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adagio
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adv 1: slowly; "here you must play adagio"
adj 1: (of tempo) leisurely
n 1: (music) a composition played in adagio tempo (slowly and
gracefully); "they played the adagio too quickly"
2: a slow section of a pas de deux requiring great skill and
strength by the dancers
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arpeggio
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n 1: a chord whose notes are played in rapid succession rather
than simultaneously
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audio
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n 1: the audible part of a transmitted signal; "they always
raise the audio for commercials" [syn: audio, sound]
2: an audible acoustic wave frequency [syn: audio, audio
frequency]
3: a recording of acoustic signals [syn: sound recording,
audio recording, audio]
4: the sound elements of television
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brio
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n 1: quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
[syn: animation, spiritedness, invigoration, brio,
vivification]
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cameo
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n 1: engraving or carving in low relief on a stone (as in a
brooch or ring)
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cheerio
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n 1: a farewell remark; "they said their good-byes" [syn:
adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au
revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby,
good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara, so long]
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curio
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n 1: something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting [syn:
curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity,
rarity]
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neo
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adj 1: (used as a combining form) recent or new; "`neo' is a
combining form in words like `neocolonialism'"
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trio
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n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
[syn: three, 3, III, trio, threesome, tierce,
leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary,
ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce-
ace]
2: a musical composition for three performers
3: three performers or singers who perform together
4: a set of three similar things considered as a unit [syn:
trio, triad, triplet, triple]
5: three people considered as a unit [syn: trio, threesome,
triad, trinity]
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au
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n 1: a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent)
metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and
alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but
is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia [syn: gold, Au,
atomic number 79]
2: a unit of length used for distances within the solar system;
equal to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun
(approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers)
[syn: Astronomical Unit, AU]
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rio
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n 1: the former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil; chief
Brazilian port; famous as a tourist attraction [syn: Rio
de Janeiro, Rio]
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galileo
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n 1: Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to
use a telescope to study the stars; demonstrated that
different weights descend at the same rate; perfected the
refracting telescope that enabled him to make many
discoveries (1564-1642) [syn: Galileo, Galileo Galilei]
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clio
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n 1: (Greek mythology) the Muse of history
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leo
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n 1: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Leo
[syn: Leo, Lion]
2: a zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between
Cancer and Virgo
3: the fifth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from
about July 23 to August 22 [syn: Leo, Leo the Lion,
Lion]
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tokio
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n 1: the capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and
cultural center of Japan [syn: Tokyo, Tokio, Yeddo,
Yedo, Edo, Japanese capital, capital of Japan]
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milhaud
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n 1: French composer of works that combine jazz and polytonality
and Brazilian music (1892-1974) [syn: Milhaud, Darius
Milhaud]
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borneo
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n 1: 3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific to
the north of Java; largely covered by dense jungle and rain
forest; part of the Malay Archipelago [syn: Borneo,
Kalimantan]
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boccaccio
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n 1: Italian poet (born in France) (1313-1375) [syn:
Boccaccio, Giovanni Boccaccio]
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aux
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castillo
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pestillo
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zedillo
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russolillo
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seo
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cleo
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deo
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geo
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keo
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keough
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meo
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reo
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seow
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theo
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mckeough
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toshio
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kehoe
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