Word Meanings - POLYPHONY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Composition in mutually related, equally important parts which share the melody among them; contrapuntal composition; -- opposed to homophony, in which the melody is given to one part only, the others filling out the harmony. See Counterpoint.
Additional info about word: POLYPHONY
Composition in mutually related, equally important parts which share the melody among them; contrapuntal composition; -- opposed to homophony, in which the melody is given to one part only, the others filling out the harmony. See Counterpoint. (more info) 1. Multiplicity of sounds, as in the reverberations of an echo. 2. Plurality of sounds and articulations expressed by the same vocal sign.
Related words: (words related to POLYPHONY)
- RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - OPPOSABILITY
The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace. - SHAREBEAM
The part of the plow to which the share is attached. - FILLIPEEN
See PHILOPENA - OPPOSITIONIST
One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed. - FILLIBEG
A kilt. See Filibeg. - FILLETING
The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work. 2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively. - OPPOSITIVE
Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall. - FILLER
One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling. 'T is mere filer, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter. Dryden. They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. Mortimer. - OPPOSELESS
Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak. - IMPORTANTLY
In an important manner. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - RELATIVELY
In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts. - COUNTERPOINT
An opposite point Sir E. Sandys. - OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle. - RELATE
1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy - FILLISTER
1. The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty. Knight. 2. A plane for making a rabbet. Fillister screw had, a short cylindrical screw head, having a convex top. - RELATIVITY
The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - CONTRAPUNTAL
Pertaining to, or according to the rules of, counterpoint. - PRELATIST
One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott. - PRELATISM
Prelacy; episcopacy. - PRELATIZE
To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey. - MISRELATION
Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall. - IRRELATIVE
Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence - DECOMPOSITION
1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of - CORRELATIVENESS
Quality of being correlative. - IRRELATION
The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.