What's the difference between piet and pint?

Piet


Definition:

  • (n.) The dipper, or water ouzel.
  • (n.) The magpie.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On her initial four-day trip to the first world war battlefields in November 2012, she visited Piet Chielens, the director of the In Flanders Fields museum in Ypres, Belgium.
  • (2) There's an exhibition at Tate Liverpool by someone called Piet Mondrian, who we're pretty sure sat on the bench for Holland at Uruguay '30 (Mondrian and his Studios, 6 June-5 October), and also some concerts by Robbie Williams (various UK locations, 13 June to 12 July; football fan Robbie will be free for the final on 13 July) who in the early 2000s formed a useful partnership down the left side with Jonathan Wilkes.
  • (3) A decade later, she and her husband, the abstract painter Ben Nicholson, worked in a community of radical artists in Hampstead, London, and exhibited with the great Dutch artist Piet Mondrian.
  • (4) The study’s lead researcher, Prof Piet van den Brandt of Maastricht University in the Netherlands, said: “Our research can help to shine a light on how dietary patterns can affect our cancer risk.
  • (5) "Even more importantly, a Spanish victory will enable the Dutch support to sing their song honouring Admiral Piet Heyn's capture of the Spanish treasure fleet in 1632 .
  • (6) At the time the minister of justice was Piet Peltzer, and he said all the allegations of ill treatment were untrue.
  • (7) In the first of the novel's many adulterous couplings, Piet Hanema and Georgene Thorne make love on her sunporch.
  • (8) The molecular principles of antigenic variation are now largely known in the bacterial species Borrelia and Neisseria and in the protozoa of the African trypanosome group and these three examples are discussed here by Piet Borst.
  • (9) A Kubuswoningen, or cube house, designed by architect Piet Blom Both renters and rentees have to establish their identity through a series of careful checks (including taking a picture of their passport or driving licence).
  • (10) You don't have to imitate figurative art – one contributor even arranged clothes in a suitcase to reproduce the colours of Piet Mondrian's Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow.
  • (11) My favourite things are these Piet Mondrian sunglasses by Cutler and Gross.
  • (12) Photograph: Piet De Kersgieter Ghent is the perfect place to enjoy a snug city break.
  • (13) Her practice, Diller Scofidio + Renfro , together with landscape architect James Corner and garden designer Piet Oudolf , designed the High Line.

Pint


Definition:

  • (n.) A measure of capacity, equal to half a quart, or four gills, -- used in liquid and dry measures. See Quart.
  • (n.) The laughing gull.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
  • (2) "For a few it will feel like having your wallet nicked with the mugger then handing you a few bob back to buy a pint.
  • (3) We continue to offer customers a great range of beer, lager and cider.” Heineken’s bid to raise prices for its products in supermarkets comes just a few months after it put 6p on a pint in pubs , a decision it blamed on the weak pound.
  • (4) The new slogan “for the thirsty” seems to lionise those who try different things: great for enticing new patrons but do you really want your loyal consumer base branching out beyond their usual pint?
  • (5) Hidden City writer Karl Whitney on Dublin Read more And now for a pint of the black stuff Ireland’s capital is awash with history but no visit would be complete without a sample of the black stuff.
  • (6) Another pint of Guinness That evening we set out again, this time to O'Donoghue's in Fanore, a blue-painted stone pub set on the thin shelf of land between the sea and the great limestone mountain that is called the Burren.
  • (7) Hoping a few pints will finish off head and see heart triumph.
  • (8) I still have a few pints of gin and tonic before I go onstage but nothing stupid."
  • (9) He said: "A frothy pint of ale and a Snickers from the fridge."
  • (10) If you get a group of people together who wouldn't dream of drinking three quarters of a pint of viscous fatty liquid, and you got them to drink a mug of Horlicks, it would actually disrupt their sleep.
  • (11) In the vast majority of studies the documented daily intake levels have been over 150 g of ethanol (the equivalent of one pint of 80-proof spirits), often in the range of 250-300 g. Other potential risk factors such as malnutrition are rarely considered, and little information is available on the effects of more moderate daily intake.
  • (12) The maximum catalytic activities of PFK (PPi) in apex, stele and cortex of the root of pea (Pisum sativum) and in the developing and the thermogenic club of the spadix of cuckoo-pint (Arum maculatum) were measured and compared with those of phosphofructokinase, and to estimates of the rates of carbohydrate oxidation.
  • (13) Cameron took his jacket off and sipped from the half pint glasses of water – gin?
  • (14) Pint from £3.20 Brigantes Bar & Brasserie Brigantes Bar and Brasserie, York This bare, plain drinking space – stripped wooden floor, blue and cream colour scheme, Celtic cross logo – looks a bit like an O'Neill's, but the beer range is worlds away from the Oirish chain.
  • (15) But buyers rarely occupy the properties, leaving parts of prime central London empty of residents and any remaining local shops bereft of customers popping out to buy a paper or pint of milk.
  • (16) Could the typical journey of the modern pint – a week-long trek from cow to fridge via tankers, processing plants, distribution hubs and supermarkets – be replaced by a bucolic idyll of farmers milking and bottling before delivering, all within 12 hours, as Our Cow Molly does?
  • (17) One unit is 10ml of pure alcohol, equivalent to a measure of whisky, just over a third of a pint of beer or half a glass of wine.
  • (18) As with group 1, graded increases in left ventricular end diastolic pressure caused a rightward shift of the pressure-flow relation, with a direct relation between left ventricular end diastolic pressure and zero flow intercept (Pint = 0.93 X LVEDP + 3.9 mmHg, r = 0.89).
  • (19) He was the kind of bloke you’d book the morning cutting session with and have a pint with him at lunchtime – you wouldn’t book the afternoon one because that’d be after his pint!” Porky also encouraged bands to scratch in their own messages.
  • (20) You're as likely to see the entire brass section of the Halle Orchestra running across the road at the interval for a swift pint as you are a room full of drunken retired policemen.

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