What's the difference between cornet and coronet?

Cornet


Definition:

  • (n.) An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family.
  • (n.) A brass instrument, with cupped mouthpiece, and furnished with valves or pistons, now used in bands, and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See Cornet-a-piston.
  • (n.) A certain organ stop or register.
  • (n.) A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares.
  • (n.) A troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
  • (n.) The standard of such a troop.
  • (n.) The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office was abolished in 1871.
  • (n.) A headdress
  • (n.) A square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions.
  • (n.) A part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century.
  • (n.) See Coronet, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She held her service game to go 2-1 up and then broke to 30 after Cornet double-faulted.
  • (2) By this he presumably meant a cornet, which is at least an instrument, albeit not one that appears anywhere on Polar Bear’s album.
  • (3) Cornet, the 25th seed, had never beaten a top-20 player at a grand slam in 13 attempts.
  • (4) Chelsea overcome nerves to top group and move into last 16 at Porto’s expense Read more Although Paco Alcácer drew a save from Anthony Lopes, Lyon were the better side, allowed to travel a long way when they came forward, and it was not a huge surprise when Cornet scored.
  • (5) – but the tournament is not over for me.” In the last 16 Cornet will play the exciting 20-year-old Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, who reached the French Open semi-final earlier this month.
  • (6) She is clearly capable of bouncing back but Mouratoglou, speaking on Monday, less than 24 hours after her shock defeat by Alizé Cornet of France , said the American was not her usual competitive self.
  • (7) But while Cornet’s nerves must have been break-dancing around her body she didn’t show it.
  • (8) The broad similis group of Cornet & Chateau (1971), under which these 10 species of Synhelea were originally assembled, is not only maintained but expanded by a further 11 species.
  • (9) Three came and went before Cornet finally got the break and after that she never looked back.
  • (10) She double-faulted to give Cornet two breakpoints only to recover before, at 1-1, deuce, the umpire called them off.
  • (11) Grass is Williams’ domain, whereas Cornet had won just 10 of her 25 matches on the surface.
  • (12) But at 5-3 Cornet held her nerve and sealed the set by smashing a short ball away.
  • (13) Cornet won the first game of the second set and, having rediscovered her rhythm and confidence, then broke to go 2-0.
  • (14) The authors indicate the presence in People's Republic of Congo of the five following sandflies: Sergentomyia decipiens Theodor, 1931; Sergentomyia dissimillima Abonnenc, 1972; Sergentomyia tauffliebi Abonnenc and Cornet, 1971; Sergentomyia wansoni Parrot, 1938 and Sergentomyia squamipleuris Newstead, 1912.
  • (15) For months the paternity of little George (named after a cornet-playing gamekeeper) was in question.
  • (16) On one occasion tonsillitis turned out to be a magnificent slimming technique until I discovered 99 flake cornets were quite soothing.
  • (17) Not so long ago Cornet, a 24-year-old from Nice, hated playing on grass.
  • (18) After the break because of the rain I was so slow,” Cornet said.
  • (19) Cornet thumped her racquet bag in frustration but Williams’ winners kept coming.
  • (20) It was a surprise that followed hot on the heels of Williams’ exit at the hands of the unfancied Alizé Cornet and there was more drama to come for the world No1 when she had to pull out of her third-round doubles match with sister Venus.

Coronet


Definition:

  • (n.) An ornamental or honorary headdress, having the shape and character of a crown; particularly, a crown worn as the mark of high rank lower than sovereignty. The word is used by Shakespeare to denote also a kingly crown.
  • (n.) The upper part of a horse's hoof, where the horn terminates in skin.
  • (n.) The iron head of a tilting spear; a coronel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was a master of disguise, as he demonstrated in the Ealing comedy Kind Hearts And Coronets (1949), with a multiplicity of roles.
  • (2) By the appearance of these globules, coronet cells are roughly divided into two types: botryoidal coronet cells and flower-like.
  • (3) The lesion was a small circumscribed area of epidermal inflammation in the skin immediately above the coronet between the bulbs of the heel.
  • (4) The reverse of the new coin shows the English rose, Welsh leek, Scottish thistle and Northern Irish shamrock emerging from one stem within a royal coronet – a design created by 15-year-old schoolboy David Pearce, who won a competition to create the image.
  • (5) Cellulitis which extended from the coronet to above the carpus or hock was more severe and had a poorer prognosis than cellulitis distal to these joints.
  • (6) The ration of coronets dished out on the advice of the other parties was little better.
  • (7) Nowhere, alas: instead the august broadsheet rock critic was confronted by a “parade of misfits”, horrified by the sound of experimental jazz quintet Polar Bear “tootling” on something he referred to as “a coronet”.
  • (8) The coronet cells are characterized by both numerous specialized cilia, so-called "globules" projecting into the saccus lumen and abundant smooth endoplasmic reticulum in the cytoplasm.
  • (9) Oedema and haemorrhage are marked in the mouth, lips, abomasum, around the coronets, etc., and are occasionally followed by degeneration of the epithelium leading to erosions or ulcerations.
  • (10) If a cow is not to be retained for several years after treatment, a simple amputation above the coronet is to be recommended.
  • (11) One of the possible methods of treatment in arthritis of the pedal joint in cattle consists in simple amputation above the coronet.
  • (12) The luminal surface of the coronet cells exhibits hair-like protrusions.
  • (13) It consist of several loculi lined with coronet cells and is bathed with blood from surrounding sinusoids.
  • (14) The PAS positive nature of the apical part of some coronet cells and their continuation with the PAS and AF positive material present in the lumen strongly suggest their secretory role.
  • (15) In sixteen cases the claw was amputated under the coronet and in the remaining sixteen cases the claw was sawn off above the coronet, through the second phalanx.
  • (16) Small metachromatic granules are also seen in some of the coronet cells.
  • (17) The coronet cells are variably shaped and have a conspicous central nucleus.
  • (18) This observation is discussed in relation to other morphological data and the possible resorptive function of the coronet cells in the homeostasis of the CSF.
  • (19) These include two men who got off a bus at the stop opposite where Stephen was attacked and walked southbound along the east side of Well Hall Road; a man who ran from the area of Well Hall Road roundabout to the bus stop on the same side of Well Hall Road as the attack; a man who was walking on the east side of Well Hall south of the roundabout, opposite the Coronet cinema, wearing a distinctive green jacket with a large 'V'; and anyone else in the general vicinity, such as those outside the cinema and on passing buses.
  • (20) • Torture Garden is at Electrowerkz, London, 11 March (tickets £29), and is hosting its 25th birthday ball at the Coronet theatre, London, on 23 April (tickets £38), torturegarden.com Morning Gloryville Facebook Twitter Pinterest It’s hard to see how a rave that starts at 7am and doesn’t serve alcohol ever took off in London but that’s the NutriBullet generation for you.

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