(n.) An allegro movement; a quick, sprightly strain or piece.
Example Sentences:
(1) But as introspective anguish in the opening Largo twists suddenly into a turbulent, rushing allegro molto, Christy and Chloe turn their faces away from the stage and stare at each other, startled and wide-eyed, as if to say: "Did you hear that ?
(2) To establish a reference range, we measured intact parathyrin (parathyroid hormone, PTH) in 245 healthy postmenopausal women, ages 42-75 years, with use of the Allegro Intact PTH Kit from Nichols Institute Diagnostics.
(3) Employing a new intact PTH immunoradiometric assay (Allegro-Nichols), we reassessed the effects of pregnancy on parathyroid function.
(4) Simon Goodley : It may seem like the start the start of a Jasper Carrott joke, but the Reliant Robin, the Austin Allegro, and MGB V have qualified as "classic cars" – exempting them from road tax and potentially boosting their value.
(5) In a hyperthyroid-euthyroid comparison, three of the procedures, the Magic-Lite, Delfia, and Allegro, differentiated the two with 97% accuracy, the Stratus procedure with only 90% accuracy.
(6) We compared four sensitive procedures for thyrotropin (TSH)--Corning's Magic-Lite, ElectroNucleonics' Delfia, Baxter's Stratus, Nichols' Allegro--for their ability to completely discriminate TSH concentrations in sera in euthyroidism, hyperthyroidism, and hypothyroidism.
(7) In his book, Crap Cars, Richard Porter summed up the Allegro - which at launch boasted a square steering wheel - thus: "The Godfather of the crap car....The only bit they got even vaguely right was the rust-proofing".
(8) Independent variables--age, menopausal status (binary) and intact serum PTH by Allegro immunometric assay.
(9) The movie is slower, darker and more cynical than anything Aaron Sorkin would write, and West Wing addicts might well find this a little bit adagio compared to the galloping allegro of Sorkin's rat-a-tat style.
(10) Sondheim has often said that his career has been an exercise in figuring out what went wrong with the second half of Allegro , the Rodgers and Hammerstein flop that mystified audiences, in the middle of their run of huge successes.
(11) Results by the assay correlate well with those by a cAMP-based bioassay and the Nichols Allegro immunoradiometric assay.
Maestoso
Definition:
(a. & adv.) Majestic or majestically; -- a direction to perform a passage or piece of music in a dignified manner.