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Word Meanings - DECRESCENDO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff , or indicated by the sign.

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  • VOLUMENOMETRY
    The method or process of measuring volumes by means of the volumenometer.
  • VOLUMENOMETER
    An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air.
  • DECREASING
    Becoming less and less; diminishing. -- De*creas"ing*ly, adv. Decreasing series , a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding term.
  • STAFFISH
    Stiff; harsh. Ascham.
  • SOUNDER
    One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
  • VOLUMETRIC
    Of or pertaining to the measurement of volume. Volumetric analysis , that system of the quantitative analysis of solutions which employs definite volumes of standardized solutions of reagents, as measured by burettes, pipettes, etc.; also, the
  • SOUNDLESS
    Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
  • STAFFIER
    An attendant bearing a staff. "Staffiers on foot." Hudibras.
  • VOLUMETER
    An instrument for measuring the volumes of gases or liquids by introducing them into a vessel of known capacity.
  • INDICATOR
    A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part; as: An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at
  • SOUNDLY
    In a sound manner.
  • INDICATIVELY
    In an indicative manner; in a way to show or signify.
  • SOUNDNESS
    The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
  • SOUNDING BALLOON
    An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aƫronautic purposes.
  • SOUND-BOARD
    A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
  • STAFF
    The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave. (more info) stab, Icel. stafr, Sw. staf, Dan. stav, Goth. stabs element, rudiment, Skr. sthapay to cause to stand, to place. See Stand, and 1. A long piece of wood;
  • SOUNDING-BOARD
    A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments. 2. A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice. 3. pl.
  • SOUNDABLE
    Capable of being sounded.
  • DECREASELESS
    Suffering no decrease. It flows and flows, and yet will flow, Volume decreaseless to the final hour. A. Seward.
  • WRITTEN
    p. p. of Write, v.
  • HIGH-SOUNDING
    Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
  • RESOUND
    resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
  • COINDICATION
    One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
  • BEDSTAFF
    "A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side." Johnson. Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson. Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome.
  • TORSION INDICATOR
    An autographic torsion meter.
  • GIBSTAFF
    1. A staff to guage water, or to push a boat. 2. A staff formerly used in fighting beasts on the stage. Bailey.
  • MISSOUND
    To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
  • CROSS-STAFF
    1. An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies. 2. A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.
  • VINDICATION
    The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of

 

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