What's the difference between piet and poet?

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.

Poet


Definition:

  • (n.) One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
  • (2) Wood will play Brinnin, an American poet and literary scenester who was friends with Thomas as well as Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.
  • (3) Back to my favourite Tunisian poet: “If, one day, a people desire to live, then fate will answer their call.
  • (4) In one of the best of the recent ones ( Shakespeare Unbound , 2007) René Weis has a cool and illuminatingly open-minded analysis of whether the earlier sonnets (including 20) are directed at the young and glamorous Earl of Southampton, the poet’s patron and possible love object.
  • (5) We don't have to be like the long-ago poet who once wrote : "Did you exist?
  • (6) It featured Adam Dalgliesh, the poet-policeman, and he seemed old-fashioned, too, intellectual and a trifle upper-class.
  • (7) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
  • (8) As a sports writer, he never missed a deadline, which was surprising for a poet.
  • (9) Liu Xia, a poet, has never been accused of a crime but has been under strict house arrest since shortly after the news that her husband had won the Nobel prize.
  • (10) By the time he joined the Army, he had begun to believe he was "more deep and true as a poet than a painter".
  • (11) He began his career as a professor at Yale, specialising in the Romantic poets.
  • (12) Perhaps, too, it’s the reason why another great Scottish poet, Hugh MacDiarmid, blew hot and cold about him.
  • (13) She said: "It is fascinating to see how we change as poets.
  • (14) The Welsh national poet, Gillian Clarke , puts it more succinctly.
  • (15) Before her detention, the poet told the Guardian she was not particularly interested in politics and seldom read her husband's works, adding: "But when you live with such a person, even if you don't care about politics, politics will care about you."
  • (16) One former Clifton College student, Stuart Delves, compared the relationship between students and some of the English teachers at the school in the late 60s and early 70s to the film Dead Poets Society.
  • (17) The international community must honour the dying wish of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo by taking immediate steps to protect his wife, the poet Liu Xia , who has endured years of government persecution, friends and supporters have said.
  • (18) The accused candidates include poet Vladimir Neklyayev, 64, and former deputy foreign minister, Andrei Sannikov, 56, who were both beaten by riot police during the protests.
  • (19) "All I had was the poet's name and a few lines of the poem.
  • (20) The group is named after Ezra Pound, the American poet who sided with Mussolini during the war.

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