What's the difference between gradino and sideboard?
Gradino
Definition:
(n.) A step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar. Cf. Superaltar, and Gradin.
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Sideboard
Definition:
(n.) A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service.
Example Sentences:
(1) I don't know about you, but when I was growing up, the festive sideboard always featured one of those long, oval boxes packed with slightly squashed dates held together with a plastic stem.
(2) On a sideboard, not yet opened, is a magnum of Grand Siècle champagne, sent by her label when Goulding's summer single, Burn – throbbing, clubby, ubiquitous – went to No 1 for three weeks in July.
(3) There are Warhols in the loo, Bacons in the kitchen, Giacomettis on the sideboard, Toback at the centre of the conversation, but as yet no Tyson.
(4) A useful strategy to counteract such absent-mindedness can be to develop a fixed method for performing such tasks: always place your keys in the same spot on the sideboard, always carry out the late-night errands in the same order (lock the back door, turn off the gas, turn off lights, etc).
(5) It is hard to imagine Margaret Thatcher pondering how much she was allowed for table lamps or Aneurin Bevan being called to account for his 'overspend' on sideboards.
(6) "I even put a sideboard in the window last week," Montgomery says.
(7) Last year, he also claimed £389 for crockery, £200 for two new bed headboards, £849 for a table and chairs, £59 for a desk, £499 for a sideboard and £85 for a shoe rack.
(8) It was very nice to get an Oscar but now it just rusts and tarnishes on the sideboard near the TV.
(9) So get them off the sideboard and into the kitchen.
(10) Two tiny model wind turbines sit among a nest of picture frames on the sideboard that showcase their 15 great-grandchildren.
(11) "With respect to Ade, if he has come out with that, Ade has not been around for the last couple of years and the boss has put silverware on the sideboard in that time.
(12) In the two front rooms, up a step from the kitchen level and so only a few inches deep in water, chairs are piled on sofas, tables on sideboards.
(13) And – la pièce de résistance – I have a lovely sideboard, bought after a long search on eBay, on which fruit, cheese and alcohol may patiently await diners' attention.
(14) The Capital One Cup may not be the grandest object on anyone’s sideboard, but it is where Mourinho started in England – against Liverpool – and in that 2004-05 season it went quite well with sitting on top of the Premier League.