solo
IPA: sˈoʊɫoʊ
noun
- (music) A piece of music for one performer.
- A job or performance done by one person alone.
- (games) A card game similar to whist in which each player plays against the others in turn without a partner
- A single shot of espresso.
- (Gaelic football) An instance of soloing the football.
- A surname
verb
- (music) To perform a solo.
- To perform something in the absence of anyone else.
- (Gaelic football) To drop the ball and then toe-kick it upward into the hands.
- (slang) To independently perform an action, especially a challenging task.
adjective
- Without a companion or instructor.
- (music) Of, or relating to, a musical solo.
adverb
- Alone, without a companion.
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Examples of "solo" in Sentences
- I added to the end of the solo section.
- He began to tour, including a solo jaunt.
- The official winner is the one in the Solo.
- The aria is introduced by a somber clarinet solo.
- The end of the song features a trumpet solo as cadenza.
- The camera then switches to the band playing for the solo.
- Following the split, the solo careers of the artists struggled.
- The first section of the piece begins with a solo in the clarinet.
- He has continued as a solo artist and as founder of Homespun Tapes.
- The drum solo is one of the more dreaded conventions in rock but he made it a delight.
- Luckily, it hasn't all come at the same time, [laughs] I think that's what you call a solo career.
- Leslie Reed performed her ornate oboe solos and intricate melodies with an attractive, plangent tone and smooth cantilena.
- Thompson's solo is a cry from the heart, both a reflection of the violence, the tortured mind of Wells and the women he slaughtered.
- Dick Reese's violin solo is to be one of our titbits and Kit Reese is in every tableau and the three small girls have the cutest flag-drill.
- A nifty tear-jerker featuring extortionists, some fine Robin solo work, the backfiring of Bruce's playboy pose, and (I have to admit) some questionable family-law procedure.
- A _full anthem_ is one containing no solo parts; a _solo anthem_ is one in which the solo part is predominant over the chorus, while a _verse anthem_ is one in which the chorus parts alternate with passages for concerted solo voices (_i. e._, trios, quartets, etc.).
- Following her successful stint as eye-candy for Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole is to hopefully bugger off to the States and never return, while the four other ones (whose names your Correspondent can't be bothered to look up) have all announced straight-to-bargain-bin solo projects, cameo roles in soap operas and kiss'n'tell exposees of how they worked their way through the entire Liverpool squad in one night.