What's the difference between mandolin and violin?

Mandolin


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Mandoline

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We thus add a new perspective to Corot's Gipsy Girl With Mandolin-a subject with arthritis, a painter knowledgeable about arthritis, and a painting that therefore might be understood at least in part from an appreciation of the artist's specific illness.
  • (2) I use the wide side of the grater or the mandolin for this, although those with better knife skills than me should be able to do a good job of it that way.
  • (3) Kefalonia is known to millions from the best-selling novel, and later film , Captain Corelli's Mandolin .
  • (4) If you have one, a mandoline is the ideal tool for cutting the vegetables as thin as you want them.
  • (5) Crushed root vegetables with crisp brussels sprouts You’ll speed things up considerably if you cut the sprouts on a mandoline (or with the slicer attachment of a food processor).
  • (6) To make life easier, invest in a mandolin: they make slicing veg thinly much quicker and easier (the veg slicing attachment on a food processor will also save on slicing time).
  • (7) The ingredients rhubarb 30g, finely sliced (ideally with a mandoline) water 100g organic strong white bread flour 50g organic wholegrain rye flour 50g "The rhubarb has natural yeast and acts as a catalyst to start the fermentation," explains Gellatly.
  • (8) I was like the bomb expert, Miller, had my little box of tricks – [drum]sticks, a mandolin.
  • (9) If you have one, use a mandolin to cut the vegetables into even lengths.
  • (10) We noted hand deformities characteristic of inflammatory arthritis in Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's Gipsy Girl With Mandolin (1870 to 1875), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
  • (11) 150ml olive oil 5 shallots, peeled 500ml carrot juice 500ml fresh orange juice 175ml cider vinegar 10 slim organic carrots, peeled and scrubbed and sliced on the mandolin A few sprigs of lemon thyme A pinch of salt 1 avocado, thinly sliced A handful of coriander leaves A handful of salad leaves 1 First, confit the shallots.
  • (12) Serves 4 6 tbs olive oil 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped 2 rounded tsp cumin seeds, roughly ground 125g fresh coriander, chopped and stalks set aside 250g small brown or puy lentils 1.75 litres water a squeeze of lemon sea salt and black pepper For the caramelised onions: 300ml sunflower oil 2 large onions, halved and sliced into rounds as thin and even as possible (we recommend using a mandolin) To make the caramelised onions, heat the oil in a large saucepan until very hot.

Violin


Definition:

  • (n.) A small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As plantation owners go, Ford is a kindly sort: he delivers sermons and permits his slaves moments of humanity, even giving Northup a violin.
  • (2) Sounds (flute and violin) and vowels (German "u" and "i") evoke a complex motion pattern on the basilar membrane.
  • (3) It is a plausible claim, judging by the cacophony of trumpets, cymbals, drums and violins erupting from classrooms, corridors and the courtyard: hundreds of children aged six to 19, some in trainers, others in flip-flops, individually and collectively making music.
  • (4) In addition to a weaving violin and a zither that sends chills down your spine, there is a solo voice - similar to the muezzin's call from the minarets - that is full of heartbreaking longing.
  • (5) Gambaccini has claimed Savile played the tabloids like a Stradivarius violin to prevent details of his private life being revealed.
  • (6) The other is Coz Fontenot, a burly, bearded 48-year-old, who sits on a fold-out chair, splitting his time between solos on a battered violin and lead vocals.
  • (7) I arrived back at Baker Street to find Holmes playing a mournful Webern sonata on the violin and for a moment I feared he had succumbed once more to his penchant for cocaine.
  • (8) His chaotic yet coherent masterpieces of the late 1960s, such as his Eight Songs for a Mad King, in which a violin is smashed to pieces every time the work is played – a moment that still draws gasps from any audience – through to his later cycles of concertos, symphonies, string quartets and music-theatre pieces,, as well as the dozens of pieces he has written for communities and amateur musicians to perform, make his a unique achievement in 20th and 21st century music.
  • (9) Latterly, in unfamiliar concert halls, she would bring him from the dressing room to the side of the stage and he would just be able to see the gap between the first and second violins [to walk to the podium].
  • (10) This is a violin,” replied Alá, now 10 years old.
  • (11) Gardner recorded and engineered Cabinet of Curiosities at his Shadow Shoppe Studio in Holland, playing every instrument himself save the drums, having mastered recorder, clarinet, bass, guitar, keyboards and violin as a child.
  • (12) It was the Poetry Society that awarded Tempest the Ted Hughes poetry prize in 2013 for Brand New Ancients, a narrative work that told a tale of everyday heroics, false gods and fierce hopes in modern-day London over tuba, violin, drums, electronics.
  • (13) It's the only way I can bear to listen to my violin playing."
  • (14) When you're waiting for the arrival of the procession in the strikingly silent environs of the local rice fields, it acts as a kind of siren, heralding the approach of The Run with the aid of violins, acoustic guitars and the inevitable accordions.
  • (15) It was about being told that a girl couldn't play guitar when you're sitting in school next to girls playing violin and cello and Beethoven and Bach.
  • (16) A case is reported of degenerative joint disease in the right mandibular condyle of an 11-year-old boy, apparently due to violin playing.
  • (17) Cohn was his Virgil who guided him through the netherworlds of New York influence,” he added, “which led to Trump, among others, who was not much of a power broker at the time.” Stone, in an interview with the Washington Post, put it in even starker terms: “I think, to a certain extent, Donald learned how the world worked from Roy, who was not only a brilliant lawyer, but a brilliant strategist who understood the political system and how to play it like a violin.” Murdoch and Trump were still coming up in the world, but Cohn was approaching the height of his power.
  • (18) Our current band is called Quattrio , in which I play recorder, Cath plays violin, Rita plays harpsichord and Jo played cello, but had to leave the group last year.
  • (19) Now, they think it's cool; since this started, it's dead cool to play a violin in West Everton."
  • (20) At first when he turned up at jazz venues musicians laughed that he had a violin - to them it was a classical instrument.