What's the difference between quintet and singer?

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.

Singer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, singes.
  • (n.) One employed to singe cloth.
  • (n.) A machine for singeing cloth.
  • (n.) One who sings; especially, one whose profession is to sing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • Bi Kidude (Fatuma binti Baraka), singer, born around 1910; died 17 April 2013
  • (2) I can’t,” says sufi pop singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, comparing himself unfavourably to his uncle, the late Pakistani superstar Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan .
  • (3) In a Facebook post , the songwriter and activist claims that Swift has merely chosen sides in the battle between Google and Spotify, saying that the singer was trying to “sell this corporate power play to us as some sort of altruistic gesture in solidarity with struggling music makers”.
  • (4) Photograph: Instagram Callander, who was studying health and social care at Runshaw College in Leyland, Lancashire, sent a Twitter message to Grande on Sunday, saying: “SO EXCITED TO SEE YOU TOMORROW.” She had previously posted a photograph of herself with the singer taken in 2015 on her Instagram account.
  • (5) Less than five months after the release of Closer to the Truth, the singer seems resigned to the album's current profile, tweeting, "It's OK".
  • (6) The bi-annual Leonard Cohen Event was initially hosted during Cohen’s silent period when the singer embraced Buddhism and entered the Mount Baldy Zen Centre to live in seclusion as a Rinzai monk.
  • (7) – to either discuss [the new record], or even to sing any songs from [it].” Meanwhile, Morrissey conspiracy theorists have proposed another reason for the singer’s re-configured music deals: he is planning to bring back the Smiths.
  • (8) "[She] was in the hospital, as far as I could see, for absolutely no reason," the singer said.
  • (9) I learned how to join in with the conversation, and trained myself to pay attention to the other things that were going on apart from the singer.
  • (10) Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber, who made a return to European stages at the MTV Europe Music awards in Milan on Sunday, abruptly canceled his concert in Oslo on Thursday night after performing just one song.
  • (11) Muchhal, a professional singer who has worked on major Bollywood hits, has raised more than 37m rupees (£400,000) to save the lives of more than 550 children with heart ailments.
  • (12) The best thing that happened to me was when David Gedge [lead singer of the Wedding Present] followed me on Twitter".
  • (13) As current aid levels stand, the first Millennium Development Goal to halve the number of people who suffer from hunger would "slip through its [DfID's] fingers and further out of reach", says the report, which opens with a message from Boyzone singer Ronan Keating, a UN FAO goodwill ambassador.
  • (14) It was found that in addition to the immediate decrease of retrograde labelling with HRP in the cortical projections from the deafferented A-laminae of the dorsal part of the lateral geniculate nucleus (Singer et al.
  • (15) And she met Jimmie Miller, better known later as the folk singer Ewan MacColl, who became her husband.
  • (16) However, the public response to the ruling might just potentially help the singer achieve her lawsuit’s other goal – to end her contract with Kemosabe.
  • (17) Some singers and writers are understood to write “in character” – Elvis Costello, for instance, or Randy Newman – because the characters they create are so obviously not themselves, and are either highly exaggerated or satirical creations or, in the case of Randy Newman, a monstrous opposite.
  • (18) "Columnist Jan Moir's comments on the singer's shocking death sparked an extraordinary online response using sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
  • (19) Ninety-nine college undergraduates responded to a questionnaire consisting of subscales from the Singer-Antrobus Imaginal Processes Inventory and scales measuring extent of sleep disturbance; measures of response bias and samples of volitional waking fantasy were also obtained.
  • (20) She was then a little known singer-songwriter whose career was about to take off, and in a small London studio Mumford recorded the drum track for Marling's breakthrough album, Alas I Cannot Swim .