What's the difference between piccolo and waiter?

Piccolo


Definition:

  • (n.) A small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is an octave higher than the ordinary flute; an octave flute.
  • (n.) A small upright piano.
  • (n.) An organ stop, with a high, piercing tone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Without working too hard she studied for a PhD in political science, then devoted rather more effort to learning mime at the Piccolo Teatro.
  • (2) "The theme tune by Ronnie Hazlehurst features a piccolo spelling out the title in Morse code, excluding the apostrophes.
  • (3) Heterochromatic-euchromatic rearrangements are examined with respect to position effects on expression of the rosy region genes l(3)12, rosy, snake and piccolo, as well as suppressor effects.
  • (4) Success, however, was still not immediate; after making his operatic debut that same year conducting Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges in Trieste and a first appearance at the Milan's Piccolo Scala in a concert in 1960 to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Alessandro Scarlatti, he turned to teaching – partly to support his new wife, Giovanna Cavazzoni, and their two children, Daniele and Alessandra.
  • (5) Trumpet and piccolo players received a noise dose of 160% and 124%, respectively, over mean levels during part of the study.

Waiter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table.
  • (n.) A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meanwhile Bradley Beal has developed into a dangerous second option and complementary sidekick in exactly the same way that Dion Waiters hasn't for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
  • (2) A waiter grabbed a table cloth to use as a stretcher, but a photographer took the boy in his arms to carry him to the ambulance.
  • (3) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
  • (4) As public sector workers prepare for the biggest strike since the Winter of Discontent in 1979, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that workers in the worst paid jobs – such as dinner ladies, hairdressers and waiters – have seen their pay fall sharply in real terms, fanning fears about families' ability to cope with soaring food and energy bills.
  • (5) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
  • (6) The paper said the figure was a quarter of the country’s average monthly wage and around half what a waiter earns.
  • (7) "Most of my friends have to get jobs as waiters," says Gardiner, "and I'm getting paid to watch football and talk about it."
  • (8) In a deconsecrated Mayfair church lit with Parisian-style globe lamps, Ronnie Scott's orchestra played jazz standards as waiters in traditional black linen aprons circulated with champagne.
  • (9) It was fully staffed with waiters in white jackets and plimsolls.
  • (10) Our kind waiter, Paul, delighted our tot with her own special jug and cup, and steaming bowlfuls of spätzle pasta.
  • (11) I arrived at work for 10.30am to open the restaurant as a waiter.
  • (12) Unaffordable cities: Berlin the renters' haven hit by green fog of eco-scams Read more “I used to be able to pay my rent for the whole month just by working one shift as a waiter,” he said of his housing situation in 2003, when he lived in a shared flat in a now very desirable neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Kreuzberg.
  • (13) Habib Daguib In the aftermath of the slaughter of 38 tourists at the Imperial Marhaba hotel have come tales of valour by waiters, lifeguards and men whose normal job is renting out water skis and plastic bananas.
  • (14) Corinne Haynes Nottingham • Sitting in a Paris restaurant in 1957, I asked the waiter where I could feed my baby.
  • (15) The authors report a case of pseudoaneurysm in an 18 year old waiter.
  • (16) One high-end eatery in Palma de Mallorca equips its waiters with iPod Touches on which they show pictures of dishes to patrons and, with a tap, take their orders.
  • (17) Unite represents some of the UK’s lowest-paid workers and has successfully campaigned this year on poor tips for waiters, the ill-treatment of workers at Sports Direct and for cleaner air for British Airways workers.
  • (18) I saw traffic wardens, shop assistants, and waiters subjected to rudeness and worse, by people who were clearly loaded.
  • (19) I'm off to Stoke where I plan to spend the next nine or 10 hours standing behind Rob Dorsett outside the Britannia Stadium making faces like this ... Roll-up man Updated at 2.37pm GMT 2.31pm GMT Tancredi Palmeri (@tancredipalmeri) Lazio going strong on Santos' Felipe Anderson, bidding 7m € for the 70% of his property (you know, brazilian ownerships...) January 31, 2013 2.29pm GMT Patrick O'Dea writes: "My cousin Alecc is a waiter in Red Lobster is New York," he says.
  • (20) As for the staff, the PR assures me that Nando's is keen to offer its workers opportunities to advance themselves, many grillers and waiters moving up the ranks to managerial status.

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