duet
IPA: duˈɛt
noun
- (music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
- (music) A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
- A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To perform a duet.
- (intransitive, zoology, of pairs of animals) To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song.
- (transitive) To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet.
- (transitive) (of two people) To say at the same time, to chorus.
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Examples of "duet" in Sentences
- Their duet is intense and amazing and after almost half a century, it's available again.
- Their duet is intense and amazing - and after almost half a century, it's available again.
- I think the term duet kind of intimates established singers who've kind of ran out of ideas and they take songs and they get together and make them into some kind of sugarcoated moment.
- And this added the attitude on this record, where the musicians and definitely with T-Bone's kind of left-the-field production was something that shouldn't even intimate the normal reading of the term duet, because it's just - these are adventures, really.
- Billy, when the dismal thing had dragged its way through the final note, sat "down front," crying softly in the semi-darkness while she was waiting for Alice Greggory to "run it through just once more" with a pair of tired-faced, fluffy-skirted fairies who could _not_ learn that a duet meant a _duet_ -- not two solos, independently hurried or retarded as one's fancy for the moment dictated.
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