different between crescendo vs crescentic

English

Alternative forms

• cres.
• cresc.

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian crescendo, gerund of crescere (“to grow, to increase”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?????n.d??/, /k?????n.d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k?????n.do?/, /k?????n.do?/
• Hyphenation: cres?cen?do

Noun

crescendo (plural crescendos or crescendi or crescendoes)

1. (music) An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin.
2. (figuratively) A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax.

3. (figuratively, nonstandard) The climax of a gradual increase.

Usage notes

• The musical sense indicates that the figurative sense is an increase rather than the climax of the increase. The use of this word to mean the climax of an increase is nonstandard but commonplace.

Antonyms

• (music): decrescendo, diminuendo
• (the climax of a gradual increase): climax, conclusion

Translations

Verb

crescendo (third-person singular simple present crescendoes, present participle crescendoing, simple past and past participle crescendoed)

1. To increase in intensity; to reach or head for a crescendo.

   The band crescendoed and then suddenly went silent.

Adverb

crescendo (not comparable)

1. (music) Gradually increasing in force or loudness.

Anagrams

• conceders

Czech

Noun

crescendo n

1. (music) crescendo

Finnish

Noun

crescendo

1. crescendo (instruction to play gradually more loudly)
2. (rare) crescendo (gradual increase, especially to a dramatic climax)

Declension

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cr?scendum (“increasing, growing”), gerund of cr?sc?

Verb

crescendo

1. (gerund of crescere) growing, increasing

Noun

crescendo m (plural crescendi)

1. (music) crescendo
2. (figuratively) crescendo

Descendants

• English: crescendo
• Spanish: crescendo

Latin

Participle

cr?scend?

1. dative masculine singular of cr?scendus
2. dative neuter singular of cr?scendus
3. ablative masculine singular of cr?scendus
4. ablative neuter singular of cr?scendus

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /k???.?s?.du/

Noun

crescendo m (plural crescendos)

1. (music) crescendo (music to be play gradually more loudly)

Verb

crescendo

1. gerund of crescer

Spanish

Noun

crescendo m (plural crescendos)

1. crescendo

Swedish

Noun

crescendo n

1. (music) crescendo

Declension

English

Etymology

From crescent (“(growing) half moon”) +? -ic. More at crescent.

Adjective

crescentic (comparative more crescentic, superlative most crescentic)

1. Growing, increasing, gaining size, etc.
2. Crescent-shaped.
   • 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 25:

     Twin dimples of the crescentic type came down her tanned cheeks on the sides of her mournful mouth.

Synonyms

• crescent

Derived terms

• crescentic nephritis (a kidney disease)

Related terms

• crescendo

Anagrams

• eccentrics