Word Meanings - TREMANDO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Trembling; -- used as a direction to perform a passage with a general shaking of the whole chord.

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• CHORD
  A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord. (more info) 1. The string of a musical instrument. Milton.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• SHAKE
  A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill. (more info) 1. The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other;
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• CHORDEE
  A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea.
• GENERALTY
  Generality. Sir M. Hale.
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• SHAKINESS
  Quality of being shaky.
• TREMBLING
  Shaking; tottering; quivering. -- Trem"bling*ly, adv. Trembling poplar , the aspen.
• WHOLE-HOOFED
  Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
• TREMBLE
  1. To shake involuntarily, as with fear, cold, or weakness; to quake; to quiver; to shiver; to shudder; -- said of a person or an animal. I tremble still with fear. Shak. Frighted Turnus trembled as he spoke. Dryden. 2. To totter; to shake; --
• SHAKY
  1. Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand. Thackeray. 2. Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber. Gwilt. 3. Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky constitution; shaky business credit.
• PERFORMANCE
  The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty. Promises are not binding where the performance is impossible. Paley.
• SHAKO
  A kind of military cap or headress.
• SHAKESPEAREAN
  Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his
• PASSAGEWAY
  A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.
• WHOLESALE
  1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price. 2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for
• GENERALITY
  1. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. Hooker. 2. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase. Let us descend from
• SHAKEN
  1. Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough. 2. Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2. Nor is the wood shaken or twisted. Barroe. 3. Impaired, as by a shock.
• GENERALISSIMO
  The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• HEPTACHORD
  A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones. Moore (more info) A system of seven sounds. A lyre with seven chords.
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• MONOCHORD
  An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of
• UROCHORDAL
  Of or pertaining to the Urochorda.
• OVERSHAKE
  To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. Chaucer.
• PARACHORDAL
  Situated on either side of the notochord; -- applied especially to the cartilaginous rudiments of the skull on each side of the anterior part of the notochord. -- n.
• POSTMASTER-GENERAL
  The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet.
• RHEOCHORD
  A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit.
• PENTACHORD
  1. An ancient instrument of music with five strings. 2. An order or system of five sounds. Busby.