Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definitions: Gamut |
GamutNoun1. A complete extent or range: "a face that expressed a gamut of emotions. 2. The entire scale of musical notes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gamut" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Gamut The gamut of a monitor is the set of colours it can display. There are some colours which can't be made up of a mixture of red, green and blue phosphor emissions and so can't be displayed by any monitor. [Examples?] (1994-11-29). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Gamut |
| English words defined with "gamut": Sol-fa. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gamut": Automated Commercial Environment ♦ Gammut ♦ Walls. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Music |
|
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | His gamut slides merrily from high comedy to farce. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | In general there is very low penetration of telecommunication services to the general population in SADC. As a result, foreign suppliers can expect to come across the gamut of their traditional competitors in the SADC market. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Kenya | Reporting in these tabloids ran the gamut from revealing insider reports to unsubstantiated rumor-mongering. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Gamut" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.63% of the time. "Gamut" is used about 96 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) | 90.63% | 87 | 35,390 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.38% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 96 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gamut": color gamut ♦ colour gamut ♦ run the gamut. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gamut | 110 |
2000 gamut | 9 |
color gamut | 6 |
download gamut | 5 |
98 gamut | 4 |
gamut inc | 3 |
gamut mp3 | 3 |
gamut string | 2 |
gamut audio | 2 |
gamut mp3 player | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gamut"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gamë (range, scale), spektër (light-spectrum, span, spectrum), shkallë muzikore. (various references) | |
Arabic | سلم النغم, سلسلة كاملة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гама (chord, gamma, range, scale), диапазон (range). (various references) | |
Czech | stupnice (scale). (various references) | |
Danish | farveområde (color gamut, colour gamut). (various references) | |
Dutch | toonschaal (key, scale, tonal scale), toonladder (key, musical scale, scale), scala (key, scala, scale). (various references) | |
Esperanto | gamo (key, scale). (various references) | |
Farsi | هنگام (During, In, Moment, Season, Term), گام (Gait, Pace, Step, Stride), وسعت (Expanse, Extent, Latitude, Limit, Purview, Space, Tether, Tract, Width), حیطه (Compass), حدود (Limit, Module, Periphery, Precinct, Purview, Range, Run, Scantling, Tether, Verge), رساءی (Purview, Range, Reach, Shot). (various references) | |
Finnish | sävelasteikko (key, musical scale, scale). (various references) | |
French | gamme. (various references) | |
German | skala (chart, dial, graduated scale, graduation, range, scale, spectrum). (various references) | |
Greek | μουσική κλίμακα (musical scale). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משרע (range, reach, span, spectrum, spread). (various references) | |
Hungarian | színskála (range of colours, scale of colours), skála (range, scale), hangszer terjedelme, hangskála, hanglétra (scale), hang terjedelme. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tangga nada, keseluruhan (altogether, overall, totality, whole). (various references) | |
Italian | gamma (gamma, range, scale, theory), diapason (Diapason, tuning fork). (various references) | |
Manx | scaaley, rheam (field, monarchy, range). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amutgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | guarda-chuva velho, gama (doe, fallow doe, gamma, gamma ray, gamy, key, scale), escala musical (musical scale), escala (call, cant, Gage, gauge, grade, graduated scale, hay ladder, key, ladder, measure, port of call, rule, scale, stopover). (various references) | |
Romanian | gamã (Diapason, palette, range, scale, scope, series), diapazon (Diapason, fork, range, scale, tonometer, tuning fork). (various references) | |
Russian | диапазон (band, communications band, compass, range, span). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gama (gamma), skala (representative fraction, scale), lestvica (scale). (various references) | |
Spanish | gama (doe, fallow doe, gamma, range, scale, spectrum). (various references) | |
Swedish | tonskala (musical scale). (various references) | |
Turkish | gam (grief, scale, sol-fa, sorrow, woe), uçtan uca dizi, baştan sona herşey. (various references) | |
Ukranian | гама, діапазон (ambit, amplitude, spectrum). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cả loạt. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gamut": gamuts. (additional references) | |
| |
"Gamut" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amut, Gahutu, Gamaat, gambt, gambut, gameit, Gamet, gamit, gammagt, gammat, gammet, gammit, gammut, gamo, Gamoche, gamu, gamuet, Gamul, gamuth, ganat, Ganu, gaou, gasmat, gasut, Gaum, gaut, gauwt, gemet, Gemito, Gemot, gemott, gemuti, geput, Gimoti, gimu, gmat, gmbtu, Gmut, gmwu, gpmu, gumet, gummunt, gumu, kamut, mammut, Namuth, Sammut. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gamut" (pronounced ga"mut) |
| 3 | -m u t | animate, approximate, climate, comet, consummate, estimate, guesstimate, helmet, hermit, illegitimate, inanimate, intimate, legitimate, limit, microclimate, plummet, proximate, summit, ultimate, vomit. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-m-t-u" | |
-1 letter: gaum, maut. | |
-2 letters: amu, gam, gat, gum, gut, mag, mat, mug, mut, tag, tam, tau, tug, uta. | |
-3 letters: ag, am, at, ma, mu, ta, um, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-m-t-u" | |
+1 letter: gamuts. | |
+2 letters: augment, gummata, mustang, mutagen. | |
+3 letters: ageratum, argentum, argument, augments, autogamy, fumigant, fumigate, gunmetal, maturing, multiage, mustangs, mutagens, mutating, patagium, stumpage, tegumina, umangite. | |
+4 letters: ageratums, ambiguity, amounting, argentums, argumenta, arguments, augmented, augmenter, augmentor, contagium, dramaturg, emulating, fumigants, fumigated, fumigates, fumigator, glutamate, glutamine, goalmouth, gummatous, gunmetals, hamstrung, judgmatic, magnitude, mistaught, multipage, mutagenic, nystagmus, stumpages, summating, umangites, umlauting. | |
+5 letters: ambulating, amputating, argumentum, armaturing, augmenters, augmenting, augmentors, autogamies, autogamous, automating, cumulating, dramaturge, dramaturgs, dramaturgy, fumigating, fumigation, fumigators, glutamates, glutamines, goalmouths, judgmental, largemouth, maculating, magnitudes, marguerite, maturating, metallurgy, modulating, multigrade, multigrain, multirange, multistage, mutilating, mystagogue, numerating, outbeaming, outmanning, outshaming, promulgate, reargument, ruminating, simulating, tambouring, ultimating, undogmatic. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 6D 75 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- -- ..- - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01101101 01110101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a m u t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 006D 0075 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4167798786 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
