单词 | unkeyed |
释义 | unkeyed (once / 1969886 pages) adj WORD FAMILY keyed: keyeder, unkeyed+/key: keyed, keying, keyless, keys USAGE EXAMPLES“As he unkeyed his microphone, he hit the T.W.A. and cut it in half,” Mr. Bernhard recalled, referring to the end of the pilot’s transmission. New York Times(Dec 14, 2010) They took longer than usual to-night; both of them were unkeyed and had to compose themselves to the affair. Gibbon, Perceval, The Second Class Passenger—Fifteen...(2010) Also, by wholly mechanical processes of adjustment to environment, her manner and air became simpler, somewhat unkeyed: she unconsciously folded away her more shining wings. Harrison, Henry Sydnor, V. V.'s Eyes(2010) adj characterized by avoidance of traditional western tonality Syn|Ant atonal tonal having tonality; i.e. tones and chords organized in relation to one tone such as a keynote or tonic keyedset to a key or tone diatonicbased on or using the five tones and two semitones of the major or minor scales of western music polytonalusing more than one key or tonality simultaneously tonedhaving or characterized or distinguished by tone or a specific tone; often used in combination tonicrelating to or being the keynote of a major or minor scale |
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