different between durt vs duet

English

Noun

durt (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of dirt.

Anagrams

• RTU'd, turd

Latvian

Pronunciation

Verb

durt (tr. or intr., 1st conj., pres. duru, dur, dur, past d?ru)

1. to stab
2. to thurst
3. to prick
4. to jab

Conjugation

Westrobothnian

Adjective

durt

1. neuter singular of dyr

English

Etymology

From Italian duetto (“short musical composition for two voices”), diminutive of duo (“two”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dju??t/, /du??t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

duet (plural duets)

1. (music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
2. (music) A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
3. A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.

Synonyms

• (musical composition in two parts): duo
• (pair or couple): couple, pair, twosome; see also Thesaurus:duo

Related terms

• dual
• duo

Translations

Verb

duet (third-person singular simple present duets, present participle duetting or dueting, simple past and past participle duetted or dueted)

1. (intransitive) To perform a duet.
   • 1822, Lord Byron, Letter to Mr. Moore, Pisa, July 12, 1822, in The Letters of George Gordon Byron, edited by Mathilde Blind, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 277, [1]

     When you can spare time from duetting, coquetting, and claretting with your Hibernians of both sexes, let me have a line from you.

   • 1879, George Meredith, The Egoist, Chapter 20, [2]

     He was about as accordantly coupled with Dr. Middleton in discourse as a drum duetting with a bass-viol […]

   • 2011, Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending, Random House Canada, p. 45, [3]

     ‘Ti-yi-yi-yime is on my side, yes it is,’ I used to yodel, duetting with Mick Jagger as I gyrated alone in my student room.

2. (intransitive, zoology, of pairs of animals) To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song.
   • 1975, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Belknap Press, p. 223,

     Duetting species are typically monogamous.

   • 1986, Thomas A. Sebeok, I Think I Am a Verb: More Contributions to the Doctrine of Signs, New York: Springer Science+Business, 2013, Chapter 7, p. 87, [4]

     In several dozen species of birds there has been found a phenomenon known as duetting, or antiphonal singing: the first part of a song is executed by one partner of a pair, then the other partner very promptly chimes in to sing the second part.

3. (transitive) To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet.
   • 1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Oxford University Press, 2012, p. 377,

     Peena and Queena are duetting a giggle-for-giggle […]

   • 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 1, [5]

     After the Lord's Prayer the Missionaries duetted a hymn while the children stared at me.

4. (transitive) (of two people) To say at the same time, to chorus.
   • 1864, Charles Whitehead, “The Stock-Broker” in Heads of the People: or, Portraits of the English, Volume I, London: Henry G. Bohn, p. 23, [6]

     “My dear papa!” duetted the girls; but there was something in the husband and father's face, that told the three ladies it would be worse than useless to raise that question at present.

   • 1884, Anonymous, A Speculation, Denver: D. M. Richards, Chapter 12, p. 50, [7]

     “A bear!” exclaimed the Major, jumping up and coming forward.

     “A bear!” dueted the Doctor and Right Rev., pressing hastily to the front.

Usage notes

• In the UK and other Commonwealth countries, the present and past participles of this verb are often spelled with a double T: duetted and duetting

See also

• solo
• trio
• quartet
• quintet
• sextet
• septet
• octet
• nonet

Anagrams

• 'tude, -tude, Deut., tude

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian duetto or German Duett (itself borrowed from Italian).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dy??t/
• Hyphenation: du?et
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

duet n (plural duetten, diminutive duetje n)

1. A duet (musical piece performed by two players or two singers).
2. A ballet routine performed by two dancers.

Descendants

• Afrikaans: duet
• ? Indonesian: duet
• ? West Frisian: duët

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch duet, from Italian duetto or German Duett (itself borrowed from Italian).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?u?t??]
• Hyphenation: du?èt

Noun

duet (first-person possessive duetku, second-person possessive duetmu, third-person possessive duetnya)

1. duet (musical piece performed by two players or two singers).

Further reading

• “duet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Polish

Etymology

From German Duett, from Italian duetto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?du.?t/

Noun

duet m inan (diminutive duecik)

1. (music) duet (group of two musicians)

   Synonym: duo

2. (music) duet (piece of music written for two musicians)

   Synonym: duo

3. duet (group of two people or things)

   Synonym: duo

Declension

Further reading

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