Synonyms for gamut
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : gam-uht |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈgæm ət |
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Définition of gamut
Origin :- 1520s, originally, "lowest note in the medieval musical scale," in the system of notation devised by Guido d'Arezzo, contraction of Medieval Latin gamma ut, from gamma, the Greek letter, indicating a note below A, + ut, the low note on the six-note musical scale that took names from corresponding syllables in a Latin hymn for St. John the Baptist's Day:
- Ut queant laxis resonare fibrisMira gestorum famuli tuorumSolve polluti labii reatum,
- etc. Gamut came to be used for "the whole musical scale;" the figurative sense of "entire scale or range" of anything is first recorded 1620s. When the modern octave scale was set early 16c., si was added, changed to ti in Britain and U.S. to keep the syllables as different from each other as possible. Ut later was replaced by more sonorous do (n.). Cf. also solmisation.
- noun range
- Gamut cheerfully assented, and together they sought the females.
- Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
- He started to run the gamut of appeal, denial, and anger; but his hearers were inflexible.
- Extract from : « The Plunderer » by Roy Norton
- His face ran the gamut from white to red, from red back again to white.
- Extract from : « Little Novels of Italy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett
- Their expressions ran the gamut from sheepishness to blank haughtiness.
- Extract from : « Adaptation » by Dallas McCord Reynolds
- Wild flowers, birds, and animals also run the gamut of the zones.
- Extract from : « The Book of the National Parks » by Robert Sterling Yard
- If so, he could not imagine it, for it seemed he had run the gamut of misfortune.
- Extract from : « The Dude Wrangler » by Caroline Lockhart
- It would be more easy to signify them by notes on the gamut.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly , Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 » by Various
- Her voice was a voice of low note, in quality that of a flute at the grave end of its gamut.
- Extract from : « A Laodicean » by Thomas Hardy
- The noise, as everyone yelled at the top of his or her gamut, was deafening.
- Extract from : « Camp Fire Yarns of the Lost Legion » by G. Hamilton-Browne
- These three things form the gamut by which the Infinite speaks to our souls.
- Extract from : « The Sea » by Jules Michelet
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