What's the difference between lounge and salon?

Lounge


Definition:

  • (a.) To spend time lazily, whether lolling or idly sauntering; to pass time indolently; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
  • (n.) An idle gait or stroll; the state of reclining indolently; a place of lounging.
  • (n.) A piece of furniture resembling a sofa, upon which one may lie or recline.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first-floor lounge is decorated in plush deep pink, with a mix of contemporary and neoclassical decor, and an antique dining table and chandelier.
  • (2) In between the two sets, we slip to the Silverlake Lounge ( foldsilverlake.com ), where Silversun Pickups used to play, to listen to Dusty Rhodes and the River Band, a six-piece that meshes folk rock with the Beach Boys with Yes.
  • (3) Robert Halfon, a Conservative MP, said the British people would be "very concerned that our country is being used as a transit lounge for alleged war criminals".
  • (4) In 2013 , a 16-year-old boy was lounging outside his tent at a Minnesota campsite when a wolf clamped its jaws around his head.
  • (5) Thankfully, mazot guests can also use the lounge and dining room in the Chalet Les Mazots, a lovely wood-panelled home full of antique chairs, chests and cabinets, built by a family of silk manufacturers from Leon who chose the location for their farm for its south-facing views of Mont Blanc.
  • (6) Brandishing images of what Virgin "lounges" might look like – similar to a stark yet trendy hotel restaurant – Gadhia admits that her other motto for running the business is "wanting to make everyone better off".
  • (7) 73 Kloof Street, +27 21 424 6169, onceincapetown.co.za The Backpack Facebook Twitter Pinterest Founder-owners Toni Shina and Lee Harris have created a homely hostel spread across four adjoining houses with cool courtyards and flowery gardens, a chillout lounge, communal kitchen, health-food cafe and terrace bar.
  • (8) Upstairs there’s a gallery space perfect for rehearsals, talks and live performances, while on the ground floor is a large communal area, with lots of scope for lounging with a cocktail, craft Beavertown beer, or excellent-value wine.
  • (9) • Meals $5-$11, 17143 D Street, + 1 760 243 9938, no website Great bars 11 The Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, Chicago The Green Mill is the place for late-night jazz and cocktails.
  • (10) Youths lounged in the entrance lobby and ground floor of the city building.
  • (11) Down at the beach, there’s always a canoe arriving on shore with fresh fish; or you can hide yourself way in the pousada’s meditation lounge, content with a soundtrack of tropical birds.
  • (12) Each roomy retreat sleeps five, and has a patio and lounge, but only Berghylur backs onto a waterfall.
  • (13) 'He said he was coming late, so I went upstairs to a lounge bar called the Dragon Fly which is a few doors away.
  • (14) On the journey there, I tune into an AM broadcast from a famed Mamou Establishment called Fred's Lounge, known for its Saturday morning Cajun dances, before arriving at the Last Farewell to Luke Collins, a DJ and the self-styled 'godfather of zydeco'.
  • (15) On the right is her rival, Kosciusko-Morizet, known as NKM, 40, a former minister in Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right government, nicknamed "the harpist" ever since she was photographed for Paris Match lounging in a party gown in a forest next to a harp, like some posh wood nymph, in 2005.
  • (16) There are also connections with the Dark Tower series: the Overlook's Red Eye Lounge, some thematic concepts regarding the use and gathering of psychics, the suggestion that Danny's imaginary friend could be one of the Dark Tower's Twinners.
  • (17) The breakfast and bar area is a light, informal space, with a big wooden communal table and a small outdoor courtyard, but it’s clear this isn’t a hotel for lounging around in; it lacks the cosy corners and sofas that suck you in at hipper boutique hotels.
  • (18) Sam Levy's Village offers Zimbabwe's middle class a cocktail lounge, designer watches and a competition to win an iPad mini.
  • (19) A "news" report on Chris Morris's satirical Brass Eye once summed up a particularly unpleasant sight as resembling "Dante meets Bosch in a crack lounge in hell".
  • (20) We had just missed Ozzy Osbourne shuffling though the lounge, and then Simon le Bon suddenly couldn't come.

Salon


Definition:

  • (n.) An apartment for the reception of company; hence, in the plural, fashionable parties; circles of fashionable society.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Outdoor sunlight exposure during the workshift and tanning salon use were identified as risk factors; the most severe cutaneous reactions tended to occur among tanning salon users.
  • (2) "I wanted to see if I had wasted my time writing," he said, according to a translation from the French by Salon .
  • (3) Martin Precious, 60, was a hairdresser at a high-end London salon with celebrity clients until severe depression forced him to give up his job.
  • (4) She told the investigative website Mediapart : "Nicolas Sarkozy also received his envelope, it took place in one of the small salons on the ground floor, close to the dining room.
  • (5) Obviously she’s probably felt for years that she was black on the inside and denied it all through her childhood ... since she’s transitioned and identifies herself as black, than we should just let her be and live her life in peace.” Mary Elizabeth Williams, a Salon writer, echoed those who said Dolezal’s alleged fraud was unforgivable.
  • (6) It is in a majestic salon, the walls of which are decorated with flamboyant 18th-century Flemish tapestries with a Tiepolo fresco adorning the ceiling, while the terrace overlooks a landscaped garden.
  • (7) Confessions of a location scout: why the New York beloved of the movies doesn't exist any more Read more Meanwhile, those apartment and condo owners who are full-time residents routinely join landlords in jacking up commercial rents, driving out beloved small businesses and neighbourhood eateries, and reducing the cityscape to a monoculture of faceless chain stores, nail salons, bank branches and overpriced restaurants.
  • (8) Bean said Maslin purchased a knife and went to the salon to attack her.
  • (9) One woman who went to both Barney’s and Stein’s salons but had plenty going on at her own base, the bookshop Shakespeare and Company, was Sylvia Beach, who numbered among her great achievements the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses .
  • (10) Mitogen responsiveness and the capacity to repair genetic damage were measured in lymphocytes collected from young, healthy, adult Caucasians immediately before exposure in commercial tanning salons and again 24 h after exposure.
  • (11) Her training in a salon near Centre Street is funded by British charity Y Care International.
  • (12) Every image with text, including banners, posters and a small notice on a beauty salon wall, has been translated and checked both in South and North Korea.
  • (13) Results revealed a disparity between known health risks of UVR exposure and safety information provided to tanning salon customers.
  • (14) Pictures of the president are everywhere – barbershops, diners, nail salons and bodegas.
  • (15) There is something marvellous, even monumental, about her honesty, the unabashed importance she attaches to every event: "I went to Paris for two days with my husband, determined while I was there to have my hair cut in a French salon.
  • (16) Hairdresser Taylor Ferguson, whose salon is on Bath Street, tweeted: “Full-on #stormyweather, drama on Bath Street after big chunks of roof from Marks Hotel - next door to salon - blew off onto street.
  • (17) Open 10am-11pm (or later) daily Literary Salon at The Wash Photograph: Chris Scott Ever since Edinburgh became the world's first Unesco City of Literature, in 2004, those given the task of spreading books and ideas across the capital have rarely missed a trick.
  • (18) Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see.
  • (19) Bring over some food and a bottle of wine … and we go out and we talk about politics.” Americans discover a new must-read for the Trump age: the US constitution Read more There’s a secret Facebook group, common among neighborhood salons for planning, but most discussion happens around the fire.
  • (20) Forensics officers have been inside the beauty salon.