What's the difference between quartet and quintet?

Quartet


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Quartette

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Libya Quartet, which includes the Africa Union, the European Union and the Arab League, is likely to discuss the massacre of up to 140 civilians and soldiers at an airbase in southern Libya in one of the single most shocking incidents since the civil war started in 2011.
  • (2) 19F NMR spectra of the complexes showed that the spin-coupled quartet of each complex was progressively shifted to higher frequency with an increase in the number of F- ions in the complex.
  • (3) "Settlement activity is detrimental to current peace efforts, including by the Quartet [the UN, EU, US and Russia], and puts those efforts at risk," she said.
  • (4) From the early beginning of the 32-cell stage, all four macromeres introdude far into the interior and tough the centrally radiating cells of the first quartet of micromeres.
  • (5) For many reasons, not the least of which is his role as the representative of the Middle East Quartet , Mr Blair has built a network of lucrative contracts in the region since he stepped down as prime minister in 2007.
  • (6) Columbia Pictures has bought the remake rights to the TV series, and to the original quartet of novels by David Peace on which it was based.
  • (7) Formation of the K(+)-stabilized G-quartet structure in a primer inhibits its use by telomerase.
  • (8) An XI that showed only Morgan Schneiderlin as a bona fide central midfielder meant the manager was shifting shape from his usual 4-2-3-1 to a loose 4-1-4-1, in which the middle quartet formed a diamond with Wayne Rooney at its tip behind Marcus Rashford.
  • (9) First, when he travelled to the Ashbourne set of Robin Hood to meet Russell Crowe and sign for the South Sydney Rabbitohs ; then when he was followed to Australia by his elder brother, Luke, and the twins, Tom and George, the quartet making history when they teamed up for Souths against Wests Tigers in August ; and this week when Sam, Tom and George were included in England's squad for the World Cup to leave Julie, the Burgess mother, feeling devastated for Luke.
  • (10) The quartet wrestles its way to the end of Shostakovich's unquiet masterpiece, the reprised Largo with its complex contrition and very adult fears.
  • (11) She said foreign ministers of the quartet of international peace mediators - the US, the EU, Russia and the UN - would hold a telephone conference during the day to discuss developments in the Palestinian territories .
  • (12) The frequencies of R-Y doublets, triplets and quartets in each were calculated.
  • (13) A weight had been lifted from all these players' shoulders, with this a moment for all to savour, an invitation extended even to the quartet who had been suspended against Bayern.
  • (14) And he says he takes great care to avoid conflicts of interest: for example, doing no business in Israel or the Palestinian territories, to avoid damaging his credibility there as the quartet's representative.
  • (15) Subsequent reaction of the excited quartet state involves hydrogen atom abstraction from a tryptophan residue.
  • (16) Gove, a member of the so called "quartet" running the party's election campaign, has made little secret of his unease.
  • (17) This Friday, 27 June, will mark the seven-year anniversary of Tony Blair's appointment as the Quartet representative to the Middle East.
  • (18) But the Quartet plan faces a major obstacle from a Palestinian insistence that it require Israel to halt all settlement construction during talks.
  • (19) The defence is well structured and they have a quartet of forwards that are very fast, with one very skilful player like Musa.
  • (20) His chaotic yet coherent masterpieces of the late 1960s, such as his Eight Songs for a Mad King, in which a violin is smashed to pieces every time the work is played – a moment that still draws gasps from any audience – through to his later cycles of concertos, symphonies, string quartets and music-theatre pieces,, as well as the dozens of pieces he has written for communities and amateur musicians to perform, make his a unique achievement in 20th and 21st century music.

Quintet


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Quintette

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This magnificent quintet of gems was, alas, the sum total of the factual and subjective spoils of which the committee was able to relieve him over two-and-a-half long hours.
  • (2) In the English-speaking cinema, Gassman was at his best working with Robert Altman in films (not, it is true, among the director's finest) like A Wedding (1978) and Quintet (1979).
  • (3) The senior quintet would be reduced to, at best, squad roles.
  • (4) The quintet have given Hunt until Monday to respond.
  • (5) Nowhere, alas: instead the august broadsheet rock critic was confronted by a “parade of misfits”, horrified by the sound of experimental jazz quintet Polar Bear “tootling” on something he referred to as “a coronet”.
  • (6) Who couldn't be stirred by the gleeful noir of the opening theme , nor by the Boccherini Minuet that the film makes famous again (their cover story is they're an amateur string quintet)?
  • (7) Currently the focus of all the fuss is Room on Fire, the second album by New York quintet the Strokes.
  • (8) In Mackendrick's film, Guinness heads a gang disguised as a string quintet planning a heist from the home of an innocent old lady.
  • (9) The variation in longevity among quintets was large and the expression of genetic longevity interacted with the treatments.
  • (10) The only reason for Peter’s investment in Salford City is aligned with his personal philanthropic interest in youth development,” the spokesperson said, “and of course his support for the members of the class of 92.” The former United quintet said when announcing the deal they had known Lim for 10 years – initially this was through his ownership of United’s Red Cafe Asian franchise.
  • (11) Lawyers for the medical quintet challenging him in the high court claim that the provisions of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, in which the then health secretary Andrew Lansley set out to limit the health secretary’s power over the NHS, mean that Hunt was exceeding his powers by deciding on 11 February to impose the contract after two months of talks with the British Medical Association failed.
  • (12) The quintet of leg pain, weakness, edema, rectal mass, and hydronephrosis suggests plexopathy due to cancer.
  • (13) (Tata is shortly to retire but says at 75 his life's work won't be done, a sentiment of which the Britannia Unchained quintet would doubtless approve.)
  • (14) The low frequency shift of the quartet (0.31 ppm) and the quintet (0.62 ppm) from the triplet correlated with an increase in the number of 19F-ions in each complex.
  • (15) Alongside Corbyn and Watson’s own election, the quintet now at the top of the party is entirely male.
  • (16) I think all of our strikers need to be challenged,” said Hodgson, whose decision to bring a quintet of forwards to the finals already appears justified.
  • (17) After one show in their local neighbourhood, Este and Danielle were invited to be a part of a pop quintet called the Valli Girls .
  • (18) All have negative quadrupole interaction, and both this and the magnetic anisotropy imply that the orbital of the odd electron is prolate in the ground quintet, with little unquenched orbital angular momentum.
  • (19) It's even better when his friends arrive to rehearse for their amateur string quintet.
  • (20) This mixed bill features two new creations: a trio by rising talent Alexander Whitley set to Adès’s Piano Quintet, and an epically scaled response to his Polaris by the magnificent Crystal Pite.