What's the difference between liaison and tryst?

Liaison


Definition:

  • (n.) A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Methods to minimize bias in the design and implementation of consultation-liaison research are suggested.
  • (2) Continuity of care programs, such as that developed by the Pain Service of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York), with good communication and liaison work between hospital and community, add a much needed dimension to the pain management of these patients in the home.
  • (3) Since 1987 consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatrists in Europe have decided to develop a closer collaboration to stimulate the development of the C-L field.
  • (4) A system for detecting such cases was established through liaison with other hospital peer review committees or any physician or nurse who was privy to specific information and willing to submit it in writing.
  • (5) Today, in answer to questions from MPs on the Commons liaison committee, David Cameron said he would back the bank.
  • (6) To offer these individuals the optimum result, it is mandatory to have close liaison with an orthodontic colleague.
  • (7) A spokeswoman for Scotland Yard said: "We are in liaison with the US authorities.
  • (8) Ahmed Chinoy, head of the Citizens Police Liaison Committee, asked.
  • (9) Specialist learning disability liaison nurse Jainab Desai is making meticulous checks of the complex arrangements to receive a tricky patient with learning disabilities, with staff of the day surgery unit at Royal Bolton hospital.
  • (10) Subsequent to the questionnaire the PCCU liaison pharmacist implemented a visual display of monthly drug costs, an education program that included the presentation of questionnaire results, and drug information lectures discussing controversial therapeutic issues.
  • (11) This article was amended on 5 January 2016 to clarify that the US Fish and Wildlife Service is leading the crisis management reaction to the occupation in liaison with the FBI.
  • (12) The results indicate that a POC may serve a specific and definable segment of patients, whose characteristics depart from the clinical populations in consultation-liaison psychiatry and medical-psychiatric units.
  • (13) Perinatal care in rural areas could be improved by: 1) transforming underequipped rural maternity units into centers where pregnancies can be properly monitored; 2) avoiding the transportation of a premature baby by moving the mother prior to delivery to a properly equipped center; and 3) providing for effective liaison between rural maternity services and fully equipped maternal health centers.
  • (14) Prior literature suggested that psychiatric liaison on medical wards would produce a more positive attitude towards psychiatry, more psychosocial chart documentation, and a higher consultation request rate.
  • (15) A retrospective review of the records of 755 patients seen by a psychiatric consultation-liaison service in a general hospital was performed.
  • (16) The authors present the results of a one-year study showing equivalent mastery of basic psychiatric knowledge and skills and equally favorable student reactions after psychiatry clerkships on a consultation-liaison service and on other more traditional psychiatry services.
  • (17) The walk that will always stay in my mind is one that I enjoyed with my climbing partner Paul Ramsden and our liaison officer, Dawa, after we had made the first ascent of beautiful Manamcho (6,264m) in the Nyainqentanglha East range of eastern Tibet.
  • (18) The individual experiences of the authors as fellows in consultation-liaison psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychobiology, and sleep disorders medicine are described.
  • (19) Celebrity endorsement is the super- weapon of modern humanitarianism – three-quarters of Britain's 30 largest charities (excluding housing and care trusts) have full-time celebrity liaison managers to ease the celebrities on and off aeroplanes in and out of hell.
  • (20) The number of hospital orders made at the court increased fourfold after the liaison scheme began.

Tryst


Definition:

  • (n.) Trust.
  • (n.) An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst.
  • (n.) To trust.
  • (n.) To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with.
  • (v. i.) To mutually agree to meet at a certain place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) RTL said Trierweiler had let it be known that she had not had a "nervous breakdown" when Hollande confessed to his alleged affair with Julie Gayet, 41, hours before Closer magazine published its "special edition" claiming Hollande had been secretly leaving the Elysée Palace for secret trysts with the actor.
  • (2) Hotel Chevalier is about a young couple, played by Portman and Schwartzman, reuniting for a (possibly final) tryst.
  • (3) Abroad, he had perhaps been best known for his furtive motorcycle tryst with his actor lover, Julie Gayet, and his messy, public breakup with his First Lady, Valérie Trierweiler.
  • (4) Lacking long-term shared goals, many are turning to what she terms "Pot Noodle love" – easy or instant gratification, in the form of casual sex, short-term trysts and the usual technological suspects: online porn, virtual-reality "girlfriends", anime cartoons.
  • (5) She admitted the couple had become "detached" but said the revelations in Closer magazine that Hollande 59, had been leaving the Elysée for secret trysts with Julie Gayet, 41, had come as a complete shock.
  • (6) Where does Wickham have a tryst with Georgiana Darcy?
  • (7) Could he guarantee his security was not compromised during his clandestine trysts with Gayet?
  • (8) Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the allegations is the question of whether Hollande's trysts with what one newspaper waggishly called France's "second lady" have been funded out of the public purse.
  • (9) The first question he was asked after his long and detailed address, was whether Valérie Trierweiler was still first lady, after claims by Closer magazine that he had been enjoying secret trysts with Julie Gayet at an apartment just a stone's throw from the Elysée Palace.
  • (10) She was my first not-really-straight girl tryst, but she would not be my last.
  • (11) No one here cared much about his trysts with Gayet or his bad behaviour towards Trierweiller but people do care about this.
  • (12) It's licensed, so if a hair of the dog's your thing, try some locally brewed ale, including one from Stewart Brewing and one from Falkirk's Tryst.
  • (13) Described on his own website as a "poacher and gamekeeper" who has "helped save many a famous career from media damage and destruction", Clifford looked on helpless from the court dock as his own hard-built reputation was shattered by increasingly sordid stories about his secret trysts and bizarre obsession with the size of his penis.
  • (14) You’d be hard-pushed to claim there was anything profound going on in either work, but Green found a way of infusing his tryst with Mary-Jane with the auteurship of old in 2013’s more sombre Prince Avalanche : its tale of two road-marking painters retained the loopy conversation and spacey rhythms.
  • (15) Kushner then had a videotape of the tryst sent to his sister.
  • (16) Edinburgh zoo's two pandas are close to beginning their second tryst, after the zoo announced that their short-lived breeding season could start within hours.
  • (17) There's no suggestion in the coverage that Delevingne's relationship is taboo It is true that there has been some old-style titillating coverage concerning Delevingne and Clark – the Mirror and Mail reported on a supposed mile-high tryst (“they both snuck into a cubicle together … fifteen minutes later they reappeared looking pretty dishevelled”).
  • (18) The revelation that her partner had been sneaking out of the Elysée to make the 165-metre journey to a flat in a nearby street for secret trysts with Gayet, hit Trierweiler like "a TGV hitting the buffers".
  • (19) After a few Mills & Boon-like reluctant trysts, Gigi would tearfully admit to her father that she had fallen for her handsome prince and they would split the dosh, perhaps spending her half on an island to be used exclusively for lezzers, their quad bikes and tattoo parlours.
  • (20) A lmost exactly two years after their fateful tryst in the Downing Street rose garden, David Cameron and Nick Clegg are sick and tired of people likening their coalition knee-trembler to a marriage.