What's the difference between costume and ensemble?

Costume


Definition:

  • (n.) Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
  • (n.) Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described.
  • (n.) A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pictures of the Social Network star emerged on Twitter and Instagram on Wednesday, showing Garfield in full costume for Punchdrunk's current show, The Drowned Man , chewing seductively on a stick of straw .
  • (2) Previously a cover-up and reworking of a tattoo beneath, when she was performing across the UK with Girls Aloud in February , you could see the bold work in progress poking above her backless stage costumes.
  • (3) In 43 the primary eczema was on the hands, in 38 under costume jewellery, suspenders, ect.
  • (4) Man of Steel gets three stars from him, thanks largely to an opening section that "creates a plausible context for the introspection and self-doubt that dogs the adult version of [this] costumed warrior".
  • (5) It was pored over by line producers, prop masters, location scouts, production designers, scenic designers, costume designers, directors, assistant directors, second assistant directors, and second second assistant directors – at each step becoming more real, as if emerging from the shimmer of some distant desert horizon.
  • (6) It is one of the most famous costumes in film history.
  • (7) There was a shop that I knew of because I've been in there a couple of times before and I knew they sold costume jewellery and stuff.
  • (8) Dad brought us up on Star Wars from when we were old enough to not be scared ... We grew up in our teenage years absolutely loving Star Wars,” said Michael Kidd, who came to see the film dressed as Chewbacca along with his Hans-Solo-costumed wife and Jedi-dressed family.
  • (9) He talks up the "experience" aspect of Electric Daisy Carnival, from its dazzling barrage of state-of-the-art lighting to its dance troupes whose costumes are pitched midway between harlequin and hooker.
  • (10) It gave a good aerial view of the place: the fake trees, the sign forbidding adults from entering the photo tent without a child, the costumed staff.
  • (11) The film also brings in Weerasethakul's own family history, and childhood memories of lo-fi horror movies and TV shows (lots of red-eyed monsters, shot in darkness to cover up their shoddy costumes).
  • (12) The art director Eiko Ishioka, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 73, came from that Japanese graphic tradition and took it around the world in every medium – advertising, cinema, theatre, circus, fashion and the conjunction of them all that was the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics in 2008, for which she designed the costumes.
  • (13) The extent of the bone resection has been in relation with clinical picture, myelography and mainly operative findings, aiming at a "cut-to-measure costum".
  • (14) At least two characters – a Minion from Despicable Me and one of the Elmos – said they had purchased their costumes, made in Peru, for about $300.
  • (15) He spent weeks with costume getting the right suit tailoring, and his reading of the character restored Bond’s manly pugnacity but ditched the dated chauvinism.
  • (16) When the air temperature is -3C and you are in your swimming costume you really don’t want to be hanging around – so the organisers’ swiftness and efficiency was appreciated.
  • (17) Costumes and models were devised on the basis of existing American and Soviet prototypes.
  • (18) His journey to the real costume began at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and he was turning heads soon after his graduation with stage performances in Kes and Romeo and Juliet , winning the Manchester Evening News award for Best Newcomer in 2004 before scooping Outstanding Newcomer at the Evening Standard theatre awards two years later.
  • (19) The works of this period include Revelation and Fall (1966), in which a nun in blood-red costume and a megaphone shrieks expressionist poems of Georg Trakl, the Missa super l’Homme Armé (1968), a parody of a Latin Mass, and above all Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969).
  • (20) It was shot on location in Hollywood, with the real Jim Henson Studios standing in for the dilapidated Muppet Studios; Miss Piggy's costumes are all designer, as any star of her stature might expect, and include a pair of trotter-sized Louboutins.

Ensemble


Definition:

  • (n.) The whole; all the parts taken together.
  • (adv.) All at once; together.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although a clean step response or the ensemble average of several responses contaminated with noise is needed for the generation of the filter, random noise of magnitude less than or equal to 0.5% added to the response to be corrected does not impair the correction severely.
  • (2) The ensemble electromyogram (EMG) patterns associated with different walking cadences were examined in 11 normal subjects.
  • (3) The barrelfield is the cortical "map" of the ensemble of vibrissal follicles on the mouse whiskerpad.
  • (4) He admitted the increased profile afforded him by appearances in movies such as Captain America , its forthcoming sequel The Winter Soldier and 2012's $1.5bn superhero ensemble piece The Avengers had helped him get a foot on the ladder as a film-maker.
  • (5) The effect of changes in the thermodynamic parameters on the equilibrium ensemble provides a further sensitivity check to the predictions.
  • (6) Ensemble averaging of a large number of unfiltered spectra was used as the "gold standard" in the evaluation, i.e., as the output of an ideal filter which reveals the exact nature of the underlying Doppler spectrum after speckle has been eliminated.
  • (7) The derived filter is automatically calculated from a large group (library) of similar GBPS which are representative of all studies acquired according to the same protocol in a defined patient population (the ensemble).
  • (8) The flexibility of the Man alpha (1-3)Man linkage is demonstrated, confirming the existence of an ensemble of conformations for this linkage.
  • (9) Ensemble averages from the latter group of patches revealed macroscopic Na+ currents with a biexponential decay phase.
  • (10) The conformational ensemble of the peptide is observed to narrow as it becomes bound through its cationic mid-region to SDS micelles, with the accompanying advent of local extended structure.
  • (11) The changes in distribution occur within the same ensembles of nerve cells that are necessary for the acquisition and performance of various learning tasks in several species.
  • (12) In the experimental analog, genetic selection or screening applied during recursive ensemble mutagenesis should force the evolution of an ensemble of mutants to a targeted cluster of related phenotypes.
  • (13) the vector sum of the ensemble of units, is the signalled orientation on a particular trial.
  • (14) Ensemble averages of small-channel activity in numerous sweeps were very similar in time course to the T currents recorded in the whole-cell mode.
  • (15) For conservative systems, the net flux conserves the total intra-channel cation population for an ensemble of channels.
  • (16) The arterial supply of this ensemble of the medial basal hypothalamus is common from the hypophyseal arteries, via the primary plexus and the specific vascular loops of the median eminence.
  • (17) The images due to the ensemble of spectral lines can be separated in principle by deconvolution of the data with the PSF before reconstruction.
  • (18) This week, Reich and his musicians performed three nights of concerts with the Philip Glass Ensemble at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, at a festival in honor of the 50 th anniversary of Nonesuch Records.
  • (19) The perpendicular component of the rf electric field creates a frequency shift resulting in phase synchronization of the ion ensemble.
  • (20) These findings emphasize the role of cellular properties as compared to synaptic wiring in the production of cyclic motor patterns by ensembles of neurons.