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noun
- That which exists in the mind as the result of mental activity; a thought or a concept
Ideas won't go to jail."A. Whitney Griswold (1952)
- Someone's opinion, belief or conviction that is accepted as true
- An intuitive notion; a feeling or hunch
- A plan or scheme for doing something, or an intention
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(music) A musical theme or melodic subject
(rfc, This section includes terms derived from terms in this list (eg, "ideally" from "ideal") which should be moved out of this table; further, not all terms are derived from "idea": those beginning "ideo-" are certainly not)
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noun
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Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of w:Theocritus, Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls.
- An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyl; a carefree or lighthearted experience;
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(music) A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner.
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| imitation |
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noun
- The act of imitate, imitating.
- A copy.
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| imperfect |
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noun
- Something having a minor flaw
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(grammar) A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous.
adjective
- Not perfect
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(botany) A flower that is unisexual: either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil), but not with both (the latter condition is termed "perfect").
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noun
- a movement in art characterized by visible brush strokes, ordinary subject matters, and an emphasis on light and its changing qualities
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(music) a style that avoided traditional harmony, and sought to invoke the impressions of the composer
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(poetry) a style that used imagery and symbolism to portray the poet's impressions
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| impromptu |
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(music) a short musical composition for an informal occasion often with the character of improvisation and usually to be played solo.
adjective
- improvise, Improvised; without prior preparation; extemporaneous; unplanned.
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The party began with an rendition of 'Happy Birthday'.
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verb (improvis, ing)
- To make something up or invent it as one goes on; to proceed by guess rather than by a careful plan. To invent or create something quickly or without a plan; to wing it.
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He had no speech prepared, so he improvised.
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They improvised a simple shelter with branches and the rope they were carrying.
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She improvised a lovely solo.
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noun
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(context, uncountable, grammar) The instrumental case.
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(context, countable, music) A composition without lyrics.
adjective
- Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; essential or central.
He was in conducting the business.
Quotations
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The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more to the mouth — Shakespeare, Hamlet, I,ii
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(Music): Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, especially a musical instrument; as, music, distinguished from vocal music.
He defended the use of music in public worship. — Macaulay
Sweet voices mix'd with sounds. — Dryden
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(Grammar): Applied to a case expressing means or agency"and is generally indicated in English by by or with with the objective; as, the case. This is found in Sanskrit as a separate case, but in Greek it was merged into the dative, and in Latin into the ablative. In Old English it was a separate case, but has disappeared, leaving only a few anomalous forms. It continues to be used in Slavic languages.
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noun- One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist
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noun
- The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency.
- The arrangement of a musical composition for performance by a number of different instruments; orchestration; instrumental composition; composition for an orchestra or military band.
- The act or manner of playing upon musical instruments; performance; as, his instrumentation is perfect.
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On a vehicle, dashboard gauges monitoring engine functions and performance, along with other essential functions.
- The car"s included fuel, temperature, voltimeter and oil pressure gauges, along with a speedometer and tachometer.
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noun
- An intervening episode etc
- An entertainment between the acts of a play
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(music) A short piece put between the parts of a longer composition.
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| interval |
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noun
- A distance in space or in time.
- In music, an is the difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes and often refers to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).
- In mathematics an is a connected section of the real line. It may be empty or have a length of zero.
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(context, mostly, british) An intermission.
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(cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play
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verb (inton, ing)
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(transitive) To give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize.
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(transitive) To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to speak or recite with singing voice; to chant; as, to intone the church service.
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(intransitive) To utter a tone; utter a protracted sound.
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| invention |
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noun
- Something invented.
My new invention will let you alphabetize your matchbook collection in half the usual time.
I'm afraid there was no burglar. It was all the housekeeper's invention.
- The capacity to invent.
It took quite a bit of invention to come up with a plan, but we did it.
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(music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach"s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
I particularly like the inventions in C-minor.
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| invert |
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noun
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(archaic) A homosexual man.
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(context, architecture) An upside-down arch (as in a sewer.)
verb
- To turn upside down or inside out.
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(music) To move the root note of a chord up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
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adjective
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(context, of two solutions) having the same osmotic pressure
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(context, of a medical solution) Having the same concentration of solutes as human blood.
Use an saline solution in your neti pot to prevent irritation of your nasal passages.
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(context, of two muscles) having equal tension
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