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Definition: Soft Pedal |
Soft PedalNoun1. A pedal on a piano that moves the action closer to the strings and so soften the sound. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Fine Arts | A foot pedal on a piano that reduces the volume of sound by shortening the stroke of the hammers. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "soft pedal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zbus me pedal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | دواسة خافضة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | натискам левия педал, замазвам (gloss, gloss over, lute, seal, slur over, smarm, smooth out, stifle, varnish, veneer), предавам в по-мека форма. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ne pas trop insister sur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αμβλύνω (attenuate, blunt, dull). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | enyhít (allay, alleviate, comfort, ease, extenuate, mitigate, moderate, palliate, relieve, soothe, to abate, to allay, to alleviate, to appease, to assuage, to blunt, to deaden, to dull, to extenuate, to mitigate, to mollify, to relax, to release, to salve, to slacken, to soften, to still, to water down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sordina, minimizzare (minimise, minimize, play down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oftsay edalpay смягчать (assuage, attenuate, commute, damp, extenuate, mellow, melt, mitigate, moderate, mollify, palatalize, palliate, relax, remit, soften, subdue, tone down). (various references) ublažiti (alleviate, attemper, become tempered, buff, cushion, dull, ease, lessen, mince, mitigate, moderate, mollify, palliate, redeem, soften, soothe, temper, tone down). (various references) pedal sordina, no dar tanto énfasis a. (various references) spela med vänsterpedal, vänsterpedal. (various references) ses yumuşatma pedalı, yumuşatmak (attemper, chasten, dulcify, limber up, loosen, mellow, melt, moderate, mollify, mute, relax, season, shake up, smooth, soften, supple, tame, unbend, unman), piyano pedalı, pedal ile çalmak, hafifletmek (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attenuate, commute, deaden, de-escalate, ease, emasculate, extenuate, facilitate, lighten, mitigate, moderate, modify, palliate, qualify, relieve, remit, subdue, water, weaken), hafife almak (consider unimportant, coquet, disdain, extenuate, piddle, slight, trifle, trifle with, underestimate, undervalue). (various references) спускати на гальмах, натискати на ліву педаль, пом'якшувати (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attenuate, dulcify, expurgate, gentle, milden, mitigate, modify, mollify, palatalize, rebate, remit, smooth, smooth over, soften, soothe, tone down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-l-o-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: tadpoles. | |
-2 letters: apostle, deposal, floated, folates, pedalos, pelotas, podesta, solated, stapled, tadpole. | |
-3 letters: adepts, adopts, aldose, aslope, defats, delfts, deltas, depots, desalt, despot, fasted, festal, floats, flotas, foaled, foetal, folate, lapsed, lasted, loafed, lofted, oldest, osteal, padles, palest, palets, pasted, pastel, pedalo, pedals, pelota, petals, plated, plates, pleads, pleats, postal, posted, salted, sapote. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-l-o-p-s-t" | |
+2 letters: splayfooted. | |
| 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)53 6F 66 74 50 65 64 61 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01100110 01110100 00100000 01010000 01100101 01100100 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o f t   P e d a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0066 0074 0050 0065 0064 0061 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5381728625071706778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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