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musical
     1. adj. Of or relating to music.
     2. adj. Gifted or skilled in music.
     3. adj. Pleasing to the ear.
           Her voice had a musical quality.
     4. adj. Pertaining to a class of games in which players move while music plays, but have to take a fixed position when it stops; by extension, any situation where people repeatedly change positions.
     5. n. A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting.
instruments
     1. n. plural of instrument
     2. v. third-person singular present indicative of instrument
a
     1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
           There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
     2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
           I've seen it happen a hundred times.
     3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
           We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
     4. art. The same; one.
           We are of a mind on matters of morals.
     5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
           A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
           He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
     6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
     7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
           The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
     8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
           Stand a tiptoe.
     9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
           Torn a pieces.
     10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
           I brush my teeth twice a day.
     11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
     12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
           A God’s name.
     13. prep. To do with status; In.
           King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
             To set the people a worke.
     14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
           1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
             The times, they are a-changin'.
     15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
           1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
             Jacob, when he was a dying
     16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
     17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
           I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
     18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
     19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
     20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
           The name of John a Gaunt.
     21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
     22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
small
     1. adj. Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
           A small serving of ice cream.
           A small group.
           He made us all feel small.
     2. adj. (figuratively) Young, as a child.
           Remember when the children were small?
     3. adj. (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.
     4. adj. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
     5. adj. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
           a small space of time
     6. adj. topics, en, Size
     7. adv. In a small fashion.
     8. adv. In or into small pieces.
     9. adv. (obsolete) To a small extent.
     10. n. (rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
     11. v. (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
     12. v. (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.
portable
     1. adj. Able to be carried or easily moved.
     2. adj. (computing) Of software, able to be run on multiple hardware or operating systems.
     3. n. A portable building used for temporary purposes, particularly:
     4. n.          (clipping of portable toilet)
     5. n.          A trailer or other portable structure used for classes at a school.
     6. n. (computing) (clipping of portable computer)
     7. n. (video games) A hand-held video gaming device.
organ
     1. n. A larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
     2. n. (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
     3. n. (musical instruments) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
     4. n. An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
     5. n. A species of cactus.
     6. n. (slang) The penis.
     7. v. (obsolete, transitive) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
whose
     1. det. (interrogative) Of whom, belonging to whom.
           Whose wallet is this?
     2. det. (relative) Of whom, belonging to whom.
           This is the man whose dog caused the accident. (=This man's dog caused the accident.)
     3. det. (relative) Of which, belonging to which.
           We saw several houses whose roofs are falling off. (=The roofs are falling off several houses that we saw.)
     4. pron. (interrogative) Of whom, belonging to whom.
           Whose is this book?
           He does not know whose this is.
     5. pron. (relative, rare) Of whom, belonging to whom.
sound
     1. adj. Healthy.
           He was safe and sound.
           In horse management a sound horse is one with no health problems that might affect its suitability for its intended work.
     2. adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
           Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.
     3. adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
     4. adj. (UK, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
           "How are you?" - "I'm sound.".
           That's a sound track you're playing.
           See that man over there? He's sound. You should get to know him.
     5. adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
           Her sleep was sound.
     6. adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
           a sound beating
     7. adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
           a sound title to land
     8. adv. Soundly.
     9. interj. (UK, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
           - I found my jacket.- Sound.
     10. n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
           He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him.  Nobody made a sound.
     11. n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
     12. n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc
     13. n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
     14. n. earshot, Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.
           Stay within the sound of my voice.
     15. v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
           When the horn sounds, take cover.
     16. v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
           He sounded good when we last spoke.
           That story sounds like a pack of lies!
     17. v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
     18. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
     19. v. (intransitive, legal, often, with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law.
     20. v. To cause to produce a sound.
           Sound the alarm!
           He sounds the instrument.
     21. v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
           The "e" in "house" isn't sounded.
     22. n. (geography) 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.
           Puget Sound; Owen Sound
     23. n. The air bladder of a fish.
           Cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
     24. n. A cuttlefish.
     25. v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
           The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.
     26. v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
           When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal.
     27. v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
           Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.
     28. v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
           to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra
     29. n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
     30. n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.
Is
     1. n. plural of I
     2. v. third-person singular present indicative of be
           He is a doctor. He retired some time ago.
           Should he do the task, it is vital that you follow him.
     3. n. plural of i
           remember to dot your is
     be
          1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
          2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
                There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.
          3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
                The cup is on the table.
          4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
                When will the meeting be?
          5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar.
                The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.
                I have been to Spain many times.
                Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating.
          6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
                Knowledge is bliss.
                Hi, I’m Jim.
          7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
                3 times 5 is fifteen.
          8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
                François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.
          9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
                The sky is blue.
          10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
                The sky is a deep blue today.
          11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
                The dog was drowned by the boy.
          12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
                The woman is walking.
                I shall be writing to you soon.
                We liked to chat while we were eating.
          13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go".
          14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
                I am to leave tomorrow.
                I would drive you, were I to obtain a car.
          15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
                This building is three hundred years old.
                I am 75 kilograms.
                He’s about 6 feet tall.
          16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
                I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.)
          17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day.
                It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.)
                It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo.
                What time is it there? It’s night.
          18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
                It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period)
                It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.
          19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
                It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid.
                Why is it so dark in here?
          20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
                "What do we do?" "We be ourselves.".
                Why is he being nice to me?
produced
     1. v. simple past tense and past participle of produce
     produce
          1. v. To yield, make or manufacture; to generate.
          2. v. To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
          3. v. (transitive, media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
          4. v. (mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
                to produce a side of a triangle
          5. v. (obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.
                to produce a man's life to threescore
          6. v. (music) To alter using technology, as opposed to simply performing.
                highly produced sound
          7. n. Items produced.
          8. n. Amount produced.
          9. n. Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs, dairy products and meat; the saleable food products of farms.
          10. n. Offspring.
          11. n. (Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies.
by
     1. prep. Near or next to.
           The mailbox is by the bus stop.
     2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval.
           Be back by ten o'clock!  We will send it by the first week of July.
     3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of.
           The matter was decided by the chairman.  The boat was swamped by the water.  He was protected by his body armour.
     4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
           There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare
     5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of.
     6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of.
           I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.
     7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination.
           The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight.
     8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed.
           I sorted the items by category.  By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife.
     9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of.
           Our stock is up by ten percent.
     10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
           We went through the book page by page.  We crawled forward by inches.
     11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to.
           He cheated by his own admission.
     12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of.
           By Jove! I think she's got it!  By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this.
     13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
           It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix.  The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot.  The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm.
     14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.
           She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.
     15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker.
           I watched as it passed by.
     16. adv. In the vicinity, near.
           There was a shepherd close by.
           The shop is hard by the High Street.
     17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
           I'll stop by on my way home from work.
           We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave.
     18. adv. Aside, away.
           The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring.
     19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary.
     20. n. (card games) A pass
     21. interj. alternative spelling of bye
beating
     1. n. The action by which someone or something is beaten.
           the beating of a drum
           secret beatings of prisoners
     2. n. A heavy defeat or setback.
     3. n. The pulsation of the heart.
     4. v. present participle of beat
     beat
          1. n. A stroke; a blow.
          2. n. A pulsation or throb.
                a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse
          3. n. 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.
          4. n. A rhythm.
          5. n. (music) specifically The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
          6. n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
          7. n. (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.
          8. n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
                to walk the beat
          9. n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
          10. n.          In journalism, the primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
          11. n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
          12. n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
                the beat of him
          13. n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
          14. n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
                a dead beat
          15. n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
          16. n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
          17. n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
          18. v. To hit; strike
                As soon as she heard that her father had died, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.
          19. v. To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
                He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.
          20. v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
          21. v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
          22. v. To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
                Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.
                No matter how quickly Joe finished his test, Roger always beat him.
                I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game.
          23. v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
          24. v. To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
          25. v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
                Beat the eggs and whip the cream.
          26. v. (transitive, UK, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
                He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.
          27. v. To indicate by beating or drumming.
                to beat a retreat; to beat to quarters
          28. v. To tread, as a path.
          29. v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
          30. v. To be in agitation or doubt.
          31. v. To make a sound when struck.
                The drums beat.
          32. v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
                The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
          33. v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
          34. v. To arrive at a place before someone.
                He beat me there.
                The place is empty, we beat the crowd of people who come at lunch.
          35. v. (transitive, US, slang) to masturbate.
                This was the second time he beat off today.
          36. v. (intransitive, UK, slang) to have sexual intercourse.
                Bruv, She came in just as we started to beat.
          37. adj. (US slang) exhausted
                After the long day, she was feeling completely beat.
          38. adj. dilapidated, beat up
                Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys.
          39. adj. (gay slang) fabulous
                Her makeup was beat!
          40. adj. (slang) boring
          41. adj. (slang) ugly
          42. n. A beatnik.
reeds
     1. n. plural of reed
     reed
          1. n. Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
          2. n. The hollow stem of these plants.
          3. n. (music) Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it.
          4. n. (music) A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed.
          5. n. (weaving) A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving.
          6. n. (architecture) reeding
          7. n. (mining) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
          8. n. Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
          9. v. To mill or mint with reeding.
          10. v. simple past tense and past participle of ree
          11. n. (Scotland) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
without
     1. adv. (archaic, or literary) Outside, externally.
     2. adv. Lacking something.
           Being from a large, poor family, he learned to live without.
     3. adv. (euphemism) In prostitution: without a condom being worn.
     4. prep. (archaic, or literary) Outside of, beyond.
           The snow was swirling without the cottage, but it was warm within.
     5. prep. Not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.
           It was a mistake to leave my house without a coat.
     6. prep. Not doing or not having done something.
           He likes to eat everything without sharing.
           He shot without warning anyone.
     7. conj. (archaic, otherwise nonstandard) Unless, except (introducing a clause).
amplifying
     1. v. present participle of amplify
     amplify
          1. v. To render larger, more extended, or more intense
                amplify the loudspeaker
                amplify a telescope
                amplify a microscopes
                amplify the message
                amplify an image on the screen
                amplify the impactof the project
          2. v. (transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand
          3. v. To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
                amplify a signal
resonators
     1. n. plural of resonator
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