duet
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
- 2.
(music) A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
- 3.
A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To perform a duet.
1822, Lord Byron, Letter to Mr. Moore, Pisa, July 12, 1822, in The Letters of George Gordon Byron, edited by Mathilde Blind, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 277, https://books.google.ca/books?id=-DF4Zs_eezUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false When you can spare time from duetting, coquetting, and claretting with your Hibernians of both sexes, let me have a line from you.
- 2.
(intransitive)(intransitive, zoology, of pairs of animals) To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song.
1975, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Belknap Press, p. 223, Duetting species are typically monogamous.
- 3.
(transitive)To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet.
- 4.
(transitive)(of two people) To say at the same time, to chorus.
1884, Anonymous, A Speculation, Denver: D. M. Richards, Chapter 12, p. 50, https://books.google.ca/books?id=RsFQAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false “A bear!” exclaimed the Major, jumping up and coming forward. “A bear!” dueted the Doctor and Right Rev., pressing hastily to the front.
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dwóh₁ From Italian duetto (short musical composition for two voices), diminutive of due (two).