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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Broken Music A "consort" consisted of six viols, usually kept in one case. When the six were played together it was called a "whole consort," when less than the six were played it was called "a broken consort." Sometimes applied to open chords or arpeggios. "Here is good broken music." Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, iii. 1. Lord Bacon in his Sylva Sylvarum gives a different explanation: he says certain instruments agree together and produce concordant music, but others (as the virginal and lute, the Welsh and Irish harps) do not accord. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
broken music sheet vow | 3 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-i-k-m-n-o-r-s-u" | |
-2 letters: combiners, incumbers, misreckon, monickers, submicron. | |
-3 letters: bicornes, bouncers, bouncier, bromines, brucines, coinsure, combiner, combines, consumer, incomers, incumber, microbes, microbus, monicker, monikers, monsieur, mucrones, numerics, roebucks, sermonic, unsicker. | |
-4 letters: beckons, bemocks, bescour, bickers, bicorne, bicrons, bonkers, boskier, bouncer, bounces, bournes, bromine, bromins, brucine, brucins, buckers, buckoes, bumkins, buncoes, bunkers, bunkoes, burnies, ceriums, coenuri, coiners. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 52 4F 4B 45 4E      4D 55 53 49 43 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01010010 01001111 01001011 01000101 01001110 00100000 01001101 01010101 01010011 01001001 01000011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B R O K E N   M U S I C |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0052 004F 004B 0045 004E      004D 0055 0053 0049 0043 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36524945394824755534337 |
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