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Definition: Crescendo |
CrescendoAdjective1. Gradually increasing in volume. Noun1. (music) a gradual increase in loudness. Verb1. Grow louder, of sound; "The music crescendoes here". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crescendo" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Antonym: decrescendo (v). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The opposite of crescendo is diminuendo or decrescendo.
One of Duke Ellington's longer-form compositions is called Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue, which also describes the form of the piece.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Crescendo."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Increase | Adverb: crescendo. |
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Crosswords: Crescendo |
| English words defined with "crescendo": Poco a poco ♦ swell. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Crescendo" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (crescendo), French (swell), German (crescendo, swell), Hungarian (crescendo), Italian (crescendo, swell), Portuguese (crescendo), Romanian (crescendo), Spanish (crescendo, swell), Swedish (crescendo, swell). |
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Lyrics | A crescendo, Annie (Smooth Criminal; performing artist: Alien Ant Farm) Was a sound of a crescendo (Smooth Criminal; performing artist: Alien Ant Farm) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Crescendo (2000) | |
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 | Deep crescendo and decrescendo chords played on a synthesizer. | | Crescendo on cymbal. |
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| "Crescendo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.24% of the time. "Crescendo" is used about 132 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) | 99.24% | 131 | 27,855 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 132 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Crescendo Pharmaceutical Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "crescendo": ad crescendo. Additional references. | |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "crescendo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kulm (acme, apex, bloom, climax, crisis, crown, culmination, dead, extremity, flower, heat, height, heyday, meridian, nab, payoff, peak, pink, pinnacle, prime, summit, superlative, tiptop, top, vertex, zenith). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кресчендо. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | crescendo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قوی شدن صدابطورتدریجی(مو.), اوج (Acme, Apogee, Climax, Culmination, Meridian, Noontide, Pinnacle, Pitch, Summit, Tiptop, Top, Zenith). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | crescendo (swell), zunahme (accession, accretion, bulge, enlargement, gain, growth, increase, increment, rise, upsurge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αυξάνων τόνοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | crescendo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | crescendo (swell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | クレチン病 (credibility gap, cresc., crescent, cretinism, crevasse, pastel crayons). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | クレッシェンド (cresc.). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | escendocray crescendo. (various references) crescendo. (various references) крещендо, в бурном темпе. (various references) kreščendo. (various references) crescendo (swell). (various references) crescendo (swell). (various references) kreşendo. (various references) крещендо, з підсиленням звуку. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "crescendo": crescendoed, crescendoes, crescendoing, crescendos. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "crescendo": decrescendo. (additional references) | |
Words containing "crescendo": decrescendos. (additional references) | |
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"Crescendo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cercando, Checkendon, crecendo, crescend, crescendi, Crescenta, Crescentia, creschendo, cresendo, creshendo, cressendo. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crescendo" (pronounced krishe"ndō) |
| 4 | -e" n d ō | innuendo. |
| 3 | -n d ō | condo, Mondo, window. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: conceders. | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-e-n-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: censored, conceder, concedes, encoders, necrosed, seconder. | |
-2 letters: coerced, coerces, concede, decerns, encoder, encodes, encored, encores, endorse, necrose, recodes, sconced, scorned, seconde. | |
-3 letters: ceders, censed, censer, censor, codecs, codens, coders, coerce, corned, credos, creeds, crones, decern, decors, denser, donees, drones, encode, encore, enders, erodes, recces, recode, recons, redoes, redone, redons, resend, sconce, scored, screed. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-e-n-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: crescendos. | |
+2 letters: consecrated, crescendoed, crescendoes, decrescendo. | |
+3 letters: accelerandos, crescendoing, deconsecrate, decrescendos, disconcerted. | |
+4 letters: concertedness, conductresses, confederacies, deconsecrated, deconsecrates, deconstructed, reconsecrated, reconstructed, unconsecrated. | |
+5 letters: archdeaconries, correspondence, correspondency, deconcentrates, deconsecrating, deconsecration, deconstructive, disconcertment, preadolescence, preconstructed, radiolucencies, superconducted. | |
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