Music Definition–noun | 1. | an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color. | | 2. | the tones or sounds employed, occurring in single line (melody) or multiple lines (harmony), and sounded or to be sounded by one or more voices or instruments, or both. | | 3. | musical work or compositions for singing or playing. | | 4. | the written or printed score of a musical composition. | | 5. | such scores collectively. | | 6. | any sweet, pleasing, or harmonious sounds or sound: the music of the waves. | | 7. | appreciation of or responsiveness to musical sounds or harmonies: Music was in his very soul. | | 8. | Fox Hunting. the cry of the hounds. | —Idiom | 9. | face the music, to meet, take, or accept the consequences of one's mistakes, actions, etc.: He's squandered his money and now he's got to face the music. | |
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Hip Definition–noun | 1. | the projecting part of each side of the body formed by the side of the pelvis and the upper part of the femur and the flesh covering them; haunch. | | 3. | Architecture. the inclined projecting angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end, or of two adjacent sloping sides, of a roof. | | 4. | Furniture. knee (def. 6). | –adjective | 5. | (esp. of a garment) extending to the hips; hiplength: hip boots. | –verb (used with object) | 6. | (esp. of livestock) to injure or dislocate the hip of. | | 7. | Architecture. to form (a roof) with a hip or hips. | —Idioms | 8. | shoot from the hip, Informal. to speak or act bluntly or rashly, without deliberation or prudence: Diplomats are trained to conduct themselves with discretion, and not to shoot from the hip. | | 9. | smite hip and thigh, to attack unmercifully; overcome. Judg. 15:8. | |
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Hop Definition–verb (used without object) | 1. | to make a short, bouncing leap; move by leaping with all feet off the ground. | | 2. | to spring or leap on one foot. | | 3. | Informal. to make a short, quick trip, esp. in an airplane: He hopped up to Boston for the day. | | 4. | Informal. to travel or move frequently from one place or situation to another (usually used in combination): to island-hop; to job-hop. | –verb (used with object) | 6. | to jump over; clear with a hop: The sheep hopped the fence. | | 7. | Informal. to board or get onto a vehicle: to hop a plane. | | 8. | Informal. to cross in an airplane: We hopped the Atlantic in five hours. | –noun | 9. | an act of hopping; short leap. | | 11. | a journey, esp. a short trip by air. | | 12. | Informal. a dance or dancing party. | | 13. | a bounce or rebound of a moving object, as a ball: She caught the ball on the first hop. | —Idiom | 14. | hop to it, Informal. to begin to move, become active, or do something immediately: You'd better hop to it if you intend to buy groceries before the market closes. Also, hop to. | |
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