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octavate (suomeksi)

Määritelmät:

• (lb, en, music) To (l, en, sound) one (l, en, octave) higher or lower.
• (lb, en, intransitive, of an instrument) To (l, en, resonate) or sound one octave higher or lower.
• * '''1922''', Diran Alexanian [aut.] and Frederick Fairbanks [tr.], ''Complete Cello Technique'' (2003 repub.), [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pvqfua5GNvIC&pg=PA105&dq=%2Boctavate&hl=en&ei=7Zw5Tq6RMZHG8QOJyKjhAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAgv=onepage&q=%2Boctavate&f=false page 105]
• *: The string, originally divided, will continue for some time to “'''octavate'''”.
• * '''1947''', Ernest Closson [aut.] and Delano Ames [tr.], ''History of the Piano'', [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Aj8MAQAAIAAJ&q=%2Boctavate&dq=%2Boctavate&hl=en&ei=a5U5TpiHAcy78gOanaiXAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAQ page 64]
• *: Adolphe Sax, when he invented the saxophone, had at first only in mind the object of improving the clarinet by permitting it to ‘'''octavate'''.’
• * '''1948''', ''The Galpin Society Journal'' I–IV, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=obE5AAAAIAAJ&q=%2Boctavate&dq=%2Boctavate&hl=en&ei=a5U5TpiHAcy78gOanaiXAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAg page 69]
• *: ‘'''Octavate'''’ (i.e. overblow at the octave. Does decimate mean to overblow at the tenth? Is the Primate the fundamental note of an instrument?).
• * '''1957''', Marin Mersenne [aut.] and Roger Eddington Chapman [tr.], ''Harmonie Universelle'', [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DP70AAAAMAAJ&q=%2Boctavates&dq=%2Boctavates&hl=en&ei=qIM5TrmJCoWy8QPOq6X2Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA page 305]
• *: When it '''octavates''', the holes being closed, it often assumes its natural pitch again on opening the holes, instead of continuing its tones to the octave above, so that it '''octavates''' much more easily when the holes are closed than when they are unstopped.
• (lb, en, intransitive, of a person) To (l, en, span) (at least) one octave in (l, en, play, playing) a musical (l, en, instrument).
• * '''1984''', ''VdGSA News'' XXI–XXIV, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OBM9AQAAIAAJ&q=%2Boctavate&dq=%2Boctavate&hl=en&ei=fZs5TsCmN4Os8QPotp2cAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAg page 39]
• *: Ability to ornament, '''octavate''', play chords and do some improvising.
• * '''2004''', ''Deutschland'', [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Fp4xAQAAIAAJ&q=%2Boctavates&dq=%2Boctavates&hl=en&ei=qIM5TrmJCoWy8QPOq6X2Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAg page 23]
• *: He varies and '''octavates''', leaving Bach listeners thunderstruck.
• * '''2007''', Michael Gallant, “'''OCTAVATE'''!: Spread your hands to create powerful sounds.” in ''Keyboard'' XXXIII–XXXIV, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JpoJAQAAMAAJ&q=%2Boctavate&dq=%2Boctavate&hl=en&ei=7Zw5Tq6RMZHG8QOJyKjhAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA page unknown]
• (lb, en, transitive, rare, of an instrument, construed with ''(l, en, up)'') To (l, en, double) the (l, en, pitch) of (a part of itself).
• * '''1999''', Jon Chappell, ''The Recording Guitarist'', [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-UfsJz0R1PIC&pg=PA133&dq=%2Boctavates&hl=en&ei=qIM5TrmJCoWy8QPOq6X2Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQv=onepage&q=%2Boctavates&f=false page 133]
• *: A 12-string doubles the octaves of only the lower four strings…. A doubled, capoed guitar “'''octavates''' up” the top two strings.
• (lb, en, mathematics, rare) To (l, en, convert) (the (l, en, expression) of a (l, en, number)) from (l, en, denary) to (l, en, octal) (l, en, notation).
• (lb, en, rare) (l, en, octave) (qualifier, transfiguratively)