Concert

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Concert \Con*cert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Concerted}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Concerting}.] [F. concerter, It. concertare,
     conertare, prob. from L. consertus, p. p. of conserere to
     join together; con- + serere to join together, influenced by
     concertare to contend; con- + centare to strive; properly, to
     try to decide; fr. cernere to distinguish. See {Series}, and


     cf. {Concern}.]
     1. To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference,
        agreement, or consultation.
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              It was concerted to begin the siege in March. --Bp.
                                                    Burnet.
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     2. To plan; to devise; to arrange.
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              A commander had more trouble to concert his defense
              before the people than to plan . . . the campaign.
                                                    --Burke.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Concert \Con*cert"\, v. i.
     To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.
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           The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert with
           Talbot.                                  --Bp. Burnet
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Concert \Con"cert\ (k[o^]n"s[~e]rt), n. [F. concert, It.
     concerto, conserto, fr. concertare. See {Concert}, v. t.]
     1. Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual
        communication of opinions and views; accordance in a
        scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.
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              All these discontents, how ruinous soever, have
              arisen from the want of a due communication and
              concert.                              --Swift.
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     2. Musical accordance or harmony; concord.
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              Let us in concert to the season sing. --Cowper.
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     3. A musical entertainment in which several voices or
        instruments take part.
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              Visit by night your lady's chamber window
              With some sweet concert.              --Shak.
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              And boding screech owls make the concert full.
                                                    --Shak.
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     {Concert pitch}. See under {Pitch}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  concert
       n : a performance of music by players or singers not involving
           theatrical staging
       v 1: contrive (a plan) by mutual agreement
       2: settle by agreement; "concert one's differences"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  271 Moby Thesaurus words for "concert":
     Philharmonic concert, acclamation, accompaniment, accord,
     accordance, act in concert, act together, affiliate, affinity,
     agreement, agreement of all, alliance, ally, amalgamate, argue,
     arrange, assent, associate, association, attune, attunement, band,
     band concert, band together, be in league, bipartisanship, cahoots,
     calculate, cast, chamber concert, chime, chiming, chorus,
     club together, co-working, coact, coaction, coadjuvancy,
     coadministration, coagency, coalesce, cochairmanship,
     codirectorship, coherence, coincide, coincidence, collaborate,
     collaboration, collaborativeness, collectivism, collectivity,
     collude, collusion, combination, combine, combined effort,
     commensalism, common assent, common consent, common effort,
     common enterprise, communalism, communism, communitarianism,
     community, compatibility, complicity, concentus, concert,
     concerted action, concomitance, concord, concordance, concourse,
     concur, concurrence, confederate, confluence, conformance,
     conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency,
     congruity, conjunction, consensus, consensus gentium,
     consensus of opinion, consensus omnium, consent, consentaneity,
     consilience, consistency, consolidate, consonance, consonancy,
     consort, conspiracy, conspire, contrive, cooperate, cooperation,
     cooperativeness, correspondence, cut out, debate, design, devise,
     diapason, discuss, do business with, dramatico-musical, duet,
     duumvirate, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, equivalence,
     esprit, esprit de corps, euphony, federate, fellow feeling,
     fellowship, figure, forecast, frame, fuse, general acclamation,
     general agreement, general consent, general voice,
     get heads together, get together, go partners, hang together,
     harmonics, harmonize, harmony, heavy harmony, hold together,
     homophony, hook up, instrumental, intend, intersection, jazz,
     jazzy, join, join in, join together, joining of forces,
     joint effort, joint operation, junction, keep together, lay plans,
     league, league together, like-mindedness, make a projection,
     make arrangements, make common cause, mass action,
     meeting of minds, merge, methodize, monochord, monody, morale,
     musical performance, musical program, mutual assistance,
     mutual understanding, mutualism, mutuality, octet, one accord,
     one voice, oneness, orchestral, organize, overlap, parallelism,
     parasitism, partner, peace, performance, philharmonic, plan,
     plan ahead, play ball, pooling, pooling of resources, pop concert,
     pops, popular concert, prearrange, program, program of music,
     project, prom, promenade concert, pull together, pulling together,
     put heads together, quartet, quintet, rapport, rationalize,
     reciprocate, reciprocity, recital, rock, same mind, saprophytism,
     schedule, schematize, self-consistency, septet, service of music,
     set up, settle, sextet, shape, simultaneity, single voice,
     solidarity, stand together, swing, symbiosis, symmetry, symphonic,
     symphony, symphony concert, sync, synchronism, synchronization,
     syncopated, synergism, synergy, systematize, tally, team spirit,
     team up, teamwork, three-part harmony, throw in together, tie in,
     tie up, timing, total agreement, trio, triumvirate, troika, tune,
     unanimity, unanimousness, understanding, uniformity, union, unison,
     unisonance, unite, unite efforts, united action,
     universal agreement, work out, work together, work up
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

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