Definition of alto

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Alto (n.) Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor..

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Swop :: Swoopstake (adv.) Altogether; indiscriminately.
Contralto :: Contralto (a.) Of or pertaining to a contralto, or to the part in music called contralto; as, a contralto voice..
Slug :: Slug (n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails..
Alto-relievo :: Alto-relievo (n.) Alto-rilievo.
Fail :: Fail (v. i.) To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail..
Alto-rilievos :: Alto-rilievos (pl. ) of Alto-riliev.
Allthing :: Allthing (adv.) Altogether.
Alt :: Alt (a. & n.) The higher part of the scale. See Alto.
Mezzo-rilievo :: Mezzo-rilievo (n.) Sculpture in this kind of relief. See under Alto-rilievo.
Violoncello :: Violoncello (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..
#NAME? :: -scope () A combining form usually signifying an instrument for viewing (with the eye) or observing (in any way); as in microscope, telescope, altoscope, anemoscope..
Suction :: Sucrose (n.) A common variety of sugar found in the juices of many plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, sugar maple, beet root, etc. It is extracted as a sweet, white crystalline substance which is valuable as a food product, and, being antiputrescent, is largely used in the preservation of fruit. Called also saccharose, cane sugar, etc. By extension, any one of the class of isomeric substances (as lactose, maltose, etc.) of which sucrose proper is the type..
Basaltoid :: Basaltoid (a.) Formed like basalt; basaltiform.
Achromatopsy :: Achromatopsy (n.) Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism.
Daltonian :: Daltonian (n.) One afflicted with color blindness.
Everywhere :: Everywhere (adv.) In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether..
Sing :: Sing (v. i.) To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece..
Altogether :: Altogether (adv.) Without exception; wholly; completely.
Altos :: Altos (pl. ) of Alt.
Alto :: Alto (n.) An alto singer.
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