incipit
bar line
intro
steelpan
intrada
underscore
beat
phrase
passage
intrata
musical passage
glitchcore
texting
minimusical
concerto
harmonization
notturno
harmonisation
sole
solo
nocturne
cadence
scherzando
support
toe-tapper
morna
novelette
coloration
thumri
siguiriya
concertato
colouration
piping
ragtime
urlar
color
colour
paraphone
space
andantino
tootle
music lesson
spiel
musical phrase
bassline
clavichord
plugg
sound hole
chord
symphonism
Benedictus
selection
trope
bass
potpourri
modulation
introitus
quirk
pianissimo
transition
double bar
hornpipe
black MIDI
bar
plinkety
chamberlike
music of the spheres
orchestration
ensemble
folkster
twiddle
taboret
drum
slur
strillers
beatscape
resonance box
entry
rest
batucada
cadenza
pitch pipe
voluntary
entrance
musico-
tuneage
chanter
music stand
vocal
courant
fugue
plinky-plonky
forte
tuner
filk
overture
cassingle
miniature
melo-
chamberlike
plinky-plonky
incipit
bar line
intro
steelpan
intrada
underscore
beat
phrase
passage
intrata
musical passage
glitchcore
texting
minimusical
concerto
harmonization
notturno
harmonisation
sole
solo
nocturne
cadence
scherzando
support
toe-tapper
morna
novelette
coloration
thumri
siguiriya
concertato
colouration
piping
ragtime
urlar
color
colour
paraphone
space
andantino
tootle
music lesson
spiel
musical phrase
bassline
clavichord
plugg
sound hole
chord
symphonism
Benedictus
selection
trope
bass
potpourri
modulation
introitus
quirk
pianissimo
transition
double bar
hornpipe
black MIDI
bar
music of the spheres
orchestration
ensemble
folkster
twiddle
taboret
drum
slur
strillers
beatscape
resonance box
entry
rest
batucada
cadenza
pitch pipe
voluntary
entrance
tuneage
chanter
music stand
vocal
courant
fugue
forte
tuner
filk
overture
cassingle
miniature
noun
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- A beatnik.
- A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- A rhythm.
- The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- A pulsation or throb.
- A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- A stroke; a blow.
- The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- A precinct.
adj
- Ugly.
- Having impressively attractive makeup.
- Boring.
- Exhausted.
- Relating to the Beat Generation.
- Dilapidated, beat up.
verb
- simple past tense of beat
- To rob.
- To indicate by beating or drumming.
- To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- To hit; to strike.
- To tread, as a path.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- To arrive at a place before someone.
- To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
noun
- A small section of music in a larger piece.
- A word or, more commonly, a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words.
- A short written or spoken expression.
- A short individual motion forming part of a choreographed dance.
verb
noun
- a short section of a musical composition
- the act of passing from one state or place to the next
- a section of text; particularly a section of medium length
- a way through or along which someone or something may pass
- the passing of a law by a legislative body
- a journey usually by ship
- a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass
- a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
- the motion of one object relative to another
- the act of passing something to another person
noun
noun
- The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
- The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
- A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
- The bottom of a furrow.
- The bottom of a shoe or boot.
- The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
- The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
- The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
- Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae.
- The bottom of an embrasure.
- The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
- A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.
adj
- Unique; unsurpassed.
- With independent power; unfettered.
- Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
- Only.
verb
noun
- A piece of music for one performer.
- A job or performance done by one person alone.
- A card game similar to whist in which each player plays against the others in turn without a partner
- A single shot of espresso.
- An instance of soloing the football.
verb
- To perform something in the absence of anyone else.
- To drop the ball and then toe-kick it upward into the hands.
- To perform a solo.
adv
adj
noun
- An accompaniment in music.
- An actor playing a subordinate part with a star.
- Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
- Evidence.
- Something which supports.
- Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
- Horizontal, vertical or rotational support of structures: movable, hinged, fixed.
- Financial or other help.
- A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose grade of membership in that fuzzy set is strictly greater than zero).
- in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure of that set.
verb
- To keep from falling.
- To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories, peripherals, or programming) to function compatibly with or provide the capacity for.
- To help, particularly financially.
- To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
- To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
- To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
- To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
- To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
- To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.
noun
- The sound of musical pipes.
- An act of making music or noise with pipes.
- A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
- The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
- An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
- Icing extruded from a piping bag.
- propagation by cuttings
- A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
adj
noun
- the timbre of a musical sound
- a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
- interest and variety and intensity
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
- any material used for its color
- (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
- the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
adj
verb
noun
- the timbre of a musical sound
- any material used for its color
- (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
- interest and variety and intensity
- a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
- the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
verb
- modify or bias
- decorate with colors
- give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
- affect as in thought or feeling
- add color to
- change color, often in an undesired manner
adj
noun
- one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff
- the unlimited expanse in which everything is located
- an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things)
- an area reserved for some particular purpose
- any location outside the Earth's atmosphere
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
- the interval between two times
- a blank area
- (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences
verb
noun
- The string of a musical instrument.
- A straight line between two points of a curve.
- A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
- The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
- A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
- An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
- A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
- A horizontal member of a truss.
- A cord.
- An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
verb
noun
- The music that accompanies either of the above.
- The Gospel canticle of Zechariah (Luke 1:68–79), with the incipit Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel (“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel”).
- The second part of the Sanctus, beginning, Benedictus qui venit in nomine domini (“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord”), and historically often sung as a separate piece of music.
noun
- A musical piece.
- A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
- The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ᵂᵖ
- The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ
- The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ᵂᵖ
- A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
- Something selected.
- The process or act of selecting.
- A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ
- A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
noun
- A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
- Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
- A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
- An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.
- A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.
- A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.
- Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or the use of the phrase ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales; a motif.
- A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.
- A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.
verb
noun
- the lowest part of the musical range
- the lowest part in polyphonic music
- an adult male singer with the lowest voice
- the lowest adult male singing voice
- the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments
noun
- the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
- any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)
- nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes
adj
noun
- a musical passage moving from one key to another
- (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase
- rise and fall of the voice pitch
- a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
- the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect)
noun
- A musical instrument consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals.
- Music played to the hornpipe dance
- A solo dance commonly associated with seamen, involving kicking of the legs, with the arms mostly crossed.
- A hard-shoe solo dance commonly performed in Irish stepdance, usually danced in 2/4 time.
verb
noun
- One of those musical sections.
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- A drilling or tamping rod.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- The counter of such premises.
- The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
- A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- The crossbar.
- Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
- A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
- An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
- Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
- A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
verb
- To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
- To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
- To prohibit.
- To lock or bolt with a bar.
prep
noun
- A piece for several instrumentalists or vocalists.
- A group of separate things that contribute to a coordinated whole.
- A supervised learning algorithm combining multiple hypotheses.
- A coordinated costume or outfit; a suit.
- A group of musicians, dancers, actors, etc who perform together; e.g. the chorus of a ballet company.
- A probability distribution for the state of the system.
verb
noun
noun
- A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
- A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
- Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
- A tip; a piece of information.
- Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
- A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
- Synonym of construction barrel
- The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
- A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.
- A drumstick (of chicken, turkey, etc).
- A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
verb
- To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
- To throb, as the heart.
- To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
- Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.
- To beat a drum.
- To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
noun
- The point when a musician starts to play or sing; entrance.
- The act of entering.
- A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
- The act of taking possession.
- Permission to enter.
- The start of an insurance contract.
- An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia.
- A record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.
- A term at any position in a matrix.
- A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms
- The introduction of new hounds into a pack.
- A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships
- A passageway between terraced houses that provides a means of entering a back garden or yard.
- The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.
noun
- A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
- Absence of motion.
- Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
- A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
- Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
- A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
- A final position after death.
- A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
- A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- That which remains.
- Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
verb
- To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
- To rely or depend on.
- To be or to put into a state of rest.
- To lean, lie, or lay.
- To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
- To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
- To sleep; slumber.
- To come to a pause or an end; end.
- To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
- To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
- To lie dormant.
- To stay, remain, be situated.
noun
- The beginning of a musician's playing or singing; entry.
- The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office.
- The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.
- The right to go in.
- The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
- The action of entering, or going in.
- The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation.
- The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering.
- The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
verb
prefix
noun
noun
- a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
- dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state
- a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days
noun
- A musical.
- A person who tunes a piano or organ.
- A device, electronic or mechanical, that helps a person tune a musical instrument by showing the deviation of the played pitch from the desired pitch.
- The component of an audio system that receives radio broadcasts.
- On a musical instrument, a peg or mechanical device that changes the tension, and hence pitch, of a string.
noun
- A musical composition which is short in duration.
- A token in a game representing a unit or character.
- A particular feature or trait.
- A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
- Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
- Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
- An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
- The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
- A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
- A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.
verb
adj
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