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 | |
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 | |
colloquial |
1. adj. (linguistics) Denoting a manner of speaking or writing that is characteristic of familiar conversation, of common parlance; informal. | |
2. adj. Of or pertaining to a conversation; conversational or chatty. | |
3. n. A colloquial word or phrase, colloquialism | |
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. | |
recorder |
1. n. An apparatus for recording; a device which records. | |
2. n. Agent noun of record; one who records. | |
3. n. A judge in a municipal court. | |
4. n. (musical instrument) A musical instrument of the woodwind family; a type of fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute. | |
also |
1. adv. (conjunctive, focus) In addition; besides; as well; further; too. | |
They had porridge for breakfast, and also toast. | |
2. adv. (obsolete) To the same degree or extent; so, as. | |
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. | |
woodwind |
1. n. (musical instruments) Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flut | |
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 | |