Soliloquy

Jovan Stosic July 3, 2019

soliloquy

sə’lɪləkwi■  noun (plural soliloquies) an act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when alone or regardless of hearers, especially by a character in a play.
 

soliloquist noun
soliloquize or soliloquise verb
 

ME: from late L. soliloquium, from L. solus ‘alone’ + loqui ‘speak’.

From Concise Oxford Thesaurus

soliloquy

▶  noun MONOLOGUE, speech, address, lecture, oration, sermon, homily, aside.

From Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

soliloquy

so·lilo·quy soliloquies
[N-COUNT]
A soliloquy is a speech in a play in which an actor or actress speaks to himself or herself and to the audience, rather than to another actor.

From EngMac

soliloquy

монолог

From English-Serbian dictionary

Soliloquy

Monolog

From English-Croatian Dictionary

soliloquy

razgovor sa samim sobom , monolog

From English-Bulgarian

soliloquy

[sъ’lilъkwi] n 1. монолог; 2. говорене на себе си.

From Merriam-Webster Collegiate® Dictionary

so·lil·o·quy

Pronunciation:     sə-‘li-lə-kwē
Function:           noun
Inflected Form:    plural -quies
Etymology:          Late Latin soliloquium, from Latin solus alone + loqui to speak
Date:               circa 1613


1 : the act of talking to oneself
2 : a dramatic monologue that represents a series of unspoken reflections

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (4th Ed)

soliloquy

so·lil·o·quy /sE5lIlEkwi/ n plural soliloquies
[U and C]
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Late Latin; Origin: soliloquium, from Latin solus ( SOLE1) + loqui ‘to speak’]
a speech in a play in which a character, usually alone on the stage, talks to himself or herself so that theaudience knows their thoughts
→monologue
>soliloquize /-kwaIz/ v [I]

From Oxford Talking Dictionary

soliloquy

soliloquy
/sə“lɪləkwi/
n. ME. [Late L soliloquium, f. L soli-, solus sole, alone + loqui speak: see -Y4.]
(A literary representation or imitation of) an instance of talking to oneself or regardless of any audience;spec. a part of a play involving this. ME.
The action of soliloquizing; monologue. M17.
Rare bef. E19.

Quotation M. PRIOR The..poem is a soliloquy: Solomon..speaks. W. F. BUCKLEY He did..his thinking by soliloquy, preferably in the presence of one other person.
From Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Soliloquy

(n.)

A written composition, reciting what it is supposed a person says to himself.

Soliloquy

(n.)

The act of talking to one’s self; a discourse made by one in solitude to one’s self; monologue.

From SOED

soliloquy

soliloquy noun. [sǝ’lɪlǝkwi] ME.
[Late Latin soliloquium, from Latin soli-, solus sole, alone + loqui speak: see -Y4.]
(A literary representation or imitation of) an instance of talking to oneself or regardless of any audience;spec. a part of a play involving this. ME.
M. Prior The..poem is a soliloquy: Solomon..speaks.
The action of soliloquizing; monologue. M17.
W. F. Buckley He did..his thinking by soliloquy, preferably in the presence of one other person.
¶ Rare before E19.

From Century Dictionary (1889)

soliloquy

 

  • n. A talking to one’s self; a discourse or talk by a person who is alone, or which is not addressed to any one even when others are present.

 

 

  • n. A written composition containing such a talk or discourse, or what purports to be one.

 

 

From American Heritage Dictionary

soliloquy

so·lil·o·quy (sə-lĭlə-kwē)
n. pl. so·lil·o·quies
A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener. A specific speech or piece of writing in this form of discourse.
The act of speaking to oneself.

[Late Latin sōliloquium : Latin sōlus, alone; see s(w)e- in Indo-European Roots + Latin loquī,to speak; see tolkw- in Indo-European Roots.]

A440 (pitch standard)

Jovan Stosic June 30, 2019

A440 or A4 (also known as the Stuttgart pitch), which has a frequency of 440 Hz, is the musical note of Aabove middle C and serves as a general tuning standard for musical pitch.

The International Organization for Standardization classifies it as ISO 16. Before standardization on 440 Hz, other frequencies were standardized upon. Although not universally accepted, it serves as the audio frequency reference to calibrate acoustic equipment and to tune pianos, violins, and other musical instruments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A440_(pitch_standard)

Glissando

Jovan Stosic June 30, 2019

In music, a glissando (Italian: [ɡlisˈsando]; plural: glissandi, abbreviated gliss.) is a glide from one pitch to another
Play (help·info)). It is an Italianized musical term derived from the French glisser, “to glide”. In some contexts, it is distinguished from the continuous portamento. Some colloquial equivalents are slide, sweep (referring to the “discrete glissando” effects on guitar and harp, respectively), bend, smear, rip (for a loud, violent gliss to the beginning of a note),[1] lip (in jazz terminology, when executed by changing one’s embouchure on a wind instrument),[2] plop, or falling hail (a glissando on a harp using the back of the fingernails).[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glissando