the most powerful players in world finance.
  • (16) A bill that would allow Congress to review the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran has fallen victim to presidential politics, as a trio of Republican senators seeking the White House have seized on the debate as a messaging opportunity for their foreign policy agendas.
  • (17) The trio reached an out-of-court settlement with WPP last week and issued a carefully worded public apology over the matter.
  • (18) The trio have filed appeals, but with no new court date set, Omara says she and Fahmy can no longer wait.
  • (19) The trio at the top – Lord Stevenson, the bank's chairman "from its birth to its death" and successive chief executives Sir James Crosby and Andy Hornby – were roundly blamed for the colossal failures that led to its collapse.
  • (20) The n-dimensional duo-trio method model is given in this paper and previous work on the triangular method is reviewed briefly.