| music |
| 1. n. A sound, or the study of such sounds, organized in time. | |
| I keep listening to this music because it's a masterpiece. | |
| 2. n. (figuratively) Any pleasing or interesting sounds. | |
| 3. n. An art form, created by organizing of pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and sometimes singing. | |
| 4. n. A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music. | |
| 5. v. To seduce or entice with music. | |
| soft |
| 1. adj. Easily giving way under pressure. | |
| My head sank easily into the soft pillow. | |
| 2. adj. (of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh. | |
| Polish the silver with a soft cloth to avoid scratching. | |
| soft silk; a soft skin | |
| 3. adj. (of a sound) Quiet. | |
| I could hear the soft rustle of the leaves in the trees. | |
| 4. adj. Gentle. | |
| There was a soft breeze blowing. | |
| 5. adj. Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind. | |
| soft eyes | |
| 6. adj. Gentle in action or motion; easy. | |
| 7. adj. Weak in character; impressible. | |
| 8. adj. Requiring little or no effort; easy. | |
| 9. adj. Not bright or intense. | |
| soft lighting | |
| 10. adj. Having a slight angle from straight. | |
| At the intersection with two roads going left, take the soft left. | |
| It's important to dance on soft knees to avoid injury. | |
| 11. adj. (linguistics) Voiced; sonant. | |
| 12. adj. (linguistics, rare) voiceless | |
| 13. adj. (linguistics, Slavic languages) palatalized | |
| 14. adj. (slang) Lacking strength or resolve, wimpy. | |
| When it comes to drinking, he is as soft as they come. | |
| 15. adj. (of water) Low in dissolved calcium compounds. | |
| You won't need as much soap, as the water here is very soft. | |
| 16. adj. (colloquial) Foolish. | |
| 17. adj. (physics) Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non magnetic when an external magnetic field is removed, a material with a low magnetic coercivity. (compare hard) | |
| 18. adj. (of a person) Physically or emotionally weak. | |
| 19. adj. Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action. | |
| The admin imposed a soft block/ban on the user or a soft lock on the article. | |
| 20. adj. (of a man) Effeminate. | |
| 21. adj. Agreeable to the senses. | |
| a soft liniment | |
| soft wines | |
| 22. adj. Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye. | |
| soft colours | |
| the soft outline of the snow-covered hill | |
| 23. interj. (archaic) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast. | |
| 24. adv. (obsolete) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly. | |
| 25. n. A soft or foolish person; an idiot. | |
| 26. n. (motorsports) (ellipsis of soft tyre) (A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.) | |
| instruments |
| 1. n. plural of instrument | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of instrument | |
| instrument |
| 1. n. A device used to produce music. | |
| The violinist was a master of her instrument. | |
| 2. n. A means or agency for achieving an effect. | |
| 3. n. A measuring or displaying device. | |
| The instrument detected an increase in radioactivity. | |
| 4. n. A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement. | |
| The dentist set down his tray of instruments. | |
| The scientist recorded the temperature with a thermometer but wished he had a more accurate instrument. | |
| 5. n. (legal) A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will. | |
| A bond indenture is the instrument that gives a bond its value. | |
| Negotiable instruments are the foundation of the debt markets. | |
| 6. n. (figuratively) A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal. | |
| 7. v. To apply measuring devices. | |
| 8. v. To devise, conceive, cook up, plan. | |
| 9. v. To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument. | |
| a sonata instrumented for orchestra | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| voice |
| 1. n. 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 human voice is the oldest musical instrument in history. | |
| She has a pleasant voice. | |
| His low voice allowed hum to become a bass in the choir. | |
| 2. n. (phonetics) 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. | |
| 3. n. The tone or sound emitted by an object | |
| 4. n. The faculty or power of utterance | |
| to cultivate the voice | |
| 5. n. That which is communicated; message; meaning. | |
| 6. n. Opinion or choice expressed; judgment | |
| 7. n. (archaic) Command; precept. | |
| 8. n. One who speaks; a speaker. | |
| 9. n. (grammar) 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 expre | |
| The verbal system of Latin has two voices, active and passive. | |
| 10. n. (music) In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition. | |
| The theme of this piece constantly migrates between the three voice parts. | |
| 11. n. (Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel. | |
| 12. v. To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce | |
| He voiced the sentiments of the nation. | |
| 13. v. (transitive, phonology) To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath. | |
| 14. v. To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of | |
| voice the pipes of an organ | |
| 15. v. (transitive, obsolete) To vote; to elect; to appoint | |
| 16. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To clamor; to cry out | |
| 17. v. (transitive, Internet) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel. | |
| 18. v. (television, film) To act as a voice actor to portray a character. | |
