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• gamut — n. 1) to run the gamut from; to 2) the whole gamut (her performance ran the whole gamut from outstanding to terrible) * * * [ gæmət] to to run the gamut from the whole gamut (her performance ran the whole gamut from outstanding to terrible) …   Combinatory dictionary

• gamut — /gam euht/, n. 1. the entire scale or range: the gamut of dramatic emotion from grief to joy. 2. Music. a. the whole series of recognized musical notes. b. the major scale. [1425 75; late ME < ML; contr. of gamma ut, equiv. to gamma, used to… …   Universalium

• gamut — noun (singular) the complete range of possibilities (+ of): College life opened up a whole gamut of new experiences. | run the (whole) gamut (=include or experience all the possibilities between two extremes): Her feelings that day ran the whole… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• gamut — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ complete, entire, full, whole ▪ wide VERB + GAMUT ▪ cover, run, run …   Collocations dictionary

• gamut — [[t]gæ̱mət[/t]] 1) N SING: usu the N of n The gamut of something is the complete range of things of that kind, or a wide variety of things of that kind. Varied though the anthology may claim to be, it does not cover the whole gamut of Scottish… …   English dictionary

• gamut — n. 1 the whole series or range or scope of anything (the whole gamut of crime). 2 Mus. a the whole series of notes used in medieval or modern music. b a major diatonic scale. c a people s or a period s recognized scale. d a voice s or instrument… …   Useful english dictionary

• gamut — gam|ut [ˈgæmət] n [singular] [Date: 1400 1500; : Medieval Latin; Origin: gamma ut, names given to the highest and lowest notes on the musical scale] the complete range of possibilities gamut of ▪ College life opened up a whole gamut of new… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• gamut — gam|ut [ gæmət ] noun singular the complete range of things of a particular type: recipes for the whole gamut of culinary tastes run the gamut (=include the widest possible range): Prices in the restaurants run the gamut from cheap to very… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• gamut — UK [ˈɡæmət] / US noun [singular] the complete range of things of a particular type recipes for the whole gamut of culinary tastes run the gamut (= include the widest possible range): Prices in the restaurants run the gamut from cheap to very… …   English dictionary

• gamut — [ gamət] noun 1》 the complete range or scope of something: the whole gamut of human emotion. 2》 Music a complete scale of musical notes; the range of a voice or instrument. 3》 historical a scale consisting of seven overlapping hexachords,… …   English new terms dictionary

• gamut — In music, gamut properly means ‘the note G at the pitch now indicated by the lowest line of the bass staff’. (The word is formed from medieval Latin gamma (= the note G) + ut, the first of six arbitrary names forming the hexachord (ut, re, mi, fa …   Modern English usage