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Fast can mean "without moving; fixed in place", (holding fast, also as in "steadfast"), or "moving quickly". [4] [11] Obbligato in music traditionally means a passage is "obligatory" but has also been used to mean "optional". [12] [13] Overlook can mean "to make an accidental omission or error" or "to engage in close scrutiny or control". [14]
Fast velocità Speed; con velocità: with speed velocissimo As fast as possible; usually applied to a cadenza-like passage or run via Away, out, off; as in via sordina or sordina via: 'mute off' vibrato Vibrating (i.e. a more or less rapidly repeated slight variation in the pitch of a note, used as a means of expression).
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
Antonyms are words with opposite or nearly opposite meanings. For example: hot ↔ cold, large ↔ small, thick ↔ thin, synonym ↔ antonym; Hypernyms and hyponyms are words that refer to, respectively, a general category and a specific instance of that category. For example, vehicle is a hypernym of car, and car is a hyponym of vehicle.
When attacking pinnipeds, the shark surfaces quickly and attacks violently. In contrast, attacks on humans are slower and less violent: the shark charges at a normal pace, bites, and swims off. Great white sharks have efficient eyesight and color vision; the bite is not predatory, but rather for identification of an unfamiliar object. [75]
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
An online dictionary is a dictionary that is accessible via the Internet through a web browser.They can be made available in a number of ways: free, free with a paid subscription for extended or more professional content, or a paid-only service.
In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or borrow/lend. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The relationship between such words is called a converse relation . [ 2 ]