Accompaniment
[ə'kʌmp(ə)nɪm(ə)nt] or [ə'kʌmpənɪmənt]
Definition
(noun.) a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts.
(noun.) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another.
Editor: Wilma--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.
(n.) A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Appendage, concomitant, attendant, adjunct, attachment, appurtenance.
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Examples
- I was accustomed to play your accompaniment. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Stanton said that the usual live-stock accompaniment of operators' boarding-houses was absent; he thought the intense cold had caused them to hibernate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Shall I play your accompaniment, Miss Dengelton? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- All this he did, methodically, and with as loud and harsh an accompaniment of noise as he could make. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Then, Jane, you must play the accompaniment. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- One accompaniment to her song took her agreeably by surprizea second, slightly but correctly taken by Frank Churchill. Jane Austen. Emma.
- A great accompaniment to artillery is The Range Finder, a telescopic apparatus for ascertaining accurately the location and distance of objects to be fired at. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Dr. Boultby, Mr. Helstone, and Mr. Hall rose, so did all present, and grace was sung to the accompaniment of the music; and then tea began. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- St. Clare sat down to the piano, and began playing a soft and melancholy movement with the ?olian accompaniment. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I got, in reply, quite a little romantic narrative, told not unimpressively, with the accompaniment of the now subsiding storm. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He looked at the floor and moved his head and hands in accompaniment to some inward argumentation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Partiality is, as we have seen, an accompaniment of the existence of interest, since this means sharing, partaking, taking sides in some movement. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The tale of magic seemed to proceed with due accompaniment of the elements. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- At last a mitigation of the patient's most urgent symptoms (acute pain is one of its accompaniments) liberated me, and I set out homeward. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- My bed stood in a little alcove; on turning my face to the wall, the room with its bewildering accompaniments became excluded. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I play his accompaniments in the evening. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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