What's the difference between polo and solo?

Polo


Definition:

  • (n.) A game of ball of Eastern origin, resembling hockey, with the players on horseback.
  • (n.) A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That is a kind we have already been warned about — by Marco Polo in Italo Calvino’s deathless novel Invisible Cities .
  • (2) And if fancy hats and champers are more your scene, there's a free beach polo match here on 16 September, with public champagne bars and a barbecue.
  • (3) Officers were in low numbers and principally dressed in bright blue polo shirts emblazoned with “NYPD Community Affairs”.
  • (4) The real disgrace is the withdrawal of funding to mass participation, “local” sports such as basketball and water polo, which have the potential to do so much good in communities and cities across the country, in order to concentrate money on elite individuals who long ago ceased to be inspirational and now have a standing no higher than reality TV.
  • (5) He lost weight and took to polo in his late 40s with the enthusiasm of a man half his age, putting millions of pounds into the game in England, Australia and Argentina, and spending up to five months a year on the international polo circuit.
  • (6) Rake, married with four sons, keeps horses at his Oxfordshire home and has formed a polo team.
  • (7) He will hand control of the company, best known for its colourful polo shirts and preppy advertising campaigns, to a Gap executive in November.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mario Polo, of Boston Market, left, talks to job seekers Herby Joseph, right, and Kingsly Jose, center, at a job fair in Sunrise, Florida.
  • (9) Billboards and placards sprang up around Egypt, showing him not in his familiar uniform but in a tracksuit, polo shirt or smart suit, with a discreet prayer bruise – a mark cultivated by some devout men by pressing their foreheads hard to the ground during prayer – calculated to set housewives’ hearts aflutter.
  • (10) In a bid to increase sales, Ralph Lauren has added three new brands, including Polo for Women and Polo Sport, as well as expanded both its luxury business and online operations.
  • (11) In the past few years, they have drilled boreholes for polo and cricket pitches, stables, and people who want their own supplies.
  • (12) "My first job was packing Polos in a factory so I don't need anyone to tell me what it's like being a normal person on normal amounts of money."
  • (13) Papillomatous lesions intruding into the laryngeal airway were identified in an imported polo pony during a routine neurological examination for partial quadriplegia.
  • (14) Tight polo necks, worn as layers, and smart little denim jackets looked likely to be commercial hits.
  • (15) Embryos from homozygous polo females have aberrant mitotic spindles that are highly branched and have broad poles.
  • (16) He wanted to design ties that were bigger, better, glitzier, but the company was not interested so he set up on his own under the name Polo in 1967.
  • (17) He later developed synovitis, a rheumatoid condition of the tendon in the hand, after a polo fall.
  • (18) Serum samples obtained from 107 Polo horses showing clinical signs of viral respiratory disease were tested for precipitating antibodies to adenovirus by agar gel precipitation test and counter-immunoelectrophoresis method.
  • (19) What fun they all must have had in Kashmir, where polo was invented.
  • (20) The other disciplines to lose financial backing from the nation's high-performance sports agency were synchronised swimming, water polo, weightlifting, football for the visually impaired, goalball and wheelchair fencing, despite UK Sport having already spent almost £6m on these seven events since London 2012 in the belief that they were capable of challenging for medals.

Solo


Definition:

  • (a.) A tune, air, strain, or a whole piece, played by a single person on an instrument, or sung by a single voice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sculthorpe’s catalogue consists of more than 350 pieces ranging from solos to orchestral works and opera.
  • (2) A system to train nurses to be first and solo assistants of microsurgery has been practiced in our hospital for the past 13 years.
  • (3) "Over the 70-odd days I was there last time [for the solo trip], I would only think there was less than half a day when all things were good."
  • (4) We have identified the yeast histone locus HTB1-HTB1, encoding histones H2A and H2B, as a suppressor of solo delta insertion mutations that inhibit adjacent gene expression.
  • (5) Those starting in a self-employed solo practice are least likely to change practices, while those starting as HMO employees are most likely to change.
  • (6) The best advertisement for the format came four hours before the final even started, when, in ITV1's coverage of the FA Cup Final, the teenager Faryl Smith, a 2008 runner-up, sang the national anthem solo and faultlessly in front of a full crowd at Wembley.
  • (7) Peter Mayhew, who played Han Solo's wookiee sidekick Chewbacca in the original Star Wars trilogy, stood at an impressive 7 ft 2" and also had what might be described as broad facial features.
  • (8) But it also succeeded by elevating the likes of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo to the kind of status usually reserved for totemic superheroes such as Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, characters destined to be wheeled out time and time again in different big screen iterations.
  • (9) has been topping download charts across Europe since its surprise release on Tuesday morning, and now could become his fourth solo No 1, and his first since Let's Dance in 1983.
  • (10) Drawing on several real cases, as well as the recent celebrity nude photo leak, the drama is mostly a solo performance.
  • (11) More from Behind the joke • James Acaster: 'Normal people perv solo' • Phil Wang: impossibly wise or offensively stupid • Holly Walsh: 'I build my comedy block-by-block like Lego'
  • (12) It was only ever worth around a quarter of a billion dollars annually in exports at its mid-noughties peak – less than most blockbuster US animations grossed solo.
  • (13) Mark Coyle, who co-produced Definitely Maybe, said that Gallagher’s second solo LP reminds him “in some respects of the spirit” of Oasis’s 1994 debut.
  • (14) That leap is The Desired Effect, his second solo album, out 18 May.
  • (15) Dad brought us up on Star Wars from when we were old enough to not be scared ... We grew up in our teenage years absolutely loving Star Wars,” said Michael Kidd, who came to see the film dressed as Chewbacca along with his Hans-Solo-costumed wife and Jedi-dressed family.
  • (16) Edge: Red Sox FIRST BASE At first base, Boston's Mike Napoli was a force in the ALCS, hitting a pair of solo home runs, including his blast off Detroit's Justin Verlander in Game Three which was just enough to beat the Tigers 1-0.
  • (17) Conversely, most optometric educational institutions have been unwilling or unable to develop training programs for student optometrists beyond the traditional solo concept.
  • (18) Since 1969, with the introduction of universal health insurance in Ontario, the cost and benefit differences between solo and group practice medical care have been eliminated.
  • (19) This article compares mothers' satisfaction with children's medical care in six widely varying settings: fee-for-service solo and group practices, prepaid group practice, public clinics, hospital outpatient departments, and emergency rooms.
  • (20) A longitudinal, controlled study of contraceptive compliance was undertaken in a solo family practice in which 240 high-risk women were allocated alternatively to Practice and Clinic Groups.