(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.
Soprano
Definition:
(n.) The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices.
(n.) A singer, commonly a woman, with a treble voice.
Example Sentences:
(1) He'd later carry this over into Netflix's House Of Cards but before that, TV had already begun to emulate this new, bleak, antiheroic maturity with a cycle of dark, longform, acclaimed dramas, commencing with The Sopranos and culminating in Breaking Bad .
(2) The following year he played a philosophising, brutal hitman in the film True Romance, written by Quentin Tarantino , which paved the way for his lead role in The Sopranos, the gangster family saga that ran for six seasons from 1999.
(3) Adipose tissue has been reported to contain relatively high levels of the specific mRNA for retinol-binding protein (RBP) (Makover A., Soprano, D.R., Wyatt, M. L., and Goodman, D.S.
(4) French soprano Natalia Dessay and Lithuanian soprano Violeta Urmana were invited to perform.
(5) Dinner guests were serenaded by opera singer Renee Fleming, a triple-Grammy award-winning soprano, who sang Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas and the Puccini aria O Mio Babbino Caro.
(6) It was television and Tony Soprano that gained him Emmy awards, three years running, and superstar status, which he never equalled but which sustained his active post-Sopranos life.
(7) The auditory signal provided by a soprano recorder in a breathing circuit can help human subjects to regulate inspiratory and expiratory airflow rates at constant preset levels.
(8) — Steven Van Zandt (@StevieVanZandt) July 15, 2012 But Van Zandt, who also starred in the US drama series The Sopranos, turned to Twitter in rage.
(9) "There are people who act like Tony Soprano, they just aren't in the mafia," says Mondanile.
(10) That look will be familiar to fans of the programme that has followed in the footsteps of The Sopranos and The Wire by creating a television drama that, in its complexity and ambition, stands toe-to-toe with any comparable big-screen offering.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Sopranos might be the quintessential Catholic Italian family in American pop culture, but we want to hear from some real life ones!
(12) Gandolfini won several awards for his role in The Sopranos, including both the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series.
(13) 'There are people who act like Tony Soprano, they just aren't in the mafia … it was filmed around the area where we grew up' – Matthew Mondanile Real Estate.
(14) The ideal Isolde is flame-haired, fiery, indomitable yet vulnerable, stern yet tender, and a standout dramatic soprano.
(15) I told him one day, 'Let's do a small duet of baritone and soprano,' and he said, 'No, no, my fans only know me as a rock singer and they will not recognise my voice if I sing in baritone.'
(16) And "Authors Guild" president Roxana Robinson says Amazon is like "Tony Soprano" and "thuggish" .
(17) Like The Sopranos, too, it uncannily anticipated a national mood soon to be intensified by current events – in this case the great economic unsettlement of the late 00s, which would leave many previously secure middle-class Americans suddenly feeling like desperate outlaws in their own suburbs.
(18) There's a neat video to be found online that compiles every single curse uttered in every single episode of The Sopranos, in chronological order.
(19) However, in July the broadcaster stepped up its US acquisitions effort , signing a £150m, five-year deal to acquire the exclusive UK TV rights to US cable channel HBO's entire archive, including The Wire, The Sopranos and Sex and the City, as well as all future shows such as Boardwalk Empire and a first-look deal on all co-productions.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Blake Griffin joins the cast of "The Sopranos."