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noun
- any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds
- a device that requires skill for proper use
- the means whereby some act is accomplished
- a person used by another to gain an end
- (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right
- the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process
verb
noun
- The sound of such an instrument or device.
- A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
- An individual ringing component of such a set.
- A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.
- A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
verb
noun
- A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
- A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
- A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
- A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
- An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
- A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.
- A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
- Members of one's family collectively.
- Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.
- Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
- A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
adj
name
noun
- A sound recording technique to adjust and integrate sound sources seemingly naturally.
- A perspective glass.
- A view, vista or outlook.
- The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience.
- The appearance of depth in objects, especially as perceived using binocular vision.
- The technique of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface.
- The ability to consider things in such relative perspective.
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adj
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noun
- Any sound resembling a musical staccato.
- A passage having this mark.
- An articulation marking directing that a note or passage of notes are to be played in an abruptly disconnected manner, with each note sounding for a very short duration, and a short break lasting until the sounding of the next note; as opposed to legato. Staccato is indicated by a dot directly above or below the notehead.
adv
adj
noun
- Any instrument of the same musicological type.
- A grain sieve.
- A harmonica.
- A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
verb
noun
- 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.
- A group of singers and dancers in a theatrical performance or religious festival who commented on the main performance in speech or song.
- A song performed by the singers of such a group.
- 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.
- 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).
- The improvised solo section in a small group performance.
- A simple, often repetitive, song intended to be sung in a group during informal worship.
- A group of people, animals, or inanimate objects who make sounds together.
- A group of people in a performance who recite together.
- An instance of singing by a group of people.
- The opinion expressed by such a group.
- A group of people who express a unanimous opinion.
- The noise or sound made by such a group.
- 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.
- 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 part of a song which is repeated between verses; a refrain.
verb
- To sing the chorus or refrain of a song.
- 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 provide (a song) with a chorus or refrain.
- To sing, express, or say in, or as if in, unison.
- Of animals: to make cries or sounds together.
- To echo in unison another person's words.
noun
- Any musical instrument (a chordophone) that uses a keyboard to manipulate strings which produce sound, including a piano.
- Any musical instrument that produces sound directly from the manipulation of a keyboard by the performer, including a piano and a celesta.
- Any musical instrument which features a keyboard, such as a piano, synthesizer or celesta.
noun
- Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard.
- A cul-de-sac with a round end.
- An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.
- A miner's round-nosed shovel.
- A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.
verb
noun
- a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments
- the thing arranged or agreed to
- an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging
- an organized structure for arranging or classifying
- the spatial property of the way in which something is placed
- the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music
noun
- An electronic audio device for altering the frequencies of sound recordings.
- A device that balances various quantities.
- One who makes equal; a balancer.
- A goal, run, point, etc. that equalizes the score.
- A device, such as a bar, for operating two brakes, especially a pair of hub brakes for an automobile, with equal force.
- A sliding panel to preserve the lateral stability of an aeroplane.
- A morphism whose codomain is the domain of a parallel pair of morphisms and which forms part of the limit of that parallel pair. Equivalently, a morphism which equalizes a parallel pair of morphisms in a limiting way, which is to say that any other morphism which equalizes that parallel pair factors through this limiting morphism; and moreover such factorization is unique.
- A weapon, usually a blackjack or gun.
- A set of arguments where two or more functions have equal values; the solution set of an equation.
- Any device for equalizing the pull of electromagnets.
- A conductor of low resistance joining the armature ends of the series field coils of dynamos connected in parallel.
verb
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
adj
verb
noun
- a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
- the sound of a drum
- a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
- a cylindrical metal container, commonly used for shipping or storage of liquids
- a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
- small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
noun
- A sound made by, or resembling that made by, a musical instrument.
- Emotive stress used to increase the power of delivery in speech.
- Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest.
- The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
- Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
verb
noun
- A tambourine dove.
- A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.
- The music for this dance.
- A kind of Provençal dance.
verb
- To produce a sound.
- To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
- To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
- Dive downwards, used of a whale.
- To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
- Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
- To convey an impression by one's sound.
- To cause to produce a sound.
- To pronounce.
- To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law, or as likely to result in a particular kind of legal remedy.
adv
adj
- Heavy; laid on with force.
- Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
- Complete, solid, or secure.
- Having the property of soundness.
- Healthy.
- Quiet and deep.
- Good; acceptable; decent.
noun
- Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.
- A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra, &.
- A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean.
- A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde.
- A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound.
- Noise without meaning; empty noise.
- A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
- A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
- The air bladder of a fish.
intj
verb
- make a rhythmic sound
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- hit repeatedly
- move rhythmically
- shape by beating
- glare or strike with great intensity
- move with a thrashing motion
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- stir vigorously
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- be superior
- avoid paying
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- move with a flapping motion
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- make by pounding or trampling
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- beat through cleverness and wit
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- wear out completely
noun
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- the sound of stroke or blow
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
adj
adj
noun
- (music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds)
- an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
- any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds
- musical activity (singing or whistling etc.)
- punishment for one's actions
verb
- To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of
- To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
- To act as a voice actor to portray a character.
- To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
- To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
noun
- Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character
- The tone or sound emitted by an object
- That which is communicated; message; meaning.
- Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
- An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered
- A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
- A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
- In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
- A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel.
- One who speaks; a speaker.
- The faculty or power of utterance
noun
- A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
- An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket on one end: "trip cord"
- The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
- A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc.
- Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
- A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
- A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
- A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road or track.
- A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
- A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
- A soft, or small, cushion.
- The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
- A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
- A prison cell.
- A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
- An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
- A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
- A toad.
- A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
- A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.
- A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
- A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
- A bed.
- A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
- The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.
- The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
- A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
verb
- To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
- To furnish with a pad or padding.
- To wear a path by walking.
- To stuff.
- To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
- To travel on foot.
- To travel along (a road, path etc.).
- To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
- To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
intj
verb
- To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
- To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.
- To be capable of being sung; to produce a certain effect by being sung.
- To soothe with singing.
- To confess under interrogation.
- In traditional Aboriginal culture, to direct a supernatural influence on (a person or thing), usually malign; to curse.
- To produce a 'song', for the purposes of defending a breeding territory or to attract a mate.
- To produce any type of melodious vocalisation.
- To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
- To make a small, shrill sound.
- To perform a vocal part in a musical composition, regardless of technique.
- To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.
noun
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