Exact Match:
- breve
- a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- minim
collapse - a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram
- a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters related words >
- accidental,
- ace,
- atom,
- bit,
- breve,
- breve rest,
- crotchet,
- crumb,
- dab,
- demisemiquaver,
- dole,
- dominant,
- dominant note,
- dot,
- double whole note,
- dram,
- dribble,
- driblet,
- drop,
- droplet,
- dwarf,
- eighth note,
- eighth rest,
- enharmonic,
- enharmonic note,
- farthing,
- flat,
- fleck,
- flyspeck,
- fragment,
- gnat,
- gobbet,
- grain,
- granule,
- groat,
- hair,
- half note,
- half rest,
- handful,
- hemidemisemiquaver,
- iota,
- jot,
- little,
- little bit,
- lota,
- microbe,
- microorganism,
- midge,
- minimum,
- minutia,
- minutiae,
- mite,
- modicum,
- molecule,
- mote,
- musical note,
- natural,
- note,
- nutshell,
- ounce,
- particle,
- patent note,
- pause,
- pebble,
- pinch,
- pinhead,
- pinpoint,
- pittance,
- point,
- quarter note,
- quarter rest,
- quaver,
- report,
- responding note,
- rest,
- scrap,
- scruple,
- semibreve,
- semiquaver,
- shaped note,
- sharp,
- sixteenth note,
- sixteenth rest,
- sixty-fourth note,
- smidgen,
- smitch,
- snip,
- snippet,
- speck,
- spiccato,
- spoonful,
- spot,
- staccato,
- sustained note,
- tercet,
- thimbleful,
- thirty-second note,
- tiny bit,
- tittle,
- tone,
- trifling amount,
- triplet,
- trivia,
- vanishing point,
- whit,
- whole note
- quarter note
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- a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note related words >
- accidental,
- breve,
- crotchet,
- demisemiquaver,
- dominant,
- dominant note,
- double whole note,
- eighth note,
- enharmonic,
- enharmonic note,
- flat,
- half note,
- hemidemisemiquaver,
- minim,
- musical note,
- natural,
- note,
- patent note,
- quaver,
- report,
- responding note,
- semibreve,
- semiquaver,
- shaped note,
- sharp,
- sixteenth note,
- sixty-fourth note,
- spiccato,
- staccato,
- sustained note,
- tercet,
- thirty-second note,
- tone,
- triplet,
- whole note
- crotchet
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- a small tool or hooklike implement related words >
- L,
- accidental,
- angle,
- apex,
- bee,
- bend,
- bifurcation,
- bight,
- boutade,
- brainstorm,
- breve,
- cant,
- capriccio,
- caprice,
- chevron,
- coin,
- conceit,
- corner,
- crank,
- craze,
- crazy idea,
- crook,
- deflection,
- demisemiquaver,
- dogleg,
- dominant,
- dominant note,
- double whole note,
- eccentricity,
- eighth note,
- elbow,
- ell,
- enharmonic,
- enharmonic note,
- fad,
- fancy,
- fantastic notion,
- fantasy,
- flat,
- flimflam,
- fool notion,
- fork,
- freak,
- freakish inspiration,
- furcation,
- half note,
- harebrained idea,
- hemidemisemiquaver,
- hook,
- humor,
- inflection,
- kink,
- knee,
- maggot,
- megrim,
- minim,
- musical note,
- natural,
- nook,
- note,
- notion,
- passing fancy,
- patent note,
- point,
- quarter note,
- quaver,
- quirk,
- quoin,
- report,
- responding note,
- semibreve,
- semiquaver,
- shaped note,
- sharp,
- sixteenth note,
- sixty-fourth note,
- spiccato,
- staccato,
- sustained note,
- swerve,
- tercet,
- thirty-second note,
- tone,
- toy,
- triplet,
- twist,
- vagary,
- veer,
- vertex,
- whim,
- whim-wham,
- whimsy,
- whole note,
- zag,
- zig,
- zigzag
- spiccato
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- bowing in such a way that the bow bounces lightly off the strings related words >
- a cappella,
- abbandono,
- accidental,
- accrescendo,
- adagietto,
- adagio,
- affettuoso,
- agilmente,
- agitato,
- allegretto,
- allegro,
- amabile,
- amoroso,
- andante,
- andantino,
- appassionatamente,
- appassionato,
- breve,
- brillante,
- cantando,
- capriccioso,
- con affetto,
- con agilita,
- con agitazione,
- con amore,
- crescendo,
- crotchet,
- decrescendo,
- demilegato,
- demisemiquaver,
- diminuendo,
- dolce,
- dominant,
- dominant note,
- double whole note,
- eighth note,
- enharmonic,
- enharmonic note,
- execution,
- expression,
- fingering,
- flat,
- forte,
- fortissimo,
- glissando,
- half note,
- hemidemisemiquaver,
- intonation,
- lamentabile,
- larghetto,
- larghissimo,
- largo,
- legato,
- leggiero,
- marcando,
- mezzo staccato,
- minim,
- morendo,
- music-making,
- musical note,
- natural,
- note,
- parlando,
- patent note,
- performance,
- pianism,
- pianissimo,
- piano,
- pizzicato,
- prestissimo,
- presto,
- quarter note,
- quaver,
- rallentando,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- repercussion,
- report,
- responding note,
- ritardando,
- ritenuto,
- rubato,
- scherzando,
- scherzo,
- scherzoso,
- semibreve,
- semiquaver,
- shaped note,
- sharp,
- sixteenth note,
- sixty-fourth note,
- slur,
- sordo,
- sotto voce,
- staccato,
- stretto,
- sustained note,
- tercet,
- thirty-second note,
- tone,
- touch,
- tremolando,
- tremoloso,
- trillando,
- triplet,
- whole note
- accidental
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- a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature
- without intention (especially resulting from heedless action); "with an inadvertent gesture she swept the vase off the table"; "accidental poisoning"; "an accidental shooting"
- associated by chance and not an integral part; "poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form"- Frederick W. Robertson; "they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character"
- occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; "their accidental meeting led to a renewal of their friendship"; "seek help from casual passers-by"; "a casual meeting"; "a chance occurrence" related words >
- accessory,
- accident,
- accidentally,
- accompanying,
- addendum,
- addition,
- additional,
- adjunct,
- ado,
- adscititious,
- adventitious,
- afloat,
- afoot,
- aleatory,
- appendage,
- appurtenance,
- appurtenant,
- ascititious,
- auxiliary,
- breve,
- by-the-way,
- casual,
- casually,
- causeless,
- chance,
- chancy,
- circumstantial,
- coincident,
- coincidental,
- collateral,
- conditional,
- contingency,
- contingent,
- crotchet,
- current,
- demisemiquaver,
- dependent,
- destinal,
- dicey,
- doing,
- dominant,
- dominant note,
- double whole note,
- eighth note,
- enharmonic,
- enharmonic note,
- eventuating,
- extra,
- fatal,
- fatidic,
- flat,
- fluky,
- fortuitous,
- fortuitously,
- going on,
- half note,
- happening,
- happenstance,
- hemidemisemiquaver,
- iffy,
- in hand,
- in the wind,
- inadvertent,
- incidental,
- indeterminate,
- inessential,
- lucky,
- mere chance,
- minim,
- musical note,
- natural,
- nonessential,
- not-self,
- note,
- occasional,
- occurring,
- odd,
- on,
- on foot,
- ongoing,
- other,
- parenthetical,
- passing,
- patent note,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- provisional,
- quarter note,
- quaver,
- random,
- report,
- responding note,
- resultant,
- risky,
- secondary,
- semibreve,
- semiquaver,
- serendipitous,
- shaped note,
- sharp,
- sixteenth note,
- sixty-fourth note,
- spiccato,
- staccato,
- subsidiary,
- superadded,
- superaddition,
- superfluous,
- supervenient,
- supplement,
- supplemental,
- supplementary,
- sustained note,
- taking place,
- tercet,
- thirty-second note,
- tone,
- triplet,
- unanticipated,
- uncalculated,
- uncaused,
- under way,
- undesigned,
- undetermined,
- unessential,
- unexpected,
- unforeseeable,
- unforeseen,
- unintended,
- unintentional,
- unlooked-for,
- unlucky,
- unmeant,
- unplanned,
- unpredictable,
- unpremeditated,
- unpurposed,
- unwitting,
- whole note
- triplet
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- one of three offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy related words >
- Spenserian stanza,
- accidental,
- andante tempo,
- antistrophe,
- beat,
- book,
- breve,
- burden,
- canto,
- chorus,
- clover,
- compound time,
- couplet,
- crotchet,
- demisemiquaver,
- deuce-ace,
- distich,
- dominant,
- dominant note,
- double whole note,
- duple time,
- eighth note,
- enharmonic,
- enharmonic note,
- envoi,
- epode,
- flat,
- half note,
- hemidemisemiquaver,
- heptastich,
- hexastich,
- largo,
- leash,
- line,
- march tempo,
- measure,
- minim,
- mixed times,
- monostich,
- musical note,
- natural,
- note,
- octastich,
- octave,
- octet,
- ottava rima,
- patent note,
- pentastich,
- presto,
- quarter note,
- quatrain,
- quaver,
- rag,
- ragtime,
- refrain,
- report,
- responding note,
- rhyme royal,
- rubato,
- semibreve,
- semiquaver,
- septet,
- sestet,
- set of three,
- sextet,
- sextuple time,
- shamrock,
- shaped note,
- sharp,
- simple time,
- sixteenth note,
- sixty-fourth note,
- spiccato,
- staccato,
- stanza,
- stave,
- strain,
- strophe,
- sustained note,
- syllable,
- syncopation,
- syncope,
- tempo,
- tempo rubato,
- tercet,
- ternary,
- ternion,
- terza rima,
- terzetto,
- tetrastich,
- thirty-second note,
- three,
- three-quarter time,
- threesome,
- tierce,
- time,
- time pattern,
- timing,
- tone,
- trefoil,
- trey,
- triad,
- trialogue,
- triangle,
- tricorn,
- trident,
- triennium,
- trihedron,
- trilogy,
- trimester,
- trine,
- trinity,
- trinomial,
- trio,
- triphthong,
- triple crown,
- triple threat,
- triple time,
- triplopy,
- tripod,
- triptych,
- trireme,
- triseme,
- triskelion,
- tristich,
- trisul,
- triumvirate,
- triunity,
- trivet,
- troika,
- two-four time,
- verse,
- waltz time,
- whole note
- dominant
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- (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale
- exercising influence or control; "television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion"; "the dominant partner in the marriage"
- (of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar related words >
- absolute,
- accidental,
- all-absorbing,
- arch,
- ascendant,
- assertive,
- at the head,
- authoritarian,
- authoritative,
- authorized,
- autocratic,
- average,
- banner,
- besetting,
- boss,
- breve,
- capital,
- cardinal,
- central,
- champion,
- chief,
- clothed with authority,
- cock,
- commanding,
- common,
- competent,
- conquering,
- consequential,
- considerable,
- controlling,
- crotchet,
- crowning,
- current,
- defeating,
- demisemiquaver,
- dominant note,
- double whole note,
- duly constituted,
- eighth note,
- eminent,
- empowered,
- enharmonic,
- enharmonic note,
- epidemic,
- ex officio,
- first,
- flat,
- flushed with success,
- focal,
- foremost,
- general,
- governing,
- great,
- half note,
- head,
- headmost,
- hegemonic,
- hegemonistic,
- hemidemisemiquaver,
- highest,
- imperative,
- important,
- in ascendancy,
- in charge,
- in chief,
- in the ascendant,
- influential,
- key,
- key signature,
- keynote,
- leading,
- magisterial,
- main,
- major,
- major key,
- master,
- mediant,
- mighty,
- minim,
- minor,
- momentous,
- monocratic,
- musical note,
- natural,
- normal,
- note,
- number,
- official,
- on the throne,
- ordinary,
- outstanding,
- overbearing,
- overcoming,
- overriding,
- overruling,
- pandemic,
- paramount,
- patent note,
- pedal point,
- popular,
- potent,
- powerful,
- predominant,
- predominate,
- predominating,
- preeminent,
- premier,
- prepollent,
- preponderant,
- preponderate,
- prepotent,
- prestigious,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- principal,
- prominent,
- puissant,
- quarter note,
- quaver,
- rampant,
- ranking,
- regnant,
- regulating,
- regulative,
- regulatory,
- reigning,
- report,
- responding note,
- rife,
- routine,
- ruling,
- running,
- semibreve,
- semiquaver,
- senior,
- shaped note,
- sharp,
- sixteenth note,
- sixty-fourth note,
- sovereign,
- spiccato,
- staccato,
- standard,
- star,
- stellar,
- stereotyped,
- subdominant,
- submediant,
- substantial,
- subtonic,
- successful,
- supereminent,
- superior,
- supertonic,
- supreme,
- surpassing,
- sustained note,
- swaying,
- tercet,
- thirty-second note,
- tonality,
- tone,
- tonic,
- tonic key,
- topflight,
- topmost,
- totalitarian,
- transcendent,
- triplet,
- triumphal,
- triumphant,
- uppermost,
- usual,
- vanquishing,
- victorious,
- weighty,
- whole note,
- winning
- staccato
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- (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply; "staccato applause"; "a staccato command"; "staccato notes"
- separating the notes; in music; "play this staccato, please" related words >
- a cappella,
- abbandono,
- accidental,
- accrescendo,
- adagietto,
- adagio,
- affettuoso,
- agilmente,
- agitato,
- allegretto,
- allegro,
- amabile,
- amoroso,
- andante,
- andantino,
- appassionatamente,
- appassionato,
- arrhythmia,
- beat,
- beating,
- breve,
- brillante,
- cantando,
- capriccioso,
- ceaseless,
- ceaselessness,
- chattering,
- clicking,
- con affetto,
- con agilita,
- con agitazione,
- con amore,
- constancy,
- constant,
- constant flow,
- continual,
- continualness,
- continuity,
- crescendo,
- crotchet,
- decrescendo,
- demilegato,
- demisemiquaver,
- diminuendo,
- dolce,
- dominant,
- dominant note,
- double whole note,
- drumming,
- eighth note,
- enharmonic,
- enharmonic note,
- execution,
- expression,
- fingering,
- flat,
- flutter,
- fluttering,
- forte,
- fortissimo,
- glissando,
- half note,
- heartbeat,
- heartthrob,
- hemidemisemiquaver,
- incessancy,
- incessant,
- intonation,
- lamentabile,
- larghetto,
- larghissimo,
- largo,
- legato,
- leggiero,
- machine gun,
- marcando,
- mezzo staccato,
- minim,
- morendo,
- music-making,
- musical note,
- natural,
- noninterruption,
- note,
- oscillating,
- oscillation,
- palpitant,
- palpitation,
- parlando,
- patent note,
- perennial,
- performance,
- perpetual,
- perpetuity,
- pianism,
- pianissimo,
- piano,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- pizzicato,
- pounding,
- prestissimo,
- presto,
- pulsatile,
- pulsating,
- pulsation,
- pulsative,
- pulsatory,
- pulse,
- pulsing,
- quarter note,
- quaver,
- quick fire,
- rallentando,
- rapid,
- rapid fire,
- rapid recurrence,
- rapid succession,
- rapidity,
- rat-a-tat,
- rataplan,
- regular,
- regularity,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- repeated,
- repercussion,
- repetition,
- report,
- responding note,
- rhythm,
- rhythmic,
- ritardando,
- ritenuto,
- rubato,
- scherzando,
- scherzo,
- scherzoso,
- semibreve,
- semiquaver,
- shaped note,
- sharp,
- sixteenth note,
- sixty-fourth note,
- slur,
- sordo,
- sotto voce,
- spattering,
- spiccato,
- spluttering,
- sputtering,
- steadiness,
- steady,
- stretto,
- stuttering,
- sustained,
- sustained note,
- sustainment,
- tattoo,
- tempo,
- tercet,
- thirty-second note,
- throb,
- throbbing,
- thrumming,
- thumping,
- ticking,
- tone,
- touch,
- tremolando,
- tremoloso,
- trillando,
- triplet,
- unbroken,
- unceasing,
- unchanging,
- unintermission,
- unintermitted,
- unintermittent,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- uninterruption,
- unremitting,
- unstopped,
- unvarying,
- vibrating,
- vibration,
- whole note
- quaver
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- a tremulous sound
- give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency related words >
- Bebung,
- accidental,
- anthem,
- aphonia,
- artificial voice,
- ballad,
- bob,
- bobble,
- bounce,
- break,
- breve,
- broken speech,
- broken tones,
- broken voice,
- bump,
- carol,
- chant,
- chatter,
- childish treble,
- chirp,
- chirrup,
- choir,
- choked voice,
- chorus,
- cracked voice,
- croak,
- croon,
- crotchet,
- crow,
- demisemiquaver,
- descant,
- didder,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- dither,
- dithers,
- do-re-mi,
- dominant,
- dominant note,
- double whole note,
- drawl,
- dysarthria,
- dyslalia,
- dyslogia,
- dysphasia,
- dysphonia,
- dysphrasia,
- eighth note,
- enharmonic,
- enharmonic note,
- falsetto,
- falter,
- fidget,
- fidgetiness,
- fidgets,
- flat,
- flip out,
- fluctuate,
- fluctuation,
- flutter,
- freak out on,
- get high on,
- glow,
- go pitapat,
- grimace,
- half note,
- harshness,
- have an ague,
- have the fidgets,
- have the shakes,
- hawking voice,
- heave,
- heaving,
- hemidemisemiquaver,
- hesitate,
- hiss,
- hoarseness,
- hum,
- hustle,
- hymn,
- idioglossia,
- idiolalia,
- impairment of speech,
- inquietude,
- intonate,
- intone,
- jactitate,
- jar,
- jerk,
- jig,
- jigget,
- jiggle,
- jog,
- joggle,
- jolt,
- jostle,
- jounce,
- jump,
- lilt,
- lisp,
- lisping,
- loss of voice,
- mince,
- minim,
- minstrel,
- musical note,
- muzzy speech,
- nasal tone,
- nasalization,
- natural,
- note,
- oscillate,
- oscillation,
- palpitate,
- palpitation,
- pant,
- panting,
- patent note,
- pipe,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- psalm,
- quake,
- quaking,
- quarter note,
- quavering,
- quiver,
- quivering,
- report,
- responding note,
- restlessness,
- rictus,
- roulade,
- semibreve,
- semiquaver,
- serenade,
- shake,
- shake all over,
- shakes,
- shaking,
- shaped note,
- sharp,
- shiver,
- shivers,
- shock,
- shudder,
- sibilation,
- sing,
- sing in chorus,
- sixteenth note,
- sixty-fourth note,
- sol-fa,
- solmizate,
- speech defect,
- speech impediment,
- spiccato,
- squirm,
- staccato,
- sustained note,
- swell,
- swell with emotion,
- talk incoherently,
- tercet,
- thirty-second note,
- thrill,
- thrill to,
- throb,
- throbbing,
- tic,
- tingle,
- tingle with excitement,
- tone,
- toss,
- toss and turn,
- tremble,
- trembling,
- tremolando,
- tremolant,
- tremolo,
- tremor,
- trepidation,
- trepidity,
- trill,
- trillet,
- trilleto,
- trillo,
- triplet,
- troll,
- tumble,
- turn on to,
- twang,
- tweedle,
- tweedledee,
- twist and turn,
- twit,
- twitch,
- twitter,
- unrest,
- vacillate,
- vibrate,
- vibration,
- vibrato,
- vocalize,
- warble,
- waver,
- wavering,
- whistle,
- whole note,
- wiggle,
- wobble,
- wriggle,
- writhe,
- yodel
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