English word sawdust trail comes from English music, Latin duco (I draw, pull. I lead, guide. I prolong. I think, consider.), English allude, Latin -alis, Latin musica (Music (art form).), English monotone, English upright, English pacifism
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| music | English (eng) | (transitive) To seduce or entice with music. (figuratively) Any pleasing or interesting sounds.. A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music.. A sound, or the study of such sounds, organized in time.. An art form, created by organizing of pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and sometimes singing. |
| duco | Latin (lat) | I draw, pull. I lead, guide. I prolong. I think, consider. |
| allude | English (eng) | (intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion. |
| -alis | Latin (lat) | Used to form adjectives of relationship from nouns or numerals. |
| musica | Latin (lat) | Music (art form). |
| monotone | English (eng) | (ambitransitive) To speak in a monotone. A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound (mathematics) of a function: having the property of either always decreasing or always increasing. (of speech or a sound) having a single unvaried pitch. |
| upright | English (eng) | (transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen). (informal) An upright piano.. A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.. Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.. Short for upright vacuum cleaner. (figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical [...] |
| pacifism | English (eng) | The doctrine that disputes (especially between countries) should be settled without recourse to violence. |
| reducere | Latin (lat) | |
| primate | English (eng) | (ecclesiastical) In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.. (ecclesiastical) In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription. (informal) A simian anthropoid; an ape, human or monkey.. (zoology) A [...] |
| reductio | Latin (lat) | A bringing back, a leading back.. A restoring, restoration. |
| musicalis | Latin (lat) | (Medieval Latin) Of or pertaining to music; musical. |
| reduction | English (eng) | (chemistry) A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.. (computability theory) a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial reduction.. (cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.. (mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a [...] |
| musical | English (eng) | Gifted or skilled in music.. Of or relating to music.. Pertaining to a class of games in which players move while music plays, but have to take a fixed position when it stops; by extension, any situation where people repeatedly change positions.. Pleasing to the ear. A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting. |
| monotony | English (eng) | (mathematics) The property of a monotonic function.. Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.. The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch. |
| allusion | English (eng) | An indirect reference; a hint; a reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned. |
| sawdust trail | English (eng) | (idiomatic, by extension, dated) The path to spiritual redemption or salvation, especially as involving attendance at Christian revival meetings presided over by itinerant preachers in the United States.. (idiomatic, dated) The route followed by an itinerant Christian preacher in the United States. |