What's the difference between fiesta and siesta?

Fiesta


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Last year Ford sold more than 25,000 white Fiestas.
  • (2) The Ford Fiesta was the bestseller in August, followed by the Ford Focus and Vauxhall Corsa, mirroring the top three best sellers in the year to date.
  • (3) Basic santeria beliefs and rituals, including the fiesta santera (a gathering at which some participants may become possessed), are briefly described, and four cases in which the patients' belief in possession played a role in their mental illness are presented.
  • (4) The top three best sellers in July, and in 2014 so far, were the Ford Fiesta, followed by the Ford Focus and the Vauxhall Corsa.
  • (5) This year's fiestas are peaceful, untroubled by tensions with Eta supporters or baton charges by twitchy police.
  • (6) Parliamentary byelections, which Hanna transformed into memorable TV fiestas in the Thatcher era, have become tepid and tedious since the bonhomous Belfast bruiser quit the BBC in 1987.
  • (7) It was also the setting for the first section of Hemingway’s first, and best, novel (published in the UK as Fiesta ).
  • (8) The VW Golf was the fourth best-selling car in the UK last month, and in the year to date, behind the Ford Fiesta, Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Focus.
  • (9) A note on the text Hemingway began writing the novel with the working title of Fiesta on his birthday, 21 July, in 1925.
  • (10) Industry observers said the programme would boost sales of smaller cars such as the Ford Fiesta and the Toyota Yaris, which are not normally discounted.
  • (11) Other significant risk factors (p.05) were drank water from container also used to dip hands (OR 4.2) and attended a fiesta (OR 3.6).
  • (12) While car sales have stalled or only inched forward across the sickly eurozone they have roared ahead in Britain, which is fast becoming an island jammed by drivers of sparkling white Ford Fiestas, bought on cheap credit.
  • (13) Each spring in Tudela there’s a festival devoted to all things green, red, yellow etc, the Jornadas de Exaltación y Fiestas de la Verdura (running until 1 May).
  • (14) Christina Garcia Rodero spent 15 years travelling around villages in Spain, photographing fiestas.
  • (15) The runs attract more than 2,000 people every morning of the nine-day fiesta.
  • (16) Shortly, there will also be a Ford Fiesta and a Smart.
  • (17) The bestseller in May was the Ford Fiesta, followed by the Volkswagen Golf and Vauxhall Corsa.
  • (18) Britain’s best-selling model remains by some margin the Ford Fiesta, followed by the Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Focus.
  • (19) In the case-control study, drinking unboiled water (odds ratio [OR] 3.1, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.3-7.3), drinking water from a household water storage container in which hands had been introduced into the water (4.2, 1.2-14.9), and going to a fiesta (social event) (3.6, 1.1-11.1) were associated with illness.
  • (20) First the Argentinian version, a jaunty instrumental number which at one point threatens to turn into the middle-eight of Fiesta by The Pogues.

Siesta


Definition:

  • (n.) A short sleep taken about the middle of the day, or after dinner; a midday nap.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Peter Walker For many years Seville had only about 0.5% of journeys made by bike, with roads choked by four rush hours a day, due to siestas.
  • (2) Stable state of awareness varying only between active waking and relaxed waking, apart from a clearly demarcated siesta period (8 subjects).
  • (3) Moreover, if 2 or more REM periods are registered altogether in the 4 or 5 siestas studied, the test is highly suggestive of narcolepsy and permits sure differentiation with idiopathic hypersomnia.
  • (4) Yet it suffers from an inconsistency of tone, an overly picaresque procession of events, and a general wooziness – perhaps imparted by the scorching Puerto Rican locations – that around the 60-minute mark induces an insidious siesta-time sleepiness in the viewer (well, this one, at least).
  • (5) Hugo Inc, an internet consulting company based in Osaka, has a more flexible approach: employees can take a 30-­minute siesta any time between 1pm and 4pm.
  • (6) Ageing is associated with deterioration of the quality of nocturnal sleep, more frequent siestas in the afternoon, a forward shift of sleep in the 24-hour cycle.
  • (7) Our temporal isolation data thereby account quantitatively for the timing of the afternoon siesta and suggest that malfunctions of the phasing of the circadian pacemaker may underlie the insomnia associated with sleep-scheduling disorders.
  • (8) Everyone rests well too: at around two in the afternoon you will hear most locals quietly announce "kalo mesimeri" - or "have a good siesta" - as they slope off for a nap.
  • (9) Lunch with friends, a siesta, a walk, a meeting with your adviser to see how the markets are doing, a visit to the bank to weigh up the interest rates, or to see if the salary the club is still paying you has cleared the account.
  • (10) Seven of 10 patients (70%) presented with seizures during the siesta, and in 3 of 10, seizures occurred if they fell asleep at any time of the day.
  • (11) A negative association with duration of afternoon siesta was of borderline statistical significance.
  • (12) One group of four awoke roughly every 24 h, after a sleep which was alternately about 8 h, or about 4 h and believed by the subjects to be an afternoon siesta.
  • (13) Holidays with small children don't usually fall into the relaxing category but the daily routine of asthanga in the light-filled studio, followed by a session in the hot tub while the kids splashed about in giant buckets, lunch, a siesta, more yoga, more bathing, was almost coma-inducing.
  • (14) Neither of them had an influence on sleep diurnal seizures outside of the siesta or on seizures of nocturnal sleep reinitiation.
  • (15) The addition of coffee or amphetamine suppressed seizures of sleep beginning at night or during the siesta.
  • (16) The sanctioned siesta has spawned an industry in daytime sleep services.
  • (17) State of awareness moderately stable but containing as well as one or two clearly defined, siestas some somnolent episodes (6 subjects).

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