What's the difference between parquet and wooden?

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.

Wooden


Definition:

  • (a.) Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.
  • (a.) Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
  • (2) It’s a bright, simple space with wooden tables and high stalls and offers tastings and beer-making workshops.
  • (3) A model system of exfoliated normal human cervicovaginal squamous cells, exfoliated rodent tumor cells, and acellular, viscous, mucuslike material was used to investigate cell deposition on smear preparations made with three different instruments: plastic spatulas, wooden spatulas, and brush-tipped collectors.
  • (4) I’m staying in a mobile home called a njalla , designed by artist and architect Joar Nango, which sits on wooden skis that allow you to drag it to a spot of your choosing.
  • (5) 11.21pm GMT Tweets Jeremiah Tittle (@WWWJT) @LengelDavid @Paolo_Bandini @HunterFelt @GdnUSsports remove the wooden beam from your own eye before you remove the speck from the umpires'.
  • (6) Up to 100 children may have died in the weekend’s catastrophic shipwreck in the Mediterranean, a relief agency has said as prosecutors in Sicily arrested the alleged commander of the wooden fishing vessel and a member of his crew.
  • (7) On buccal tooth surfaces, the cleaning effect of a multitufted nylon brush was superior to that of a wooden toothpick or unwaxed dental floss.
  • (8) Wooden construction results in low cost and minimizes radiation scatter problems associated with higher density materials.
  • (9) The teak-coloured wooden garages will be open for business from Monday for drive-in customers in a country where prostitution has been legal since 1942 on the outskirts of the Swiss city.
  • (10) When Philip Roth accepted the biennial International Booker prize honouring some 60 years of his fiction, from Goodbye, Columbus to Nemesis , he sat at a wooden table in the studio adjoining his airy Connecticut retreat looking as much like a retired priest, or judge, as the Grand Old Man of American letters, pushing 79.
  • (11) Tourists take the children out, to the zoo or downtown,” said the head of one orphanage of 16 children, a small wooden house built on stilts in flooded fields.
  • (12) They are furnished with raised wooden floors, good beds, small kitchens and even wood-burning stoves; six have front decks.
  • (13) The patient acquired this fungus by cutting his chin on a wooden floor.
  • (14) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
  • (15) However, this method was much less efficient (31% survival of micro-organisms) on site 3 (wooden surface) than methods 2 (7% survival) and 3 (1% survival).
  • (16) A wooden block is glued to the sound claw and parenteral antibiotics are administered for four to six days.
  • (17) Kondoli was pushing a makeshift wooden cart with the family's bedding and pots and pans, but it looked as if it was about to fall apart.
  • (18) Corrective measures: Chagas: Since brick houses have replaced the wooden ones for several years, new infections are unlikely.
  • (19) Peterson is accused of using a wooden switch to spank his 4-year-old son.
  • (20) The rustic rooms have clay tiles and wooden furniture, and the walls are brightened up with local fabrics.

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