Solo
['səʊləʊ] or ['solo]
Definition
(noun.) a flight in which the aircraft pilot is unaccompanied.
(noun.) any activity that is performed alone without assistance.
(noun.) a musical composition for one voice or instrument (with or without accompaniment).
(verb.) perform a piece written for a single instrument.
(verb.) fly alone, without a co-pilot or passengers.
(adj.) composed or performed by a single voice or instrument; 'a passage for solo clarinet' .
Typist: Sophie--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) A tune, air, strain, or a whole piece, played by a single person on an instrument, or sung by a single voice.
Typist: Virginia
Definition
n. a musical piece performed by only one voice or instrument:—pl. Sō′lōs.—adj. Sō′lō unconcerted.—n. Sō′lōist.
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Examples
- The solo over, a duet followed, and then a glee: a joyous conversational murmur filled up the intervals. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He had already broken one of the rules of his world, which forbade the entering of a box during a solo. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Its songs, orchestral and solo renditions, and its humorous monologue reproductions constitute to-day a great library of wax cylinders, regularly catalogued and sold by the thousands. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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