(a.) Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.
(n.) A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other.
(n.) A person having a voice of such range.
(n.) The viola di gamba, now entirely disused.
(n.) A word which has no accent marked on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We have hit upon things here that really do matter – that haven't been given due consideration," he would bark in his distinctive, rapid-fire baritone southern drawl.
(2) As compared to tenor singers higher testosterone and lower oestradiol plasma concentrations were measured in bass and baritone singers.
(3) 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.'
(4) He's the head of a crew of rappers including Ross, Meek Mill and Wale, named Maybach Music Group after Mercedes's notoriously expensive car, the man who likes to be called "the Boss" – pronounced "Bawse" – and the rapper who since his 2006 breakthrough hit Hustlin' has used his signature bellicose baritone to tell stories of drug dealing and murder that make Tony Montana sound like Alfie Moon.
(5) Jack, played by Bill Tarbey, is a bit of a bar-room baritone.
(6) He conceived Ziggy Stardust as a musical before realising he had to sing it himself, and would later shed his estuary yelp in favour of a neo-operatic baritone; his Presley-like cover of Nina Simone’s Wild Is the Wind became a signature song.
(7) My eldest son dropped his dummy like a stone when warned by our Italian dentist, in a sonorous baritone: "You don't give up your dummy, you look like this …" (pantomiming horrible buck teeth).
(8) But I can't help speculating about his fascination with the ruthless libertine, especially since the cast of Amour includes an operatic baritone who was once a notable Don Giovanni: William Shimell plays Huppert's husband, a philandering musician.
(9) The lyrics reference sexual disease, brown dwarf stars, court jesters and dictators, all delivered in a strangulated baritone, as if Walker's testicles were being squeezed.
(10) In the past Walker has suggested that the baritone can offer a fake emotion; a consolation too easily won.
(11) For one thing, Prince is, by common consent, the one bona-fide, no-further-questions musical genius that 80s pop produced; a man who can play pretty much any instrument he choses, possessed of a remarkable voice that can still leap effortlessly from baritone to falsetto.
(12) He uttered very few words, confirming his age, employment status and address in a timid baritone.
(13) In 1993, Cash's gravelly baritone featured on The Wanderer, from U2's Zooropa album ("I was thrilled to death, because I love that song," Cash enthused), and in 1994 the American Recordings album amounted to a complete reappraisal of the legend of Johnny Cash, and one which found a ready new audience.
(14) Tall and with a haughty baritone not unlike that of his conservative arch-enemy William F Buckley Jr, Vidal appeared cold and cynical on the surface.
(15) Between 1957 and 1962 they enjoyed 19 Top 40 hits, with Phil usually singing the higher part and Don the baritone.
(16) The first thing I noticed was his graciousness, his smile, his reassuring baritone, his deceptive sense of humor – all qualities that helped him wear so effortlessly a heavy burden of expectation.
(17) Green has described the album as "me writing Binki's break-up record and she writing mine", and throughout, Green's strapping baritone acts as ballast to Shapiro's windblown sweetness.
(18) A YouTube video posted earlier this month dubs the hotel mogul’s pronouncements over the deep baritone of James Earl Jones, who voiced Darth Vader in the original trilogy.
(19) On the telephone from Barcelona, she says: "He had a baritone voice.
(20) People do feel a warmth with baritone voices that they don't feel with others.
Treble
Definition:
(a.) Threefold; triple.
(a.) Acute; sharp; as, a treble sound.
(a.) Playing or singing the highest part or most acute sounds; playing or singing the treble; as, a treble violin or voice.
(adv.) Trebly; triply.
(n.) The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano.
(v. t.) To make thrice as much; to make threefold.
(v. t.) To utter in a treble key; to whine.
(v. i.) To become threefold.
Example Sentences:
(1) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
(2) Ed Miliband's education package is less generous than some hoped Read more The Labour leader said the coalition is directly to blame for a trebling in the number of classes with more than 30 pupils from 31,265 in 2010 to 93,345 in 2014, as a result of opening free schools in areas where new schools are not needed.
(3) The rate was doubled by addition of pyruvate or butyrate; it was trebled by addition of propionate, ADP or carbonyl cyanide trichloro-methoxyphenylhydrazone; but it was decreased by addition of antimycin A or glutamine.
(4) "No Spanish team has achieved what we have, to win a treble, and I think everyone will remember this Barça side.
(5) The proportion of Ukip voters coming from the Labour party has trebled from 7% to 23%.
(6) It was good to get back on,” said Griffiths, who then turned his attention to the fourth-round cup tie against the League One side, where Celtic will look to keep their treble dreams alive.
(7) Uber bookings more than treble in a year to nearly $11bn, says report Read more Weeks earlier, a California court had ruled against Uber in deciding that its drivers were employees, and thereby entitled to important legal protections.
(8) I broke my kilometre record, for sure, but that’s not incompatible with my style.” The balance under Luis Enrique bears that out: a treble and a double.
(9) Davey has made it clear there will be no attempt to compete with Classic FM, which, with its touchy feeliness and “smiling down the airwaves”, has almost treble Radio 3’s audience.
(10) If free school meals, for instance, were given to every child in a family now receiving Universal Credit, the numbers entitled would treble, a prohibitive cost that requires Whitehall to find a way to integrate new eligibility criteria with UC.
(11) The two doses used gave equal peak responses, but the duration of the effect was doubled or trebled following the highest dosage.
(12) Labour said it will increase this to 200%, while Clive Betts, the chairman of the House of Commons select committee on communities, has suggested trebling the tax.
(13) That could treble BP's fines under the Clean Water Act .
(14) Despite talk of continued austerity – which will no doubt be a feature of the autumn statement – there's scope to treble the science budget in four years' time.
(15) Although experts are uncertain of the exact causes, the progress follows a period after the 1970s when childhood obesity trebled in the US.
(16) Only Bradford in 2003 and St Helens in 2006 had won the domestic treble before, but Kevin Sinfield, Jamie Peacock and Kylie Leuluai ended their rugby league careers by ensuring Leeds became the third member of this most illustrious club.
(17) The Lib Dems have swallowed just about every dose of Tory poison – swingeing cuts, the VAT hike, trebling tuition fees, privatising the NHS, and so on – so it wasn't inconceivable they'd back this too.
(18) Mourinho and company may now have to settle for the Capital One Cup, Premier League and Champions League treble.
(19) Universities and politicians have worried that the decision to almost treble tuition fees to up to £9,000 next year will deter thousands of students, particularly the poorest, from applying.
(20) The mean radius of the sedimenting particles of rough microsomes was found to be at least doubled or trebled in the presence of Cs(+), which would give a 4- to 9-fold increase in the sedimentation velocity.