gamut

大学

n. 音阶, 整个范围, 全部, 音域

发音

其它 /ˈɡæm.ət/
US /ˈɡæm.ət/

词形变化

gamuts 复数 gamuts

教材释义与例句

名词

全音阶；全音域；整个范围

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A (normally) complete range.

    1933?, Dorothy Parker, review of Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway play The Lake She delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.

  2. 2.

    All the notes in a musical scale.

    音乐
  3. 3.

    All the colours that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 8

reach range scale orbit compass scope ambit musical scale

相关短语

run the gamut runs the gamut running the gamut ran the gamut

词源

1520s, original sense “lowest note of musical scale”, contraction of Medieval Latin gamma ut, from gamma (“Greek letter, corresponding to the musical note G”) + ut (“first solfège syllable, now replaced by do”). In modern terms, “G do” – the first note of the G scale. Meaning later extended to mean all the notes of a scale, and then more generally any complete range.

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