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abate
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affect
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beleaguer
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bend
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besiege
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bias
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blarney
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color
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cramp
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damp
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gruel
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harry
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honey
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incline
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induce
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influence
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invest
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jolly
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kid along
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knead
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laxate
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lay it on
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lay low
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lay siege to
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lead
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limber
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limber up
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loosen
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mash
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massage
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mellow
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milden
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mollify
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move
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oil
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overdo it
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persuade
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play up to
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plump
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predispose
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prompt
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pulp
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rattle
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reduce
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relax
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sap
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shake
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shake up
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smash
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soap
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soft-soap
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soften
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squash
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string along
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stroke
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subdue
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supple
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surround
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sway
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tenderize
,
tinge
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tone
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tone down
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tune down
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unbrace
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undermine
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unman
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unnerve
,
unstrengthen
,
unstring
,
weaken
,
wear down
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weigh with
,
work
in succession
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by stages
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consecutively
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hand running
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hierarchically
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in Indian file
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in a chain
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in a line
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in a row
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in a series
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in column
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in file
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in order
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in sequence
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in series
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in single file
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in turn
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running
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sequentially
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serially
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seriatim
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step by step
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successively
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turn about
inflection
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deviation from a straight or normal course
a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function
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IC analysis
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L
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S-curve
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affix
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angle
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apex
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bow
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ell
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quoin
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radical
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reflection
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root
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speech tune
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stem
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suprasegmental
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sweep
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swerve
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theme
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timbre
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tonality
,
tone
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tone of voice
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turn
,
turning
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veer
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vertex
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word-formation
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zag
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zig
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zigzag
song writer
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arranger
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ballad maker
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balladeer
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balladist
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balladmonger
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composer
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contrapuntist
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ethnomusicologist
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harmonist
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harmonizer
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hymnist
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hymnographer
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librettist
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melodizer
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musicographer
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musicologist
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orchestrator
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scorer
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songsmith
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symphonist
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tone poet
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tunesmith
orchestrator
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an arranger who writes for orchestras
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arranger
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ballad maker
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balladeer
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balladist
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balladmonger
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composer
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contrapuntist
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ethnomusicologist
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harmonist
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harmonizer
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hymnist
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hymnographer
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musicographer
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musicologist
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scorer
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song writer
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songsmith
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symphonist
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tone poet
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tunesmith
hymnist
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related words >
arranger
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ballad maker
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balladeer
,
balladist
,
balladmonger
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composer
,
contrapuntist
,
ethnomusicologist
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harmonist
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harmonizer
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hymnographer
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hymnologist
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madrigalist
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melodist
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melodizer
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musicographer
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musicologist
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orchestrator
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scorer
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song writer
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songsmith
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symphonist
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tone poet
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tunesmith
musicologist
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a student of musicology
related words >
arranger
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ballad maker
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balladeer
,
balladist
,
balladmonger
,
composer
,
contrapuntist
,
ethnomusicologist
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harmonist
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harmonizer
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hymnist
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melodist
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melodizer
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musicographer
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orchestrator
,
scorer
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song writer
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songsmith
,
symphonist
,
tone poet
,
tunesmith
tone down
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make less strong or intense; soften; "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"
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abate
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achromatize
,
allay
,
alleviate
,
assuage
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atone
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attemper
,
attune
,
baffle
,
bank the fire
,
blanch
,
bleach
,
blunt
,
chasten
,
chord
,
constrain
,
control
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cushion
,
damp
,
dampen
,
de-emphasize
,
deaden
,
deafen
,
decolor
,
decolorize
,
dim
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diminish
,
discolor
,
downplay
,
drain
,
drain of color
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dull
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ease
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etiolate
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extenuate
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fade
,
fluff
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fume
,
gentle
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keep within bounds
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knead
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laxate
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lay
,
lenify
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lessen
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lighten
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limber
,
limber up
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loosen
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mash
,
massage
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mat
,
mellow
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milden
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mitigate
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moderate
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modulate
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mollify
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muffle
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mute
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obtund
,
pale
,
palliate
,
peroxide
,
play down
,
plump
,
pulp
,
put in tune
,
reduce
,
reduce the temperature
,
relax
,
restrain
,
shake up
,
slacken
,
slow down
,
smash
,
smother
,
sober
,
sober down
,
soft-pedal
,
soften
,
soften up
,
squash
,
stifle
,
stop
,
string
,
subdue
,
supple
,
suppress
,
tame
,
tarnish
,
temper
,
tenderize
,
tone up
,
tune
,
tune down
,
tune up
,
underplay
,
voice
,
wash out
,
weaken
,
whiten
string out
collapse
set out or stretch in a line, succession, or series; "the houses were strung out in a long row"
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align
,
array
,
bank
,
chatter
,
continue
,
drag out
,
draw
,
draw out
,
elongate
,
extend
,
fill out
,
lengthen
,
lengthen out
,
let out
,
line
,
line up
,
never finish
,
pad
,
perorate
,
produce
,
prolong
,
prolongate
,
protract
,
pull
,
range
,
rank
,
row
,
run out
,
speak at length
,
spin out
,
strain
,
stretch
,
stretch out
,
tauten
,
tense
,
tighten
fall out
collapse
have a breach in relations; "We fell out over a trivial question"
leave (a barracks) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation; "the soldiers fell out"
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agree to disagree
,
attend
,
become of
,
befall
,
betide
,
bicker
,
break
,
break with
,
caterwaul
,
chance
,
come about
,
come of
,
come off
,
come out
,
develop
,
diverge
,
divide
,
end
,
ensue
,
eventuate
,
fare
,
follow
,
go
,
have a falling-out
,
issue
,
occur
,
pan out
,
part company
,
prove
,
prove to be
,
result
,
row
,
scrap
,
separate
,
spat
,
split
,
squabble
,
terminate
,
tiff
,
transpire
,
turn out
,
unfold
,
work out
,
wrangle
echelon
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a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset
a body of troops arranged in a line
related words >
battle array
,
caste
,
class
,
close formation
,
condition
,
deployment
,
disposition
,
file
,
footing
,
formation
,
formation flying
,
hierarchy
,
open order
,
order
,
order of battle
,
place
,
position
,
power structure
,
precedence
,
queue
,
rank
,
rate
,
rating
,
row
,
sphere
,
stage
,
standing
,
station
,
status
,
string
,
tier
tenderize
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cushion
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ease
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fluff
,
gentle
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knead
,
laxate
,
limber
,
limber up
,
loosen
,
mash
,
massage
,
mellow
,
milden
,
mollify
,
plump
,
pulp
,
relax
,
shake up
,
smash
,
soften
,
soften up
,
squash
,
subdue
,
supple
,
tone down
,
tune down
dissonant
collapse
related words >
absonant
,
antagonistic
,
antipathetic
,
assorted
,
at cross-purposes
,
at loggerheads
,
at odds
,
at variance
,
at war
,
atonal
,
cacophonic
,
cacophonous
,
clashing
,
conflicting
,
contradictory
,
contrary
,
contrasted
,
contrasting
,
cracked
,
cranky
,
cross
,
departing
,
deviating
,
deviative
,
diaphonic
,
different
,
differentiated
,
differing
,
disaccordant
,
disagreeable
,
disagreeing
,
disconsonant
,
discordant
,
discrepant
,
discrete
,
discriminated
,
disharmonic
,
disharmonious
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disjoined
,
disparate
,
disproportionate
,
dissident
,
dissimilar
,
distinct
,
distinguished
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divergent
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diverging
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divers
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diverse
,
diversified
,
flat
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grating
,
harsh
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heterogeneous
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hoarse
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hostile
,
immelodious
,
immiscible
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in disagreement
,
inaccordant
,
incompatible
,
incongruent
,
incongruous
,
inconsistent
,
inconsonant
,
inharmonic
,
inharmonious
,
irreconcilable
,
jangling
,
jarring
,
many
,
motley
,
multifarious
,
musicless
,
negative
,
nonmelodious
,
off
,
off-key
,
off-tone
,
out of accord
,
out of pitch
,
out of tone
,
out of tune
,
out of whack
,
poles apart
,
poles asunder
,
raucous
,
repugnant
,
rude
,
rugged
,
separate
,
separated
,
several
,
sharp
,
shrill
,
sour
,
strident
,
tuneless
,
unconformable
,
uncongenial
,
unequal
,
unharmonious
,
unlike
,
unmelodious
,
unmusical
,
untunable
,
untuned
,
untuneful
,
variant
,
varied
,
variegated
,
various
,
varying
,
widely apart
,
worlds apart
knock-down-and-drag-out
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related words >
affray
,
altercation
,
barney
,
bickering
,
boisterous
,
brawl
,
broil
,
dispute
,
donnybrook
,
donnybrook fair
,
dustup
,
fight
,
fracas
,
fray
,
free-for-all
,
harum-scarum
,
hassle
,
knockabout
,
melee
,
rambunctious
,
rampageous
,
rhubarb
,
riot
,
roisterous
,
rollicking
,
rough
,
rough-and-tumble
,
row
,
rowdy
,
ruckus
,
ruction
,
rumpus
,
run-in
,
scrap
,
scrimmage
,
set-to
,
shindy
,
wild
manner of speaking
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your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"
related words >
adjectival phrase
,
affectation
,
asiaticism
,
clause
,
command of language
,
construction
,
device
,
euphuism
,
exaggeration
,
expression
,
expression of ideas
,
fashion
,
feeling for words
,
figurative language
,
figurativeness
,
figure
,
figure of speech
,
floridity
,
flourish
,
flower
,
flowery style
,
form of speech
,
grace of expression
,
grandiloquence
,
headed group
,
idiom
,
idiotism
,
image
,
imagery
,
inflation
,
literary style
,
locution
,
manner
,
mannerism
,
mode
,
mode of expression
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nonliterality
,
nonliteralness
,
noun phrase
,
ornament
,
paragraph
,
peculiar expression
,
peculiarity
,
period
,
personal style
,
phrasal idiom
,
phrase
,
purple passage
,
rhetoric
,
sense of language
,
sentence
,
set phrase
,
standard phrase
,
strain
,
style
,
stylistic analysis
,
stylistics
,
syntactic structure
,
term
,
the grand style
,
the plain style
,
the sublime
,
timbre
,
tone
,
tone of voice
,
trick
,
trope
,
turn of expression
,
turn of phrase
,
usage
,
utterance
,
vein
,
verb complex
,
verb phrase
,
verbalism
,
voce
,
voice
,
voice qualifier
,
voice quality
,
way
,
way of saying
,
way of speaking
,
word-group
trend setter
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Beau Brummel
,
arbiter of fashion
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clotheshorse
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clubman
,
clubwoman
,
dandy
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deb
,
debutante
,
fashion plate
,
fashionable
,
fop
,
man-about-town
,
mondain
,
mondaine
,
socialite
,
subdeb
,
subdebutante
,
swinger
,
taste-maker
,
tone-setter
socialite
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a socially prominent person
related words >
Beau Brummel
,
arbiter of fashion
,
clotheshorse
,
clubman
,
clubwoman
,
dandy
,
deb
,
debutante
,
fashion plate
,
fashionable
,
fop
,
man-about-town
,
mondain
,
mondaine
,
subdeb
,
subdebutante
,
swinger
,
taste-maker
,
tone-setter
,
trend-setter
taste maker
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related words >
Beau Brummel
,
arbiter of fashion
,
clotheshorse
,
clubman
,
clubwoman
,
dandy
,
deb
,
debutante
,
fashion plate
,
fashionable
,
fop
,
man-about-town
,
mondain
,
mondaine
,
socialite
,
subdeb
,
subdebutante
,
swinger
,
tone-setter
,
trend-setter
debutante
collapse
a young woman making her debut into society
related words >
Beau Brummel
,
arbiter of fashion
,
clotheshorse
,
clubman
,
clubwoman
,
dandy
,
deb
,
fashion plate
,
fashionable
,
fop
,
man-about-town
,
mondain
,
mondaine
,
socialite
,
subdeb
,
subdebutante
,
swinger
,
taste-maker
,
tone-setter
,
trend-setter
mainstream
collapse
the prevailing current of thought; "his thinking was in the American mainstream"
related words >
Zeitgeist
,
bearing
,
course
,
current
,
direction
,
drift
,
glacial movement
,
line
,
main current
,
motion
,
movement
,
run
,
set
,
stream
,
swing
,
tenor
,
the general tendency
,
the main course
,
time spirit
,
tone
,
trend
inharmonious
collapse
lacking in harmony of parts; "an inharmonious (or incongruous) mixture of architectural styles"
not in harmony
related words >
absonant
,
antagonistic
,
antipathetic
,
assorted
,
at cross-purposes
,
at loggerheads
,
at odds
,
at variance
,
at war
,
atonal
,
cacophonic
,
cacophonous
,
cat-and-dog
,
clashing
,
colliding
,
conflicting
,
contradictory
,
contrary
,
contrasted
,
contrasting
,
cracked
,
cranky
,
cross
,
departing
,
deviating
,
deviative
,
diaphonic
,
different
,
differentiated
,
differing
,
disaccordant
,
disagreeable
,
disagreeing
,
disconsonant
,
discordant
,
discrepant
,
discrete
,
discriminated
,
disharmonic
,
disharmonious
,
disjoined
,
disparate
,
disproportionate
,
dissentient
,
dissident
,
dissimilar
,
dissonant
,
distinct
,
distinguished
,
divergent
,
diverging
,
divers
,
diverse
,
diversified
,
flat
,
grating
,
harsh
,
heterogeneous
,
hostile
,
immelodious
,
immiscible
,
in disagreement
,
inaccordant
,
incompatible
,
incongruous
,
inconsistent
,
inconsonant
,
inharmonic
,
irreconcilable
,
jangling
,
jarring
,
many
,
motley
,
multifarious
,
musicless
,
negative
,
nonmelodious
,
off
,
off-color
,
off-key
,
off-tone
,
out of accord
,
out of pitch
,
out of tone
,
out of tune
,
out of whack
,
poles apart
,
poles asunder
,
quarrelsome
,
raucous
,
repugnant
,
separate
,
separated
,
several
,
sharp
,
shrill
,
sour
,
strident
,
tuneless
,
unconformable
,
uncongenial
,
unequal
,
unharmonious
,
unlike
,
unmelodious
,
unmusical
,
untunable
,
untuned
,
untuneful
,
variant
,
varied
,
variegated
,
various
,
varying
,
widely apart
,
worlds apart
give way
collapse
end resistance, as under pressure or force; "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram"
related words >
abandon hope
,
accommodate
,
adjust
,
aye
,
back down
,
beat down
,
become suicidal
,
bend
,
break
,
break off combat
,
break open
,
break up
,
burst
,
carry away
,
catch a crab
,
cave
,
cave in
,
cease resistance
,
cheapen
,
collapse
,
come apart
,
come off
,
come undone
,
come unstuck
,
compose
,
compound
,
compromise
,
conk out
,
cop out
,
crack
,
crack up
,
crumble
,
cut
,
cut a crab
,
cut prices
,
decline
,
deflate
,
depreciate
,
despair
,
despair of
,
despond
,
devaluate
,
disintegrate
,
dive
,
droop
,
drop
,
duck responsibility
,
evade responsibility
,
fade
,
fail
,
faint
,
fall
,
fall in price
,
fall off
,
fall to pieces
,
falter
,
feather
,
feather an oar
,
fissure
,
fizzle out
,
flag
,
flop
,
flop down
,
flump
,
flump down
,
fly apart
,
founder
,
fracture
,
get loose
,
give
,
give and take
,
give away
,
give ground
,
give in
,
give out
,
give up
,
give up hope
,
go down
,
go downhill
,
go fifty-fifty
,
go soft
,
go to pieces
,
hit rock bottom
,
hit the skids
,
jew down
,
languish
,
lapse
,
lose heart
,
lose hope
,
lower
,
make a deal
,
make an adjustment
,
make concessions
,
mark down
,
meet halfway
,
nose-dive
,
pace
,
paddle
,
pare
,
peel off
,
peg out
,
peter out
,
pine
,
play politics
,
plop
,
plop down
,
plumb the depths
,
plummet
,
plump
,
plunge
,
ply the oar
,
poop out
,
pull
,
punt
,
quit the field
,
reach a compromise
,
reach the depths
,
reduce
,
relax
,
relent
,
row
,
row away
,
row dry
,
rupture
,
sag
,
scull
,
set
,
settle
,
settle down
,
shave
,
ship oars
,
shoot
,
sink
,
sink down
,
sink into despair
,
sky an oar
,
slash
,
slouch
,
slump
,
slump down
,
snap
,
split
,
split the difference
,
spring a leak
,
spring apart
,
start
,
strike a balance
,
strike a bargain
,
submerge
,
submit
,
subside
,
surrender
,
swag
,
take the mean
,
touch bottom
,
trim
,
unbend
,
unravel
,
weaken
,
wear away
,
wear thin
,
wilt
,
yield
,
yield to despair
feather
collapse
turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls
the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds
turn the oar, while rowing
turn the paddle; in canoeing
cover or fit with feathers
join tongue and groove, in carpentry
related words >
a continental
,
a curse
,
a damn
,
a darn
,
a hoot
,
air
,
bagatelle
,
bank
,
bauble
,
bead
,
bean
,
bejewel
,
beribbon
,
bespangle
,
bibelot
,
bit
,
blood
,
blubber
,
brand
,
brass farthing
,
breed
,
breeze
,
bubble
,
butter
,
button
,
cast
,
catch a crab
,
ceil
,
cent
,
chaff
,
character
,
chip
,
clan
,
clay
,
cobweb
,
color
,
cork
,
covert
,
crab
,
crest
,
curio
,
cushion
,
cut a crab
,
denomination
,
description
,
designation
,
diamond
,
dip
,
dough
,
down
,
dust
,
eiderdown
,
engrave
,
ether
,
face
,
fairy
,
farce
,
farthing
,
feather an oar
,
feather bed
,
feathers
,
fig
,
figure
,
filigree
,
fill
,
fishtail
,
flag
,
fleabite
,
fledge
,
fleece
,
floss
,
flounce
,
flower
,
flue
,
fluff
,
foam
,
folderol
,
form
,
fribble
,
frippery
,
froth
,
fur
,
fuzz
,
garland
,
gaud
,
gem
,
genre
,
genus
,
gewgaw
,
gimcrack
,
give way
,
gossamer
,
grain
,
hackle
,
hair
,
halfpenny
,
hill of beans
,
ilk
,
illuminate
,
inlay
,
interline
,
jest
,
jewel
,
joke
,
kapok
,
kickshaw
,
kidney
,
kin
,
kind
,
knickknack
,
knickknackery
,
label
,
line
,
load
,
loop
,
lot
,
mail
,
make
,
manner
,
mark
,
minikin
,
mockery
,
mold
,
molehill
,
mote
,
nature
,
number
,
order
,
pace
,
pack
,
pad
,
paddle
,
paint
,
panache
,
peppercorn
,
persuasion
,
phylum
,
picayune
,
pillow
,
pin
,
pinch of snuff
,
pinion
,
pinprick
,
plow
,
plumage
,
plume
,
plumule
,
plush
,
ply the oar
,
porpoise
,
pudding
,
puff
,
pull
,
pull out
,
pull up
,
punt
,
push down
,
putty
,
quill
,
race
,
rap
,
red cent
,
ribbon
,
roll
,
row
,
row away
,
row dry
,
row of pins
,
rubber
,
rush
,
satin
,
scapular
,
scull
,
shape
,
ship oars
,
shit
,
shoot
,
sideslip
,
silk
,
skid
,
sky an oar
,
snap
,
sneeshing
,
sort
,
sou
,
spangle
,
species
,
speculum
,
spin
,
spiral
,
sponge
,
spume
,
stamp
,
strain
,
straw
,
stripe
,
stuff
,
stunt
,
style
,
swansdown
,
the like of
,
the likes of
,
thistledown
,
tinsel
,
topknot
,
toy
,
tribe
,
trifle
,
trinket
,
triviality
,
tuft
,
tuppence
,
two cents
,
twopence
,
type
,
undulate
,
variety
,
velvet
,
wad
,
wainscot
,
wax
,
whim-wham
,
wool
,
wreathe
,
yaw
,
zephyr
gut reaction
collapse
related words >
affect
,
affection
,
emotion
,
emotional charge
,
emotional shade
,
experience
,
feeling
,
feeling tone
,
foreboding
,
heartthrob
,
impression
,
passion
,
presentiment
,
profound sense
,
reaction
,
response
,
sensation
,
sense
,
sentiment
,
undercurrent
chord
collapse
a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
a straight line connecting two points on a curve
play chords on (a string instrument)
related words >
accompany
,
accord
,
air line
,
arpeggio
,
assonate
,
atone
,
attune
,
axis
,
be harmonious
,
be in tune
,
beeline
,
blend
,
broken chord
,
caring
,
catgut
,
chime
,
common chord
,
concento
,
concern
,
concertize
,
concord
,
consonant chord
,
diagonal
,
diameter
,
diminished seventh chord
,
direct line
,
directrix
,
do
,
dominant chord
,
echo
,
edge
,
empathy
,
enharmonic
,
execute
,
fellow feeling
,
fiddlestring
,
great-circle course
,
harmonize
,
horsehair
,
identification
,
interpret
,
involvement
,
major triad
,
make music
,
melodize
,
minor chord
,
musicalize
,
normal
,
nylon string
,
pathos
,
perform
,
perpendicular
,
play
,
play by ear
,
put in tune
,
radius
,
radius vector
,
relating
,
render
,
response
,
responsiveness
,
right line
,
secant
,
segment
,
seventh chord
,
sharing
,
shortcut
,
side
,
sixth chord
,
sound in tune
,
sound together
,
steel string
,
straight
,
straight course
,
straight line
,
straight stretch
,
straightaway
,
streamline
,
string
,
sympathetic chord
,
sympathetic response
,
sympathy
,
symphonize
,
synchronize
,
tangent
,
tone down
,
tone up
,
tonic triad
,
transversal
,
triad
,
tune
,
tune up
,
unbroken chord
,
vector
,
vibes
,
vibrations
,
voice
,
wound string
treadle
collapse
operate (machinery) by a treadle
tread over; "the brick maker treadles over clay to pick out the stones"
related words >
advance
,
bar
,
beam
,
boom
,
bowl
,
bunt
,
butt
,
cant hook
,
claw bar
,
crank
,
crow
,
crowbar
,
drive
,
forward
,
handspike
,
impel
,
iron crow
,
jimmy
,
lever
,
limb
,
marlinespike
,
move
,
outrigger
,
peavey
,
pedal
,
pinch bar
,
pole
,
prize
,
propel
,
pry
,
push
,
ripping bar
,
roll
,
row
,
shove
,
shunt
,
spar
,
sweep
,
sweep along
,
thrust
,
troll
,
trundle
,
wrecking bar
touch up
collapse
alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance; "This photograph has been retouched!"
related words >
brighten up
,
brush up
,
do up
,
fix
,
fix up
,
freshen
,
furbish
,
furbish up
,
improve
,
perfect
,
polish
,
polish up
,
renovate
,
repair
,
retouch
,
revive
,
rub up
,
shine
,
spruce
,
spruce up
,
tone up
,
vamp
,
vamp up
limber up
collapse
make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity
related words >
cushion
,
ease
,
fluff
,
gentle
,
get ready
,
get set
,
knead
,
laxate
,
limber
,
loosen
,
mash
,
massage
,
mellow
,
milden
,
mollify
,
plump
,
pulp
,
relax
,
shake up
,
shoulder arms
,
smash
,
soften
,
soften up
,
squash
,
strip for action
,
subdue
,
supple
,
tenderize
,
tone down
,
tune down
,
warm up
,
whet the knife
paddle
collapse
a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat
an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board
a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel
small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games
stir with a paddle
propel with a paddle; "paddle your own canoe"
swim like a dog in shallow water
related words >
agitate
,
agitator
,
amble
,
asperge
,
barge
,
beat
,
beat up
,
beater
,
bedew
,
bespatter
,
besprinkle
,
birch
,
bowl along
,
bundle
,
cane
,
catch a crab
,
churn
,
churn up
,
club
,
clump
,
convulse
,
cut a crab
,
dabble
,
damp
,
dampen
,
dash
,
dew
,
disarrange
,
discompose
,
disquiet
,
disturb
,
douche
,
drag
,
dress down
,
droop
,
eggbeater
,
excite
,
feather
,
feather an oar
,
ferment
,
ferule
,
flax
,
flog
,
flounce
,
flurry
,
foot
,
footslog
,
fret
,
gait
,
gallop
,
give a dressing-down
,
give way
,
halt
,
hide
,
hippety-hop
,
hitch
,
hobble
,
hop
,
hose
,
hose down
,
humect
,
humectate
,
humidify
,
irrigate
,
jiggler
,
jog
,
jolt
,
jump
,
larrup
,
lather
,
leather
,
lick
,
limp
,
lock step
,
lumber
,
lunge
,
lurch
,
mince
,
mincing steps
,
moisten
,
oar
,
pace
,
pandybat
,
peg
,
perturb
,
perturbate
,
piaffe
,
piaffer
,
plod
,
ply the oar
,
pole
,
prance
,
pull
,
punt
,
rack
,
rattan
,
rile
,
ripple
,
rod
,
roil
,
roll
,
roughen
,
row
,
row away
,
row dry
,
ruffle
,
ruler
,
rumple
,
sashay
,
saunter
,
scuff
,
scuffle
,
scull
,
scuttle
,
shake
,
shake up
,
shaker
,
shamble
,
ship oars
,
shoot
,
shuffle
,
sidle
,
single-foot
,
skip
,
sky an oar
,
slink
,
slither
,
slobber
,
slog
,
slop
,
slosh
,
slouch
,
slowness
,
spank
,
sparge
,
spatter
,
splash
,
splatter
,
sponge
,
spray
,
sprinkle
,
stagger
,
stalk
,
stamp
,
steering oar
,
step
,
stick
,
stir
,
stir up
,
stomp
,
straddle
,
straggle
,
stride
,
stroll
,
strolling gait
,
strut
,
stump
,
swagger
,
swash
,
sweep
,
swing
,
swirl
,
switch
,
syringe
,
tan
,
thrash
,
tittup
,
toddle
,
totter
,
traipse
,
tread
,
trim
,
trip
,
trot
,
trouble
,
trudge
,
upset
,
velocity
,
vibrator
,
waddle
,
wade
,
walk
,
wallop
,
wamble
,
water
,
welt
,
wet
,
wet down
,
whale
,
whip
,
whip up
,
whisk
,
wiggle
,
wobble
,
work up
in turn
collapse
related words >
alternately
,
au pair
,
by stages
,
by turns
,
consecutively
,
even
,
every other
,
exchangeably
,
hand running
,
hierarchically
,
in Indian file
,
in a chain
,
in a line
,
in a row
,
in a series
,
in column
,
in exchange
,
in file
,
in order
,
in return
,
in rotation
,
in sequence
,
in series
,
in single file
,
in succession
,
in turns
,
make and break
,
mutually
,
off and on
,
progressively
,
reciprocally
,
round and round
,
running
,
sequentially
,
serially
,
seriatim
,
step by step
,
successively
,
to and fro
,
turn about
,
up and down
motorboat
collapse
a boat propelled by an internal-combustion engine
ride in a motorboat
related words >
boat
,
cabin cruiser
,
canoe
,
carry sail
,
circumnavigate
,
coast
,
cross
,
cruise
,
cruiser
,
go by ship
,
go on shipboard
,
go to sea
,
launch
,
make a passage
,
motor launch
,
navigate
,
ply
,
power cruiser
,
powerboat
,
row
,
run
,
sail
,
sail round
,
sail the sea
,
scull
,
seafare
,
sedan cruiser
,
speedboat
,
steam
,
steam launch
,
steamboat
,
take a voyage
,
traverse
,
voyage
,
yacht
phrasing
collapse
the grouping of musical phrases in a melodic line
related words >
adaptation
,
arrangement
,
choice of words
,
composition
,
dialect
,
diction
,
expression
,
formulation
,
grammar
,
harmonization
,
idiom
,
instrumentation
,
intonation
,
language
,
locution
,
modulation
,
orchestration
,
parlance
,
phrase
,
phraseology
,
preparation
,
resolution
,
rhetoric
,
setting
,
solution
,
speech
,
suspension
,
talk
,
tone painting
,
transcription
,
usage
,
use of words
,
usus loquendi
,
verbalism
,
verbiage
,
wordage
,
wording
tune
collapse
the adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequency
the property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch; "he cannot sing in tune"; "the clarinet was out of tune"
a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven"
adjust the pitches of (musical instruments); "My piano needs to be tuned"
adjust for (better) functioning; "tune the engine"
related words >
French pitch
,
accommodate
,
accord
,
accordance
,
adapt
,
adjust
,
adjust to
,
agreement
,
air
,
align
,
aria
,
assimilate
,
assonate
,
atone
,
attend to
,
attune
,
attunement
,
be aware of
,
be blind to
,
be harmonious
,
be in tune
,
blend
,
calibrate
,
canto
,
cantus
,
capacitate
,
carol
,
chant
,
chart
,
chime
,
chiming
,
chord
,
chorus
,
classical pitch
,
codify
,
composition
,
concentus
,
concert
,
concord
,
concordance
,
condition
,
conform
,
conformity
,
consonance
,
consonancy
,
consort
,
coordinate
,
correspondence
,
cut to
,
depth
,
descant
,
dial
,
diapason
,
disregard
,
dulcetness
,
enable
,
equalize
,
equip
,
euphony
,
extent
,
fit
,
fix
,
furnish
,
gear to
,
harmonics
,
harmonize
,
harmony
,
heavy harmony
,
height
,
high pitch
,
homologate
,
homologize
,
homophony
,
ignore
,
integrate
,
key
,
key to
,
lay
,
line
,
listen to
,
low pitch
,
magnitude
,
make plumb
,
make uniform
,
matter
,
measure
,
mellifluence
,
mellifluousness
,
melodia
,
melodic line
,
melodiousness
,
melodize
,
melody
,
methodize
,
monochord
,
monody
,
motif
,
musical quality
,
musical sound
,
musicality
,
musicalize
,
neighborhood
,
new philharmonic pitch
,
normalize
,
note
,
number
,
organize
,
pay attention to
,
philharmonic pitch
,
philosophical pitch
,
piece
,
pitch
,
plan
,
proportion
,
put in trim
,
put in tune
,
qualify
,
range
,
rationalize
,
reconcile
,
rectify
,
refrain
,
register
,
regularize
,
regulate
,
right
,
routinize
,
set
,
set right
,
settle
,
similarize
,
solo
,
solo part
,
song
,
soprano part
,
sound in tune
,
sound together
,
standard pitch
,
standardize
,
strain
,
string
,
suit
,
sweetness
,
symphonize
,
symphony
,
sync
,
synchronism
,
synchronization
,
synchronize
,
systematize
,
tailor
,
theme
,
three-part harmony
,
tonality
,
tone
,
tone down
,
tone up
,
treble
,
trim to
,
true
,
true up
,
tune out
,
tune up
,
tunefulness
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the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect)
(electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase
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