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noun
- the musical director of a choir
- the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos
- (Judaism) A prayer leader in a Jewish service; a hazzan
- singer, especially someone who takes a special role of singing or song leading at a ceremony
verb
noun
- A group of people who sing together; a company of people who are trained to sing together.
- a chorus that sings as part of a religious ceremony
- a family of similar musical instrument playing together
- the area occupied by singers; the part of the chancel between sanctuary and nave
- (Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.
- (architecture) One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church, generally used by the choir; often near the apse.
- Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.
verb
- sing in a choir
- utter in unison
- To echo in unison another person's words.
- (rare) To provide (a song) with a chorus or refrain.
- To sing, express, or say in, or as if in, unison.
- To sing (a song), express (a sentiment), or recite or say (words) in chorus.
- To express concurrence with (something said by another person); to echo.
- To sing the chorus or refrain of a song.
- Of animals: to make cries or sounds together.
noun
- A group of singers performing together; a choir; specifically, such a group singing together in a musical, an opera, etc., as distinct from the soloists; an ensemble.
- a body of dancers or singers who perform together
- a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play
- any utterance produced simultaneously by a group
- a group of people assembled to sing together
- the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers
- A group of organ pipes or organ stops intended to be played simultaneously; a compound stop; also, the sound made by such pipes or stops.
- The opinion expressed by such a group.
- A song performed by the singers of such a group.
- (by extension) A group of people in a performance who recite together.
- A piece of music, especially one in a larger work such as an opera, written to be sung by a choir in parts (for example, by sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses).
- (Christianity) A simple, often repetitive, song intended to be sung in a group during informal worship.
- The noise or sound made by such a group.
- A group of people, animals, or inanimate objects who make sounds together.
- (jazz) The improvised solo section in a small group performance.
- A group of people who express a unanimous opinion.
- A part of a song which is repeated between verses to emphasize the song's content; a refrain.
- (often attributively) A feature or setting in electronic music that makes one instrument sound like many.
- The main part of a pop song played after the introduction.
- An instance of singing by a group of people.
- A group of singers and dancers in a theatrical performance or religious festival who commented on the main performance in speech or song.
- (by extension, chiefly British, theater, historical) An actor who reads the prologue and epilogue of a play, and sometimes also acts as a commentator or narrator; also, a portion of a play read by this actor.
name
- Initialism of Association of American Choruses.
- Initialism of American Atheist Center.
- Initialism of American Association of Criminology.
- Initialism of Aluminum Annodizers Council.
- (historical) Initialism of Auto Avia Contruzione, Enzo Ferrari's first company.
- Initialism of American Airlines Center.
- Initialism of American Archery Council.
- Initialism of Army Apprentices College.
- Initialism of Anglo-American Corporation.
- Initialism of Australian Association of Chiropractors.
- Initialism of Australian Apprentiship Centre.
- Initialism of Advanced Aircraft Corps.
- Initialism of All-American Canal.
- Initialism of Auxiliary Army Corps.
- Initialism of Automotive Advertisers Council.
- Initialism of American Anglican Council.
- Initialism of Alaskan Air Command.
- Initialism of Aerial Ambulance Company.
- Initialism of Auxiliary Artillery Corps.
- (military) Initialism of Anti-aircraft Corps.
- Initialism of American Academy of Criminalists.
- Initialism of American Alumni Council, now known as Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
- Initialism of Atlanta Athletic Club.
- Initialism of Aeronautical Advisory Council.
- Initialism of American Alpine Club.
- Initialism of Alameda Arts Council.
- (British English, US) Initialism of Army Air Corps; Army Air Corps.
- Initialism of Agility Association of Canada.
- Initialism of Allumnae Advisory Center.
- Initialism of Australian Agricultural Company.
- Initialism of Association of Alabama Camps.
- Initialism of Amphibian Airplanes of Canada.
noun
- (military, aviation) Abbreviation of airborne aircraft carrier.
- (aviation, military) Initialism of aircraft armament change.
- Initialism of aerated autoclaved concrete.
- Initialism of Anno ante Christum, in the year before Christ.
- (aviation) Initialism of aeronautical approach chart.
- (file format) Initialism of advanced audio coding.
- (military) Initialism of anti-aircraft command.
- Initialism of area advisory committee.
- Initialism of augmentative and alternative communication.
- Initialism of affirming Anglican catholicism.
- a lightweight, precast, concrete building material invented in the mid-1920s that simultaneously provides structure, insulation, and fire- and mold-resistance.
symbol
noun
noun
noun
- A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
- (UK) A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant; for example, of Nonconformist or Dissenter congregations.
- (especially Christianity) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
- A printing office.
- A place of worship in another building or within a civil institution such as a larger church, airport, prison, monastery, school, etc.; often primarily for private prayer.
- (UK) A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
- A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
- a place of worship that has its own altar
- a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar
adj
verb
verb
- (Christianity, music) For a choir leader to lead a hymn by speaking one or two lines at a time, which are then sung by the choir.
- (US, slang) To make sly alterations to the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc.
- (US, slang) To place fresh fruit at the top of a barrel or other container, with spoiled or imperfect fruit hidden beneath.
- (US, animal husbandry) To kill a calf shortly after birth.
noun
- (Christianity, by extension) A modern-day member of a church who handles secular and/or administrative duties in a priest's stead, the specifics of which depends on denomination.
- (US, animal husbandry) A male calf of a dairy breed, so called because they are usually deaconed (see below).
- (Anglicanism) An ordained clergyperson usually serving a year prior to being ordained presbyter, though in some cases they remain a permanent deacon.
- (Methodism) A separate office from that of minister, neither leading to the other; instead there is a permanent deaconate.
- (Mormonism) The lowest office in the Aaronic priesthood, generally held by 12 or 13 year old boys or recent converts.
- (early Christianity) A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
- (Evangelicalism) A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor.
- (Catholicism, Lutheranism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Church of the East) A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.
- (Scotland) The chairman of an incorporated company.
- (Freemasonry) A junior lodge officer.
- a Protestant layman who assists the minister
- a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders
noun
noun
- alternate (responsive) singing by a choir in two parts
- a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response
- (music, singing) Alternate, or responsive singing by a choir split into two parts; a piece sung or chanted in this manner.
- (phonetics) Synonym of apophony (“contrastive vowel modification”).
- Alternate, or responsive ideas or opinions; juxtaposition.
noun
adj
adv
adj
noun
noun
- (UK, music) A chorister in their training period before full admission to a choir, whether or not that period is probationary.
- One who is on probation.
- (Scotland) One who is licensed to preach, but not ordained to a pastorate.
- someone released on probation or on parole
- a nurse in training who is undergoing a trial period
noun
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- Prominence; importance.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- (rare) The field of battle.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- a high approach shot in golf
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- the action or manner of throwing something
adj
verb
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- (brewing) To add yeast as a step while making beer
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive) To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- (ambitransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternately up and down.
- heel over
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- move abruptly
- fall or plunge forward
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- be at an angle
- set the level or character of
- throw or toss with a light motion
- erect and fasten
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
verb
noun
- One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold.
- A book, poem, or pamphlet.
- (bookbinding) A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures.
- a quantity of paper; 24 or 25 sheets
noun
adj
noun
- A group of six singers or instrumentalists.
- Any group of six people or things.
- (music) A composition for six voices or instruments.
- six people considered as a unit
- a musical composition written for six performers
- a set of six similar things considered as a unit
- the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
- six performers or singers who perform together
noun
- a composition of vocal music that is appropriate for opening church services
- (music, Christianity, chiefly Protestantism) Any piece of choral music, especially a setting of an anthem or a psalm, sung at the opening of a church service.
- (Roman Catholicism, music) A prayer, typically part of a psalm or other portion of the Bible, read or sung at the start of Mass while or immediately after the priest ascends to the altar.
noun
- a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir
- a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority
- a short stout club used primarily by policemen
- a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race
- a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette
- (gymnastics, juggling) A rod twirled in a marching band's performance, in a gymnastic sport, or in juggling.
- (military) A ceremonial staff of a field marshal or a similar high-ranking military office.
- (weaponry, US) A short stout club used primarily by policemen.
- (baking) A short baguette.
- (sports) An object transferred by runners in a relay race.
- A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes.
- (heraldry) A bend with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, typically borne sinister, and often used as a mark of cadency, initially for both legitimate and illegitimate children, but later chiefly for illegitimate children.
- A short vertical lightweight post, not set into the ground, used to separate wires in a fence.
- (cooking) A batonnet, a long slice of a vegetable, thicker than a julienne.
- (music) The stick of a conductor in musical performances.
verb
noun
- a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir
- a ceremonial or emblematic staff
- a thin supple twig or rod
- a rod used by a magician or water diviner
- A stick or rod used by a magician (a magic wand), conjurer or diviner (divining rod).
- (UK, soccer, figurative, informal) A player's foot used especially skillfully in football.
- A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
- A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands.
- A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.
- (by extension) An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand.
verb
noun
- the musical director of a choir
- the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos
- (Judaism) A prayer leader in a Jewish service; a hazzan
- singer, especially someone who takes a special role of singing or song leading at a ceremony
noun
noun
verb
- sing in a choir
- utter in unison
- To echo in unison another person's words.
- (rare) To provide (a song) with a chorus or refrain.
- To sing, express, or say in, or as if in, unison.
- To sing (a song), express (a sentiment), or recite or say (words) in chorus.
- To express concurrence with (something said by another person); to echo.
- To sing the chorus or refrain of a song.
- Of animals: to make cries or sounds together.
noun
- A group of singers performing together; a choir; specifically, such a group singing together in a musical, an opera, etc., as distinct from the soloists; an ensemble.
- a body of dancers or singers who perform together
- a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play
- any utterance produced simultaneously by a group
- a group of people assembled to sing together
- the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers
- A group of organ pipes or organ stops intended to be played simultaneously; a compound stop; also, the sound made by such pipes or stops.
- The opinion expressed by such a group.
- A song performed by the singers of such a group.
- (by extension) A group of people in a performance who recite together.
- A piece of music, especially one in a larger work such as an opera, written to be sung by a choir in parts (for example, by sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses).
- (Christianity) A simple, often repetitive, song intended to be sung in a group during informal worship.
- The noise or sound made by such a group.
- A group of people, animals, or inanimate objects who make sounds together.
- (jazz) The improvised solo section in a small group performance.
- A group of people who express a unanimous opinion.
- A part of a song which is repeated between verses to emphasize the song's content; a refrain.
- (often attributively) A feature or setting in electronic music that makes one instrument sound like many.
- The main part of a pop song played after the introduction.
- An instance of singing by a group of people.
- A group of singers and dancers in a theatrical performance or religious festival who commented on the main performance in speech or song.
- (by extension, chiefly British, theater, historical) An actor who reads the prologue and epilogue of a play, and sometimes also acts as a commentator or narrator; also, a portion of a play read by this actor.
noun
- A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
- (UK) A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant; for example, of Nonconformist or Dissenter congregations.
- (especially Christianity) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
- A printing office.
- A place of worship in another building or within a civil institution such as a larger church, airport, prison, monastery, school, etc.; often primarily for private prayer.
- (UK) A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
- A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
- a place of worship that has its own altar
- a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar
adj
verb
noun
noun
- alternate (responsive) singing by a choir in two parts
- a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response
- (music, singing) Alternate, or responsive singing by a choir split into two parts; a piece sung or chanted in this manner.
- (phonetics) Synonym of apophony (“contrastive vowel modification”).
- Alternate, or responsive ideas or opinions; juxtaposition.
verb
noun
- A group of people who sing together; a company of people who are trained to sing together.
- a chorus that sings as part of a religious ceremony
- a family of similar musical instrument playing together
- the area occupied by singers; the part of the chancel between sanctuary and nave
- (Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.
- (architecture) One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church, generally used by the choir; often near the apse.
- Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.
noun
adj
noun
- (UK, music) A chorister in their training period before full admission to a choir, whether or not that period is probationary.
- One who is on probation.
- (Scotland) One who is licensed to preach, but not ordained to a pastorate.
- someone released on probation or on parole
- a nurse in training who is undergoing a trial period
noun
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- Prominence; importance.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- (rare) The field of battle.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- a high approach shot in golf
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- the action or manner of throwing something
adj
verb
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- (brewing) To add yeast as a step while making beer
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive) To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- (ambitransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternately up and down.
- heel over
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- move abruptly
- fall or plunge forward
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- be at an angle
- set the level or character of
- throw or toss with a light motion
- erect and fasten
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
noun
adj
noun
- A group of six singers or instrumentalists.
- Any group of six people or things.
- (music) A composition for six voices or instruments.
- six people considered as a unit
- a musical composition written for six performers
- a set of six similar things considered as a unit
- the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
- six performers or singers who perform together
noun
- a composition of vocal music that is appropriate for opening church services
- (music, Christianity, chiefly Protestantism) Any piece of choral music, especially a setting of an anthem or a psalm, sung at the opening of a church service.
- (Roman Catholicism, music) A prayer, typically part of a psalm or other portion of the Bible, read or sung at the start of Mass while or immediately after the priest ascends to the altar.
noun
- a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir
- a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority
- a short stout club used primarily by policemen
- a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race
- a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette
- (gymnastics, juggling) A rod twirled in a marching band's performance, in a gymnastic sport, or in juggling.
- (military) A ceremonial staff of a field marshal or a similar high-ranking military office.
- (weaponry, US) A short stout club used primarily by policemen.
- (baking) A short baguette.
- (sports) An object transferred by runners in a relay race.
- A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes.
- (heraldry) A bend with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, typically borne sinister, and often used as a mark of cadency, initially for both legitimate and illegitimate children, but later chiefly for illegitimate children.
- A short vertical lightweight post, not set into the ground, used to separate wires in a fence.
- (cooking) A batonnet, a long slice of a vegetable, thicker than a julienne.
- (music) The stick of a conductor in musical performances.
verb
noun
- a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir
- a ceremonial or emblematic staff
- a thin supple twig or rod
- a rod used by a magician or water diviner
- A stick or rod used by a magician (a magic wand), conjurer or diviner (divining rod).
- (UK, soccer, figurative, informal) A player's foot used especially skillfully in football.
- A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
- A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands.
- A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.
- (by extension) An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand.
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verb
noun
- A group of people who sing together; a company of people who are trained to sing together.
- a chorus that sings as part of a religious ceremony
- a family of similar musical instrument playing together
- the area occupied by singers; the part of the chancel between sanctuary and nave
- (Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.
- (architecture) One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church, generally used by the choir; often near the apse.
- Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.
verb
- sing in a choir
- utter in unison
- To echo in unison another person's words.
- (rare) To provide (a song) with a chorus or refrain.
- To sing, express, or say in, or as if in, unison.
- To sing (a song), express (a sentiment), or recite or say (words) in chorus.
- To express concurrence with (something said by another person); to echo.
- To sing the chorus or refrain of a song.
- Of animals: to make cries or sounds together.
noun
- A group of singers performing together; a choir; specifically, such a group singing together in a musical, an opera, etc., as distinct from the soloists; an ensemble.
- a body of dancers or singers who perform together
- a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play
- any utterance produced simultaneously by a group
- a group of people assembled to sing together
- the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers
- A group of organ pipes or organ stops intended to be played simultaneously; a compound stop; also, the sound made by such pipes or stops.
- The opinion expressed by such a group.
- A song performed by the singers of such a group.
- (by extension) A group of people in a performance who recite together.
- A piece of music, especially one in a larger work such as an opera, written to be sung by a choir in parts (for example, by sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses).
- (Christianity) A simple, often repetitive, song intended to be sung in a group during informal worship.
- The noise or sound made by such a group.
- A group of people, animals, or inanimate objects who make sounds together.
- (jazz) The improvised solo section in a small group performance.
- A group of people who express a unanimous opinion.
- A part of a song which is repeated between verses to emphasize the song's content; a refrain.
- (often attributively) A feature or setting in electronic music that makes one instrument sound like many.
- The main part of a pop song played after the introduction.
- An instance of singing by a group of people.
- A group of singers and dancers in a theatrical performance or religious festival who commented on the main performance in speech or song.
- (by extension, chiefly British, theater, historical) An actor who reads the prologue and epilogue of a play, and sometimes also acts as a commentator or narrator; also, a portion of a play read by this actor.
verb
- (Christianity, music) For a choir leader to lead a hymn by speaking one or two lines at a time, which are then sung by the choir.
- (US, slang) To make sly alterations to the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc.
- (US, slang) To place fresh fruit at the top of a barrel or other container, with spoiled or imperfect fruit hidden beneath.
- (US, animal husbandry) To kill a calf shortly after birth.
noun
- (Christianity, by extension) A modern-day member of a church who handles secular and/or administrative duties in a priest's stead, the specifics of which depends on denomination.
- (US, animal husbandry) A male calf of a dairy breed, so called because they are usually deaconed (see below).
- (Anglicanism) An ordained clergyperson usually serving a year prior to being ordained presbyter, though in some cases they remain a permanent deacon.
- (Methodism) A separate office from that of minister, neither leading to the other; instead there is a permanent deaconate.
- (Mormonism) The lowest office in the Aaronic priesthood, generally held by 12 or 13 year old boys or recent converts.
- (early Christianity) A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
- (Evangelicalism) A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor.
- (Catholicism, Lutheranism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Church of the East) A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.
- (Scotland) The chairman of an incorporated company.
- (Freemasonry) A junior lodge officer.
- a Protestant layman who assists the minister
- a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders
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noun
- One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold.
- A book, poem, or pamphlet.
- (bookbinding) A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures.
- a quantity of paper; 24 or 25 sheets