Crescendo

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Music A gradual increase, especially in the volume or intensity of sound in a passage.
  • n. Music A passage played with a gradual increase in volume or intensity.
  • n. A steady increase in intensity or force: "insisted [that] all paragraphs ... should be structured as a crescendo rising to a climactic last sentence” ( Henry A. Kissinger).
  • n. Usage Problem The climactic point or moment after such a progression: "The attacks ... began in December ... and reached a crescendo during [the president's] September visit” ( Foreign Affairs).
  • adj. Gradually increasing in volume, force, or intensity.
  • ad. Music With a crescendo.
  • verb-intransitive. To build up to or reach a point of great intensity, force, or volume: "The designer-name craze crescendoed in the mid-seventies” ( Bernice Kanner).
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  • n. An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ).
  • n. A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax.
  • n. The climax of a gradual increase.
  • v. To increase in intensity, to reach or head for a crescendo.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective-and-adverb. With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score.
  • n. A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed.
  • n. A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In music, gradually increasing in force or loudness; swelling. Often abbreviated to cres. or cresc., or represented by the character .
  • The swell pedal.
  • n. A passage characterized by increase of force.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. gradually increasing in volume
  • n. (music) a gradual increase in loudness
  • v. grow louder
    • Equivalent
    increasing   
    Antonym
    diminuendo    decrescendo    conclusion    climax   
    Verb Form
    crescendoed    crescendoes    crescendoing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    increase   
    Cross Reference
    crescendo pedal   
    Variant
    crescendi   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Endo    Nintendo    endo    innuendo   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cacophony    squeal    bellow    peal    yell   
     
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