Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Music A performance given by one or more singers or instrumentalists or both.
- n. Agreement in purpose, feeling, or action.
- n. Unity achieved by mutual communication of views, ideas, and opinions: acted in concert on the issue.
- n. Concerted action: "One feels between them an accumulation of gentleness and strength, a concert of energies” ( Vanity Fair).
- v. To plan or arrange by mutual agreement.
- v. To adjust; settle.
- v. To act together in harmony.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To contrive and arrange mutually; construct or adjust, as a plan or system to be pursued, by conference or agreement.
- To plan; devise.
- In music, to arrange (a piece of music) for several voices or instruments.
- [From the noun concert.] To sing in concert.
- To act in concert: with with.
- n. Agreement of two or more in a design or plan; combination formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme or enterprise; harmony.
- n. In music: A set of instruments of the same kind, but of different sizes: as, a concert of viols. Also consort.
- n. A public performance of music in which several singers or instrumentalists, or both, participate; especially, one in which the program consists of detached numbers: also applied to the performance of an oratorio, but not of an opera.
- n. The harmonious combination of two or more voices or instruments.
- n. A concerto.
Wiktionary
- v. To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.
- v. To plan; to devise; to arrange.
- v. To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.
- n. Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.
- n. Musical accordance or harmony; concord.
- n. A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.
- v. To plan; to devise; to arrange.
- v. To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.
- n. Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.
- n. Musical accordance or harmony; concord.
- n. A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.
WordNet 3.0
- v. contrive (a plan) by mutual agreement
- n. a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging
- v. settle by agreement
Etymologies
- French, from Italian concerto, from Old Italian, agreement, harmony, from concertare, to bring into agreement, possibly from Vulgar Latin *concertāre, to settle by argument, from Latin, to debate : con-, com- + certāre, to contend, frequentative of cernere, to separate, decide by fighting; see krei- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“During, in fact, since the concert is at 7: 30, and the Cedar tends to start things on time all considerate-like.”
“Mr. GLASS: Oh, yes, he had everything, including what we call concert music or classical music.”
“However, unless a concert is advertised as a political event where the entertainer will be sharing his or her political views with the people attending the event, I would prefer the entertainer, left or right, stick to what I came to the event for, singing the songs I want to hear, telling the jokes I want to hear, etc.”
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“Any excuse to hit a casino AND a concert is a good one for me ...”
“This is a day set apart by the various denominations to hold what they call a concert of prayer; namely, for all who will join of every denomination to unite in prayer for the outpouring of the Spirit of the Lord upon the world.”
“All of the suspension components are designed to work in concert with those numbers, including how the tires fit in the wheel wells.”
“They further suggest that these inclinations work in concert with one another; namely, that a partially selfish act (like building a home because you're jealous of someone else's), for instance, has the potential to result in something good (for instance said home providing safety and shelter not only for one's family, but for friends in need, as well as a place to open the doors to welcome strangers and guests alike).”
“Strangely, I've never seen him in concert, but thanks to three new DVDs, I have a chance to experience him live and through the perspective of his fellow artists.”
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“He is all of us -- students, teachers, principals, parents, communities, businesses and government -- working in concert, on an broad scale.”
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“On February 20 at 6. 30PM, you have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear Tania Libertad in concert at Estadio Teodoro Mariscal.”
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notanotherjazzpoet concert is not the same as show Feb 19, 2007