Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - prelude
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Prelude
prelude
(preludes) 1. You can describe an event as a prelude to a more important event when it happens before it and acts as an introduction to it. Most unions see privatisation as an inevitable prelude to job losses... N-COUNT: usu sing, usu N to n 2. A prelude is a short piece of music for the piano or organ. ...the famous E minor prelude of Chopin. N-COUNT
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I. noun Etymology: Middle French, from Medieval Latin praeludium, from Latin praeludere to play beforehand, from prae- + ludere to play — more at ludicrous Date: 1561 1. an introductory performance, action, or event preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important matter 2. a. a musical section or movement introducing the theme or chief subject (as of a fugue or suite) or serving as an introduction to an opera or oratorio b. an opening voluntary c. a separate concert piece usually for piano or orchestra and based entirely on a short motif II. verb (~d; preluding) Date: 1655 transitive verb 1. to serve as a ~ to 2. to play as a ~ intransitive verb to give or serve as a ~; especially to play a musical introduction • ~r noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. (often foll. by to) 1 an action, event, or situation serving as an introduction. 2 the introductory part of a poem etc. 3 a an introductory piece of music, often preceding a fugue or forming the first piece of a suite or beginning an act of an opera. b a short piece of music of a similar type, esp. for the piano. --v.tr. 1 serve as a prelude to. 2 introduce with a prelude. Derivatives preludial adj. Etymology: F pr{eacute}lude or med.L praeludium f. L praeludere praelus- (as PRAE-, ludere play) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. вступление; начало this was the prelude to the storm —- это был (первый) гром перед бурей the treaty is regarded as a prelude to such a conference —- договор рассматривается в качестве первого шага к проведению такой конференции 2. муз. прелюдия, прелюд to play prelude —- играть прелюдию 3. служить вступлением 4. предпосылать, делать вступление; начинать he preluded with some banal remarks —- он начал с банальных замечаний 5. муз. прелюдировать ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) вступление 2) mus. прелюдия 2. v. 1) служить вступлением 2) начинать (with) ...Англо-русский словарь
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- 1561, from M.Fr. prйlude "notes sung or played to test the voice or instrument," from M.L. preludium "prelude, preliminary," from L. prжludere "to play beforehand for practice, preface," from prж- "before" + ludere "to play." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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