(a. & adv.) Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.)
(a.) Alt. of Pianoforte
Example Sentences:
(1) However, because my film was dominated by a piano, I didn't want the driving-strings sound he'd used for Greenaway.
(2) Prince was named after his father's own stage persona, and when his parents split up he became determined to better his dad on piano.
(3) Meanwhile he is preparing a new double piano concerto by Kevin Volans with the Labèque sisters for a concert at the Edinburgh festival next week, and he tells me with a glint in his eye about ideas for the next two seasons: concert performances of Don Giovanni this October, more Brahms symphonies, and more Berlioz – an ambitious plan to realise the gigantic drama of Roméo and Juliette on a chamber-orchestral scale, following up his rapturously received performances of L'Enfance du Christ in February.
(4) What is there now is more like the designs that Piano produced almost 12 years ago than seemed likely.
(5) Piano, who is conscious of having grown up in a generation that fought to preserve Italy's exquisite historical town centres from the bulldozing zeal of modernisers, is grateful that crucial battle was waged and – to a certain extent – won.
(6) The relationship between final hammer velocity and maximum amplitude of radiated piano sound was investigated.
(7) Starting small, with oddly tweaked vocal samples and ominous-sounding piano, the first half is brilliantly brooding, to the point where the first chorus of “I love these streets but they weren’t meant for me to walk” arrives at the 45-second mark just as all the music drops away completely.
(8) When he sits back at the piano and plays Raspberry Beret and Starfish and Coffee and Girls and Boys, they’re beside themselves, and understandably so: he sounds magnificent.
(9) In Piano's case, the answer is clear, and he has wasted no time in setting it in motion.
(10) I used to teach piano to two girls across the road,” says Boyle.
(11) Soon my piano lessons had turned into me, an obstinate 11-year old, demanding that my neighbour teach me ever-more intricate DOS commands.
(12) Collectively known as "the Huntsman girls" the three young women – piano teacher Mary Anne, public relations expert Abby and fashion industry hopeful Liddy – have campaigned actively for their father, especially using social media.
(13) When Piano was designing his first major building in the US - the Menil Collection in Houston, completed in 1987 - I remember discussing the notion of "soft machine" buildings with him.
(14) Instead of learning to read sheet music Olsen, in childhood piano lessons, preferred to memorise, only getting caught out when she neglected to turn any pages.
(15) His mother was a singer and his father, Beverly, played piano and bass; together they had an a capella jazz group, and there would always be singing at home.
(16) Gamble and Huff's career spans the history of rock and soul – Gamble sang with a group called the Romeos in the 60s, while Huff's early days reach back further, having played piano on sessions for the rock'n'roll songwriting duo Leiber and Stoller, and for Phil Spector.
(17) I step in front of her, turn around, and tell the adult seated at the piano, “Keep playing that music.” He obeys; I turn back to the audience and do my notion of a dance for a few minutes.
(18) Piano tones with varying hammer velocities were produced by a computer-monitored acoustic piano containing optical sensors and solenoids, and the sounded tones were recorded and digitized for analysis.
(19) The snowman's quest is accompanied by a fey, irritating cover version of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's The Power of Love , in which Holly Johnson is replaced by a breathy chanteuse whimpering at the piano like a dog that needs taking for a walk.
(20) Ed Balls has just passed grade four piano , aged 47.
Tuna
Definition:
(n.) The Opuntia Tuna. See Prickly pear, under Prickly.
(n.) The tunny.
(n.) The bonito, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Liberal party received $320,000 from the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association.
(2) The methanol-ammonia (20:1) and chloroform-methanol-ammonia (2:2:1) systems, used with silica-gel plates, are the most promising for rapid preliminary screening of tuna fish extracts for histamine.
(3) Nutritionists recommend we consume two portions a week of fish, including one of oily fish such as mackerel, herring and tuna.
(4) Immunological properties of the tuna glucagon were analyzed by radioimmunoassay, showing a high degree of cross-reactivity with the 30K antibody.
(5) On the other hand, introduction of the mixed protein into a diet based on flour plus tuna sterilized at 115 degrees C for 90 minutes, was not capable of maintaining the optimum patterns for weight evolution.
(6) In quiescent BAECs, tuna AI (1 microM) apparently induced c-myc and platelet derived growth factor (PDGF) A-chain messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) expressions within 30 min, which persisted for 6 h. In contrast, captopril induced a very low expression of c-myc mRNA, and had no relation to PDGF A-chain mRNA expression.
(7) The levels were 10 times higher than those found in tuna in the same area in previous years, but still well below those that the Japanese and US governments consider a risk to health.
(8) Three foods were preferred by case patients more frequently than by control patients: tuna fish, chicken salad, and cheese.
(9) The bluefin tuna, which has been endangered for several years and has the misfortune to be prized by Japanese sushi lovers, has suffered a catastrophic decline in stocks in the Northern Pacific Ocean, of more than 96%, according to research published on Wednesday.
(10) It went into tinned soups, salad dressings, processed meats, carbohydrate-based snacks, ice cream, bread, canned tuna, chewing gum, baby food and soft drinks.
(11) The ATPase activity of tuna dorsal HMM was found to be very similar to that of rabbit skeletal HMM in many respects: KCl concentration dependence, pH dependence, effect of pCMB, kinetic parameters (Vmax and Ka) in actin activation, and Arrhenius activation energy.
(12) It is concluded that changes in pH following temperature changes can be accounted for solely by the passive, in vitro behaviour of the chemical buffer system found in the blood, so that active regulatory mechanisms of pH adjustment need not be postulated for skipjack tuna.
(13) The ion binding properties of horse, bovine, and tuna cytochrome c (both oxidized and reduced) have been measured using a combination of ultrafiltration, neutron activation, and ion chromatography.
(14) Midway through a mouthful of tuna sashimi, I confess I struggle to see her as, well… "A musical actress?"
(15) Illegal bounty from the sea Facebook Twitter Pinterest The central and western Pacific is a rich fishing ground, providing an estimated 60% of the world’s tuna catch for a $7bn annual global market.
(16) The larger width of lifetime distribution observed for TNS bound to tuna apomyoglobin was related to a more extended conformational space accessible to the fluorophore in this protein compared to sperm whale myoglobin.
(17) Both those stores, the group said, offered pole-and-line caught tinned fish and had said they were committed to improving the sustainability of their fish, but the majority of their tuna was caught using the purse seine method.
(18) A novel inhibitor of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) has been discovered and isolated in a pure form from acid extract of tuna muscle by successive column chromatographies and HPLC.
(19) Shrimp, canned tuna and salmon are the top choices .
(20) The sites in oxidized cytochromes c are the COOH-terminal sides of Tyr-48, Phe-46 and Tyr-46 for horse, rabbit and tuna cytochromes c, respectively.