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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.
the
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
The street that runs through my hometown.
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
God save the Queen!
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
That was the best apple pie ever.
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
That apple pie was the best.
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
No one in the whole country had seen it before.
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
The hotter the better.
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
full
1. adj. Containing the maximum possible amount of that which can fit in the space available.
The jugs were full to the point of overflowing.
2. adj. Complete; with nothing omitted.
Our book gives full treatment to the subject of angling.
3. adj. Total, entire.
She had tattoos the full length of her arms. He was prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
4. adj. (informal) Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
"I'm full," he said, pushing back from the table.
5. adj. Of a garment, of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
a full pleated skirt; She needed her full clothing during her pregnancy.
6. adj. Having depth and body; rich.
a full singing voice
7. adj. (obsolete) Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
8. adj. Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.
She's full of her latest project.
9. adj. Filled with emotions.
10. adj. (obsolete) Impregnated; made pregnant.
11. adj. (poker, postnominal) Said of the three cards of the same rank in a full house.
Nines full of aces = three nines and two aces (999AA).
I'll beat him with my kings full! = three kings and two unspecified cards of the same rank.
12. adj. (AU) Drunk, intoxicated
13. adv. (archaic) Quite; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
14. n. Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
I was fed to the full.
15. n. (of the moon) The phase of the moon when it is entire face is illuminated, full moon.
16. n. (freestyle skiing) An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.
17. v. (of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated.
18. v. To baptise.
19. v. To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to waulk, walk
chromatic
1. adj. Relating to or characterised by hue.
2. adj. Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction.
3. adj. (music) Related to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is written.
4. adj. Relating to chromatin
scale
1. n. (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
2. n. An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.
Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.
The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale.
3. n. Size; scope.
The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale.
There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.
4. n. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
This map uses a scale of 1:10.
5. n. A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced
6. n. (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
7. n. A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
the decimal scale; the binary scale
8. n. Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
9. n. A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.
Sally wasn't the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale.
10. v. To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
We should scale that up by a factor of 10.
11. v. To climb to the top of.
Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.
12. v. (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.
13. v. To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
14. n. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
15. n. A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
16. n. A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
17. n. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
18. n. The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
19. n. Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
20. n. Limescale.
21. n. A scale insect.
22. n. The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
23. v. To remove the scales of.
Please scale that fish for dinner.
24. v. (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
The dry weather is making my skin scale.
25. v. To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
to scale the inside of a boiler
26. v. To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
27. v. (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
Some sandstone scales by exposure.
28. v. (Scotland) To scatter; to spread.
29. v. To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
30. n. A device to measure mass or weight.
After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.
31. n. Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
of
1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
5. prep. (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
6. prep. Expressing separation.
7. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
8. prep. (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
He seemed devoid of human feelings.
9. prep. (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
10. prep. Expressing origin.
11. prep. (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
12. prep. (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
The invention was born of necessity.
13. prep. (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
It is said that she died of a broken heart.
14. prep. (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
I am tired of all this nonsense.
15. prep. Expressing agency.
16. prep. (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
17. prep. (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
18. prep. (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
20. prep. (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
21. prep. (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
She wore a dress of silk.
22. prep. (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
What a lot of nonsense!
23. prep. (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
24. prep. (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
26. prep. (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
I'm always thinking of you.
27. prep. (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
He told us the story of his journey to India.
28. prep. (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
29. prep. Having partitive effect.
30. prep. (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
Most of these apples are rotten.
31. prep. (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
32. prep. (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
33. prep. (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
He is a friend of mine.
34. prep. Expressing possession.
35. prep. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
36. prep. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
37. prep. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
39. prep. (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
She had a profound distrust of the police.
40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
41. prep. (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
42. prep. (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
43. prep. (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
44. prep. (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
It's not that big of a deal.
45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
46. prep. (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
47. prep. (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
48. prep. (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
twelve
1. num. (cardinal) The cardinal number occurring after eleven and before thirteen, represented in Arabic numerals as 12 and in Roman numerals as XII.
There are twelve months in a year.
2. n. A group of twelve items.
Fractions would be a little easier if we counted by twelves.
3. n. A twelve-bore gun.
4. n. (legal, colloquial) A jury (normally composed of twelve persons).
5. n. (slang) police; law enforcement, especially a narcotics officer
equal
1. adj. (not comparable) The same in all respects.
Equal conditions should produce equal results.
All men are created equal.
2. adj. (mathematics, not comparable) Exactly identical, having the same value.
All right angles are equal.
3. adj. (obsolete) Fair, impartial.
4. adj. (comparable) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
This test is pretty tough, but I think I'm equal to it.
5. adj. (obsolete) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.
an equal movement
6. adj. (music) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.
7. v. (mathematics) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
Two plus two equals four.
8. v. To be equivalent to; to match
David equaled the water level of the bottles, so they now both contain exactly 1 liter.
9. v. (informal) To have as its consequence.
Losing this deal equals losing your job.
Might does not equal right.
10. n. A person or thing of equal status to others.
We're all equals here.
This beer has no equal.
11. n. (obsolete) State of being equal; equality.
tempered
1. adj. (in combination) Having a specified disposition or temper.
2. adj. Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals.
3. adj. Moderated or balanced by other considerations.
4. adj. (music) Pertaining to the well-tempered scale, where the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and it wil
5. v. simple past tense and past participle of temper
temper
1. n. A tendency to be in a certain type of mood; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
to have a good, bad, or calm temper
2. n. State of mind; mood.
3. n. A tendency to become angry.
to have a hasty temper
He has quite a temper when dealing with salespeople.
4. n. Anger; a fit of anger.
an outburst of temper
5. n. Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
to keep one's temper; to lose one's temper; to recover one's temper
6. n. (obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
7. n. Middle state or course; mean; medium.
8. n. The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
the temper of mortar
9. n. The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
10. n. The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
the temper of iron or steel
11. n. (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
12. v. To moderate or control.
Temper your language around children.
13. v. To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
Tempering is a heat treatment technique applied to metals, alloys, and glass to achieve greater toughness by increasing the strength of materials and/or ductility. Tempering is performed by a c
14. v. To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
15. v. To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
16. v. (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
17. v. (obsolete, Latinism) To govern; to manage.
18. v. (archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
19. v. (archaic) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage.
20. v. (obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.
pitches
1. n. plural of pitch
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of pitch
pitch
1. n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.
2. n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
They put pitch on the mast to protect it.
The barrel was sealed with pitch.
It was pitch black because there was no moon.
3. n. (geology) Pitchstone.
4. v. To cover or smear with pitch.
5. v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
6. n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
a good pitch in quoits
7. n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
The pitch was low and inside.
8. n. (sports) (Australia) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) Not used in America, where "field" i
The teams met on the pitch.
9. n. An effort to sell or promote something.
He gave me a sales pitch.
10. n. 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.
The pitch of pixels on the point scale is 72 pixels per inch.
The pitch of this saw is perfect for that type of wood.
A helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning.
11. n. The angle at which an object sits.
the pitch of the roof or haystack
12. n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
13. n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
14. n. (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. Compare
the pitch of an aircraft
15. n. (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
The propeller blades' pitch went to zero as the engine was feathered.
16. n. The place where a busker performs.
17. n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
18. n. An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
19. n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
20. n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
21. n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
The entrance pitch requires 30 metres of rope.
22. n. (now British, regional) A person or animal's height.
23. n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
24. n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
25. n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof
26. n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
27. v. To throw.
He pitched the horseshoe.
28. v. (transitive, or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
(transitive) The hurler pitched a curveball.
(intransitive) He pitched high and inside.
29. v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
Bob pitches today.
30. v. To throw away; discard.
He pitched the candy wrapper.
31. v. To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
He pitched the idea for months with no takers.
32. v. To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
At which level should I pitch my presentation?
33. v. To assemble or erect (a tent).
Pitch the tent over there.
34. v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
35. v. (ambitransitive, aviation, or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes alternatively up and down.
(transitive) The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.
(intransitive) The airplane pitched.
36. v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
The only way to get on the green from here is to pitch the ball over the bunker.
37. v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
The ball pitched well short of the batsman.
38. v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
39. v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
40. v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
41. v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
to pitch from a precipice
The field pitches toward the east.
42. v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
43. v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
44. v. (transitive, card games, slang) To discard for some gain.
45. n. (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.
46. n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
Bob, our pitch, let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start.
47. v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
48. v. To fix or set the tone of.

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