What's the difference between interlude and intermezzo?
Interlude
Definition:
(n.) A short entertainment exhibited on the stage between the acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, to relieve the tedium of waiting.
(n.) A form of English drama or play, usually short, merry, and farcical, which succeeded the Moralities or Moral Plays in the transition to the romantic or Elizabethan drama.
(n.) A short piece of instrumental music played between the parts of a song or cantata, or the acts of a drama; especially, in church music, a short passage played by the organist between the stanzas of a hymn, or in German chorals after each line.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has just released a new album, Epigrams and Interludes .
(2) The decline in the hypoxic ventilatory response during the 1st 25 min of hypoxia was not restored after a 7-min interlude of room air breathing; inspired ventilation (VI) at the end of the first hypoxic period was not different from VI at the beginning and end of the second hypoxic period.
(3) he said during one of the comedic interludes which bafflingly showed two police officers trying to prevent the presenter filming and then bursting into song.
(4) Musical interludes, courtesy of Gwyneth Paltrow, Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson and, in over the end credits, an enormous children's choir belting out Over the Rainbow were only marginally better received.
(5) He pre-empts this by varying the rhythm, inserting musical and visual interludes, and keeping jokes that use the same formula apart from one another.
(6) No hoedown interlude on this one, but after a verse of Withers' song Mumford starts messing with the lyrics.
(7) The interlude lasted barely 10 seconds before the vixen trotted out and resumed her nocturnal warbling.
(8) The gender pay gap only exists because women have babies Let’s have a brief mythbusting interlude here to point out that if this assertion were true, it would still constitute discrimination against women on the basis of sex, which is unacceptable.
(9) A morale-raising interlude came in 1978 with the holding of the football World Cup, which the hosts won.
(10) He's just returned from the Gold Coast, where he was filming his latest movie – Hard Drive , a heist thriller – and there's a brief interlude before he heads off again.
(11) I don’t know what combination of factors led to this particular interlude of family harmony, but an elderly woman was moved to approach our table and say that she had never before seen such charming, well-mannered and beautifully brought up children.
(12) Having regarded an interlude at Benfica as a highlight of his playing career it felt good to be an expatriate again but a little English mentoring has proved beneficial.
(13) Prolonged survival in these patients bore no relationship to age, sex, state of axillary lymph nodes or length of interlude between the breast and the lung cancer.
(14) It's a rare interlude of childish exuberance for girls whose young lives are dominated by the twice daily walk to the well and home, carrying heavy water cans, and other domestic chores.
(15) Maybe the unfortunate Fearn Cotton interlude (royal-themed sick bags and all) was what Entwistle had in mind when he said: "I don't mean we can't afford for anything ever to go wrong.
(16) After a sobering interlude, children who had sat rapt at the sight of the moon landings grew up, and accepted that terraforming space – once briefly assumed to be easy – was actually really, really hard.
(17) Now, having led his party for two periods of 10 years, with a four-year interlude at Westminster, speculation is rife that he will return to the Commons.
(18) About a hundred journalists were crammed in, sitting or standing, for a debate of noise and passion with interludes of loud hilarity.
(19) Hypoxia without trauma leads to a significant increase in capillary luminal area, which, however, is abolished when trauma precedes the hypoxic interlude.
(20) 9.16pm BST 72 min: A scrappy interlude in proceedings.
Intermezzo
Definition:
(n.) An interlude; an intermede. See Intermede.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hester Doherty Shrewsbury • Re the charge against Led Zeppelin ( A whole lotta law: jury to decide whether Led Zep stole Stairway to Heaven’s hook , 13 April), compare Brahms’s Intermezzo Op 117, No 3.