What's the difference between parquet and theatre?

Parquet


Definition:

  • (n.) A body of seats on the floor of a music hall or theater nearest the orchestra; but commonly applied to the whole lower floor of a theater, from the orchestra to the dress circle; the pit.
  • (n.) Same as Parquetry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This involves only one type of hexagon oriented in 2 directions to form a 'parquet-floor' pattern.
  • (2) Some rooms need sprucing up, but a smart new carpet on the staircase and genuine parquet floors in the kitchen must have impressed the half dozen potential buyers who have trooped round since it went to on the market in February.
  • (3) The six men – three Russian, one Italian, one French and one Chinese – paced nervously on parquet floors, visibly anxious to step out into the real world.
  • (4) It had parquet floors, stained-glass windows and central heating, which was a luxury back then.
  • (5) A 48-year-old parquet floor layer suffered from an attack of asthma at work and systemic toxic reaction after exposure to cabreuva wood dust (Myrocarpus fastigiatus Fr.
  • (6) Water slops from the pool on to the parquet where, in a few days, a baby will hopefully be sleeping in a moses basket.
  • (7) The hostel has an air of calm and the decor is contemporary, with a mix of natural colours, parquet floors and simple wooden furniture.
  • (8) • Doubles $100 B&B, +51 84 236957, rumipunku.com El Albergue, Ollantaytambo Facebook Twitter Pinterest In Ollantaytambo station, where trains to Machu Picchu Pueblo depart, this wonderful hotel, dating from 1925, has elegant yet rustic rooms with original parquet floors.
  • (9) There are 92 rooms, all of which are designed with great attention to detail, including dark fishbone parquet floors and limestone tiles that nod towards its Swedish heritage.
  • (10) After longterm exposition (30.5 years) to beech and oak wood dust in woodworking, a formation of adenocarcinomas of the inner nose is possible in joiners, parquet layers and similar professions.
  • (11) Yet she is enthusiastically pointing out the dust-laden parquet floor, battered staircases and grimy Victorian glass roof.
  • (12) A 38-year-old layer of parquet flooring was referred because of memory impairment, tiredness and diffuse headaches.
  • (13) Set in 2.7 hectares of land, the welcoming rooms with parquet floors are furnished with young students’ work, from solid beds to handmade lamps and beautifully sewn curtains.
  • (14) The risk in other groups, and when playing on parquet, was considerably lower.
  • (15) The 1,329 square metre property, which has polished parquet floors, tasteful uplighting and a grand, spiral staircase, is in the heart of Belgravia and a stone’s throw from Buckingham Palace.
  • (16) He has personally furnished the penthouse apartment, reached by a gold-lined lift, with plush leather furniture, ceilings swept with gilt and carving, shining parquet floors, cabinets of curios and statues backlit in neon pink, green and blue, and a television that responds to voice commands.
  • (17) It is homely, with dark wood parquet floors, old-fashioned bookshelves, hushed voices.

Theatre


Definition:

  • (n.) An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed.
  • (n.) Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before an assembly, as public lectures, scholastic exercises, anatomical demonstrations, surgical operations, etc.
  • (n.) That which resembles a theater in form, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater.
  • (n.) A sphere or scheme of operation.
  • (n.) A place or region where great events are enacted; as, the theater of war.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
  • (2) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
  • (3) Plays like The Workhouse Donkey (1963) and Armstrong's Last Goodnight (1964) were staged in major theatres, but as the decade progressed so his identification with the increasingly radical climate of the times began to lead away from the mainstream theatre.
  • (4) It should also be realised that, in a very few hospitals, swabs which do not have an opaque marker may occasionally be used in theatre.
  • (5) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
  • (6) McQueen later worked for Gieves & Hawkes and the theatre costumiers Angels , before being employed, aged 20, by Koji Tatsuno , a Japanese designer with links to London.
  • (7) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
  • (8) No one deserves to walk out of the theatre feeling scared, humiliated or rejected.
  • (9) An obsessional artist who was an enemy of all institutions, cinematic as well as social, and whose principal theme was intolerance, he invariably gets delivered to us today by institutions - most recently the National Film Theatre, which starts a Dreyer retrospective this month - that can't always be counted on to represent him in all his complexity.
  • (10) It was curious in that it was the only thing I was doing that was not directly related to theatre or film.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Daniel Radcliffe, centre, with Sarah Greene and Pat Shortt in The Cripple Of Inishmaan at the Cort Theatre in New York.
  • (12) You shouldn't get involved in theatre or film if you don't think they can do your book."
  • (13) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian But is theatre even happening in the right places to begin with?
  • (14) This House , his witty political drama set in the whips' office of 1970s Westminster, transferred from the National's Cottesloe theatre to the Olivier, following critical acclaim.
  • (15) In his articles, he took on the theatre establishment, blaming it for siding with the actors and not the playwright.
  • (16) What we do know is that we cannot and will not see this decision as a vote of no confidence, and that we will find a way to continue through our own passion and dedication to making theatre that represents the dispossessed, tells stories of the injustices of our world and changes lives.
  • (17) In our play 2071 , which recently completed its inaugural run at the Royal Court theatre in London, directed by Katie Mitchell, we explore the science, its implications and the options before us.
  • (18) This paper describes a search for Gram-negative bacteria in an operating theatre and the steps taken to reduce the level of environmental contamination.A high rate of infection in clean wounds prompted a bacteriological survey.
  • (19) What's the best thing about making theatre in Britain?
  • (20) People want to talk to me – on city streets, in theatre queues, on aeroplanes over the Atlantic, even on country walks.

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