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Definitions: Cacophony |
CacophonyNoun1. A loud harsh or strident noise. 2. Loud confusing disagreeable sounds. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Cacophony \Ca*coph"o*ny\, noun; plural Cacophonies. [from Greek expression; bad sound: compare to the French expression Cacophonie.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: CacophonySynonyms: blare (n), blaring (n), clamor (n), din (n). (additional references) |
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In 1987 they released their first album, the predominantly instrumental Speed Metal Symphony, which fused classical and hard rock styles and Friedman's preference towards exotic scales (especially obvious in the song The Ninja). It featured exceptionally fast, melodic and technical music that still hasn't been equalled so far.
In 1989 they released their second album Go Off!!, which, besides Becker, Friedman and Marrino, featured a bassist and a new drummer. The album was a commercial failure and Cacophony broke up, after only two albums, with Jason Becker joining David Lee Roth and Marty Friedman joining Megadeth.
Becker and Friedman have since leaving Megadeth and David Lee Roth's band (in Becker's case due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) both released several solo albums. These include a wide variety of music, but in particular Jason Becker's album Perpetual Burn is considered one of the greatest neo-classical shred albums of all time.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cacophony (band)."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inelegance | Noun: inelegance; stiffness; Adjective: "unlettered Muse"; barbarism; slang; solecism; mannerism; (affectation); euphuism; fustian; cacophony; words that break the teeth, words that dislocate the jaw; marinism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cacophony |
| English words defined with "cacophony": Cacophonies. (references) |
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Economic History | Philippines | Overall, the current legal framework is a cacophony of outdated and sometimes inconsistent laws and judicial pronouncements. (references) |
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| "Cacophony" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cacophony" is used about 84 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 84 | 36,109 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
cacophony | 49 |
cacophony tab | 21 |
cacophony visual | 10 |
cacophony daughter | 6 |
cacophony lyrics | 5 |
cacophony mp3 | 5 |
cacophony society | 4 |
cacophony discography | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cacophony"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zhangëllimë (dissonance), kakofoni. (various references) | |
Arabic | تهجئة خاطئة, تنافر النغمات. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | неблагозвучност (asperity). (various references) | |
Czech | nelibozvuk, nelibozvuènost (dissonance), kakofonie, špatná výslovnost (cacology). (various references) | |
Farsi | صدای ناهنجاروخشن , بدصداءی , بداهنگی . (various references) | |
French | cacophonie. (various references) | |
German | Katzenmusik (caterwauling, din, racket). (various references) | |
Greek | κακοφωνία (jar). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תצרום, קקופו י". (various references) | |
Hungarian | hangzavar (babel, discord, discordance, hubble bubble, hubbub, jangle, lurry), kakofónia. (various references) | |
Italian | cacofonia. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 噪音 (noise). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そうお" (noise). (various references) | |
Manx | mee-vingys (discord, disharmony). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acophonycay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cacofonia. (various references) | |
Romanian | cacofonie. (various references) | |
Russian | какофония. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kakofonija. (various references) | |
Spanish | cacofonía. (various references) | |
Swedish | missljud (dissonance). (various references) | |
Thai | เสียง"ังที่ผสมปนเปกัน (คำเป็นทางการ). (various references) | |
Turkish | yakın sesleri ardarda söyleme güçlüğü, kakofoni. (various references) | |
Ukranian | какофонія, неблагозвучність. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiếng lộn xộn chối tai, sự không ăn khớp (variance). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Cacophony" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cacaphony, Cacioppo, cacophany, cacophokny, cacophon, cacophonie, cacophono, cacouphony, cacpohony, caucophony, cocophony, Scaphonyx. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cacophony" (pronounced kakÄ"funē) |
| 4 | -f u n ē | Epiphany, polyphony, Symphony, Tiffany. |
| 3 | -u n ē | aborigine, accompany, agony, balcony, botany, colony, company, destiny, disharmony, ebony, felony, gluttony, harmony, hegemony, hominy, homogeny, intercompany, intracompany, irony, larceny, litany, mahogany, misogyny, monotony, mutiny, neoteny, ontogeny, paleobotany, Peony, phylogeny, polygyny, progeny, Saxony, scrutiny, simony, tyranny. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-h-n-o-o-p-y" | |
-3 letters: canopy, chancy, concha, conchy, poachy, poncho. | |
-4 letters: achoo, capon, coach, cocoa, conch, cooch, cyano, nacho, phono, phony, poach, pooch, yahoo, yapon. | |
-5 letters: achy, ahoy, caph, capo, chao, chap, chay, chon, chop, coca, coco, coho, cony, coon, coop, copy, cyan, hoop, hoya, hypo, opah, phon, poco, pony, pooh, poon. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-h-n-o-o-p-y" | |
+4 letters: cacophonously, hypochondriac. | |
+5 letters: cytopathogenic, hypochondriacs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 63 6F 70 68 6F 6E 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- -.-. --- .--. .... --- -. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01100011 01101111 01110000 01101000 01101111 01101110 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a c o p h o n y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0063 006F 0070 0068 006F 006E 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376769818274818091 |
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