forte
IPA: fˈɔrteɪ
noun
- A strength or talent.
- The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt.
- A passage in music to be played loudly; a loud section of music.
- A surname.
adjective
- (music) Loud. Used as a dynamic directive in sheet music in its abbreviated form, "f.", to indicate raising the volume of the music. (Abbreviated in musical notation with an f, the Unicode character 1D191.)
adverb
- (music) Loudly.
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Examples of "forte" in Sentences
- It is the forte of the army.
- It is his one of the fortes.
- For all his power, his forte is the short game — chipping and putting.
- Gailey's forte is coaching up teams with modest talent and devoid of stars -- i.e.,
- As it turned out, I filter the stories, while Tomislav's forte is theory and essays.
- My real forte is for Super Smash Brothers, which scarcely qualifies as a fighter as all.
- LaMontagne's forte is a strain of wracked, fragile country-blues soaked in exquisite melancholy.
- "They think he's not skilled from a sewing standpoint, but his forte is the draping," Garcia explains.
- _e. g._, _crescendo poco a poco al forte ed un pochettino accelerando_, is seen to mean merely -- "increase gradually to _forte_ and accelerate a very little bit."
- As for the English word forte ` strength, 'it is not the feminine form of the French adjective fort ` strong' but an English "feminization" of the French noun fort
- Henry's forte is the edgy, bawdy, irreverent, and (he hopes) funny acoustic ballad, and unwittingly performing such material one day in a pizza joint before an audience of "Miniature Golfers for God" brings him to recalculate the dividends his career has brought him.
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