motive
motif
variation
head
fugue
statement
reprize
repeat
reprise
recapitulate
theme tune
idea
meditation
descant
recapitulation
cycle
fantasia
chaconne
mythos
support
idée fixe
countertheme
work song
leed
leitmotif
subject
ostinato
potpourri
intrata
multithemed
parlando
phrasing
intrada
concept album
burden
countersubject
thread
develop
overture
passage
discant
theme
comment
art rock
ensemble
musical passage
rheme
overcome
rhematic
canto
midsong
lead
underscore
golden thread
music of the spheres
riff
phrase
piano
polyrhythm
Benedictus
intro
undermelody
legend
texting
lyricize
bar
theming
churchical
themed
medley
quodlibet
minimusical
sketch
pastiche
outro
roundelay
sequence
reel
ballad
development
plinky-plonky
subtheme
jig
tune
lay
serenade
homorhythm
suite
epinicion
kaiso
ragtime
cadence
blues
rag
multithemed
rhematic
midsong
churchical
themed
plinky-plonky
piano
motive
motif
variation
head
fugue
statement
theme tune
idea
meditation
descant
recapitulation
cycle
fantasia
chaconne
mythos
support
idée fixe
countertheme
work song
leed
leitmotif
subject
ostinato
potpourri
intrata
parlando
phrasing
intrada
concept album
burden
countersubject
thread
overture
passage
discant
comment
art rock
ensemble
musical passage
rheme
overcome
canto
lead
underscore
golden thread
music of the spheres
riff
phrase
polyrhythm
Benedictus
intro
undermelody
legend
texting
bar
theming
reprise
medley
quodlibet
minimusical
sketch
pastiche
outro
roundelay
sequence
reel
ballad
development
subtheme
jig
tune
lay
serenade
homorhythm
suite
epinicion
kaiso
ragtime
cadence
blues
rag
reprize
repeat
reprise
recapitulate
develop
theme
lyricize
noun
- a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music
- the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior
- a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration
adj
noun
- a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished
- an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
- an activity that varies from a norm or standard
- something a little different from others of the same type
- an artifact that deviates from a norm or standard
- the angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north
- the process of varying or being varied
- (astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon)
- (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
- (ballet) a solo dance or dance figure
- the act of changing or altering something slightly but noticeably from the norm or standard
noun
- The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- The uppermost part of a valley.
- The antlers of a deer.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- The headstock of a guitar.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- The top edge of a sail.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The toilet of a ship.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- Headway; progress.
- Mind; one's own thoughts.
- Topic; subject.
- The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- The glans penis.
- The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- A headmaster or headmistress.
- Denouement; crisis.
- The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- Leader; chief; mastermind.
- Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- An individual person.
- The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- The bow of a vessel.
- A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- The population of game.
- A single animal.
- The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- A headland.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
adj
- Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
- Coming from in front.
- Placed at the top or the front.
- Foremost in rank or importance.
verb
- To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- To form a head.
- To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
- To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
- To go in front of.
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- To move in a specified direction.
- To check or restrain.
- To remove the head from a fish.
- To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- To set on the head.
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
- (music) the presentation of a musical theme
- a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc
- a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
- a nonverbal message
- the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
- (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
- a document showing credits and debits
noun
- A musical theme or melodic subject.
- An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.
- A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention.
- A purposeful aim or goal; intent
- More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.
- An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.
- A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression.
noun
- (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)
- (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated
- emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
- a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
noun
- a series of poems or songs on the same theme
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
- a periodically repeated sequence of events
- the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz)
- a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon
- a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals
verb
noun
- A recurring theme; a motif.
- A story or set of stories relevant to or having a significant truth or meaning for a particular culture, religion, society, or other group; a myth, a mythology.
- A set of assumptions or beliefs about something.
- Anything transmitted by word of mouth, such as a fable, legend, narrative, story, or tale (especially a poetic tale).
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
- A constant or repeated line or verse; theme.
- A strain in a rhyme, song, or poem; refrain; flow.
- Patter; rigmarole.
- The speech of a person or class of persons; form of speech; talk; utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology; diction.
- Language; tongue.
- A national tongue (in contrast to a foreign language).
noun
- The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
- The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- A particular area of study.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.
- That of which something is stated.
- An actor; one who takes action.
- A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
verb
- To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave.
- To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
adj
noun
- A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
- Theme, core idea.
- The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
- The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
- A responsibility, onus.
- The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
- A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
- The drone of a bagpipe.
- A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
- The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
- A heavy load.
verb
noun
- A continued theme or idea.
- A sequence of connections.
- A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.
- A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string.
- A screw thread.
- A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
- The line midway between the banks of a stream.
- A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first are replies to previous messages in the thread.
- Composition; quality; fineness.
verb
verb
- elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
- make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
- work out
- gain through experience
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- change the use of and make available or usable
- elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
- create by training and teaching
- be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
- grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
- become technologically advanced
- cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
- generate gradually
- grow emotionally or mature
- make visible by means of chemical solutions
- superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
- move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
- move into a strategically more advantageous position
- happen
- expand in the form of a series
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
verb
- To give a theme to.
- To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).
noun
- The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
- The stem of a word.
- A concept with multiple instantiations.
- Topic, what is generally being talked about, as opposed to rheme.
- A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.
- thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
- Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
- A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
- A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
- Any of various colors, or color palettes, in which a design is offered; (graphical user interface) any of various skins for an app, affecting the visuals and perhaps other elements such as sound effects.
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
- The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
- The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- bullets; ammunition.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
- The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- A lode.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
- The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- The course of a rope from end to end.
- The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
adj
verb
- To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of, to lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To direct; to counsel; to instruct
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
- To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To step off base and move towards the next base.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
- To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- Lead climb.
- To produce (with to).
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- To place leads between the lines of.
- To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To have the highest interim score in a game.
- To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
- To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
- To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- To begin a game, round, or trick, with
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
- 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 composition set to a poetical story.
- An inscription, motto, or title, especially one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon a heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration.
- A plausible story set in the historical past, but whose historicity is uncertain.
- The design and specification of a vessel.
- A person with legend-like qualities, such as extraordinary accomplishment.
- A fabricated backstory for a spy, with associated documents and records.
- A story in which a kernel of truth is embellished to an unlikely degree.
- A leading protagonist in a historical legend.
- A key to the symbols and color codes on a map, chart, etc.
- A cool, nice or helpful person, especially one who is male.
- A story of unknown origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events.
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.
prep
- Except, other than, besides.
- Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
verb
noun
- A form of music with melodies in counterpoint.
- A form of trompe l'oeil which realistically renders domestic items (paper-knives, playing-cards, ribbons, etc).
- A card game that combines several different contracts.
- A mode of philosophical debate popular in the Middle Ages, in which any question could be posed extemporaneously.
noun
noun
- A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.
- A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
- A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
- An amusing person.
- A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
- A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
- A formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums).
- A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
- A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
verb
adj
noun
- A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).
- An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.
- A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show etc.
- The state of being sequent or following; order of succession.
- A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services.
- A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series
- A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.
verb
noun
- music composed for dancing a reel
- a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector
- winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod
- a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
- a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps
- an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines
verb
noun
- (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
- act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
- a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
- the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
- a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
- a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)
- processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
noun
- A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
- An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
- A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
verb
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To fish with a jig.
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
noun
- A melody.
- The act of tuning or maintenance.
- The state or condition of being correctly tuned.
- A song, or short musical composition.
intj
verb
- To adjust (a musical instrument) so that it produces the correct pitches.
- To attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
- to adjust the parameters of singing voice synthesis software such as VOCALOID (in order to achieve certain singing techniques, increase the human quality of the voice, etc.)
- To adjust or modify (esp. a mechanical or electrical device) so that it functions optimally.
- To adjust the frequency on a radio or TV set, so as to receive the desired channel.
- To be impudent towards; to cheek.
- To make more precise, intense, or effective; to put into a proper state or disposition.
- To give a certain tone or character to.
- Of faculties, senses, etc.: to adapt to or direct towards a particular target.
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noun
- A musical composition following blues forms.
- Any of various blue pills sold on the street, mimicking the appearance of prescription pain killer tablets but often laced with fentanyl that leads to overdose deaths (see opioid epidemic).
- One's particular life experience, particularly including the hardships one has faced.
- New South Wales.
- Manchester City FC.
- A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar blues structure and using the blues scale.
- Carlton Football Club.
- Everton FC.
- The negative emotional state produced by a particular action, occupation, experience or idea.
- A uniform made principally of a blue fabric, and especially a full dress uniform thus colored.
- Chelsea FC.
- A feeling of sadness or depression.
- Birmingham City FC.
noun
- music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)
- a small piece of cloth
- a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
- newspaper with half-size pages
- a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)
verb
English words for 'a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music'
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