What's the difference between theater and theatric?

Theater


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Theatre

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
  • (2) Here's a tribute from the historic Apollo theater in Harlem, New York City: Touré (@Toure) Photo: The Apollo Theater in Harlem remembers Nelson Mandela.
  • (3) The rate of infections can be reduced to 1% prophylactic administration of antibiotics, surgery in an laminar airflow operating theater, and by the use of cement containing antibiotics.
  • (4) A questionnaire was administered to 71 college students enrolled in dance, drama, and musical theater programs to assess health care problems, injuries, risk-taking behaviors, and sources of care.
  • (5) Transmural gown pressures encountered when the surgeon comes into contact with a patient were measured in the operating theater.
  • (6) She should know about a parent’s trauma: her daughter Tyesa, 20, was fatally shot in 1992 outside of a movie theater by a 14-year-old gang member who was aiming for someone else.
  • (7) The study finds that depressive symptomatology, as measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, is elevated in World War II POWs from the Pacific and European theaters and in Korean conflict POWs.
  • (8) !” Some of those who applauded loudly then, in the Deutsches Theater, will have re-remembered their own reaction by now.
  • (9) On the basis of these experiences the surgical theater should be equipped with these and other instruments in such a way that they can be readily and interchangeably used in any neurosurgical procedure.
  • (10) The wealthier and older clients are provided with sexual services within a setting that might be described as a "macho theater" in which social needs are also allowed expression.
  • (11) Remember this, non-Theater People: if you think Broadway shows are too commercial, too bloated and bedazzled, remember that for every Ring of Fire or Tarzan there is a 90-minute play that takes place in a typewriter factory.
  • (12) Big movies that will be good Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (11 July) “Who asked for this?” I snarked as I entered the theater during 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
  • (13) Randomization was done by telephone from the operating theater, and stratification was by hospital only.
  • (14) So confident was Fox, indeed, that the company insisted that theaters leasing Midnight also take on a project for which they had far more modest hopes: Star Wars, a little space opera with no stars from the director of American Graffiti .
  • (15) Remember the Theater People: the gal rigging lights for her community theater's production of The Chalk Garden in Brainerd, Minnesota.
  • (16) 99mTe diphosphonate scintigraphy, which can be performed outside the operating theater with little discomfort to the patient, proved to be a reliable, noninvasive method of assessing the blood flow to the femoral head.
  • (17) He has just been awarded a MacArthur “ genius grant ” and it’s hard to think of a contemporary music theater composer who deserves it more.
  • (18) Nitrous oxide is the anaesthetic employed in the largest amount during general anaesthesia and it can be used as an indicator of occupational exposure to all the components the mixture; but if the pattern of dispersion of them (when leaking into the operating theater) are not the same, two indicators should be used: N2O (gas) + another component the mixture (vapour).
  • (19) Less visibly emotional than on other occasions, the president made a brief reference to the gun control issue, saying: “This massacre is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that allows them to shoot people at a school, or a movie theater, or a church or a nightclub.
  • (20) The technique must have ready availability, preferably in every operating theater dealing with abdominal emergencies.

Theatric


Definition:

  • (a.) Theatrical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At a theatrical device, it's a remarkable idea that a character will break the fourth wall.
  • (2) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
  • (3) "We are trying to create a theatrical version of The Arabian Nights which will do justice to the scale, depth and richness of the stories."
  • (4) Me and Taika would always do theatrical stuff, running around, miming, putting on voices.
  • (5) Dexter was a consummate theatrical craftsman and Lindsay was, in one form, a sort of poetic director.
  • (6) In 1997, the Globe was hardly the first space to challenge theatrical orthodoxy, but it was the first to return the event so wholeheartedly to the audience, and the first to do so in a way that felt so essentially English.
  • (7) Despite his Catholic upbringing, Clare lost his religious belief as a young man, saying he could not believe in a god that could cause famine, genocide and air crashes, although he admitted to missing the theatricality of the Catholic church.
  • (8) If someone’s able to keep such a stony-faced expression, it’s either high theatrics or they have no sympathy,” she added.
  • (9) Everyone was hooked to the drama and theatricality of it all.
  • (10) Young companies have woken up to the fact that puppetry isn't just a way of putting an extra actor on stage without paying food and accommodation costs, but a brilliant theatrical tool.
  • (11) Of all the senior clergy of the Church of England, she is arguably the least theatrical.
  • (12) Sharknado, a satirical disaster film featuring man-eating sharks let loose on Los Angeles by a freak cyclone, premiered on SyFy in 2013 and became a cult hit, gaining some traction later as a theatrical release.
  • (13) In fact, Guinness was an actor for a new theatrical style, subtle and undecorated.
  • (14) The costumes look remarkably grand for home theatricals, the jewellery is startlingly convincing, and the band evidently comprises moonlighting members of the Royal Horse Guards.
  • (15) His recognition of the theatrical value of its decay saved it from destruction.
  • (16) Theatrically backdropped by conical Great Sugarloaf mountain, the estate is landscaped with terraces, lakes and ponds, and also embraces the country's highest waterfall.
  • (17) And, although there are a few coups de théâtre (at one point the sky rains white balloons), audiences may be split over whether Van Hove has found a potent enough theatrical equivalent to Antonioni's visual poetry.
  • (18) When he finally deigned to sit down formally, it was in typically theatrical fashion: after midnight, on a big bed in a five-star suite, the Monte Carlo casino winking beneath our balcony, the ocean sighing behind us.
  • (19) The idea of the vampire as a silver-tongued aristocrat, like Count Dracula, is mirrored in Irving's thespian mannerisms, and his fascination with theatrical villains.
  • (20) She returned here and auditioned for Bernard Delfont , the huge theatrical group – it was a cattle market in those days.

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