(n.) Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor.
(n.) An alto singer.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Palo Alto, there are the people who do really well here, and everyone else is struggling to make ends meet,” said Vatche Bezdikian, an anesthesiologist on his way to lunch on University Avenue, the main street, where Facebook first rented office space.
(2) Selected medical faculty completed 1 month of facilitator training at the Stanford Faculty Development Program, Palo Alto, Calif.
(3) Detection of the bacteria was done by staining with fluorescein-conjugated monoclonal antibodies (Syva Microtrak, Palo Alto CA).
(4) Using a recently developed noninvasive telemetry device (model 8240A, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, California), we studied, under controlled conditions, the effects of maternal ambulation on the nonstress test patterns of 100 near-term high-risk pregnancies, randomly divided into two equal groups who underwent three alternating 30-minute periods of ambulation and bed rest, beginning either with ambulation (group 1) or bed rest (group 2).
(5) From now on, high vocal parts will be performed by altos breathing helium.
(6) Recent changes in the MicroTrak Chlamydia trachomatis Direct Specimen Test (Syva Company, Palo Alto, Calif.) have led to improved product performance.
(7) In Palo Alto, a crowd of 4,000 responded rapturously to the senator’s speech.
(8) For each patient, the probe, a tissue cell culture, and a direct immunofluorescent-antibody test (DFA; MicroTrak; Syva Co., Palo Alto, Calif.) were used.
(9) When injected into a splenectomized Saimiri monkey, the in vitro-derived Palo Alto population procured a long-lasting, low-grade parasitemia that was spontaneously resolved by the animal.
(10) All antigens were derived from P. falciparum K1, a Thai isolate, while the challenge strain was Palo Alto (from Uganda, Africa), which contains, with the exception of the N-terminal 375 amino acids, which are almost identical to the K1 sequence, essentially the MAD-20 allelic form of gp190.
(11) Examples include the suggestion that the 1% of women who do not respond to RU-486 with early abortion may be genetically distinct; that research of progesterone receptors in several types of cancer such an meningiomas and breast cancer are justified; and alto that use of RU-486 for local or systemic hypercorticism may be applicable.
(12) A pre-cytopathic effect (CPE) monoclonal antibody reagent (Syva Co., Palo Alto, Calif.) was evaluated in four laboratories for the rapid detection of cytomegalovirus (CMV) in shell vial cell cultures at 16 to 24 h and 40 to 48 h postinoculation.
(13) Casa Alto Vidigal looks like a squat transplanted from Dalston, east London, and offers rough-and-ready accommodation.
(14) These ideas had been developed by Alan Kay and other scientists at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center).
(15) Immunization failed to induce protective immunity against the Uganda Palo Alto strain of P. falciparum as judged by maximum levels of parasitemia of immunized monkeys relative to those of controls.
(16) Using the principles of brief therapy as developed at the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, this study examined how patients viewed psychiatrists' and significant others' attitudes toward the severity of their illness, as compared with their own attitude, and whether these views were related to outcome.
(17) The charts of 156 patients, identified by computer-assisted search as having undergone gastrostomy at Stanford University Hospital or Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital from 1984 to 1987, were reviewed.
(18) This is the first report of disseminated pelvic actinomycosis presenting as an external lesion of the abdominal wall and in which a Progestasert IUD (Alza, Palo Alto, CA) was present.
(19) Coleman’s alto, wailing through the melee, is as impassioned as ever.
(20) The purpose of this paper is to describe the process by which group cohesion emerged around the task of developing a psychiatric nursing seminar at the Palo Alto (California) V.A.
Contralto
Definition:
(n.) The part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor.
(n.) the voice or singer performing this part; as, her voice is a contralto; she is a contralto.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a contralto, or to the part in music called contralto; as, a contralto voice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Amy Winehouse , the tiny woman with the contralto voice, was mumbling her way through some of her most famous lyrics and managing only a few strained notes as she stumbled around a stage in Belgrade, apparently drunk.
(2) And then as they sing all that from the mountain top, in October there comes an answering contralto – Jeremy Hunt, the Tories' shadow culture secretary, says: "[We will have] a very fundamental root-and-branch discussion with the BBC about all its activities across the piece."