Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - gamut
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Gamut
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n. 1 the whole series or range or scope of anything (the whole gamut of crime). 2 Mus. a the whole series of notes used in medieval or modern music. b a major diatonic scale. c a people's or a period's recognized scale. d a voice's or instrument's compass. 3 Mus. the lowest note in the medieval sequence of hexachords, = modern G on the lowest line of the bass staff. Etymology: med.L gamma ut f. GAMMA taken as the name for a note one tone lower than A of the classical scale + ut the first of six arbitrary names of notes forming the hexachord, being syllables (ut, re, mi, fa, so, la) of the Latin hymn beginning Ut queant laxis) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
Англо-русский Русско-английски словарь по телекоммуникациям
3.
1. музыкальный звукоряд, гамма 2. рад. диапазон (частот) 3. полнота, диапазон the painter's gamut —- палитра художника the (whole) gamut of colours —- вся гамма красок she ran the (whole) gamut of suffering —- она выпила чашу страданий до дна 4. шкала (цветов) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
4.
noun 1) mus. гамма 2) диапазон (голоса) 3) полнота, глубина чего-л. to experience the whole gamut of suffering - испытать всю полноту страдания ...Англо-русский словарь
5.
1. The gamut of something is the complete range of things of that kind, or a wide variety of things of that kind. As the story unfolded throughout the past week, I experienced the gamut of emotions: shock, anger, sadness, disgust, confusion. = range N-SING: usu the N of n 2. To run the gamut of something means to include, express, or experience all the different things of that kind, or a wide variety of them. The show runs the gamut of 20th century design... PHRASE: V inflects ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
6.
~ n the complete range of possibilities + of (College life opened up a whole gamut of new experiences.) run the (whole) gamut (=include or experience all the possibilities between two extremes) (Her feelings that day ran the whole gamut of emotions.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
7.
- early 15c., originally, "lowest note in the medieval musical scale," contraction of M.L. gamma ut, from gamma, the Gk. letter, indicating a note below A + ut (later do), the low note on the six-note musical scale that took names from corresponding syllables in a L. hymn for St. John the Baptist's Day: "Ut queant laxis resonare fibris Mira gestorum famuli tuorum Solve polluti labii reatum," etc. Gamut came to be used for "the whole musical scale" by 1529; the figurative sense of "entire scale or range" of anything is first recorded 1626. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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