nosegay, chorus, music, vocal (OFTEN HEARD), burdens of songs

Beginning this week, as Mr. Jacobs and his peers prepare to parade their clothes for spring 2006 under the tents at Bryant Park and elsewhere in New York, Ms. Fok and Ms. Town will add their voices to a swelling chorus of fellow fashion bloggers tossing verbal grenades - and the occasional nosegay - in the direction of the catwalks. If past performance is any indication, a few of their targets are well advised to duck and run for cover.

  "My nosegays are for captives;
Dim, long-expectant eyes,
Fingers denied the plucking,

Patient till paradise.

"To such, if they should whisper
Of morning and the moor,
They bear no other errand,
And I, no other prayer."
  Emily Dickinson.

Fix Sought for Dropped iPhone Calls

Apple is working on a software fix for its new iPhone 3G to remedy dropped phone calls that some users are experiencing. The move by Apple could help address a chorus of online complaints from users.

Thursday is the first day of fall立秋, according to the lunar calendar. Amid the chorus of cicadas群蟬鳴, a woman who never had the chance to enjoy life beyond her summer years because of a heinous crime took off for a world where she will rest in peace.

The Washington Post points out that the speakers yesterday tried "to turn what Democrats have hoped would be a major liability for McCain--his vocal support for the Iraq war--into an asset by stressing his perseverance in the face of popular opinion."




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burdens of songs

SYNONYMS burden, affliction, cross, trial, tribulation. 

These nouns denote something onerous or troublesome: the burden of a guilty conscience; indebtedness that is an affliction; a temper that is her cross; a troublemaker who is a trial to the teacher; suffered many tribulations in rising from poverty. 

See also synonyms at substance.

公债负担 Burden of The Debt

bur·den² (bûr'dn) 

n.

1. A principal or recurring idea; a theme: “The burden of what he said was to defend enthusiastically the conservative aristocracy” (J.A. Froude). See synonyms at substance.
2. Music.
   1. The chorus or refrain of a composition, especially of a 15th-century carol.
   2. A drone, as of a bagpipe or pedal point.
   3. Archaic. The bass accompaniment to a song.

[Variant of BOURDON.]

━━ n. 要旨, 要点; （歌の）繰返し.

Mr Arthur Clennam sat in the window of the coffee-house on Ludgate
Hill, counting one of the neighbouring bells, making sentences and
burdens of songs out of it in spite of himself, and wondering how
many sick people it might be the death of in the course of the
year. As the hour approached, its changes of measure made it more
and more exasperating. At the quarter, it went off into a
condition of deadly-lively importunity, urging the populace in a
voluble manner to Come to church, Come to church, Come to church!
At the ten minutes, it became aware that the congregation would be
scanty, and slowly hammered out in low spirits, They WON'T come,
they WON'T come, they WON'T come! At the five minutes, it
abandoned hope, and shook every house in the neighbourhood for
three hundred seconds, with one dismal swing per second, as a groan
of despair.

vocal (OFTEN HEARD) Show phonetics
adjective
often expressing opinions and complaints in speech:
He had always been a very vocal critic of the president.
During these years, suffrage demands by women became increasingly vocal and difficult to ignore.

vocally Show phonetics
adverb



music
n.

1. The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre.
2. Vocal or instrumental sounds possessing a degree of melody, harmony, or rhythm.
3. 1. A musical composition.
   2. The written or printed score for such a composition.
   3. Such scores considered as a group: We keep our music in a stack near the piano.
4. A musical accompaniment.
5. A particular category or kind of music.
6. An aesthetically pleasing or harmonious sound or combination of sounds: the music of the wind in the pines.

[Middle English, from Old French musique, from Latin mūsica, from Greek mousikē (tekhnē), (art) of the Muses, feminine of mousikos, of the Muses, from Mousa, Muse.]

vo・cal

 

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━━ a. 声の, 音声の［に関する］; 声を発する, 口頭の; （水流などが）鳴る, 響く; ずけずけ言う; 【楽】声楽の; 【音声】母音（性）の, 有声音の.
━━ n. 声楽（曲）; （pl.） （楽器演奏に対する）ボーカル［歌唱］.
 vocal cords [chords]　声帯.
 vo・cal・ic
　━━ a. 母音（性）の; 母音を含む［に富む］.
 vo・cal・ist
　━━ n. （ポピュラー）歌手, 声楽家.
 vo・cal・ize
　━━ v. 声［口］に出す, 発音する; 【音声】母音［有声］化する; 声を出す; 話す; 【楽】母音唱法で歌う.
vo・cal・i・za・tion　n.
 vo・cal・ly　━━ ad.
 vocal music　声楽.

chorus (SINGING GROUP) Show phonetics
group noun [C]
a group of people who are trained to sing together:
He sings with the Los Angeles Gay Men's Chorus.
See also choral.
n., pl. -rus·es.

1. Music.
   1. A composition usually in four or more parts written for a large number of singers.
   2. A refrain in which others, such as audience members, join a soloist in a song.
   3. A line or group of lines repeated at intervals in a song.
   4. A solo section based on the main melody of a popular song and played by a member of the group.
   5. A body of singers who perform choral compositions, usually having more than one singer for each part.
   6. A body of vocalists and dancers who support the soloists and leading performers in operas, musical comedies, and revues.
2. 1. A group of persons who speak or sing in unison a given part or composition in drama or poetry recitation.
   2. An actor in Elizabethan drama who recites the prologue and epilogue to a play and sometimes comments on the action.
3. 1. A group of masked dancers who performed ceremonial songs at religious festivals in early Greek times.
   2. The group in a classical Greek drama whose songs and dances present an exposition of or, in later tradition, a disengaged commentary on the action.
   3. The portion of a classical Greek drama consisting of choric dance and song.
4. A group or performer in a modern drama serving a purpose similar to the Greek chorus.
5. The performers of a choral ode, especially a Pindaric ode.
6. 1. A speech, song, or other utterance made in concert by many people.
   2. A simultaneous utterance by a number of people: a chorus of jeers from the bystanders.
   3. The sounds so made.

tr. & intr.v., -rused or -russed, -rus·ing or -rus·sing, -rus·es or -rus·ses.
To sing or utter in or as if in chorus.
idiom:

in chorus

1. All together; in unison.

[Latin, choral dance, from Greek khoros.]

The noun nosegay has one meaning:
Meaning #1: an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present
Synonyms: bouquet, corsage, posy
（香りのよい）花束.

[Middle English : nose, nose; see nose + gai, joyous, ornament; see gay.]

IN BRIEF: A small bunch of flowers.

She buried her face in her nosegay as she walked past the king's stables.