What's the difference between lilt and melodious?

Lilt


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To do anything with animation and quickness, as to skip, fly, or hop.
  • (v. i.) To sing cheerfully.
  • (v. t.) To utter with spirit, animation, or gayety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.
  • (n.) Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness.
  • (n.) A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All O157 serogroup isolates (n = 9) were hemolytic, and 89% (8 of 9) were LILT positive.
  • (2) Lu, who declined to give her full name for fear of reprisals, has a short bob haircut, a round face and soft, lilting voice that belies an undercurrent of outrage.
  • (3) During this performance Gaga will perform the title track from her forthcoming album ARTPOP and utter a line that sums up everything her fans love about her and her critics detest: "My art-pop could mean anything," she coos over a lilting electronic throb.
  • (4) The culture secretary's tone was softer than usual, devoid of lilt.
  • (5) With less demand for big-screen expressions of either cathartic angst or romantic wish-fulfilment, we have instead witnessed a kind of gay cinematic present-mindedness in small-scale, naturalistic, bittersweet titles such as Weekend , Keep the Lights On and I Want Your Love ; and a willingness to explore grief, so often deferred through the years of struggle, in the likes of Last Address , Tom at the Farm and Lilting , a forthcoming feature starring Ben Whishaw as a man in mourning obliged to deal with his late partner's mother.
  • (6) With his black cowboy boots and a lilting accent that seems to hint at the South, he looks an unlikely visionary for urban Detroit as he describes vegetable plots, fields and greenhouses, all the while wielding a hefty stick to keep away stray dogs and looking at burnt-out houses sometimes used as crack dens.
  • (7) It was with the appearance of the retired merchant navy man Norman, however, with his lilting Scottish accent and homemade "skateboard" presentation platter (it must be seen to be believed) that an entire nation fell in love.
  • (8) The children and the quartet, as a small chamber orchestra, play a lilting performance of "Autumn", 13 Stations of the Cross as backdrop.
  • (9) The opening film will be the European premiere of Hong Khaou's Lilting , which stars Ben Whishaw as a man in mourning for the death of his lover Kai.
  • (10) Sitting in the bar beforehand, Kate is dressed in Adidas tracksuit and trainers, every word she says doused in her south London lilt.
  • (11) Our common enemies remain economy-trashing financiers and poverty-paying bosses, whether they speak in an Edinburgh lilt or with the Queen’s English.
  • (12) Howson briefly joins us, sinking into a chair in the corner and addressing my questions in an undemonstrative West Yorkshire lilt.
  • (13) As am I. I could spend the rest of this piece delighting you with the wonders of the People's Republic of Cork – our smiling, clever, children, gentle lilting voices, our rolling hills but I'm going to assume you already know all this.
  • (14) The voice is strong, with a vaguely mid-western lilt.
  • (15) It's a beautiful voice with its educated, New England lilt of a kind that barely exists anymore.
  • (16) Songs, such as Gil's anthem Domingo no Parque (Sunday in the Park), had a lilting nonchalance, lent by the bossa nova style (a mix of African-Brazilian samba and cool jazz) they had inherited - and superseded.
  • (17) • I Am Divine is out on 18 July, Lilting is out on 8 August, and Pride is out on 12 September.
  • (18) While the video is kind of dull, the song is another quietly arresting slither of emotional pop, De la Torre’s hushed vocal sighing its way through a chorus of: “All I wanted was a man to be true, but that isn’t you.” Subtler and more refined than a lot of pop music at the moment, it even ends with a lilting whistling solo – and there simply aren’t enough of those.
  • (19) Twenty-seven nonhemolytic isolates were tested for enterotoxigenicity; of these, 45% (12) were LILT positive.
  • (20) Of all hemolytic isolates tested, 59% (10 of 17) were LILT positive.

Melodious


Definition:

  • (a.) Containing, or producing, melody; musical; agreeable to the ear by a sweet succession of sounds; as, a melodious voice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Moments later, Strauss introduces the bold human character with an energetic, upwards melody which he titles "the climb" in the score.
  • (2) There’s an interesting thing with music like this, how the beat falls with the melody; they often say music is mathematical in construction and this is a very good example.
  • (3) A psychophysical scaling procedure confirmed that the constraints generated tone sequences bearing degrees of perceptual similarity to "real" melodies.
  • (4) A model of how people use this information to infer the metre of unaccompanied melodies is described here.
  • (5) Young children also are sensitive to melodic contour over transformations that preserve it (Study 5), yet they distinguish spontaneously between melodies with the same contour and different intervals (Study 4).
  • (6) We also know little about the relative aptitude for different musical components, especially melody and harmony.
  • (7) He presented a right-ear extinction in dichotic tasks, as well as difficulties in understanding and repeating verbal material and impaired identification of melodies.
  • (8) But the album for which she is being rightly acclaimed, 50 Words for Snow, as well as cleverly weaving together some hauntingly beautiful melodies with a characteristically surrealist narrative, also perpetuates a widely held myth about the semantic capaciousness of the Inuit language.
  • (9) The fact that "different" responses were both faster than "same" ones and quicker than melody offset indicates the use of a self-terminating search process.
  • (10) Particular tones were shifted in sequence such that a melody was heard which was undetectable by either ear alone.
  • (11) Children 4 to 6 years of age were exposed to repetitions of a six-tone melody, then tested for their detection of transformations that either preserved or changed the contour of the standard melody.
  • (12) The key distance effect reported in the literature did not occur in the tasks of this investigation (Studies 1 and 3), and it may be apparent only for melodies shorter or more impoverished than those used here.
  • (13) All subjects had high DAF indices on the complex melody, middle on the medium and low on the simple.
  • (14) Other melody variables are either fixed, randomized, or controlled.
  • (15) Another one is Melodies From Mars, which I redid about three years ago.
  • (16) Melody processing in unilaterally brain-damaged patients was investigated by manipulating the availability of contour and metre for discrimination in melodies varying, respectively, on the pitch dimension and the temporal dimension.
  • (17) In the first experiment, two opposite hypotheses were tested: The slow shifts might express subjects' acquaintance with the melodies or, on the contrary, the effort invested to identify them.
  • (18) Melodic themes of target melodies were defined by correlating contour-related pitch accents with temporal accents (accent coupling) during an initial familiarization phase.
  • (19) The present findings indicate that interpretation of a melody depends, in large part, on the characteristics of the "tonal" rules.
  • (20) In Experiment 1, all to-be-recognized melodies occurred both in an original rhythm, which preserved accent coupling, and in a new rhythm, which did not.