What's the difference between pian and piano?

Pian


Definition:

  • (n.) The yaws. See Yaws.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A Microcomputer was used to process the spectral data measured on a manual spectrophotometer (UV-7520) for the determination of aspirin and acetaminophen in Xiaoer Tuishao Pian, using the derivative spectrophotometric-signal multiplier method.
  • (2) From 1982-1988, the authors carried out a randomized double blind trial on altogether 565 cases of CHD divided into an experimental group to be treated with SSTGP and a control group treated with another TCM proprietory medicine, Dan Qi Pian, that had been used for many years clinically.
  • (3) Yaws (buba, Frambösie, pian), a non-venereal treponematosis of skin and bones is a tropical disease that affects primarily children.
  • (4) One group was treated with Xiaobu Jianfei Pian (XJP) as treated group, another with Fangfeng Tongsheng San as a control.
  • (5) Feng, who has a string of domestic box office success behind him , thanks to his mastery of the lighthearted "hesui pian" comedies, made to screen around the Chinese New Year, challenged the censors at Chinese Film Directors Guild awards earlier this year.
  • (6) According to 406 cases of clinical observation and a cross test (67 cases treated with Yufen Ningxin Pian as control), the results showed that the total efficacious rate of remission angina pectoris was 82.3%.
  • (7) In 2013, only three Hollywood films made it into the top ten and the most popular was a homegrown comedy, Journey to the West (Xi You Xiang Mo Pian).
  • (8) The purpose of this study was to verify the effect of a Chinese herbal medicine Jiang-Zhi Zhong-Yao-Pian to reduce serum lipoid.
  • (9) A colorimetric-equal value derivative spectrometry for the quantitative analysis of cholic acid in Niuhuang Jiedu Pian(tablet)containing 8 crude drugs is reported.
  • (10) 197 cases of paediatric pneumonia from 2 hospitals were treated by Ning Fei Pian (NFP, the Lung Easing Tablets), a proprietary Chinese medicine for antipyresis, detoxication, blood invigoration, resolution of cough and phlegm; the control group was treated by penicillin, and the therapeutic results were comparable.
  • (11) Shenshao Tongguan Pian (SSTGP) is composed chiefly of saponins from the stem and leaf of Ginseng and Radix Paeoniae Alba, etc.
  • (12) The total chlorogenic acid in Lonicera japonica and yinqiao jiedu pian was determined by differential derivative spectrophotometry in this paper.

Piano


Definition:

  • (a. & adv.) Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.)
  • (a.) Alt. of Pianoforte

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, because my film was dominated by a piano, I didn't want the driving-strings sound he'd used for Greenaway.
  • (2) Prince was named after his father's own stage persona, and when his parents split up he became determined to better his dad on piano.
  • (3) Meanwhile he is preparing a new double piano concerto by Kevin Volans with the Labèque sisters for a concert at the Edinburgh festival next week, and he tells me with a glint in his eye about ideas for the next two seasons: concert performances of Don Giovanni this October, more Brahms symphonies, and more Berlioz – an ambitious plan to realise the gigantic drama of Roméo and Juliette on a chamber-orchestral scale, following up his rapturously received performances of L'Enfance du Christ in February.
  • (4) What is there now is more like the designs that Piano produced almost 12 years ago than seemed likely.
  • (5) Piano, who is conscious of having grown up in a generation that fought to preserve Italy's exquisite historical town centres from the bulldozing zeal of modernisers, is grateful that crucial battle was waged and – to a certain extent – won.
  • (6) The relationship between final hammer velocity and maximum amplitude of radiated piano sound was investigated.
  • (7) Starting small, with oddly tweaked vocal samples and ominous-sounding piano, the first half is brilliantly brooding, to the point where the first chorus of “I love these streets but they weren’t meant for me to walk” arrives at the 45-second mark just as all the music drops away completely.
  • (8) When he sits back at the piano and plays Raspberry Beret and Starfish and Coffee and Girls and Boys, they’re beside themselves, and understandably so: he sounds magnificent.
  • (9) In Piano's case, the answer is clear, and he has wasted no time in setting it in motion.
  • (10) I used to teach piano to two girls across the road,” says Boyle.
  • (11) Soon my piano lessons had turned into me, an obstinate 11-year old, demanding that my neighbour teach me ever-more intricate DOS commands.
  • (12) Collectively known as "the Huntsman girls" the three young women – piano teacher Mary Anne, public relations expert Abby and fashion industry hopeful Liddy – have campaigned actively for their father, especially using social media.
  • (13) When Piano was designing his first major building in the US - the Menil Collection in Houston, completed in 1987 - I remember discussing the notion of "soft machine" buildings with him.
  • (14) Instead of learning to read sheet music Olsen, in childhood piano lessons, preferred to memorise, only getting caught out when she neglected to turn any pages.
  • (15) His mother was a singer and his father, Beverly, played piano and bass; together they had an a capella jazz group, and there would always be singing at home.
  • (16) Gamble and Huff's career spans the history of rock and soul – Gamble sang with a group called the Romeos in the 60s, while Huff's early days reach back further, having played piano on sessions for the rock'n'roll songwriting duo Leiber and Stoller, and for Phil Spector.
  • (17) I step in front of her, turn around, and tell the adult seated at the piano, “Keep playing that music.” He obeys; I turn back to the audience and do my notion of a dance for a few minutes.
  • (18) Piano tones with varying hammer velocities were produced by a computer-monitored acoustic piano containing optical sensors and solenoids, and the sounded tones were recorded and digitized for analysis.
  • (19) The snowman's quest is accompanied by a fey, irritating cover version of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's The Power of Love , in which Holly Johnson is replaced by a breathy chanteuse whimpering at the piano like a dog that needs taking for a walk.
  • (20) Ed Balls has just passed grade four piano , aged 47.

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