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OCTAVE
Biblical
eighth (traditionally explained as an eight-stringed instrument, though more likely an octave)
Boy/Male
French American
Born eighth.
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Traditional
Superior; An Avatar of Lord Vishnu; Second Note of Octave; Morality; A Musical Note; Ox
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Male
Native American
Native American Alqonguin name MATCHITISIW means "he has bad character."
Girl/Female
Indian
Famed, Proclaimed, Noisy
Surname or Lastname
English
English : presumably a patronymic from a Middle English survival of Old English Ramm ‘ram’ or Hrafn ‘raven’ as a personal name.Name found among people of Indian origin in Guyana and Trinidad : probably from the personal name Ram and the English suffix -son.
Girl/Female
Polish
Gift from God.
Boy/Male
Spanish
Son of comfort.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Tamil
Study; Beautiful Woman
Boy/Male
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Oriya, Sanskrit, Telugu
Another Name for the Sun
Boy/Male
Tamil
Deshavanth | தேஷாவஂத
Girl/Female
Australian, Irish
Rose
Male
Irish
Variant spelling of Irish Gaelic Ailill, OILIOLL means "elf."
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n.
A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.
n.
An interval comprising two octaves and a second.
n.
An interval of two octaves and a third.
a.
Consisting of eight; eight.
n.
The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut. It may be repeated through any number of octaves. See Chromatic scale, Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale, under Chromatic, Diatonic, Major, and Minor.
a.
Having unison of sound, as the octave in music. See Unison, n., 2.
n.
The largest instrument of the bass-viol kind, having strings tuned an octave below those of the violoncello; the contrabasso; -- called also double bass.
n.
A triple octave, or twenty-second.
n.
A large brass wind instrument, formerly used in the orchestra and in military bands, having a loud tone, deep pitch, and a compass of three octaves; -- now generally supplanted by bass and contrabass tubas.
n.
The common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and fifth, with or without the octave.
n.
A poem of fourteen lines, -- two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each, and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule.
n.
Identity in pitch; coincidence of sounds proceeding from an equality in the number of vibrations made in a given time by two or more sonorous bodies. Parts played or sung in octaves are also said to be in unison, or in octaves.
n.
The interval comprising an octave and a sixth.
n.
An imperfect octave.
n.
A stringed instrument of music; a bass viol of four strings, or a bass violin with long, large strings, giving sounds an octave lower than the viola, or tenor or alto violin.
n.
A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone.
n.
An interval comprising an octave and a fifth.
n.
The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael.
n.
The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
v. t.
A system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, while it has the convenience that the same twelve fixed tones answer for every key or scale, C/ becoming identical with D/, and so on.