单词 | concert |
释义 | con·cert (kŏnsûrt′, -sərt) n. 1. Music A performance given by one or more singers or instrumentalists or both. 2. a. Agreement in purpose, feeling, or action. b. Unity achieved by mutual communication of views, ideas, and opinions: acted in concert on the issue. c. Concerted action: "One feels between them an accumulation of gentleness and strength, a concert of energies" (Vanity Fair). v. (kən-sûrt) con·cert·ed, con·cert·ing, con·certs v.tr. 1. To plan or arrange by mutual agreement. 2. To adjust; settle. v.intr. To act together in harmony. [French, from Italian concerto, from Old Italian, agreement, harmony, from concertare, to bring into agreement, possibly from Vulgar Latin *concertāre, to settle by argument, from Latin, to debate : con-, com- + certāre, to contend, frequentative of cernere, to separate, decide by fighting; see krei- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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