(a.) Quickly; rapidly; -- a direction for a quick, lively movement or performance; quicker than allegro, or any rate of time except prestissimo.
Example Sentences:
(1) The long-awaited deal includes Ten taking a 24.99% stake in Foxtel’s advertising business Multi Channel Network (MCN) and the option to become a 10% shareholder in Foxtel’s subscription video on-demand service Presto TV.
(2) Sarah Presto , welfare rights advisor, Macmillan Cancer Support : From a benefits point of view, the main issue carers face is that benefit levels are very low and do not provide someone with a suitable income while they care for another person around the clock ...
(3) We can't just sit around our committee tables and say: Hey presto!
(4) I volunteered with a charity, made tentative enquiries about maybe, one day, possibly becoming a trustee and suddenly hey presto – within the year there I was in the annual report.
(5) It's easily attached - you cut away a bit of the pipe and hey presto.
(6) Choose an action and presto: the ad-supported app makes an animated show of donating that uneaten food to a food bank.
(7) Now they're the movements I most look forward to, while I can doze off during a jaunty presto.
(8) Now, hey presto, the present Labour leader Ed Miliband finds that the prime minister, having ripped his party conference speech apart at the time, has suddenly decided that there is something to be said for those who have revived Ted Heath's jibe about "the unacceptable face of capitalism": indeed, David Cameron is bending over backwards to share Miliband's concerns about "predatory capitalism".
(9) It dragged its feet in the hope that ECO would be relaxed – and hey presto, that bet paid off this week with the government halving ECO requirements by doubling the time it can take.
(10) A local video on-demand competitor to US-owned Netflix, Presto TV is a 50-50 joint venture between Foxtel and Seven West Media.
(11) The panel so far Neil Churchill , director of improving patient experience, NHS England Joseph De Souza cares for his wife Melita who was diagnosed with a tumour in her lung Nikki Hill looked after her mother who had breast and liver cancer Charlotte Argyle , carers support programme manager, Macmillan cancer support Sarah Presto , welfare rights adviser, Macmillan cancer support Steve McIntosh , policy and public affairs manager, Carers UK Eibhlin Inglesby , partnership and policy manager, Sunderland Carers' Centre
(12) Hey presto, that Spanish yield fell back below 7%, shedding almost half a percentage point, a huge move for one day.
(13) Then, hey presto, on Sunday the prime minister hints he might rule one in.
(14) Answer no and then yes, and hey presto – you’ll find yourself bent over a camera at all hours, or glaring hopelessly at hundreds of hours of footage.
(15) The panel ... Jo Salter , researcher, Demos Neil Shadbolt , customer diversity manager, HSBC Sarah Presto , welfare rights adviser, Macmillan Cancer Support Richard Exell , senior labour market expert, TUC Neal Southwick , financial support programme lead, Macmillan Cancer Support Paul Elkins was diagnosed with stage 3 Lymphoma in November 2010.
(16) Add in a suggestion that child benefit for young people over 16 will be withdrawn, too, and hey presto, George Osborne , in denying all these rumours today, can try to make it look as though Christmas has come early.
(17) You pay a small fee to have your house connected to it, and hey presto: a torrent of warm bolognese on tap 24 hours a day.
(18) Thus MacDonald advised 2016 Republican candidates: “If you want to eliminate poverty overnight, you can wipe it out by having stable, two-parent households.” (Note the weaseling inclusion of “stable.”) After all, we determine income inequality by households, so take two people living together in poverty, marry ‘em, and presto!
(19) Six share third place: three classical music specialists, Crotchet , MDT and Presto Classical .
Tempo
Definition:
(n.) The rate or degree of movement in time.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their tempo was better in the second, although there remained the general lack of ingenuity.
(2) The divergence of the cytochrome b gene is modular: various parts of the gene have changed with a different mode and tempo of evolution.
(3) "The MPC must up the tempo at which they execute quantitative easing, while increasing the scheme's size beyond £125bn."
(4) Next his wife, Jay Z isn't much a dancer, and when the tempo upped, he respectfully exited, letting her lead her Beyhive legions through their hip-shaking glory.
(5) They struggled against the USA, however, when the tempo was pushed up to Premier League levels.
(6) Corner to USA though... 1.33am BST 20 mins More tempo in the American play now, but Belgium intercept again, and Mirallas torments them down the Belgian right flank before hitting a low cross in that's hoofed safely clear.
(7) US in no rush to make the substitutions as they try to break up Germany's early tempo.
(8) Nigeria's military and government claim to be winning the war in the five-year insurgency but the tempo and deadliness of attacks has increased this year, killing more than 2,000 people so far compared to an estimated 3,600 killed over the past four years.
(9) The grouping structure, which prescribes the location of major tempo changes, and the parabolic timing function, which represents a natural manner of executing such changes, seem to be the two major constraints under which pianists are operating.
(10) These comparisons can be summarized as follows: 1) TDL populations primed in bulk MLI cultures (MLI-TDL) slowed some evidence of specific positive selection when tested immediately; MLI responses to specific alloantigens were both relatively large and accelerated in tempo, whereas responses to third party alloantigens were diminished but also accelerated in tempo.
(11) In extra-time began to look more like the tempo-setting player he can be, even as his team fell behind.
(12) In our experiments we used spin-labeled maleimide [4-maleimido-tempo] to examine the local environment in the active site of thioredoxin reductase in the presence and absence of calcium.
(13) The specific effect of tuning system was not affected by the tempo of the fragments.
(14) Tempo of growth is under genetical control but quite separately from size.
(15) Girls' development is highlighted because research on antecedents addresses genetic and environmental influences on menarcheal age variations, and because findings on the behavioral consequences of tempo variations have been less consistent for girls than for boys.
(16) This pattern and the tempo of its evolution were distinctly different from the diffuse infiltrates seen in patients with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
(17) The isolated proteins were spin-labeled by TEMPO-dichlorotriazine and the values of rotational correlation times (tau) of labeled proteins were found using dependencies of ESR spectra parameters vs viscosity at constant temperature.
(18) The introduction of mechanization and automation has led to increased tempo and greater stress.
(19) Steven Gerrard was at his influential and impressive best, dictating Liverpool's tempo from a deep-lying midfield role, and as well as playing a part in both of his side's goals – it was from the 32-year-old's cross-field ball that Coutinho set up Henderson for the equaliser – he also ensured Liverpool held on to their lead with a stunning goalline clearance on 65 minutes, after Benteke had been presented with a free header from Westwood's corner.
(20) Despite Lee Cattermole's best efforts, Sunderland struggled to force any sort of tempo and, with Norwich coasting comfortably, the atmosphere remained stubbornly flat.