What's the difference between rendezvous and tryst?

Rendezvous


Definition:

  • (n.) A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
  • (n.) Especially, the appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
  • (n.) A meeting by appointment.
  • (n.) Retreat; refuge.
  • (v. i.) To assemble or meet at a particular place.
  • (v. t.) To bring together at a certain place; to cause to be assembled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That night, Weah borrowed from a Ronald Reagan script in promising supporters 'a rendezvous with destiny'.
  • (2) When flight controllers initially could not confirm deployment of the antennas in the minutes following its launch, they selected the backup rendezvous plan of two days and 34 orbits instead of the planned four-orbit, six-hour rendezvous.” A spokesman at Russian mission control said that the Progress “reached orbit but the full volume of telemetry (data transmissions) is not being received.” Russia’s mission control website said that the ship would dock with the ISS, where the international crew of six people awaits the cargo, on April 30.
  • (3) And with an A-list rendezvous just a three-digit credit card security number away, no wonder fan expectations have increased.
  • (4) Her blog was gaining a growing following, and she gave an interview by email to CNN and agreed to talk in person to the Guardian's correspondent in Damascus, though she did not show up to that meeting, as is not uncommon for activists in the city, saying she had seen secret police at the rendezvous cafe.
  • (5) They also were great at showing how dangerous this "final frontier" of outer space was, as in this episode where two crew members arrive early in their shuttle to a rendezvous with the Enterprise, only to find evidence that the ship has been destroyed and they are totally alone.
  • (6) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
  • (7) The story of the Trump dossier: secret sources, an airport rendezvous, and John McCain Read more Coming just nine days before he enters the White House as the 45th president of the United States, Trump staged his first encounter with the world’s media since last July, admitting that he had actively avoided subjecting himself to press scrutiny in recent months on the grounds that we had been “getting quite a bit of inaccurate news”.
  • (8) Jaguar: 'Rendezvous' (starts at 01:18) - US Ben Kingsley, Tom Hiddleston and Mark Strong are all appearing as "British villains" in a commercial designed to emphasise Jaguar's movie heritage.
  • (9) Even in their undiluted misery back home in France and Italy, it would take a footballing spoilsport of the highest order not to want to cast an eye over the rendezvous between Argentina and Mexico at Soccer City in Johannesburg this evening.
  • (10) Katsu Naito's book West Side Rendezvous is out now.
  • (11) There were bacon rolls at £5.75 each according to the menu, and granola with yoghurt (£5.25) on the table at the Delaunay restaurant on the Aldwych – a rendezvous frequented by London's business and media elite – for the meeting which was chaired by the editor of the Times, James Harding.
  • (12) China is the third country after the United States and Russia to complete space rendezvous and docking procedures, Xinhua said.
  • (13) Ambulance rescue systems are of two types: the stationary, in which the physician travels with the ambulance, and the rendezvous, in which the physician and ambulance, travelling separately, meet at the accident site.
  • (14) On Sunday, the Greeks have a rendezvous with history.
  • (15) I think the difficult thing is just having to juggle your career and your spare time with a dog,” she tells me when we meet for our cutesily termed “welcome woof”, a brief rendezvous to check all three of us are happy at the prospect of handing over the leash.
  • (16) He says that he and his son were watching a baseball game in the US on 29 August, a date suggested for the secret rendezvous.
  • (17) The results of this investigation reveal that the prehospital treatment of cardiac arrest in Odense can be improved by participation of a doctor in the treatment, (particularly the rendezvous model).
  • (18) One bonus was that the kidnapped families had been left their cars, so a rendezvous outside Garara Qataf was arranged.
  • (19) The rendezvous in Ankara was beset by further uncertainty.
  • (20) The "rendezvous procedure" combines percutaneous transhepatic and endoscopic retrograde cholangiography.

Tryst


Definition:

  • (n.) Trust.
  • (n.) An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst.
  • (n.) To trust.
  • (n.) To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with.
  • (v. i.) To mutually agree to meet at a certain place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) RTL said Trierweiler had let it be known that she had not had a "nervous breakdown" when Hollande confessed to his alleged affair with Julie Gayet, 41, hours before Closer magazine published its "special edition" claiming Hollande had been secretly leaving the Elysée Palace for secret trysts with the actor.
  • (2) Hotel Chevalier is about a young couple, played by Portman and Schwartzman, reuniting for a (possibly final) tryst.
  • (3) Abroad, he had perhaps been best known for his furtive motorcycle tryst with his actor lover, Julie Gayet, and his messy, public breakup with his First Lady, Valérie Trierweiler.
  • (4) Lacking long-term shared goals, many are turning to what she terms "Pot Noodle love" – easy or instant gratification, in the form of casual sex, short-term trysts and the usual technological suspects: online porn, virtual-reality "girlfriends", anime cartoons.
  • (5) She admitted the couple had become "detached" but said the revelations in Closer magazine that Hollande 59, had been leaving the Elysée for secret trysts with Julie Gayet, 41, had come as a complete shock.
  • (6) Where does Wickham have a tryst with Georgiana Darcy?
  • (7) Could he guarantee his security was not compromised during his clandestine trysts with Gayet?
  • (8) Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the allegations is the question of whether Hollande's trysts with what one newspaper waggishly called France's "second lady" have been funded out of the public purse.
  • (9) The first question he was asked after his long and detailed address, was whether Valérie Trierweiler was still first lady, after claims by Closer magazine that he had been enjoying secret trysts with Julie Gayet at an apartment just a stone's throw from the Elysée Palace.
  • (10) She was my first not-really-straight girl tryst, but she would not be my last.
  • (11) No one here cared much about his trysts with Gayet or his bad behaviour towards Trierweiller but people do care about this.
  • (12) It's licensed, so if a hair of the dog's your thing, try some locally brewed ale, including one from Stewart Brewing and one from Falkirk's Tryst.
  • (13) Described on his own website as a "poacher and gamekeeper" who has "helped save many a famous career from media damage and destruction", Clifford looked on helpless from the court dock as his own hard-built reputation was shattered by increasingly sordid stories about his secret trysts and bizarre obsession with the size of his penis.
  • (14) You’d be hard-pushed to claim there was anything profound going on in either work, but Green found a way of infusing his tryst with Mary-Jane with the auteurship of old in 2013’s more sombre Prince Avalanche : its tale of two road-marking painters retained the loopy conversation and spacey rhythms.
  • (15) Kushner then had a videotape of the tryst sent to his sister.
  • (16) Edinburgh zoo's two pandas are close to beginning their second tryst, after the zoo announced that their short-lived breeding season could start within hours.
  • (17) There's no suggestion in the coverage that Delevingne's relationship is taboo It is true that there has been some old-style titillating coverage concerning Delevingne and Clark – the Mirror and Mail reported on a supposed mile-high tryst (“they both snuck into a cubicle together … fifteen minutes later they reappeared looking pretty dishevelled”).
  • (18) The revelation that her partner had been sneaking out of the Elysée to make the 165-metre journey to a flat in a nearby street for secret trysts with Gayet, hit Trierweiler like "a TGV hitting the buffers".
  • (19) After a few Mills & Boon-like reluctant trysts, Gigi would tearfully admit to her father that she had fallen for her handsome prince and they would split the dosh, perhaps spending her half on an island to be used exclusively for lezzers, their quad bikes and tattoo parlours.
  • (20) A lmost exactly two years after their fateful tryst in the Downing Street rose garden, David Cameron and Nick Clegg are sick and tired of people likening their coalition knee-trembler to a marriage.