What's the difference between piet and pist?

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.

Pist


Definition:

  • (n.) See Piste.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I finally found my trusty rubber friend amongst kirby grips and tissues, and clumsily put it on, adding buoyantly: “I’m really looking forward to this!” Everything was then going tickety-boo until my rubber friend went off-piste and wedged itself stubbornly somewhere between my cervix and uterus.
  • (2) "Lean forward," shouts Barnie, as I tentatively point my skis, in a slight snowplough, down the Ariondaz piste.
  • (3) Several villages, each linked to the piste, makes up Serre Chevalier.
  • (4) Here are some examples: in Chamonix , Chamois Blanc 7 is a cute little apartment, with modern decor and lots of pine panelling, sleeping four from €600 in February and March, or €500 in April; while in the Tarentaise, 20 minutes from lovely Sainte-Foy , which has nice runs, great hiking into the backcountry and is within a short drive of La Rosière and Les Arcs, La Tillette is a super-stylish modern chalet sleeping eight, with massive windows and white interiors, L'Occitane toiletries and off-piste skiing to the door.
  • (5) yseski.co.uk Families Obergurgl, Austria, 1,950-3,080m, 24 lifts, 110km of piste, glacier Facebook Twitter Pinterest Obergurgl, Austria.
  • (6) Most accidents (84%) happened on the pistes and ski lifts were involved in about 6% of them.
  • (7) The setting sun casts shadows over parts of the piste, and it's so quiet that, like on a country walk, when I see another person, we say hello.
  • (8) The scale, variety and superior grooming of Courchevel's pistes, along with its lift systems and snowmaking, means learners and intermediates have some of the best snow in the Alps.
  • (9) Ride a Snooc, Le Grand Bornand, France Hiking off into the wilderness and finding peace away from the pistes is one of the most rewarding things to do in the mountains.
  • (10) We start out in Courchevel Moriond (previously 1650) on the blue runs around Ariondaz, where the wide pistes are in tip-top condition, thanks to a bumper dump of snow a few days earlier.
  • (11) Chalet La Falaise in Les Carroz , which has 144 pistes in Le Grand Massif , sleeps 10 in four bedrooms, and costs £1,600 for the whole self-catering property for the weeks starting 2 and 9 March.
  • (12) After a couple of days tearing around this undulating terrain, stopping for coffee and Kuchen in cosy places such as Berghotel Körbersee, where I had to step over a snoozing St Bernard to access the toilet, I ventured further into the backcountry with the Warth ski school , whose range of guided off-piste excursions is more original than any I have seen.
  • (13) There are loads of wide and gentle slopes, perfect for beginners and improvers, with 43% of the pistes graded blue (easy).
  • (14) Since the former mayor Eugen Larcher managed to convince authorities to open up the nearby glacier to skiers and hikers in the 1960s, the valley has become an upmarket slow-travel destination: close to nearby skiing pistes but not overrun by tourists, with high-speed broadband and a newly built spa.
  • (15) Luckily, there’s plenty of that nearby, which was the other reason I was here: to combine mountains and movies, popcorn and pistes.
  • (16) That will be like giving a medal to a ski instructor for leading his group off-piste down a closed black run and pulling them out alive from the ensuing avalanche.
  • (17) But BuzzFeed – like the Huffington Post, where Peretti started his digital career – doesn't compete across the piste.
  • (18) Highlights were when Spencer went a bit off piste from the classic look: an apple green parka, sweater with square motif and boxy suede jacket were welcome bits of modernity.
  • (19) Walking routes marked are in purple on the piste map, along with the red, blue and black runs.
  • (20) Once your children are up and skiing, there are themed areas on the mountain that add a touch of magic and story telling, such as the Piste of the Wicked Fairy Godmother in Courchevel Moriond, and the Indians Piste, where children go in search of the Grey Wolf and the Chief of the Indian tribe.

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