What's the difference between duo and solo?

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.

Solo


Definition:

  • (a.) A tune, air, strain, or a whole piece, played by a single person on an instrument, or sung by a single voice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sculthorpe’s catalogue consists of more than 350 pieces ranging from solos to orchestral works and opera.
  • (2) A system to train nurses to be first and solo assistants of microsurgery has been practiced in our hospital for the past 13 years.
  • (3) "Over the 70-odd days I was there last time [for the solo trip], I would only think there was less than half a day when all things were good."
  • (4) We have identified the yeast histone locus HTB1-HTB1, encoding histones H2A and H2B, as a suppressor of solo delta insertion mutations that inhibit adjacent gene expression.
  • (5) Those starting in a self-employed solo practice are least likely to change practices, while those starting as HMO employees are most likely to change.
  • (6) The best advertisement for the format came four hours before the final even started, when, in ITV1's coverage of the FA Cup Final, the teenager Faryl Smith, a 2008 runner-up, sang the national anthem solo and faultlessly in front of a full crowd at Wembley.
  • (7) Peter Mayhew, who played Han Solo's wookiee sidekick Chewbacca in the original Star Wars trilogy, stood at an impressive 7 ft 2" and also had what might be described as broad facial features.
  • (8) But it also succeeded by elevating the likes of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo to the kind of status usually reserved for totemic superheroes such as Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, characters destined to be wheeled out time and time again in different big screen iterations.
  • (9) has been topping download charts across Europe since its surprise release on Tuesday morning, and now could become his fourth solo No 1, and his first since Let's Dance in 1983.
  • (10) Drawing on several real cases, as well as the recent celebrity nude photo leak, the drama is mostly a solo performance.
  • (11) More from Behind the joke • James Acaster: 'Normal people perv solo' • Phil Wang: impossibly wise or offensively stupid • Holly Walsh: 'I build my comedy block-by-block like Lego'
  • (12) It was only ever worth around a quarter of a billion dollars annually in exports at its mid-noughties peak – less than most blockbuster US animations grossed solo.
  • (13) Mark Coyle, who co-produced Definitely Maybe, said that Gallagher’s second solo LP reminds him “in some respects of the spirit” of Oasis’s 1994 debut.
  • (14) That leap is The Desired Effect, his second solo album, out 18 May.
  • (15) 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.
  • (16) Edge: Red Sox FIRST BASE At first base, Boston's Mike Napoli was a force in the ALCS, hitting a pair of solo home runs, including his blast off Detroit's Justin Verlander in Game Three which was just enough to beat the Tigers 1-0.
  • (17) Conversely, most optometric educational institutions have been unwilling or unable to develop training programs for student optometrists beyond the traditional solo concept.
  • (18) Since 1969, with the introduction of universal health insurance in Ontario, the cost and benefit differences between solo and group practice medical care have been eliminated.
  • (19) This article compares mothers' satisfaction with children's medical care in six widely varying settings: fee-for-service solo and group practices, prepaid group practice, public clinics, hospital outpatient departments, and emergency rooms.
  • (20) A longitudinal, controlled study of contraceptive compliance was undertaken in a solo family practice in which 240 high-risk women were allocated alternatively to Practice and Clinic Groups.