Solo

6 definitions found

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

  Solo \So"lo\ (s[=o]"l[-o]), n.; pl. E. {Solos} (s[=o]"l[=o]z),
     It. {Soli}. [It., from L. solus alone. See {Sole}, a.] (Mus.)
     A tune, air, strain, or a whole piece, played by a single
     person on an instrument, or sung by a single voice.
     [1913 Webster]



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

  Solo \So"lo\, a. (Music)
     Performing, or performed, alone; uncombined, except with
     subordinate parts, voices, or instruments; not concerted.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  solo
       adj : composed or performed by a single voice or instrument; "a
             passage for solo clarinet"
       n 1: any activity that is performed alone without assistance
       2: a musical composition for one voice or instrument (with or
          without accompaniment)
       3: a flight in which the aircraft pilot is unaccompanied
       adv : without anybody else; "the child stayed home alone"; "he
             flew solo" [syn: {alone}, {unaccompanied}]
       v 1: fly alone, without a co-pilot or passengers
       2: perform a piece written for a single instrument
       [also: {soli} (pl)]

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

  103 Moby Thesaurus words for "solo":
     air, airlift, alienated, alone, aloof, apart, aria, aria buffa,
     aria cantabile, aria da capo, aria da chiesa, aria di bravura,
     aria di coloratura, aria fugata, aria parlante, arietta, arioso,
     aside, barnstorm, bravura, cantabile, canto, cantus, choir,
     claviature, coloratura, companionless, console, control, copilot,
     descant, detached, drive, echo, eighty-eight, fingerboard, flight,
     fly, friendless, great, homeless, hop, individual, insular,
     isolated, ivories, jump, keyboard, keys, kithless, lay, line, lone,
     lonely, lonesome, manipulate, manual, measure, melodia,
     melodic line, melody, monodrama, monologue, monology, note,
     organ manual, pedals, peel off, piano keys, pilot, recitative,
     refrain, removed, rootless, run, separate, separated,
     single-handed, singular, sole, soliloquy, solitary, solo part,
     song, soprano part, strain, swell, test flight, treble, trip, tune,
     unabetted, unaccompanied, unaided, unassisted, unattended,
     unescorted, unexampled, unique, unrepeatable, unseconded,
     unsupported, withdrawn
  
  

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

  SOLO
       
          [SOL (Semantic Operating Language) + LOGO].  A variant of
          {LOGO} with primitives for dealing with {semantic network}s
          and {pattern matching} rather than lists.
       
          ["A User-Friendly Software Environment for the Novice
          Programmer", M. Eisenstadt , CACM
          27(12):1056-1064 (1983)].
       
       

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

  Solo, MO
    Zip code(s): 65564