different between ballet vs musical

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ballet, from Italian balletto (“short dance, ballet”), diminutive form of ballo (“ball”), from Late Latin ball? (“to dance”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bæle?/, /bæl?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /bælæe/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /b?læe/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /b?le?/, /b?l??/
• (General American) enPR: b?-l??, b??l?(') IPA^(key): /bæ?le?/, /?bæ(?)le?/
• Rhymes: -æle?, -æli, -e?
• Hyphenation: bal?let

Noun

ballet (countable and uncountable, plural ballets)

1. A classical form of dance.
2. A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story.
3. The company of persons who perform this dance.
4. (music) A light part song, frequently with a fa-la-la chorus, common among Elizabethan and Italian Renaissance composers.
5. (heraldry) A bearing in coats of arms representing one or more balls, called bezants, plates, etc., according to colour.
6. (figuratively) Any intricate series of operations involving coordination between individuals.
   • 1990, Historic Preservation: Quarterly of the National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings (volumes 42-43)

     Food preparation on a potager no doubt became a kitchen ballet in which pans were constantly shifted, coals constantly replenished, and grates shaken out.

   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

     Henry Payton joined Alan on the sidelines during the conclusion of the oddly delicate ballet known as On-Scene Investigation.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

ballet (third-person singular simple present ballets, present participle balleting, simple past and past participle balleted)

1. To perform an action reminiscent of ballet dancing.
   • 2014 Rutherford's Vascular Surgery E-Book - Page 1340

     Situations that typically require longer iliac limbs than the measurements suggest include extreme iliac tortuosity, “balleting” of the limbs (Endurant and Excluder) (Fig. 90-3), and the need to extend to the external iliac arteries. It these anatomic circumstances, it is prudent to choose a longer length when in doubt.

   • 2016 Jacob Russell Dring, "Endless the Chase"

     Unfortunately, he could only sustain so much abuse. Footfalls approached. Kanoa's lips smacked and his jaw hung open. His eyelids fluttered, their underlying gaze balleting without clarity. He felt beyond sick, and his world spun immensely. A garbled voice of incoherency seemed to be his only link to this realm of consciousness.

   • 2017 Num Nums "A Total Bust a Move" The ZhuZhus

     Frankie's obviously going to ballet her way to the trophy.

See also

• mime
• modern dance

Anagrams

• betall

Catalan

Noun

ballet m (plural ballets)

1. ballet

Further reading

• “ballet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ballet” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “ballet” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ballet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chavacano

Etymology

Borrowed from English ballet, from French ballet, from Italian balletto (“short dance, ballet”), diminutive form of ballo (“ball”).

Noun

ballet

1. ballet (dance tradition and style)

Danish

Etymology

Either from French ballet or directly from Italian balletto, the diminutive form of ballo (“dance, ball”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bal?t/, [b?a?l?d?]

Noun

ballet c (singular definite balletten, plural indefinite balletter)

1. ballet

Inflection

Descendants

• ? Greenlandic: balletti

Further reading

• “ballet” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French ballet, from Middle French ballet, from Italian balletto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??l?t/
• Hyphenation: bal?let
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

ballet n (plural balletten, diminutive balletje n)

1. ballet

Derived terms

• balletles
• balletzaal

French

Etymology

From Italian balletto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.l?/

Noun

ballet m (plural ballets)

1. ballet

Derived terms

• ballet à ski
• ballet-féerie
• corps de ballet
• maître de ballet

Descendants

• ? English: ballet
• ? Portuguese: balé, balê
• ? Swedish: balett
• ? Thai: ??????? (ban-lêe)
• ? Vietnamese: ba lê

Further reading

• “ballet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Verb

ballet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of ballen

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bal.let/, [?bäl???t?]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /?bal.let/, [?bal?et]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bal.let/, [?b?l??t?]

Verb

ballet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of ball? (“to dance”)

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?palleh(t)/

Verb

ballet

1. inflection of ballat:
   1. third-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person singular past indicative
   3. second-person plural imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

ballet n

1. definite singular of ball (Etymology 2)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

ballet n

1. definite singular of ball (Etymology 2)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French ballet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bale/, [?ba.le]

• IPA^(key): /ba?let/, [ba?let?]

Noun

ballet m (uncountable)

1. ballet

English

Alternative forms

• musicall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English musical, from Old French [Term?], from Medieval Latin m?sic?lis, from Latin m?sica (“music”) +? -?lis (suffix forming adjectives); equivalent to music +? -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mju.z?.k?l/

Adjective

musical (comparative more musical, superlative most musical)

1. Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation.

2. Pleasing to the ear; sounding agreeably; having the qualities of music; melodious; harmonious.

3. Fond of music; discriminating with regard to music; gifted or skilled in music.

4. Pertaining to a class of games in which players move while music plays, but have to take a fixed position when it stops; by extension, any situation where people repeatedly change positions.
   • 1962, Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Play, Simon and Schuster ?ISBN, page 34

     Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.

   • 2004, Mike Bright, A Dream Realized: A Collection of Poems by Cowboy Mike Bright, Xulon Press ?ISBN, page 341

     Musical seats upon an airplane is not a game I recommend.

   • 2006, Evelyn Palfrey, The Price of Passion, Simon and Schuster ?ISBN, page 441

     “Sounds like y'all are playing musical houses. How did you convince your mama to move to Austin?”

   • 2011, Leonard James Schoppa, The Evolution of Japan's Party System: Politics and Policy in an Era of Institutional Change, University of Toronto Press ?ISBN, page 14

     Parties were splitting, forming, merging, and dissolving in such rapid succession that the game of musical chairs seemed to describe what was going on better than any known theory of political science.

   • 2014, Tyler McMahon, Kilometer 99: A Novel, St. Martin's Griffin ?ISBN, page 138

     Among my small circle of college friends, and even more so among the volunteers here, couples are so often changing places, people playing musical lovers.

Derived terms

Related terms

• music
• musicality
• musically

Translations

Noun

musical (plural musicals)

1. A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting.
2. (probably archaic or obsolete) A meeting or a party for a musical entertainment; a musicale.

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /mu.zi?kal/

Adjective

musical (masculine and feminine plural musicals)

1. musical

Derived terms

Noun

musical m (plural musicals)

1. musical

Further reading

• “musical” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “musical” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “musical” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “musical” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English musical.

Noun

musical c (singular definite musicalen, plural indefinite musicaler or musicals)

1. A musical.

Inflection

Alternative forms

• musikal

Derived terms

• film-musical

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.zi.kal/

Adjective

musical (feminine singular musicale, masculine plural musicaux, feminine plural musicales)

1. musical

Derived terms

• chaises musicales
• comédie musicale
• scie musicale

Related terms

• musique

Further reading

• “musical” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• musclai

Galician

Adjective

musical m or f (plural musicais)

1. musical; of or pertaining to music

Synonyms

• (musical): músico

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English musical.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mjuzik?l]
• Hyphenation: mu?si?cal
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

musical (plural musicalek)

1. musical (a show or film which involves singing, dancing and musical numbers)

Declension

References

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [muzik?al]

Adjective

musical

1. musical (relating to music)

Synonyms

• music

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English musical.

Noun

musical m (invariable)

1. musical

Occitan

Adjective

musical m (feminine singular musicala, masculine plural musicals, feminine plural musicalas)

1. musical (of or relating to music)
2. musical (pleasing to the ear)

Derived terms

• musicalitat

Related terms

• musica

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /myzi?kal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

musical

1. musical

Related terms

• mùsica

Polish

Etymology

From English musical, from Middle English musical, from Old French, from Medieval Latin m?sic?lis, from Latin m?sica + -?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mju?zi.kal/

Noun

musical m inan

1. (film, music, theater) musical (stage performance, show or film)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) musicalowy

Further reading

• musical in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• musical in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

música (“music”) +? -al (“adjective-forming suffix”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu.zi.?ka?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mu.zi.?kaw/
• Hyphenation: mu?si?cal

Adjective

musical m or f (plural musicais, comparable)

1. musical (of or relating to music)
2. musical (pleasing to the ear)

   Synonyms: melodioso, melódico

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:musical.

Noun

musical m (plural musicais)

1. musical (stage performance, show or film that focuses on singing and dancing)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:musical.

Related terms

• músico

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /musi?kal/, [mu.si?kal]
• Hyphenation: mu?si?cal

Adjective

musical (plural musicales)

1. musical

Noun

musical m (plural musicales)

1. musical

Derived terms

Related terms

• música

Further reading

• “musical” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.