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Soloist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who sings or plays a solo.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He went on to found a successful charity, the Core Trust , which treats "addicts of any sort", before continuing his musical career as a soloist – still acquiring devoted fans, but never selling many albums.
  • (2) Twenty-nine soloist and principal dancers (mean age, 29.08 years) from America's two most celebrated ballet companies were administered questionnaires measuring personality (API), occupational stress (OES), strain (PSQ), and coping mechanisms (PRQ), and injury patterns.
  • (3) Age and occupational factors, such as the orchestra in which the musician plays, the instrument played, and status as a soloist, were also found to be significant correlates of perceived stress.
  • (4) Although the soloists change, the basic orchestration continues creating an uncanny sense of déjà entendu.
  • (5) This "modal" approach loosened up the jazz ensemble, created more space between the players, and allowed the support for a soloist to take on a more fluid, collaborative form.
  • (6) The Soloist (2009) Foxx brought his classical training to bear on his role as Nathaniel Ayers, a real-life musical prodigy whose career is derailed by schizophrenia.
  • (7) He conducts the first concert himself – all Beethoven, with the great Martha Argerich as soloist – and passes the baton to the rapidly rising Diego Matheuz for the second, a programme of Mozart and Beethoven.
  • (8) Meanwhile Roldugin, a professional cellist, had risen to became lead soloist at the Mariinsky theatre and rector of St Petersburg’s conservatory.
  • (9) As Kolja Blacher, soloist and ex-leader of the Berlin Philharmonic and now leader of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, says: "There is a sociological difficulty nowadays, where personal liberty is so important to everybody.
  • (10) HER STORY Debbie McGee, magician’s assistant, 55 I was a soloist in the Iranian national ballet, but then came the revolution.
  • (11) Gareth Bale is Wales’ best soloist but Robson-Kanu, the selfless utility forward, symbolises their spirit.
  • (12) Tynan found Guinness less potent in the classical arena because he expected actors to perform like concerto soloists.
  • (13) He was accepted into Houston Ballet and, with his brilliant, Chinese-drilled technique, rapidly rose to soloist and principal.
  • (14) Twenty-eight principal dancers and soloists from America's two most famous ballet companies were examined for anthropometric measurements, including flexibility, muscle strength, and joint range of motion.
  • (15) They were together four years, during which he directed Pride & Prejudice, Atonement and The Soloist, and in every interview and photograph they seemed madly in love.
  • (16) He became a spellbinding soloist in the 1990s, in both classical recitals and his unique brand of kathak-inflected contemporary dance.
  • (17) There were no male soloists around when he came along.
  • (18) His intensive work with promising musicians continued in the Berlin Encounters concerts of the annual Berlin festival, created in conjunction with the cellist Natalia Gutman – who later, and surely uniquely for the finest of soloists, played in his Lucerne orchestra – to bring together young instrumentalists with established professionals.
  • (19) He describes Carlos Vela as a “great talent,” “entertaining”, and a “good boy who works with a smile,” – a “soloist who can make things happen” and who “could be one of Europe’s best players if he gets into really top shape.” He adds: “Vela makes such a difference.” When he’s there, that is.
  • (20) The principals' psychophysiological activation during performance was increased more than that of soloists or corps de ballet dancers as compared to the values at rest.

Vamp


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To advance; to travel.
  • (n.) The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.
  • (n.) Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t.
  • (v. t.) To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to patch; -- often followed by up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The main suppliers were VAMP (78 practices), AAH Meditel (46), and AMC (23).
  • (2) A study of 32 patients receiving cyclophosphamide (CY) and verapamil (VER) in addition to the drug combination vincristine, adriamycin and methyl prednisolone (VAMP) was made in which the clinical response and growth of clonogenic myeloma cells (MY-CFUc) from bone marrow aspirates were compared.
  • (3) Chaplin himself wrote about this process: "Sometimes a musician would get pompous with me, and I would cut him short: 'Whatever the melody is, the rest is just a vamp.'
  • (4) Median duration of aplasia following hyper-VAMP was 13 days with CM-CSF and 29 days without GM-CSF.
  • (5) The brand’s most famous material is black lace, inspired by Sicilian widow’s weeds, but the Dolce & Gabbana woman is both a mamma and a vamp.
  • (6) Collection was started 8-10 days after the end of L-VAMP therapy (3 cycles).
  • (7) RIP November 14, 2015 It was later confirmed that Marie Mosser, a 24-year-old who worked with band The Vamps, had been killed alongside Thomas Ayad.
  • (8) These studies suggest that intensive chemoradiotherapy (eg., VAMP-TBI), if given relatively soon after diagnosis and before development of progressive disease, improves long-term survival for patients with advanced neuroblastoma.
  • (9) VAMPs are synaptic vesicle-specific proteins composed of a carboxy-terminal hydrophobic membrane anchor and an approximately 100 amino acid domain oriented towards the cytoplasm.
  • (10) HDMP produced short responses in 25% of patients with less toxicity than VAMP.
  • (11) To determine whether GluT4 vesicles are related to synaptic vesicles, rat adipocyte low density microsomes (LDM), which are rich in GluT4 vesicles, were screened for the synaptic vesicle proteins synaptotagmin, synaptophysin, SV2, p29, rab3, and VAMP (synaptobrevin) by immunoblotting.
  • (12) A total of 110 patients with high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) not previously treated by chemotherapy or by radiotherapy at more than one site of disease underwent a regimen comprising an intensive 6-week initial, induction phase using vincristine, adriamycin, methotrexate, and prednisolone (VAMP) followed by the non-cross-resistant combination cyclophosphamide, etoposide, and vindesine (EEE).
  • (13) Comparison of these data with our previous study of patients receiving VAMP alone, suggests that the addition of CY to the regimen may increase the tumour cell kill.
  • (14) A 41-year-old male was diagnosed as acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) in November, 1982 and partial remission was obtained by a combination chemotherapy of LVP, DVP ABOP and VAMP.
  • (15) The amino-terminal 24-28 amino acid residues which comprise the proline-rich head are only about 50% homologous between the different VAMPs, yet the proline-rich character is maintained.
  • (16) Vesicle-associated membrane protein (VAMP) 1 is a 120-amino acid protein which co-purifies with cholinergic synaptic vesicles from the marine ray Torpedo californica.
  • (17) It is concluded that verapamil may be a useful adjuvant to VAMP chemotherapy and that busulphan may provide an alternative to melphalan in patients whose myeloma cells are melphalan resistant.
  • (18) Nucleotide sequence analysis of the cDNAs predicts proteins which are 84 and 75% homologous to Torpedo VAMP-1.
  • (19) This from the suburbs of Bristol, and another trade long steeped in such sharp practice: "Self-employed hairdressers are required for a busy, newly opened and re-vamped Beauty Salon."
  • (20) Its message in bovine brain encodes a 116 amino acid protein whose sequence reveals it to be the mammalian homolog of Torpedo VAMP-1.

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