different between jazz vs classical

English

Alternative forms

• jaz, jas, jass, jasz (all dated, used from about 1912 to about 1918)

Etymology

Unknown. First attested around 1912 in a discussion of baseball; attested in reference to music around 1915. Numerous references suggest that the term may be connected to jasm and jism.

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?z, IPA^(key): /d??æz/
• Rhymes: -æz

Noun

jazz (uncountable)

1. (music) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
2. Energy, excitement, excitability.
3. The substance or makeup of a thing.

4. Unspecified thing(s).

5. (with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.

6. Nonsense.

7. Semen, jizz.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

jazz (third-person singular simple present jazzes, present participle jazzing, simple past and past participle jazzed)

1. To destroy.

2. To play (jazz music).
3. To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
4. To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite
5. To complicate.

6. (intransitive, US slang, dated) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
7. (intransitive) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around. [from 20th c.]
8. To distract or pester.

9. To ejaculate.

Synonyms

• (to destroy): annihilate, ravage; see also Thesaurus:destroy
• (to play jazz music): cook, jam; see also Thesaurus:play music
• (to enliven): invigorate, vitalise; see also Thesaurus:enliven
• (to complicate): complexify, confuscate; see also Thesaurus:complicate
• (to prostitute oneself): sell one's body, turn tricks; see also Thesaurus:prostitute oneself
• (to pester): bother, bug; see also Thesaurus:annoy

Translations

References

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??as/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?d??as/

Noun

jazz m (plural jazz)

1. jazz

Derived terms

• jazzístic

Further reading

• “jazz” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “jazz” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “jazz” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Noun

jazz m

1. jazz

Declension

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Noun

jazz m (definite singular jazzen)

1. (uncountable) jazz (form of music)

Derived terms

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??z/
• Hyphenation: jazz

Noun

jazz m (uncountable)

1. jazz

Derived terms

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j?ts/, [?j?ts?]
• Rhymes: -?ts
• Syllabification: jazz

Noun

jazz

1. jazz (style of music)

Declension

Synonyms

• jatsi

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz. The compound jazband is attested in a 1918 copy of Le Matin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??z/

Noun

jazz m (uncountable)

1. (music) jazz (music style)

Derived terms

• jazz
• jazzifier
• jazzman

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??az/, /?d???z/

Noun

jazz m (uncountable)

1. (music) jazz

Adjective

jazz (invariable)

1. (relational) jazz

   Synonym: jazzistico

Derived terms

• jazzista
• jazzistico

References

• jazz in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• jass

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Noun

jazz m (definite singular jazzen)

1. (uncountable) jazz (form of music)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• jass

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Noun

jazz m (definite singular jazzen)

1. (uncountable) jazz (form of music)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???s/

Noun

jazz m inan

1. jazz (music)

Declension

Synonyms

• d?ez

Derived terms

• jazzowy
• jazzband
• jazzman

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?d???s/

Noun

jazz m (uncountable)

1. (music) jazz (music genre)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:jazz.

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English jazz.

Pronunciation

Noun

jazz m (uncountable)

1. jazz

Derived terms

• jazzista m or f

English

Etymology

See classic § Etymology for history; surface analysis, class +? -ical = class + -ic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klæs?kl?/
• Hyphenation: clas?si?cal

Adjective

classical (comparative more classical, superlative most classical)

1. Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
2. Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
3. (music) Describing Western music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
4. (informal, music) Describing art music (rather than pop, jazz, blues, etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
5. Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
   • 1853, Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Atterbury, Francis" in Encyclopædia Britannica (8th ed.). Dated through The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, page 344

     He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college.

6. Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined

   classical dance.

   • 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume 1, page 151.

     Classical, provincial, and national synods.

7. (physics) Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
8. (cryptography) In contrast to quantum computing; pertaining to cryptographic algorithms that are not designed to resist attack by quantum computers, or cryptanalysis that does not take quantum computer capabilities into account. In some contexts may instead refer to older cryptographic algorithms, e.g. classical ciphers.

Usage notes

Various usage advisers give various prescriptions for differentiating classic from classical by word sense distinctions and by collocational idiomaticness (that is, according to the way in which certain collocations tend to use one suffix more than the other idiomatically). For example (as pointed out by various authorities, including Bryan Garner in Garner's Modern English Usage, fourth edition), classical tends to be preferred in the sense referring to "the classics" (in ancient literature, modern literature, or music), although classic also sometimes serves in this sense. For copyeditorially inclined users of English, it is useful to know the twin pair of descriptive facts that apply to many usage prescriptions: the prescriptions are not invariably followed in respectable formal writing, but nonetheless it is widely considered preferable style to avoid flouting them.

Synonyms

• classic (see Usage notes regarding differentiation.)

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

classical (countable and uncountable, plural classicals)

1. (countable) One that is classical in some way; for example, a classical economist.
   • 2002, James E Hartley, James E. Hartley, The Representative Agent in Macroeconomics, Routledge (?ISBN), page 120:

     Similarly, the new classicals never claimed to be Austrians, nor did they ever make the attempt to meet Austrian objections. Therefore, we cannot fault them for not using this methodology. Nevertheless, new classicals constantly preach […]

2. (uncountable) Short for classical music.

Further reading

• classical in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• classical at OneLook Dictionary Search
• classical, classic at Google Ngram Viewer