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 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Tempo
Whether a music piece has a mathematical time indication or not, in classical music it is customary to describe the tempo of a piece by one or more words.
In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for "time") is the speed or pace of a given piece.
The plural of tempo in Italian is tempi.
www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Tempo   (1478 words)

  
 Glossary of terms
This type of climbing permits the climber to hang off a piece of gear that has been placed in the rock in order to place the next piece of gear or reach a higher hand hold.
Lead climbing involves dragging the rope up as you climb, placing various pieces of natural protection(nuts,hexes,cams etc) into the rock and clipping the rope to them via a quick draw.
The length of a lead climbers fall is determined by how far above the last piece of protection he or she has climbed.
www.users.bigpond.com /rowonga/climbingglossary.htm   (1485 words)

  
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 Chess Glossary
This term describes the situation where the advance of a Pawn is prevented by an opponent's piece directly in front of the frustrated Pawn.
term describes a piece whose mobility is limited by the physical presense of another piece often of the same color.
This term describes a Pawn which has passed the central line of the chessboard which is between the fourth and fifth ranks.
www.chess-poster.com /english/glossary.htm   (4349 words)

  
 Classical Music Navigator: Glossary
A section, often of slow tempo, that opens a more extended piece or movement of a piece.
Especially, an instrumental piece in which conventional form is suspended in favor of the application of imaginative stylizations or improvisation (the term is also applied to several similar concepts).
Term applied to a 17th and 18th century multi-movement non-theatrical and non-liturgical vocal genre; subsequently used to describe large-scale vocal works in the same spirit, generally for soloists, chorus and orchestra.
www.wku.edu /~smithch/music/glossnew.htm   (3383 words)

  
 Culinary Indexing SIG: A Piece of Cake
Cross-references are given in boldface type and the book includes a wide range of ethnic cooking terms.
With 1,200 entries, this well-illustrated book describes terms and gives English words for the Italian terms, too.
Depending on the type of cookbook, however, it might be useful in some cases to index "chives" or "ginger," in the case of an herb cookbook or a book on spices, respectively.
www.culinaryindexing.org /bertelsenarticle.htm   (3383 words)

  
 OCFA Glossary of Terms
A fire in one of these structures requires additional personnel and the OCFA responds the equivalent of a second alarm on the initial response.
A mobile piece of fire equipment which carries hose, water and a pump (750 gpm or larger) and combines the features of both a structural engine and off road wildland capability.
A mobile piece of fire equipment which carries hose, water and a pump, and is specially designed for off road wildland firefighting.
www.ocfa.org /about/terms.htm   (3383 words)

  
 Musical Terms
A group of sharps (or flats) placed at the beginning of piece of music to show which key the music is written in.
Solfege is a system for sight-singing and ear training music where each tone of the scale is given a syllable that is easy to sing.
(There are exceptions to this rule, though, as when the music is in a mode other than major or minor.) A key signature always appears at the beginning of a piece of music, but it may also appear before a new section of music.
www.lovemusiclovedance.com /musical_terms.htm   (3383 words)

  
 musical_terms.html
term used to indicate how soft or loud a piece is played
the relative speed of a piece of music
the lines music is written on, usually five lines
desertsky.dvusd.org /music/musical_terms.html   (3383 words)

  
 Piece By Number - Easy as 1-2-3!
So many of you have asked about using Piece By Number's free block patterns for classes, charity projects and more, that we've added a new page outlining our General Terms of Use for our patterns.
For more information about Piece By Number's terms of use for our free patterns and designs, please click here.
Piece By Number, patterns are simple to sew without being simplistic, with styles ranging from naturalistic to geometric, from sophisticated to playful.
www.piecebynumber.com   (274 words)

  
 Quirks.com: Research Resources [Glossary]
A way of laying out or formatting list information in a computer file that puts every piece of data in a specific position relative to every other piece of data.
A problem that arises when at least one of the independent variables in a linear combination is in effect always a weighted sum of the values of the other independent variables.
List of beginning and ending house numbers, ZIP codes and other geographic codes for all city delivery service and streets served by 31,540 post offices located in 6,601 ZIP codes.
www.quirks.com /resources/glossary.asp   (12240 words)

  
 Columns posted 10-25-02
Though "roughneck" when it first appeared was certainly a term of condemnation, by the early 20th century it was being used more in the sense of simply "a rowdy" or "a brash, uncultivated man," often one engaged in some sort of difficult and usually risky labor.
When "mappa" was filtered through Old French, the "m" became an "n," and "nappa" entered English in the 15th century as "nape," meaning "piece of cloth." Then all we had to do was add the ending "kin," meaning "small," and "napkin," a small but very useful piece of cloth, was born.
The focus on "neck" may be completely arbitrary (in which case the term might as well have been "rough-head" or the like), or "roughneck" may have referred to the unclean, unshaven and possibly scarred neck characteristic of the breed.
www.word-detective.com /102502.html   (5402 words)

  
 Game programming and graphics glossary
Programming by adding patches and hacks to a piece of code that is to fragile to modify in any straight forward manner.
A program that converts another program written in one programming language into another programming language while retaining the semantics specified by the original program.
Originally the BIOS was a small piece of code that resided in ROM on a computer that did two things, it "booted" the computer and it provided a minimum input/output system, usually just enough to support character mode communication with simple programs.
www.gameprogrammer.com /glossary.html   (1647 words)

  
 Matisse's Glossary of Internet Terms
The term may also have come from someone?s low opinion of the food product with the same name, which is generally perceived as a generic content-free waste of resources.
The term can refer to a particular piece of software, such as a WWW server, or to the machine on which the software is running, e.g.
A somewhat vague term generally referring to software that is secretly installed on a users computer and that monitors use of the computer in some way without the users' knowledge or consent.
www.matisse.net /files/glossary.html   (9549 words)

  
 Rowing terms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To stop rowing after a given piece of on the water rowing length, but to put the handles of the oars either to the gunwales or out in front of the rower, in such a manner that the oar paddles are parallel to the water yet not touching it.
A rowing error in which the blade is pushed under the water and becomes caught in the flow of the water past the boat, referred to as 'catching a crab'.
The bow loader coxed pair was nicknamed "the coffin" due to the difficulty for the cox'n to escape in the event of a capsize.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rowing_terms   (2020 words)

  
 Memory upgrades from Crucial.com - Glossary of terms
FSB is described in terms of its width in bits and its speed in MHz.
The smallest piece of data (a 1 or a 0) that a computer recognizes.
The number of pulses emitted from a computer's clock in one second.
www.crucial.com /library/glossary.asp   (3117 words)

  
 Musical terms
Here are a few musical terms that didn't quite make it into the Oxford Dictionary of Music.
a catchy, sometimes unwelcome musical piece which, when heard first thing in the morning, echoes in the mind throughout the day.
a musical entrance that is somewhat close to the correct pitch.
www.napervillechorus.org /musical_terms.html   (3117 words)

  
 Glossary of Musical Terms
This is a term to denote a piece of music, usually of several movements and instrumental, designed to be performed by a soloist or a small ensemble.
This is a poetic and musical form of the 14th century; also, in the 16th and 17th centuries of various types and forms of secular verse.
This is the generic term for musical dramatic works in which the actors sing some or all their parts.
www.innvista.com /culture/arts/composers/glossary.htm   (3117 words)

  
 Weasel Words
The phrase has probably escaped the general purge of Eurocentric terms like Orient and Far East because it is a convenient way for journalists to refer to Israel and Palestine without going anywhere near the thorny issue of who is entitled to what piece of western Asia.
Not only have terms like holiday shopping and happy holidays become ubiquitous, but even in places where Christmas is the only appropriate term, it has either been replaced or suppressed, as for example in the nonsense phrases holiday tree and holiday carol.
We all like to have a chuckle at the euphemisms invented by bureaucrats, public relations officers, and assorted hand-wringers -- terms like animal companions for pets and challenged for handicapped.
home1.gte.net /res1bup4/euphemism.htm   (3117 words)

  
 Non-Standard Tech Terms
Terms relating to adjusting the ceramic lamp base in the back of a par can, in order to alter the alignment of the filament.
This is similar to the term 180 [as in degrees of arc] a flat or set piece, whether on the X, Y, or Z axis.
It's a term which is often used in Belgium in theatre and rock'n roll when it is completely impossible to rig a truss to a structure like a grid or the beams of the roof.
www.sapsis-rigging.com /NSTTerms.html   (3117 words)

  
 glossarya_d.htm
Cut And Run Term used towards the end of the 18th century when actors cut their lines and left the stage, for one reason or another.
Bus Bar Metal strip to which electrical cables are commoned together i.e.
Cut Cloth Vertical scenic piece cut to reveal more scenery behind it.
www.dramatic.com.au /glossary/glossarya_d.htm   (3117 words)

  
 Dana: Dictionary of Sea Terms 1841/1851
Search for terms & phrases, or key words in a phrase; expect to find them not only as 'headwords' followed by definitions 'in the standard location', but buried elsewhere in the body of that definition or that of some other phrase.
A piece brought on at the fore side of the main-post, and generally continued as high as the wing-transom, to seat the other transoms upon.
A term sometimes used for the scantline [sic] of the timbers, the moulding way, and particularly for those bolts that are driven into the hanging and lodging knees, through the sides, which are called in-and-out bolts.
www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~morris3/DanaSFLex.html   (15536 words)

  
 Glossary of Colonial Terms
Lathe - A lathes is a machine which holds a piece of wood or metal between two centers and turns it so the work can be shaped by hand-held "turning chisels." Foot operated or hand cranked.
Fowling Piece - A light gun for shooting birds.
Flock Bed - A mattress stuffed with refuse of wool or cotton, consisting of coarse tufts.
www.chaddsfordhistory.org /history/glossary.htm   (15536 words)

  
 SGD Glossary Terms
Clone is the term used for any physical piece of DNA that has been localized to a particular region of a chromosome.
GO Term Mapper identifies the GO-Slim terms for a list of genes based on their annotation to detailed GO terms.
The GO-Slim used with the GO Term Mapper contains very high level GO terms.
www.yeastgenome.org /help/glossary.html   (10349 words)

  
 Musical Terms - Harmony
In medieval and early Renaissance music, even a full major triad was felt inappropriate for the last chord of a piece, which normally would embody the final note (in more than one octave) and the 5th above it.
Different eras of Western music (harmony is much more highly developed in Western music than in any other) have held different ideas as to what kinds of harmony are acceptable or good.
In the period 1600-1900, full triads are usual for concluding chords; but in the 20th century, composers have treated dissonance more freely and have not felt it necessary to resolve chords that in earlier eras would be considered dissonant.
w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/g_harmony.html   (10349 words)

  
 Musical Terms
A piece for solo instrument (usually with piano accompaniment) in three or four movements.
It involves three large blocks of music within the same movement: (1) Exposition - the statement of the main themes of the movement; (2) Development - the interplay of the themes in a contest or struggle; (3) Recapitulation - the restatement of the original themes and the conclusion.
A musical mass for the dead usually featuring vocalists, chorus and orchestra.
remus.rutgers.edu /~rhoads/Fun/music.terms.html   (10349 words)

  
 Musical Terms
The terms "gracieusement", "grazioso" and "gracefully" - french, italian and english - all mean the same thing, which is: "play this piece gracefully." But it's not always this easy to deduce the meaning of a dynamic term in a foreign language.
None of these dictionaries is as complete has a music library dictionary, but taken together, they encompass a useful amount of information.
And there are plenty of other mysterious terms with which pianists need to cope.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/piano/51300   (10349 words)

  
 The Classics Pages - Legal Latin
Ultra vires is not without authority as a piece of legalistic verbiage: habeas corpus, translated into English, lacks a certain body.
The eponymous legal term will be succeeded, ad infinitum and sine die, by a plain old search order.
News of the proposed changes was announced by electronic fiat on Lord Irvine's website and it is as yet unclear whether more traditional lawyers will view them as a casus belli or as an act of force majeure which defy restitutio in integrum.
www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~loxias/legal.htm   (654 words)

  
 User:Eloquence/State of the Wiki: December 12, 2004 - Wikinews
The initial media attention was quite intense (partially through my own doing with this Slashdot story and this lengthy Kuro5hin piece) and has put all our deficiencies in the spotlight.
The Chinese community in particular was worried that a Wikinews project might further endanger the existing Chinese Wikimedia content in terms of government censorship.
Still, shortly before the vote was closed, a demo site was set up at demo.wikinews.org to demonstrate the feasibility of the project to the Foundation Board, which would make the final call on its creation, in light of the outcome of the vote but not bound by it.
en.wikinews.org /wiki/User:Eloquence/State_of_the_Wiki:_December_12,_2004   (2095 words)

  
 The Goat Locker Navy Terms and Trivia
Drinking a Toast This term for drinking to one's health, or in one's honor was coined in early days along the waterfronts, when it was customary to place a small piece of toast in the hot toddy and the mulled wine which was popular with seaman of the day.
Church Pennant The Church Pennant is the only flag authorized to fly above or at the same point of hoist as the National Ensign however it can only be done at sea and only during the hours of a divine service.
The term comes from the days of sailing ships when the place for the crew to relieve themselves was all the way forward on either side of the bowsprit, the integral part of the hull to which the figurehead was fastened.
www.goatlocker.org /trivia.htm   (11944 words)

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