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Definition: Capo |
CapoNoun1. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "capo" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Basic guitar capoA capo (short for capo tasto) is a device used for shortening the strings, and hence raising the pitch, of a stringed instrument such as a guitar or a banjo. There are several different styles of capo available, utilising a range of mechanisms, but most use a rubber-covered bar to hold down the strings, fastened with a strip of elastic or nylon, a cam-operated metal clamp, or another device.
The use of a capo is considered by some people to be a crutch for technically inferior players. While it can be used for this purpose (for example, allowing a novice guitarist to play chords in the relatively difficult key of Ab by playing the much simpler chord shapes for the key of G), it also facilitates making use of the instrument's natural qualities in certain keys and allows for the use of techniques and sounds that would otherwise be unavailable.
Because of the different techniques and chord voicings available in different keys, the same piece may sound very different played in D or played in C with a capo at the 2nd fret (at the same actual pitch). Additionally, the timbre of the strings changes as the scale length is shortened, suggesting other short-scaled stringed instruments such as the mandolin. Therefore the use of a capo is as much a matter of artistic expression as of technical expediency.
The use of a capo also obviates the need to learn a song in several different keys if accompanying singers who sing at different pitches.
For guitar playing, some styles such as flamenco and British/American folk music make extensive use of the capo, while it is used very rarely if at all in other styles such as classical and jazz playing.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Capo."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CAPO | English | Computer Assisted Pipeline Operations | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Repetition | Adverb: repeatedly, often, again, anew, over again, afresh, once more; ding-dong, ditto, encore, de novo, bis, da capo. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Capo |
| English words defined with "capo": Cavatina. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "capo": Da Capo. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "capo": Cape. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Capo" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Italian (article, boss, Cape, chief, chieftain, cock, employer, end, foreland, head, headland, headman, item, leader, Lord, master, naze, Ness, overman, ply, ringleader, top). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Anastasia mio fratello ovvero il presunto capo dell'Anonima Assassini (1973) Dal capo al fine (1973) L' Affaire Crazy Capo (1973) Rivelazioni di un maniaco sessuale al capo della squadra mobile (1972) Dal capo al fine (1965) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Tulvia trafora la lingua del capo reciso di Cicerone / Pinelli inv. e inc. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Walking - capo bianco" by Tina Lorien Commentary: "Father & daughter - admiring stones!." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Human Rights | Hong Kong | In the first 10 months of the year, CAPO received 617 complaints of assault by the police. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Capo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 73.68% of the time. "Capo" is used about 19 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) | 73.68% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 26.32% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "capo" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Capo | Last name | 1,000 | 12,462 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "capo": Capo tasto ♦ da capo. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "capo": capo-up. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "capo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | kapodaster. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | apocay.(various references) | |
Swedish | dakapo (da capo, encore), da capo (da capo, encore). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "capo": capon, caponata, caponatas, caponier, caponiers, caponize, caponized, caponizes, caponizing, capons, caporal, caporals, capos, capote, capotes, capouch, capouches. (additional references) | |
Words containing "capo": decapod, decapodan, decapodans, decapodous, decapods, escapologies, escapologist, escapologists, escapology, scapolite, scapolites, scapose. (additional references) | |
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"Capo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aapo, acop, appo, Bappoo, cabo, caco, cado, Caepio, cafo, cago, Cahpo, calo, cao, capax, Capco, capeo, capi, capp, cappo, capro, carpo, Carpow, caso, cavo, cawo, cepa, Cepo, Cfao, Cfpo, Chapot, Chappo, Cipa, cipo, cipro, Copgo, copo, cpio, craop, Crapo, cupio, cupo, cupu, dapo, Kapo, kapow, mapo, sapo, sappo, zapo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "capo" (pronounced kÄ"pō) |
| 3 | -Ä" p ō | gestapo. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-o-p" | |
-1 letter: cap, cop, oca, pac. | |
-2 letters: op, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-o-p" | |
+1 letter: campo, capon, capos, coapt, copal, copra, poach. | |
+2 letters: atopic, campos, canopy, capons, capote, captor, carhop, cartop, cheapo, coapts, copalm, copals, coppra, coprah, copras, copula, cowpat, cowpea, cupola, mobcap, picaro, poachy, pomace, toecap, yapock. | |
+3 letters: aphonic, aphotic, apnoeic, apocarp, apocope, apogeic, apomict, apricot, aprotic, caltrop, calypso, camphol, camphor, campion, campong, capitol, caporal, capotes, capouch, caprock, caption, captors, carhops, carpool, carport, charpoy, cheapos, coalpit, coapted, compact, company, compare, compart, compass, copaiba, copalms, coppras, coprahs, copulae, copular, copulas, copycat, corpora, cowflap, cowpats, cowpeas, crampon, cupolas, decapod, ectopia, epochal, escalop, exocarp, hopsack, isopach, jackpot, mobcaps, oilcamp, opacify, opacity, optical, outpace, pachuco, paction, paddock, padlock, panocha, panoche, parodic, parotic, peacoat, peacock, peascod, pedocal, picacho, picador, picaros, placebo, placoid, poached, poacher, poaches, pochard, polecat, pollack, pomaces, potamic, potlach, procarp, prosaic, psoatic, scallop, scapose, scopula, shoepac, snowcap, tapioca, toecaps, topcoat, topical, upcoast, yapocks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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