Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - jazz
Jazz
jazz
n. & v. --n. 1 music of US Negro origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usu. a regular or forceful rhythm. 2 sl. pretentious talk or behaviour, nonsensical stuff (all that jazz). --v.intr. play or dance to jazz. Phrases and idioms jazz up brighten or enliven. Derivatives jazzer n. Etymology: 20th c.: orig. uncert.
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I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1913 1. American music developed especially from ragtime and blues and characterized by propulsive syncopated rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, varying degrees of improvisation, and often deliberate distortions of pitch and timbre, popular dance music influenced by ~ and played in a loud rhythmic manner, empty talk ; humbug , similar but unspecified things ; stuff , ~like adjective II. verb Date: 1917 transitive verb 1. enliven, accelerate, to play in the manner of ~, intransitive verb to go here and there ; gad, to dance to or play ~ ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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