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Accompanist


Definition:

  • (n.) The performer in music who takes the accompanying part.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Where Blakey had stretched the rhythmic role of bop drums by intensifying the scattered offbeat patterns sown against the steady hi-hat and ride-cymbal pulse, Jones was dispensing with the "accompanist" role altogether, and envisaging a drum part as enhancing the playing of others and being a developing musical statement itself.
  • (2) The following factors were taken into account in the data analysis: footwear, accompanist, time of day, estimated age and sex.
  • (3) Sir Michael Tippett said yesterday that the relationship of the two sovereign artists had gone through a rocky patch when Britten no longer wanted to accompany Pears on the piano, but Pears got other accompanists and the relationship survived.
  • (4) Meanwhile, his mother imbued him with her passions for poetry and painting, her accompanist gave him piano lessons and a friendly local librarian allowed him to borrow as much music as he wanted.

Accompany


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with; -- followed by with or by; as, he accompanied his speech with a bow.
  • (v. t.) To cohabit with.
  • (v. i.) To associate in a company; to keep company.
  • (v. i.) To cohabit (with).
  • (v. i.) To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The assembly reaction is accompanied by characteristic changes in fluorescence emission and dichroic absorption.
  • (2) In conclusion, in S-rats a glucose-stimulated insulin release is accompanied by an increase in IBF, but this is not observed in P-rats.
  • (3) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
  • (4) Even with hepatic lipase, phospholipid hydrolysis could not deplete VLDL and IDL of sufficient phospholipid molecules to account for the loss of surface phospholipid that accompanies triacylglycerol hydrolysis and decreasing core volume as LDL is formed (or for conversion of HDL2 to HDL3).
  • (5) Bradykinin also stimulated arachidonic acid release in decidual fibroblasts, an effect which was potentiated in the presence of epidermal growth factor (EGF), but which was not accompanied by an increase in PGF2 alpha production.
  • (6) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
  • (7) The 40 degrees C heating induced an increase in systolic, diastolic, average and pulse pressure at rectal temperature raised to 40 degrees C. Further growth of the body temperature was accompanied by a decrease in the above parameters.
  • (8) She had three attacks of severe migrainous headache accompanied with nausea and vomiting within three weeks.
  • (9) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
  • (10) Prolonged immobilization was accompanied by a decrease in Ca-concentration dependence of Ca2+ uptake.
  • (11) These changes were not accompanied by changes in blood levels of endogenous sex steroids.
  • (12) This transient paresis was accompanied by a dramatic fall in the MFCV concomitant with a shift of the power spectrum to the lower frequencies.
  • (13) Extensive proliferation has been shown to accompany the de novo generation of LAK cytotoxicity.
  • (14) In hypertensive patients, intravenous nicardipine in doses of 1 to 2 micrograms.kg-1.min-1 produced normotensive state during surgery accompanied by significant diuresis.
  • (15) Cellular aging is accompanied by increased cellular permeability to zinc(II).
  • (16) Upon depletion of ATP in contraction, the P2 intensity reverted to the original rigor level, accompanied by development of rigor tension.
  • (17) This was accompanied by a greater decrease in hematocrit in the continuous group, a finding that suggests that plasma volume expansion occurred during continuous GTN therapy.
  • (18) A return of high-frequency sensitivity accompanied the recurrence of pain in some patients who had been injected up to 13 years prior to testing.
  • (19) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
  • (20) Gonadectomy of females was accompanied by changes in the activity of individual HAS links in different direction--some reduction of ACTH in the hypophysis, a sharp and significant fall of the peripheral blood glucocorticoid level and a marked significant elevation of hydrococortisone production in the adrenal cortex in vitro.

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