(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."
Tenor
Definition:
(n.) A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.
(n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
(n.) Stamp; character; nature.
(n.) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument.
(n.) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary.
(n.) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it.
Example Sentences:
(1) No, for all of its ugly tenor, that statement has long been true under the law; corporations have long existed as a concept by which business interests could have the legal standing of individuals.
(2) The discovery of troponin C and calmodulin set the tenor for understanding the intracellular mechanism of action of calcium.
(3) Abdullah reined in his base but the shift in the tenor of the fans was unmistakeable, especially after some of them tore down a portrait of Karzai.
(4) Macqueen plays up that view, and finds the tenor of his Eye different from that of Ingrams.
(5) In the young age group sexual activity was highest among the bass voices, in the middle and old age group tenors were most active.
(6) The idea caught on, and now the Doodlers have put their innovative spin on everything from Freddie Mercury (a video accompanied by the 1978 Queen hit Don’t Stop Me Now) to Jules Verne (the logo adapted to show the view from a submarine, inspired by Verne’s classic Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea), and the tenor Luciano Pavarotti, whose animated likeness replaced the “L” on the Google logo for one day in 2007.
(7) | Lucia Graves Read more It was an attempt to resurrect the long-dead genre of vaudeville, only replacing acrobats with Rick Santorum and tenors with veterans.
(8) So incendiary were the interview's contents evidently deemed that it was practically smuggled out of the Vatican, with so few senior officials reportedly aware of its tenor that the consensus is that it has sent "shock waves" around the Catholic world.
(9) As compared to tenor singers higher testosterone and lower oestradiol plasma concentrations were measured in bass and baritone singers.
(10) Mr Woodhouse has an obsession with vitamin pills, Jane Fairfax plays the tenor saxophone and Frank Churchill has been living in Australia: meet the cast of the modern-day Emma, which is to be rewritten for the social media generation by Alexander McCall Smith .
(11) For the same excess pressure over threshold, the professional tenors produced 10-12 dB greater intensity than the male nonsingers, primarily because their peak airflow was much higher for the same pressure.
(12) These performances are splendid, but the principals are exceptional: Thompson finds vulnerability beneath Travers's spikes, and Hanks brings a steely tenor to Disney that prevents him from becoming completely gooey.
(13) Sometimes, says Costa, 74, Mario Lanza, the American tenor and Hollywood star would feature.
(14) We must fight for the real needs of the people | Bernie Sanders and James Clyburn Read more The tenor of such exchanges echoed Republican town halls in other states in recent months.
(15) Jay Kaplan, staff attorney at the LGBT project of the ACLU of Michigan, told the Guardian the law “flies in the face of the whole tenor” of the supreme court’s majority opinion on same-sex marriage.
(16) 18 February 2010 The PCC rejects the complaint , admitting it was "uncomfortable with the tenor of the columnist's remarks" but that censuring Moir and the Mail would represent "a slide towards censorship".
(17) In recent days, Westerwelle even intensified the tenor of his rhetoric.
(18) So many images are seared into the mind, from the sight of Ranieri proudly standing alongside Andrea Bocelli as the Italian tenor produced such a spine-tingling performance, to that wonderful and surreal moment later in the evening when Wes Morgan and his 64-year-old manager thrust the Premier League trophy into the night sky to a backdrop of fireworks and tears.
(19) In the Atlantic city of Mar del Plata, lyric tenor Darío Volonté, a survivor of the Belgrano, the cruiser on which 323 Argentinian sailors died after it was torpedoed by a British submarine, led a large crowd in the national anthem.
(20) As the audience arrived outside the Lincoln Center, protesters brandished signs with slogans such as “tenors and terrorists don’t mix”.