crescendo
IPA: krɪʃˈɛndoʊ
noun
- (music) An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin.
- (figuratively) A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax.
- (figuratively, nonstandard) The climax of a gradual increase.
verb
- To increase in intensity; to reach or head for a crescendo.
adverb
- (music) Gradually increasing in force or loudness.
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Examples of "crescendo" in Sentences
- The third crescendo begins differently.
- The film ends in a crescendo of violence.
- The music crescendoes as the pace quickens.
- He bowed as the applause crescendoed again.
- A crescendo of Buffy hatred from the most rabid Spike fans.
- The gig was the Crescendo club right in the middle of Sunset Strip.
- In this version, the strings are more predominate during the crescendos.
- Crescendo was later acquired by Cisco and the patent was assigned to Cisco.
- As the wailing reaches a crescendo, lights go on all across the neighborhood.
- The revelation of God at the end is a wonderfully conceived musical crescendo.
- But credit continued to tighten, reaching a short-term crescendo with the near-death of Bear Stearns.
- My way of showing Amsterdam was to work slowly up to a grand crescendo effect; and the crescendo was the Ryks Museum.
- A crescendo is a getting louder, and it may be a getting louder from very soft to not-so-soft or from moderately loud to very loud, but it is a process.
- But right then, when that was happening, the threats were coming in, and it's been described as a crescendo and hair on fire and all these different things.
- With a quick jerk, cataleptically, his nose pointed to the zenith, his mouth opened, and a flood of sound poured forth, running swiftly upward in crescendo and slowly falling as it died away.
- Although Comrade Chief-of-Staff's passing shielded him from all this, it regrettably also denied him from experiencing the magnificent consequences of his demise: that is, the crescendo, the final revolutionary push to victory - all unleashed by the manner of his death on that fateful April morning.
- The crescendo is his speech at the U.N. The challenge for us is to listen closely to what he is says on Friday, and thereafter, armed with facts and history, to call-out him and other leaders when their words and actions actually jeopardize the calls for peace in which they so comfortably cloak themselves.
- Most chapters also have what is known as a crescendo event, where the players must fight off the zombie horde massing upon them for a set amount of time before they can move on, normally after using something to make a path to move forward in the chapter (an early example is waiting for an elevator to arrive).
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