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- English Word Symphonizing Definition of Symphonize
- English Word Symphony Definition A consonance or harmony of sounds, agreeable to the ear, whether the sounds are vocal or instrumental, or both.
- English Word Symphony Definition A stringed instrument formerly in use, somewhat resembling the virginal.
- English Word Symphony Definition An elaborate instrumental composition for a full orchestra, consisting usually, like the sonata, of three or four contrasted yet inwardly related movements, as the allegro, the adagio, the minuet and trio, or scherzo, and the finale in quick time. The term has recently been applied to large orchestral works in freer form, with arguments or programmes to explain their meaning, such as the "symphonic poems" of Liszt. The term was formerly applied to any composition for an orchestra, as overtures, etc., and still earlier, to certain compositions partly vocal, partly instrumental.
- English Word Symphony Definition An instrumental passage at the beginning or end, or in the course of, a vocal composition; a prelude, interlude, or postude; a ritornello.
- English Word Symphyla Definition An order of small apterous insects having an elongated body, with three pairs of thoracic and about nine pairs of abdominal legs. They are, in many respects, intermediate between myriapods and true insects.
- English Word Symphyseal Definition Of or pertaining to to symphysis.
- English Word Symphyseotomy Definition The operation of dividing the symphysis pubis for the purpose of facilitating labor; -- formerly called the Sigualtian section.
- English Word Symphyses Definition of Symphysis
- English Word Symphysis Definition An articulation formed by intervening cartilage; as, the pubic symphysis.
- English Word Symphysis Definition The union or coalescence of bones; also, the place of union or coalescence; as, the symphysis of the lower jaw. Cf. Articulation.
- English Word Symphysotomy Definition Symphyseotomy.
- English Word Symphytism Definition Coalescence; a growing into one with another word.
- English Word Sympiesometer Definition A sensitive kind of barometer, in which the pressure of the atmosphere, acting upon a liquid, as oil, in the lower portion of the instrument, compresses an elastic gas in the upper part.
- English Word Symplectic Definition Plaiting or joining together; -- said of a bone next above the quadrate in the mandibular suspensorium of many fishes, which unites together the other bones of the suspensorium.
- English Word Symplectic Definition The symplectic bone.
- English Word Symploce Definition The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses; as, Justice came down from heaven to view the earth; Justice returned to heaven, and left the earth.
- English Word Sympode Definition A sympodium.
- English Word Sympodia Definition of Sympodium
- English Word Sympodial Definition Composed of superposed branches in such a way as to imitate a simple axis; as, a sympodial stem.