What's the difference between miscellany and rhapsody?

Miscellany


Definition:

  • (n.) A mass or mixture of various things; a medley; esp., a collection of compositions on various subjects.
  • (a.) Miscellaneous; heterogeneous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Other infants, dying of unexplained respiratory illness, may have this disorder and some may be included in the miscellany of disorders that constitute the sudden infant death syndrome.
  • (2) Beverly died in 2013. Letters: John Berger obituary Read more Last year saw the premiere in Berlin of the film The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger , directed by Tilda Swinton, Colin McCabe, Christopher Roth and Bartek Dziadosz, and the publication of Confabulations, a miscellany of essays and drawings.
  • (3) Mortimer's Miscellany ran for a month at the King's Head, Islington, north London, in 2007.
  • (4) My approach had always been more of a woozy supermarket sweep, and it meant I'd built up a curious one-track miscellany.
  • (5) If the owner of this odd miscellany, a Victorian lawyer with an elaborate Ex Libris plate, hadn’t underlined the words “A Brief Description of the Portrait of Prince Charles, afterwards Charles the First, painted at Madrid in 1623 by Velasquez [sic]” on the contents page, I might not have noticed it.
  • (6) Over the years, two more novels, three miscellanies and the memoirs followed.
  • (7) Strains of R. japonicum and the cowpea miscellany displayed all three types, while strains of R. leguminosarum, R. phaseoli, and R. trifolii did not reduce nitrate by dissimilatory means.
  • (8) On the one hand, the proposed system would be a welcome simplification relative to the current complex miscellany of rules, and would give individuals much greater clarity over what state pension income they could expect in retirement.
  • (9) Immunodiffusion reactions were studied with seven strains of Rhizobium japonicum and three strains of the cowpea miscellany by using antisera against eight of the strains.
  • (10) It’s some of the best stuff she’s done since the 2008 RNC (before she devolved into speeches composed of a miscellany of punchlines and red-meat-for-the-rubes bumper stickering).
  • (11) • £4.95 adult, £2.50 child, nationaltrust.org.uk , 028 7084 8728 The House of McDonnell, Ballycastle, County Antrim This is a proper old world classic (the interior was last revamped in 1870) – Bakelite switches and coat hooks beneath the counter, a keyhole clock that gongs above the bar, shelves of bottled miscellany, distillers’ mirrors, daylight filtering in through red Bristol glass.
  • (12) This miscellany of sketches drawn by a Nurse Reeve in 1883-1887 consists of the following: first, talipes and genu recurvatum.
  • (13) In addition there are a variety of cystic neoplasms and a miscellany of unusual forms.
  • (14) Scientific medicine is always encircled by a miscellany of medical fantasies, which come and go, and which offer a short-cut to diagnosis and treatment, and (very occasionally) both together.

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.