What's the difference between gymnasium and lyceum?
Gymnasium
Definition:
(n.) A place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics.
(n.) A school for the higher branches of literature and science; a preparatory school for the university; -- used esp. of German schools of this kind.
Example Sentences:
(1) A longitudinal study was carried out at 11 secondary schools (Gymnasium) of the city of Bochum to investigate the early and preclinical stages of developing varicose veins.
(2) Within 10 minutes the whole lower part of the village was destroyed, about 80% of it,” he said in a gymnasium crowded with survivors in the nearby city of Mariana.
(3) "Has the team been using a public gymnasium for training?
(4) Forty-eight percent of the patients were injured on their family's trampoline, with the remainder injured on a friend's, neighbor's, relative's, or gymnasium's equipment.
(5) When Nicolas Sarkozy held his first comeback rally, he sweated profusely on a small stage in a stuffy and spartan gymnasium in the south of France.
(6) The dependence of the heart rate of 25 patients between 6th and 12th month after myocardial infarction on the lactate deflection during bicycle ergometry was compared with values being measured in physical conditioning in gymnasium and in indoor swimming-bath.
(7) On a chilly January weekend, she stood inside a gymnasium in Iowa with one month remaining until the first contest of the Democratic presidential primary.
(8) Forty-six male professional boxers ranged from 18 to 28 years old, were examined at the stadium and the boxing gymnasium.
(9) The immediate comparison of patients undergoing rehabilitation who realized a gymnasium and swimming program simultaneously, showed no differences in lactate deflection and heart rate, too.
(10) The arrival of the Bibby Progress, with its restaurant, gymnasium and rooftop terrace, is the latest development to anger some locals.
(11) Group A consisted of 16 men and at least 24 (mean 51.5) months had elapsed after myocardial infarction before they were entered into a training programme with supervised once-weekly classes in a school gymnasium.
(12) The families have always bitterly resented the police operation at the gymnasium, where they were asked to identify bodies and then, with grief-stricken people screaming, immediately taken to be interviewed.
(13) Follow-up data were obtained 57 and 276 days later in the training room and in a gymnasium; in both settings, criterion was achieved with fewer than three reinstructions.
(14) All tests were performed either outdoors on a 400-m track (n = 159, 110 males and 49 females) or indoors in a gymnasium (n = 115, 59 males and 56 females).
(15) Some of them are pretty good actors as well, but I’m constantly reminded of Tim Roth’s words : “I’m sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice.
(16) Entering the school's gymnasium, he at first tried to resist calls he join a group of young ballerinas in a traditional dance .
(17) We teach our kids in school not to be bullies, and so I am strongly against a bully being president of the United States or even running for that esteemed office.” The school’s gymnasium meanwhile was stuffed with well-heeled supporters, all waving blue “Christie 2016” signs, lettered in white.
(18) A double-blind trial of 2% miconazole in a cream and in a powder base and of the respective vehicles was done in a group of forty-five young sportsmen regularly training and using the showers in a gymnasium.
(19) Let me tell you, it embarrassed my children, it embarrassed my wife, it embarrassed young people that follow my campaign,” Rubio told the crowd inside a packed gymnasium in West Palm Beach on the eve of the Florida primary.
(20) In Brasilia, the activists have erected tents under the shadow of the newly constructed World Cup stadium at the Nilson Nelson Gymnasium, which has been turned into a Congress hall and concert venue.
Lyceum
Definition:
(n.) A place of exercise with covered walks, in the suburbs of Athens, where Aristotle taught philosophy.
(n.) A house or apartment appropriated to instruction by lectures or disquisitions.
(n.) A higher school, in Europe, which prepares youths for the university.
(n.) An association for debate and literary improvement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Royal Lyceum (0131-473 2000), 21 August to 3 September.
(2) Just as Mary was partly motivated by Byron and her husband, the poet Shelley, so Bram Stoker, the business manager for the Lyceum theatre, was inspired by his devoted service to the great Shakespearean actor Henry Irving.
(3) During the long interview process to take over the running of the Crucible from Sam West, who had departed just before the theatre closed for renovation in 2007, it was made clear that acting was a part of the gig, along with directing and overseeing the various theatres including the Crucible main stage, the studio and the Lyceum, which plays host to touring productions.
(4) She said: “We aim to provide the best care possible and we continually review our procedures to ensure that the care we give meets the high standards we set ourselves.” Meanwhile, the firm Carewatch has built up a pot of £17.1m in interest on shareholder loans which could in future be paid through an offshore financing scheme to investment fund Lyceum Capital, where the chairman of the supervisory board is former Lehman Brothers banker and Tory donor Philip Buscombe.
(5) This will be followed by a run of shows – at London's Barbican, Sheffield Lyceum, Birmingham St Paul's and Salford Lowry – that will see him perform with various other singers The 8th , his eight-chapter narrative pop song about the seven deadly sins.
(6) He makes his apologies and strides off towards the Lyceum.
(7) Traverse at Lyceum Rehearsal Room (0131-228 1404), 3-14 August.
(8) The jury was still out, though: in London that summer I saw him play the same set at a half-full Lyceum show, and wondered if people would ever “get” him or if he was doomed to be a passing novelty fad.
(9) In the next two years he completed a draft, later expanded, of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, based on a canoe trip he and his brother John had taken in 1839, as well as composing the first draft of Walden and a long essay on Thomas Carlyle, part of which he gave as a lecture at the Concord Lyceum in 1846.
(10) Seated cross-legged on the floor of the rehearsal room under the glass and steel rafters of the Sheffield Lyceum, face fixed in an impish grin as the rest of the cast circulates about him singing about the girls they could fix him up with, he looks still, watchful.
(11) It faces Tudor Square, which is also home to the city’s two theatres, the Crucible and the Lyceum, and the Millennium Galleries.
(12) Although present, the differences between the LAHT and BAHT prevalence in the gymnasiums (4.3% and 5.4%) and lyceums (5.5% and 6.4%) are not significant and might be functions of: age, sex, psychomotor development, structure of the respective collectivities, the momentary psychoemotional reactions, lability of the blood pressure, specific to the childhood, several screening difficulties etc.
(13) In 1977 she was back in the theatre as Madame Ranevskaya, in The Cherry Orchard at the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh, and a year later was Judith Bliss in Hay Fever.