Presto

5 definitions found

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

  Presto \Pres"to\, adv. [It. or Sp. presto quick, quickly. See
     {Prest}, a.]
     1. Quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly.
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              Presto! begone! 'tis here again.      --Swift.


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     2. (Mus.) Quickly; rapidly; -- a direction for a quick,
        lively movement or performance; quicker than allegro, or
        any rate of time except prestissimo.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  presto
       adj : (of tempo) very fast
       adv 1: suddenly; "Presto! begone! 'tis here again"- Swift
       2: at a very fast tempo (faster than allegro)

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

  76 Moby Thesaurus words for "presto":
     accelerando, adagietto, adagio, affrettando, allegretto, allegro,
     andante, andante tempo, andantino, beat, compound time, con anima,
     con brio, crescendo, decrescendo, desto, diminuendo, duple time,
     expeditiously, flat-out, forte, fortissimo, full tilt, hastily,
     immediate, instant, instantaneous, larghetto, larghissimo, largo,
     legato, lickety-split, lightning-like, marcando, march tempo,
     mixed times, moderato, momentaneous, momentary, pianissimo, piano,
     pizzicato, posthaste, prestissimo, quick as lightning,
     quick as thought, quickly, rag, ragtime, rallentando, rapidly,
     ritardando, ritenuto, rubato, scherzando, scherzo, sextuple time,
     simple time, spiccato, staccato, stretto, syncopation, syncope,
     tempo, tempo rubato, three-quarter time, time, time pattern,
     timing, triple time, triplet, two-four time, veloce, vivace,
     vivacissimo, waltz time
  
  

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

  PRESTO
       
          A parallel language for shared-memory multiprocessors, built
          on top of C++ by Bershad et al, U Washington 1987.  PRESTO
          provides {class}es for {thread}s and {spinlock}s as well as
          {Mesa}-style {monitor}s and {condition variable}s.
       
          {(ftp://cs.washington.edu/pub/presto1.0.tar.Z)}.  E-mail:
          .
       
          ["PRESTO: A Kernel for Parallel Programming Environments",
          B.N. Bershad et al, U Wash CS TR, Jan 1987].
       
       

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Presto, PA
    Zip code(s): 15142