What's the difference between gala and salon?

Gala


Definition:

  • (n.) Pomp, show, or festivity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Neither could hydrolyze gala-type glycosphingolipids, cerebrosides, sulfatides, glycoglycerolipids, or sphingomyelins.
  • (2) But lest the duchess feel overlooked, the end section of the show featured long, pale-blue bias-cut crepe dresses with more of a charity gala feel; and knee-length silk crepe dresses with black grosgrain belts seemed princess friendly.
  • (3) Having visited all 10 members of Asean in his first year, he will host a gala Asean summit in Tokyo on 13 December that looks very much like an anti-China jamboree.
  • (4) Here's a sample: Having watched this fantastically unthinking and heavy-handed adaptation, the opening gala of this year's Cannes festival, I feel the only way to make it less subtle would be to let Michael Bay direct it.
  • (5) At the special gala dinner the next night, Geoff, Élodie and Daniela were delightful.
  • (6) Hall, R. Dolin, C. L. Gala, D. M. Markovitz, Y. Q. Zhang, P. H. Madore, F. A. Disney, W. B. Talpey, J. L. Green, A.
  • (7) They are also often silly, an immediate snapshot commemoration of the big and small events in our lives: witness Sasha and Malia Obama mean-mugging into Sasha's phone shortly after their father was sworn in a second time, or Hillary Clinton and Meryl Streep taking a toothy joint selfie at a state department gala last year.
  • (8) In 2008, Akhras was invited to a Tory gala dinner and he became an unofficial conduit for journalists seeking interviews with the government.
  • (9) Each large fraction from GR-2IIa and -2IIb consisted mainly of Ara, Gal, and GalA, whereas the intermediate fractions were composed of small proportions of 2-Me-Fuc, 2-Me-Xyl, and apiose (Api), in addition to Rha, Ara, Gal, and GalA.
  • (10) There were Francis Ford Coppola and Jeremy Irons, Orlando Bloom and Steven Seagal, Sophia Loren and Dionne Warwick, all gathered in the leafy heights of southern Moscow for a charity gala like no other: this charity does not dispense its largesse.
  • (11) Mannose 6-phosphate (man 6-P)-receptor mediated and Concanavalin A (ConA)-mediated uptake of purified alpha-galA was attempted in the endothelial cells as well as in cultured fibroblasts from the same fetus.
  • (12) All three candidates spoke at the gala, intended to raise funds for the state’s Republican party.
  • (13) This Wednesday, the Garden Bridge Trust will embark on its latest attempt to drum up financial support with a three-course dinner and “fundraising gala” within London department store Harrods.
  • (14) At a congressional hearing on the Virginia couple who gatecrashed last week's White House gala for the Indian prime minister, Mark Sullivan took full responsibility for the security breach that saw two US reality TV show hopefuls, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, get close enough to Obama to have their photo taken with him.
  • (15) In her acceptance speech for an equality award at a Human Rights Campaign gala, Jan shared her concern that I was fearful of bringing my whole self to work.
  • (16) Alibaba will kick off its Singles’ Day promotions with a televised gala on Thursday evening, with David Beckham replacing the singer Katy Perry as the event’s “global ambassador” after she pulled out at the last minute.
  • (17) The galacturono-tetra- and -penta-saccharides had one and three methyl-esterified GalA units, respectively, and some of the galacturono-oligosaccharides contained 2,4- or 2,3-linked GalA.
  • (18) Ensler used some of the proceeds to found V-Day, a worldwide movement to end violence against women, and persuaded famous actors to star in gala performances in Los Angeles and New York.
  • (19) "Welcome to the Academy Awards," he said at one gala, "or, as it is known in my house - Passover."
  • (20) Suárez will be presented with the award at a gala dinner at the Lancaster Hotel on 15 May.

Salon


Definition:

  • (n.) An apartment for the reception of company; hence, in the plural, fashionable parties; circles of fashionable society.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Outdoor sunlight exposure during the workshift and tanning salon use were identified as risk factors; the most severe cutaneous reactions tended to occur among tanning salon users.
  • (2) "I wanted to see if I had wasted my time writing," he said, according to a translation from the French by Salon .
  • (3) Martin Precious, 60, was a hairdresser at a high-end London salon with celebrity clients until severe depression forced him to give up his job.
  • (4) She told the investigative website Mediapart : "Nicolas Sarkozy also received his envelope, it took place in one of the small salons on the ground floor, close to the dining room.
  • (5) Obviously she’s probably felt for years that she was black on the inside and denied it all through her childhood ... since she’s transitioned and identifies herself as black, than we should just let her be and live her life in peace.” Mary Elizabeth Williams, a Salon writer, echoed those who said Dolezal’s alleged fraud was unforgivable.
  • (6) It is in a majestic salon, the walls of which are decorated with flamboyant 18th-century Flemish tapestries with a Tiepolo fresco adorning the ceiling, while the terrace overlooks a landscaped garden.
  • (7) Confessions of a location scout: why the New York beloved of the movies doesn't exist any more Read more Meanwhile, those apartment and condo owners who are full-time residents routinely join landlords in jacking up commercial rents, driving out beloved small businesses and neighbourhood eateries, and reducing the cityscape to a monoculture of faceless chain stores, nail salons, bank branches and overpriced restaurants.
  • (8) Bean said Maslin purchased a knife and went to the salon to attack her.
  • (9) One woman who went to both Barney’s and Stein’s salons but had plenty going on at her own base, the bookshop Shakespeare and Company, was Sylvia Beach, who numbered among her great achievements the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses .
  • (10) Mitogen responsiveness and the capacity to repair genetic damage were measured in lymphocytes collected from young, healthy, adult Caucasians immediately before exposure in commercial tanning salons and again 24 h after exposure.
  • (11) Her training in a salon near Centre Street is funded by British charity Y Care International.
  • (12) Every image with text, including banners, posters and a small notice on a beauty salon wall, has been translated and checked both in South and North Korea.
  • (13) Results revealed a disparity between known health risks of UVR exposure and safety information provided to tanning salon customers.
  • (14) Pictures of the president are everywhere – barbershops, diners, nail salons and bodegas.
  • (15) There is something marvellous, even monumental, about her honesty, the unabashed importance she attaches to every event: "I went to Paris for two days with my husband, determined while I was there to have my hair cut in a French salon.
  • (16) Hairdresser Taylor Ferguson, whose salon is on Bath Street, tweeted: “Full-on #stormyweather, drama on Bath Street after big chunks of roof from Marks Hotel - next door to salon - blew off onto street.
  • (17) Open 10am-11pm (or later) daily Literary Salon at The Wash Photograph: Chris Scott Ever since Edinburgh became the world's first Unesco City of Literature, in 2004, those given the task of spreading books and ideas across the capital have rarely missed a trick.
  • (18) Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see.
  • (19) Bring over some food and a bottle of wine … and we go out and we talk about politics.” Americans discover a new must-read for the Trump age: the US constitution Read more There’s a secret Facebook group, common among neighborhood salons for planning, but most discussion happens around the fire.
  • (20) Forensics officers have been inside the beauty salon.