to run the (whole) gamut of

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• run the gamut — look at what is available, check the range of choices    We ran the whole gamut of colors but she didn t like any of them …   English idioms

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

• 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 — [[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 — 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

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• gamut — /ˈgæmət / (say gamuht) noun 1. the whole scale or range. 2. Music a. the whole series of recognised musical notes. b. the major scale. –phrase 3. run the gamut, to cover the full range of possibilities. {Medieval Latin, contraction of gamma ut,… …