单词 | to run the gamut |
释义 | > as lemmasto run the gamut to run the gamut and variants: (a) to sing or perform all the notes of the scale, or all the notes within the compass of a particular singer or instrument, in succession (now rare); (b) (frequently with of) to experience, display, or perform the complete range of something. ΚΠ 1724 R. Samber tr. B. Castiglione Courtier ii. 18 When they talk with any one, after a Pause, [they] renew their Discourse in such a Tone as if they were running over the Gamut. 1805 I. D'Israeli Flim-flams! I. p. xii He runs through the whole gamut of the heart, from bass to treble. 1825 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Jan. 3 Catalani cannot run the gamut more fleetly than what we more advanced Phrenologists can..quickly decypher..every shifting and varied attribute of human character. 1832 Tait's Edinb. Mag. June 263 A lawyer who had run the gamut of every political opinion. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad II. i. 122 He ran over the gamut of Latin metre. 1892 Sat. Rev. 29 Oct. 507/2 [His] perfect elocutionary style held flexibility enough to enable him to run the whole gamut with ease. 1903 H. Macfall Masterfolk l. 232 There was..the singing of a snatch of song—a piano would run up the gamut of a scale. 1927 F. M. Thrasher Gang iv. xix. 389 The activities of most groups run the whole gamut of offenses, including practically every crime in the catalogue. 1968 G. Daws Shoal of Time iv. 124 He ran the gamut from rage to pain and then elegiac calm. 2007 Wine & Spirit May 43/1 Château Les Marnières produces wines that run the gamut of Bergerac's possibilities. < as lemmas |
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