Definizione monolingua

crescendo

crescendo (third-person singular simple present crescendoes, present participle crescendoing, simple past and past participle crescendoed)

1. To increase in intensity, to reach or head for a crescendo.

   The band crescendoed and then suddenly went silent.

crescendo (plural crescendos or crescendi or crescendoes)

1. (music) An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ).
2. (figuratively) A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax.

   Their fighting rose in a fearsome crescendo.

3. (figuratively, nonstandard) The climax of a gradual increase.

   Their arguing rose to a fearsome crescendo.

   • 2011 October 20, Michael da Silva, “Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv”, BBC Sport:

     With the Stoke supporters jeering Zivs every subsequent touch, the pantomime atmosphere created by the home crowd reached a crescendo when Ziv was shown a straight red shortly after the break in extraordinary circumstances.

Definizione dizionario crescendo

crescendo

Altri significati:

figuratively: gradual increase

To increase in intensity, to reach or head for a crescendo.

(figuratively) A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax.

Getting progressively louder.

(music) An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ).

music: instruction to play gradually more loudly

(figuratively, nonstandard) The climax of a gradual increase.