What's the difference between viola and violist?

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 .

Violist


Definition:

  • (n.) A player on the viol.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Violinists and violists showed significantly poorer thresholds at 3-6 kHz in the left ear than in the right ear, consistent with the left ear's greater exposure from their instruments.
  • (2) Fiddler's neck is a dermatosis of violinists and violists.
  • (3) I’m not the world’s greatest violist.” But the staunchly pro-Palestinian Barenboim regularly included him in press conferences from Berlin to Salzburg to Andalusia.
  • (4) Tensions between Hoffman and his violist wife Juliette (Catherine Keener) over long-suppressed resentments also emerge, even before they learn that their daughter Alex (Imogen Poots) is sleeping with Daniel.
  • (5) Now 36, Ramzi is a professional, even world-class violist, but the bouzouk has become his primary means of making music – alongside his other work, administering and fund-raising for Al Kamandjâti, which now has eight branches in the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon, with 500 students a year and another 2,500 visited in primary schools, and 15 alumni have become music professionals.
  • (6) I buy some (it tastes like fishy polystyrene, but is pretty satisfying to gnaw on) and walk over to the concert venue, where a violist and cellist from the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra are creating conceptual classical sound waves with their bows.
  • (7) After HTLs were corrected for age and sex, HTLs were found to be significantly better for both ears of musicians playing bass, cello, harp, or piano and for the right ears of violinists and violists than for their left ears or for both ears of other musicians.

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