Lyric

5 definitions found

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

  Lyric \Lyr"ic\, Lyrical \Lyr"ic*al\, a. [L. lyricus, Gr. ?: cf.
     F. lyrique. See {Lyre}.]
     1. Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp.
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     2. Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate


        for song; suitable for or suggestive of singing; -- of
        music or poetry.
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     3. expressing deep personal emotion; -- said especially of
        poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the
        poet; as, the dancer's lyrical performance. "Sweet lyric
        song." --Milton.
  
     Syn: lyric.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lyric \Lyr"ic\, n.
     1. A lyric poem; a lyrical composition.
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     2. A composer of lyric poems. [R.] --Addison.
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     3. A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; --
        used chiefly in the plural.
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     4. pl. The words of a song.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lyric
       adj 1: expressing deep personal emotion; "the dancer's lyrical
              performance" [syn: {lyrical}]
       2: used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume
          and modest in range; "a lyric soprano" [ant: {dramatic}]
       3: relating to or being musical drama; "the lyric stage"
       4: of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses
          emotion (often in a songlike way); "lyric poetry"
       n 1: the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his
            compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote
            both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial
            language" [syn: {words}, {language}]
       2: a short poem of songlike quality [syn: {lyric poem}]
       v : write lyrics for (a song)

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

  88 Moby Thesaurus words for "lyric":
     English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet,
     Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic,
     balada, ballad, ballade, book, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew,
     dirge, dithyramb, dulcet, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram,
     epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel,
     graceful, haiku, idiosyncratic, idyll, individual, jingle,
     libretto, light, limerick, lyrical, lyrics, madrigal, mellifluous,
     mellow, melodic, melodious, monody, musical, narrative poem,
     nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela,
     pastourelle, personal, poem, prothalamium, rhapsodic, rhyme,
     rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, sentimental, sestina,
     silvery, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, subjective, sweet,
     tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse,
     verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay, words
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  LYRIC
       
          Language for Your Remote Instruction by Computer.  A {CAI}
          language implemented as a {Fortran} {preprocessor}.
       
          ["Computer Assisted Instruction: Specification of Attributes
          for CAI Programs and Programmers", G.M. Silvern et al, Proc
          ACM 21st Natl Conf (1966)].
       
          (1994-10-12)