What's the difference between trist and tryst?

Trist


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To trust.
  • (n.) Trust.
  • (n.) A post, or station, in hunting.
  • (n.) A secret meeting, or the place of such meeting; a tryst. See Tryst.
  • (a.) Sad; sorrowful; gloomy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Watkins reemphasized the need to pronounce it "phys-i-a'trist" and suggested that we be called the American Academy of Physiatrics.
  • (2) Fish silage was prepared from some fish species of the shrimp by-catch caught in Golfo Triste, Carabobo, Venezuela.
  • (3) L'Express hailed him as France's latest enfant triste – another of the country's new wave of melancholy prodigies, like novelist Françoise Sagan and painter Bertrand Buffet.

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.