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noun
- A genre of music of Indonesian origin typically featuring metallophones, xylophones, drums, gongs and a bamboo flute (called a siuling).
- The name of the ensemble performing this style of music.
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noun
- a subgenre of hip-hop music associated with urban street gangs; often contains violent misogynistic or homophobic lyrics
| | gavotte |
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noun
- A French dance, either in 4/4 or 2/2 time.
| | G clef |
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noun
- the treble clef
| | German |
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- An inhabitant of Germany; a person of German descent.
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proper noun
- An Indo-European language, primarily spoken in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Sí¼dtirol and Switzerland and a small part of Belgium.
adjective
- Relating to the country of Germany or to the German language.
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noun
- (archaic) A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.
- (archaic) A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals.
- (colloquial) A performing engagement by a musical group.
- I caught one of the Rolling Stones' first gigs in Richmond
- (colloquial) Any temporary job.
- I had this as a file clerk but it wasn't my style so I left
- (rare) A six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
verb (gigs, gigging, gigged)
- To catch with a gig.
- To engage in musical performances.
- The Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time
- To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending.
- His older cousin was just gigging him about being in love with that girl from school.
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noun gimel
- The third letter of the Hebrew alphabet, �.
proper noun - A Swiss comune.
| | giocoso |
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noun
- (music) merry; playful.
| | glide |
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noun
- The act of gliding.
- (linguistics) semivowel, Semivowel
- (fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent"s blade, keeping it in constant contact.
verb (glides, gliding, glid, glid or glidden)
(glides, gliding, glided or (archaic) glode, glided or (archaic) glode)
- (intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
- (intransitive) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft.
- (transitive) To cause to glide.
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noun (glissandi)
- (music) A musical term that refers to either a continuous sliding one pitch to another (or "true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another (or "effective" glissando).
| | glockenspiel |
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noun
- a musical instrument of the percussion family of instruments, like the xylophone, it has tuned bars arranged like the keys on a piano, and is also smaller in size and higher in pitch.
| | Gloria |
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proper noun
- (given name, female)
| | gong |
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noun (gongs)
- (musici) a percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a sonorous sound when struck with a soft hammer
- a medal or award
| | Gospel |
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proper noun
- (Christianity) (alternative spelling of, gospel)
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noun Goth"ic
- an extinct language, once spoken by the Goths in what is now Ukraine and Bulgaria.
adjective or gothic
- of or related to the Goth, Goths.
- of or related to the architecture, architectural style favored in western Europe in the 12th to 16th centuries.
- of or related to the goth subculture or lifestyle.
- of or related to a style of fictional writing emphasizing violent or macabre events in a mysterious, desolate setting.
- of a style of elaborate calligraphy based on medieval writing, also called black letter.
- (typography) of a sans serif typeface using straight, even-width lines, also called typesetters gothic.
| | Grace |
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proper noun
- (given name, female) from the noun grace
| | grace note |
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noun
- (music) A note or group of notes written in smaller print, with or without a slash through it, to indicate that its note value does not count as part of the total time value of the measure.
| | grand |
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noun (grand)
- (US, colloquial) One thousand dollars.
- One thousand pounds sterling.
adjective
- Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake.
- Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignifled, or noble (said of persons); majestic, splendid, magnificent, or sublime (said of things); as, a grand monarch; a grand lord; a grand general; a grand view; a grand conception.
- Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name; as, a grand lodge; a grand vizier; a grand piano, etc.
- Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent; -- generalIy used in composition; as, grandfather, grandson, grandchild, etc.
| | grave |
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noun
- An accent used in French, Italian and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent.
verb (graves, graving, graved or grove, graved or graven)
- (transitive) To dig. (Obs.) w:Geoffrey Chaucer, Chaucer.
- He hath graven and digged up a pit. "Ps. VII 16 (w:Book of Prayer, Book of Prayer).
- (transitive) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
- Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and on them the names of the children of Israel. "Ex. XXVIII.,9.
- This be the verse you for me / “Here he lies where he longs to be” " w:Robert Louis Stevenson, Stevenson, Requiem
- (transitive) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
- With gold men may the hearte . "w:Geoffrey Chaucer, Chaucer.
- (transitive) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
- O! may they graven in thy heart remain. "w:Matthew Prior, Prior.
- (transitive) To entomb; to bury. (Obs.) "w:Geoffrey Chaucer, Chaucer.
- Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground. "w:William Shakespeare, Shakespeare.
- (context, transitive, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch " so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
- (intransitive) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
adjective (graver, gravest)
- (obsolete) Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
- His shield and great. "w:George Chapman, Chapman.
- Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
- Most potent, , and reverend seigniors. "w:William Shakespeare, Shakespeare.
- A and prudent law, full of moral equity. "W:John Milton, Milton.
- Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
- (music) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
- The thicker the cord or string, the more is the note or tone. "w:Moore, Moore (Encyc. of Music).
- (music) Slow and solemn in movement.
:: {Grave accent}. (Pron.) See the Note under Accent, n., 2.
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noun
- Style of unaccompanied monotonic singing in the Catholic Church.
| | ground |
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noun
- The surface of the Earth.
- terrain, Terrain.
- soil, Soil, earth.
- The worm crawls through the .
- The bottom of a body of water.
- basis, Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
- background, Background, context, framework, surroundings.
- A soccer stadium.
- Manchester United's is known as Old Trafford.
- An electrical conductor connected to the ground.
- The British equivalent is earth.
- A level of electrical potential used as a zero reference.
- (cricket) The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; that part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground)
verb
- To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
- (transitive) To require a disobedient child to remain at home, usually as a punishment.
- The teenager's father decided to ground him for two weeks after he broke curfew again.
- (transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
- Becasue of the bad weather, all flights were grounded.
- (baseball) to hit a ground ball; to hit a ground ball which results in an out. Compare fly (verb(regular)) and line (verb).
- Jones grounded to second in his last at-bat.
- (cricket) (of a batsman) to place his bat, or part of his body, on the ground behind the popping crease so as not to be run out
| | group |
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noun
- A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
- There is a of houses behind the hill.
- A of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.
- He left town to join a Communist
- (grouptheory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
- A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
- Did you see the new jazz ?
- (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxy, galaxies that are near each other.
- (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
- (chemistry) A functional entity consisting of certain atoms whose presence provides a certain property to a molecule, such as the methyl group.
- (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
- (military) An air force formation.
- (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
- (computing) In the Unix operating system, a number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
verb
- (transitive) To put together to form a group.
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noun - The deep, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal; a grumbling sound.
- The sound made by a hungry stomach.
verb - (intransitive) To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.
- (transitive) To express (something) by growling.
| | guitar |
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noun
- A stringed musical instrument, usually with fretted fingerboard and 6 strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
| | gutbucket |
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noun
- a washtub bass
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