Staccato is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STACCATO in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a musical passage with each note detached
• a piece or passage marked to be performed staccato.
• a series of short, sharp sounds or words
• staccato note
ADVERB:
• with each sound or note sharply detached or separated from the others
• with the notes sharply separated
• separating the notes; in music
ADJECTIVE:
• Disconnected; separated; distinct; -- a direction to perform the notes of a passage in a short, distinct, and pointed manner. It is opposed to legato, and often indicated by heavy accents written over or under the notes, or by dots when the performance is to be less distinct and emphatic.
• Expressed in a brief, pointed manner.
• (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply
• consisting of short abrupt sounds
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a musical passage marked by the short, clear-cut playing of tones

Words related to STACCATO

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Words that contain STACCATO

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How to use STACCATO in a sentence

• The din of guns was unceasing, and made a great symphony of staccato notes on a thunderous instrument.
• High above him in the air there moved a speck, growing larger with every moment, but he did not see it or hear the faint staccato sounds which proclaimed its identity.
• She was a little frightened, not only by his thoughts, but by his staccato way of expressing them.
• He emitted one short, little staccato laugh and stopped suddenly, as if he were waiting to see if Jerry liked the sound before continuing with it.
• Once the motor of a near-by craft fired with a staccato roar, and he jumped violently.
• The queer dream had given place to reality, in which the staccato explosions continued.
• It seemed ages before he heard the quick staccato of hoofs on the road.
• There was no longer the rattle of the wagon coming down the trail, the sharp staccato of pounding hoofs.
• The staccato drumming of the exhaust echoed along the hillside.
• In the dining room she could hear the men talking, Howard quietly, his father in short staccato barks.
• A figure which seemed disinclined to talk, and which gave its explanations in short, staccato sentences.
• She seems to me to be deliberately committing herself to what I can only describe as a staccato method.
• But the echoes of the fight that was going on now far below in the lower galleries of that stage, came every now and then between the staccato of shots from the popular side.
• And quite unexpectedly my heart began to beat with staccato quickness.
• Chuckling in clear staccato, the Devil prowling, runs about.
• Away off to the northeast they heard the thin, vague clamor of a band of sheep and the staccato barking of a dog.
• After a few minutes he heard more shots sounding much nearer, then shouts and hoarse yells, mingled with the sharp staccato of pistols and rifles.
• The pack stretched out in wild staccato chorus, the little Airedales literally screeching.
• We use ha on all other tones of this study for the reason that it is the natural staccato of the voice.
• Then rising, it glided forward with the same staccato movement until opposite the slight elevation of the forehatch.
• But the scornful staccato with which he rolled out the French, and the ringing voice and gesture with which he accompanied his exhortation, stamped it indelibly.
• It rang on her ear a little sharper, louder, and with more of a staccato bruskness than the directions he was giving called for.

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