What's the difference between medley and rhapsody?

Medley


Definition:

  • (n.) A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of ingredients, usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; -- often used contemptuously.
  • (n.) The confusion of a hand to hand battle; a brisk, hand to hand engagement; a melee.
  • (n.) A composition of passages detached from several different compositions; a potpourri.
  • (n.) A cloth of mixed colors.
  • (a.) Mixed; of mixed material or color.
  • (a.) Mingled; confused.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These findings serve to further understanding about the psychological dimensions of hostility as measured by the Cook-Medley Ho scale.
  • (2) Hannah Miley and Aimee Willmott also qualified for the final of the women’s individual medley, with James Guy edging into the 400m freestyle final after finishing a modest fifth in his heat and sixth-fastest overall.
  • (3) The heritability of hostility as measured by the Cook and Medley Ho scale was assessed in an adult male sample of 60 monozygotic and 61 dizygotic twin pairs.
  • (4) Click here to watch Thicke clings onto some sense of class by performing a big band version of Blurred Lines, after a medley of Chicago's Does Anybody Really Know What Time it Is?
  • (5) The Cook and Medley (1954) Hostility (Ho) scale has been used in several important studies evaluating potential health consequences of hostility.
  • (6) Thus, it is now possible, as one scans the microscopic field, to look past the static images of red- and blue-stained cells and appreciate a dynamic and detailed medley of molecularly defined events emanating from the eyepiece.
  • (7) As to whom he identifies with most out of the medley of aspiring comics, Birbiglia thinks, then offers a toss up between Jack (Keegan-Michael Key) and Samantha (Gillian Jacobs), the sole couple in the group.
  • (8) After effortlessly overhauling the German Verena Schott in the final length of the women's 200m individual medley in a new world record time, Simmonds will be aiming to make it a hat-trick of gold medals on Tuesday in the 50m freestyle.
  • (9) 's anger self-report scale, and the Cook and Medley hostility scale.
  • (10) The Cook and Medley Hostility (Ho) Scale is an increasingly important measure in studies examining health consequences of hostility.
  • (11) Hannah Miley 200m individual medley, 400m individual medley Another talented young swimmer who made a breakthrough in 2010, when she won the European and Commonwealth 400m individual medley titles.
  • (12) The relationship of Cook Medley hostility scores (Ho) to blood pressure and heart rate reactivity was examined in 56 women and 56 men.
  • (13) In one of Back to the Future 's climactic scenes, Marty McFly takes to the stage at a high-school dance, there to impress a room of 1950s teenagers with a medley of music from the future.
  • (14) We are an amazingly diverse country with more than 22 different languages and five major religions, a loose and sometimes unravelling medley of completely different ethnic groups.
  • (15) Prof Graham Medley, at the University of Warwick, told the Guardian the only way to eradicate TB in cattle would be a return to the strict and effective controls in place 40 years ago.
  • (16) Cook-Medley-defined hostility in particular has been seen as a significant precursor of coronary disease.
  • (17) The rapper had just performed a medley of his singles, while Baron Cohen was airborne to present the award for best male performance to High School Musical star Zac Efron.
  • (18) This study was designed to evaluate relationships among the Jenkins Activity Survey, the Cook-Medley Hostility Scale, and cardiovascular reactivity measured during a semistructured interview in a hospital setting.
  • (19) On the basis of our previous research, a subscale of the Cook-Medley scale was formed.
  • (20) It is about THIS much worse than last year's Pet Shop Boys medley.

Rhapsody


Definition:

  • (n.) A recitation or song of a rhapsodist; a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation, or usually recited, at one time; hence, a division of the Iliad or the Odyssey; -- called also a book.
  • (n.) A disconnected series of sentences or statements composed under excitement, and without dependence or natural connection; rambling composition.
  • (n.) A composition irregular in form, like an improvisation; as, Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsodies."

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I popped in for a nightcap but end up staying for two hours, serenaded by locals murdering everything from Japanese power ballads to cheesy Brazilian pop and Bohemian Rhapsody.
  • (2) Although the band's previous albums are available, songs like Paradise and Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall are nowhere to be found on Spotify , nor on competitors like Rdio and Rhapsody .
  • (3) You had to go back to the year 1975, when Bohemian Rhapsody topped the charts, to find the last time Britain was in a double-dip recession – and Freddie Mercury's lyrics seemed particularly apposite for the many City analysts left with egg on their face by the dire performance of the economy in the first three months of 2012.
  • (4) Swift has spoken previously about her allegiance to other online services, such as Beats Music and Rhapsody, both of which require a premium package in order to access albums.
  • (5) Spotify’s rivals in the streaming music market include Deezer, which has 12m active users and 5m paying subscribers , and Rhapsody, which has 1.7m paying subscribers around the world, split between its Rhapsody and Napster brands.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bohemian Rhapsody The whole thing is genius, but Piggy's ending will change the way you hear the original version of this song, for ever.
  • (7) The page is a mixture: of meme-style science illustrations (an image of floating, sleeping otters overlaid with the words: "Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don't drift away from each other… they also rape baby seals to death"); of plain-speaking summaries of the latest research ("Researchers have discovered how and where imagination originates in the brain"); and of links to oddities such as a video of a student singing an explanation of string theory to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody.
  • (8) By comparison, Spotify has 40m active users including 10m paying subscribers; Deezer has 16m active users including 5m paying subscribers, and Rhapsody has 1.7m paying subscribers split between its service in the US, and its Napster subsidiary elsewhere in the world.
  • (9) Queen hit the big time in 1975 with their fourth album, A Night at the Opera, which included the Mercury-composed anthem Bohemian Rhapsody.
  • (10) October 31, 2013 *blasts "Bohemian Rhapsody"* 3.12am GMT Cardinals 1 - Red Sox 6, bottom of the 8th Matheny decides just to intentionally walk David Ortiz one again just for old time's sake.
  • (11) Schuller is also conducting Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the RSNO.
  • (12) Recorded at the new Paisley Park studio he had built in 1986 on the outskirts of Minneapolis, Sign was devilishly eclectic, travelling from the doom-saying title track - an unsettling mix of hypnotic electro rhythm, bluesy guitar and fragile, semi-rapped lyric - to the Philly rhapsody of 'Adore' via the frantic power pop of 'I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man'.
  • (13) For him the next two lines of Bohemian Rhapsody – "caught in a landslide, no escape from reality" – were the ones that sprang to mind following the baleful news from the Office for National Statistics.
  • (14) She earned $54.40 from 7,908 plays on US service Rhapsody at 0.69 cents per stream, although that included mechanical royalties payments for writing the songs as well as performing them.
  • (15) iTunes Radio will not be a direct competitor for streaming music services like Spotify, Deezer, Rhapsody and Rdio.
  • (16) Since the publication of Johann Reil's, Rhapsodies About the Application of Psychotherapy to Mental Disturbances (1803), variations upon this theme of extravagant discourse have received enthusiastic welcomes from the ever enlarging psychiatric audience for whom they are performed...
  • (17) Gothic romance distilled into four-and-a-half minutes of gaseous rhapsody, this was released as her first single at Bush's insistence in the face of opposition from seasoned and cautious EMI executives; wilfulness vindicated by the month it spent at the top of the charts.
  • (18) Sonos, for example, has partnerships with Deezer, Rdio, Rhapsody, Pandora, Napster and other digital music services.
  • (19) The spreadsheet includes payments from Apple's iTunes Match and Amazon's Cloud Drive – 0.2 and 0.05 cents per stream respectively, although as services that let people stream music they already own from cloud lockers, these represent different licensing deals to Spotify, Rhapsody and Xbox Music.
  • (20) It is the tale of a sentimental saint who began with an inexhaustible supply of human sympathy and produced a handful of powerful but gloomy pictures; who moved to Paris, where he cleaned up his palette, shed some of his sentiment, and became a moderately respectable impressionist; who moved thence to Arles, where he burst, for two hectic years, into flame, and painted the radiant yellow, green, and blue rhapsodies by which we know him; who outlived his stamina but not his passion, and became in St. Rémy and in Auvers exaggeratedly hectic, though the fierce radiance of his colour never deserted him.