What's the difference between viola and violin?

Viola


Definition:

  • (n.) A genus of polypetalous herbaceous plants, including all kinds of violets.
  • (n.) An instrument in form and use resembling the violin, but larger, and a fifth lower in compass.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There may be lingering doubts over whether Meryl Streep , Viola Davis or outside bet Rooney Mara will claim the Academy Award for best actress later this month, and no-one is absolutely certain if Jean Dujardin , George Clooney or Gary Oldman will be picking up the equivalent male gong at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
  • (2) CV Sir Michael Marmot Age 65 Lives London Education University of Sydney; University of Berkeley PhD Career 1971-85: epidemiologist, University of Berkeley; research professor of epidemiology and public health, University College London 1986-present: chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health set up by the World Health Organisation in 2005; led the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (Elsa) 2004: won the Balzan Prize for Epidemiology 2006: gave the Harveian Oration 2008: won the William B Graham Prize for Health Services Research 2010 (February): published the report, Fair Society, Healthy Lives, based on a review of health inequalities he conducted at the request of the British government 2010-2011: president of the British Medical Association Family married, three children Interests tennis, playing viola The Marmot Review NHS Confederation Conference The Black Report
  • (3) After all, he was an accomplished viola player before the lure of the guitar seduced him.
  • (4) Twenty-nine days later he called with a location," says Romedio Viola, a retired agent with the US immigration and customs enforcement agency (ICE), which often works on drug-trafficking-related cases.
  • (5) She survives him, along with their three daughters, Tamara, Edwina and Viola, and a son, Hugh, who succeeds to the title.
  • (6) Dan Ackroyd, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer are set to appear, while Chadwick Boseman, who played Jackie Robinson in 42, the biopic of the first black player to break baseball's racial divide, will play The Godfather of Soul.
  • (7) Viola player Diemut Poppen has worked with Abbado every year since the founding of the European Community Youth Orchestra, and now sits on the front desk of the violas in the Lucerne orchestra.
  • (8) But the snow never came back, and climate forecasts suggesting average temperatures will have risen by 2C by 2100 will doom Viola Saint Grée to a ski-less future.
  • (9) Viola tricolor, Frigonella foenum-graecum, Laurus nobilis were shown to reduce the glucose transport.
  • (10) Indeed, if Viola Davies wins the best actress award at the Oscars tomorrow night for The Help she will be only the second African-American woman in history to do so.
  • (11) In recent years, there would appear to be little obvious impediment to black actors' success, with the likes of Viola Davis, Quvenzhané Wallis, Morgan Freeman and Forest Whitaker among those being nominated – and in some cases winning – Oscars in the past 10 years.
  • (12) Jennifer Hudson in Sex and the City, Stacey Dash in Clueless, Viola Davis in Eat Pray Love.
  • (13) However, there was a very good correlation between electrophoretic PP pattern results and those obtained previously from multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (electrophoretic type) and biotype (D. Gargallo-Viola, J. Clin.
  • (14) The tall, striking, glamorous Clark – an habitué of the Prada Italian restaurant on the Euston Road, where he would meet his bohemian friends for alcohol-fuelled lunches – had Anton Webern over to conduct his Five Movements for String Orchestra for broadcast; invited Igor Stravinsky to perform his own piano concerto on air, and Paul Hindemith his own viola concerto.
  • (15) Significant oral antipyretic activity in rabbits was exhibited by hexane-, chloroform- and water-soluble extracts of Artemisia absinthium, Viola odorata, Melia azadirachta and Fumaria parviflora comparable in potency aspirin.
  • (16) He was the Ulster Unionist MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone until he succeeded as 5th Duke, and was married to Viola Lyttelton, daughter of Viscount Cobham.
  • (17) Talking with the orchestra's players a few weeks ago as they rehearsed in Caracas, I heard the usual youthful bonhomie, and as they boarded UK-bound flights on Saturday, Facebook was humming with posts – principal viola player Ismel Campos still typing as he got on the plane.
  • (18) After his return to Palestine a poster bearing images of him as a child throwing his stone and as a young man playing his viola plastered walls there.
  • (19) Afterwards in the studio next door she proves entertaining, relaxed company, happy to talk about everything from her love of old musicals (“These days they can seem quite alien, but I grew up with them – Singin’ in the Rain is one of my favourite films”) to seeing Angela Davis talk at the Southbank Centre (“She was so much more amazing than I ever imagined she would be”) and why another Davis, Viola , is her role model.
  • (20) His youngest sister, Lady Viola Grosvenor, is a supporter of the children’s charity Kidscape .

Violin


Definition:

  • (n.) A small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As plantation owners go, Ford is a kindly sort: he delivers sermons and permits his slaves moments of humanity, even giving Northup a violin.
  • (2) Sounds (flute and violin) and vowels (German "u" and "i") evoke a complex motion pattern on the basilar membrane.
  • (3) It is a plausible claim, judging by the cacophony of trumpets, cymbals, drums and violins erupting from classrooms, corridors and the courtyard: hundreds of children aged six to 19, some in trainers, others in flip-flops, individually and collectively making music.
  • (4) In addition to a weaving violin and a zither that sends chills down your spine, there is a solo voice - similar to the muezzin's call from the minarets - that is full of heartbreaking longing.
  • (5) Gambaccini has claimed Savile played the tabloids like a Stradivarius violin to prevent details of his private life being revealed.
  • (6) The other is Coz Fontenot, a burly, bearded 48-year-old, who sits on a fold-out chair, splitting his time between solos on a battered violin and lead vocals.
  • (7) I arrived back at Baker Street to find Holmes playing a mournful Webern sonata on the violin and for a moment I feared he had succumbed once more to his penchant for cocaine.
  • (8) His chaotic yet coherent masterpieces of the late 1960s, such as his Eight Songs for a Mad King, in which a violin is smashed to pieces every time the work is played – a moment that still draws gasps from any audience – through to his later cycles of concertos, symphonies, string quartets and music-theatre pieces,, as well as the dozens of pieces he has written for communities and amateur musicians to perform, make his a unique achievement in 20th and 21st century music.
  • (9) Latterly, in unfamiliar concert halls, she would bring him from the dressing room to the side of the stage and he would just be able to see the gap between the first and second violins [to walk to the podium].
  • (10) This is a violin,” replied Alá, now 10 years old.
  • (11) Gardner recorded and engineered Cabinet of Curiosities at his Shadow Shoppe Studio in Holland, playing every instrument himself save the drums, having mastered recorder, clarinet, bass, guitar, keyboards and violin as a child.
  • (12) It was the Poetry Society that awarded Tempest the Ted Hughes poetry prize in 2013 for Brand New Ancients, a narrative work that told a tale of everyday heroics, false gods and fierce hopes in modern-day London over tuba, violin, drums, electronics.
  • (13) It's the only way I can bear to listen to my violin playing."
  • (14) When you're waiting for the arrival of the procession in the strikingly silent environs of the local rice fields, it acts as a kind of siren, heralding the approach of The Run with the aid of violins, acoustic guitars and the inevitable accordions.
  • (15) It was about being told that a girl couldn't play guitar when you're sitting in school next to girls playing violin and cello and Beethoven and Bach.
  • (16) A case is reported of degenerative joint disease in the right mandibular condyle of an 11-year-old boy, apparently due to violin playing.
  • (17) Cohn was his Virgil who guided him through the netherworlds of New York influence,” he added, “which led to Trump, among others, who was not much of a power broker at the time.” Stone, in an interview with the Washington Post, put it in even starker terms: “I think, to a certain extent, Donald learned how the world worked from Roy, who was not only a brilliant lawyer, but a brilliant strategist who understood the political system and how to play it like a violin.” Murdoch and Trump were still coming up in the world, but Cohn was approaching the height of his power.
  • (18) Our current band is called Quattrio , in which I play recorder, Cath plays violin, Rita plays harpsichord and Jo played cello, but had to leave the group last year.
  • (19) Now, they think it's cool; since this started, it's dead cool to play a violin in West Everton."
  • (20) At first when he turned up at jazz venues musicians laughed that he had a violin - to them it was a classical instrument.