What's the difference between duo and dyad?

Duo


Definition:

  • (n.) A composition for two performers; a duet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meanwhile, Brighton rock duo Royal Blood top this week's album chart with their self-titled album, scoring the UK's fastest selling British rock debut in three years.
  • (2) We have to form a duo and I have the right feeling with him.
  • (3) Watford’s front two have impressed with their hard work, their technical quality and their interplay – a classic strike duo.
  • (4) The duo were given a standing ovation as they took to the stage helped by Evans and guest presenter Robbie Savage.
  • (5) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
  • (6) The following commercial preparations were studied: Duo-Medihaler, Medihaler-Epi, Medihaler-Epi Medihaler-Iso, Norisodrine Aerotrol, Alupent, Metaprel, Isuprel Mistometer, Bronkometer, and Asthma-Meter.
  • (7) Balazs Dzsudzsak still has an amazing left foot, while the experienced midfielder Zoltan Gera will hopefully inspire and guide the young duo Adam Nagy and Laszlo Kleinheisler.
  • (8) Encouraged by Atkins , to whom Ike had enthused about his two talented sons, Don and Phil branched out as a duo.
  • (9) It's worth remembering that as the US and UK run around the world protesting the hacking activities of others and warning of the dangers of cyber-attacks , that duo is one of the most aggressive and malicious, if not the most aggressive and malicious, perpetrators of those attacks of anyone on the planet.
  • (10) The Candy brothers, the property duo behind the scheme, like to claim that the address sits at a sort of super-rich intersection – turn one way, and you look down Sloane Street, Europe's most extravagant shopping street.
  • (11) Recently, the Swedish duo Tomorrow Machine showcased a series of utopian packaging that included a container that dissolves with its contents.
  • (12) And on balance that starting duo looks about right.
  • (13) The subjects practiced the procedure described, directed toward self-care and mutual aid facilitated and supported by the duo, in a series of ten 2-hour weekly sessions.
  • (14) The n-dimensional duo-trio method model is given in this paper and previous work on the triangular method is reviewed briefly.
  • (15) Gamble and Huff's career spans the history of rock and soul – Gamble sang with a group called the Romeos in the 60s, while Huff's early days reach back further, having played piano on sessions for the rock'n'roll songwriting duo Leiber and Stoller, and for Phil Spector.
  • (16) The performers regarded by Rolling Stone magazine as "the most important vocal duo in rock" were the children of midwestern country stars Ike and Margaret Everly and first performed as teenagers on the family radio show in Shenandoah, Iowa.
  • (17) The author is establishing a relationship between film density duo to the light of intensifying screens and lack of focus.
  • (18) Despite his lifelong interest in classical music, Warren's first professional involvement was as one half of the boy-girl pop duo, Lyme and Cybelle.
  • (19) Removal of beta 2-microglobulin (B2MG) from uremic plasma during hemofiltration in 5 patients using polysulfone (F60), acrylonitrile (AN69), polyamid (FH77), polyacrylonitrile (PAN200) and cellulose-acetate (Duo-Flux) membranes was investigated.
  • (20) In the latest example of the site being used as a conduit to try to influence Hollywood casting decisions, more than 17,000 people have joined a call for producers to remove the duo and replace them with Matt Bomer and Alexis Bledel.

Dyad


Definition:

  • (n.) Two units treated as one; a couple; a pair.
  • (n.) An element, atom, or radical having a valence or combining power of two.
  • (a.) Having a valence or combining power of two; capable of being substituted for, combined with, or replaced by, two atoms of hydrogen; as, oxygen and calcium are dyad elements. See Valence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 3' end of the cell cycle regulated mRNA terminates immediately following the region of hyphenated dyad symmetry typical of most histone mRNAs, whereas the constitutively expressed mRNA has a 1798 nt non-translated trailer that contains the same region of hyphenated dyad symmetry but is polyadenylated.
  • (2) Termination of sar RNA synthesis occurs after transcription of the first and second Ts of a TTTA sequence following a region of hyphenated dyad symmetry.
  • (3) Sixty mother-toddler dyads (30 boys and 30 girls) participated as subjects.
  • (4) The reciprocal (equivalent) and nonreciprocal (excessive giving or receiving) exchange of services was measured by the frequency of exchange and perception of potential support between the dyad.
  • (5) Because current family systems theory indicates that positive individual relationships within a dyad (e.g., child-mother) should be related to an overall favorable impression of the family system, we hypothesized that these two instruments should demonstrate convergence on selected dimensions.
  • (6) The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of two interventions, Calorie Management and Socioemotional Growth Fostering, on (a) the weight of children aged 1 to 3 years with nonorganic failure to thrive and (b) the interaction behaviors of 10 mother-child dyads.
  • (7) Most of the literature on this subject has indicated, contrary to the findings reported here, that full and intense erotic transference manifestations are rarely if ever seen in this therapeutic dyad.
  • (8) (2) The peak-to-peak spacing in this distribution is significantly different from 10.3 bases in the region covering three helix turns immediately 5' of the dyad axis.
  • (9) Assertive needs produced the largest number od dyads which discriminated (p less than .05) clinical and control groups.
  • (10) However, two mutations which increased the dyad symmetry of part of the binding site yielded ligands with a higher affinity for MDBP.
  • (11) This mutation is partly located within a region of dyad symmetry.
  • (12) The purpose of this study was to compare dyadic interaction behavior of traumatically disabled and nondisabled men paired in homogeneous or mixed dyads.
  • (13) MCM1 binds to the dyad symmetry element 5'-CCTAATTAGG and related sequences, which we refer to as MCM1 control elements (MCEs).
  • (14) Data also suggest that black dyads are represented more frequently in the positive categories, and white dyads are more likely to be categorized as "apathetic" or "hostile."
  • (15) (2) Coincident disomy increased as a function of the mean number of disomic chromosomes per spore in each dyad, but this increase differed functionally from that expected if coincident disomy in the two ascospores were a simple, meiotically independent, concomitant of multiple disomy.
  • (16) Binding sites for the GAL4-positive regulatory protein have been identified upstream of six galactose-inducible genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae on the basis of (i) protection in DNAse I footprints, (ii) loss of protection when excess GAL4-binding oligonucleotide is added and (iii) homology with a 23-bp dyad-symmetric consensus sequence.
  • (17) The distance from spouse (or partner) repeats within the marital dyad the lack of closeness to parents experienced in adolescence.
  • (18) Mothers in B2 and B3 dyads were rated more sensitive and responsive than all others at all 4 observations.
  • (19) Maternal stimulation and co-ordinated infant signalling in AGA dyads, and infant quietness and maternal activity encouraging quietness in SGA dyads, were patterns in high-scoring subjects.
  • (20) Encouragement of open, direct communication between members of a dyad may produce favorable or unfavorable results, depending upon the situation.