different between seventh vs octave
seventh
English
Etymology
From Middle English sevenþe, sefte, from Old English seofoþa, from Proto-Germanic *sebundô.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?s?v.?n?/
Adjective
seventh (not comparable)
- The ordinal form of the number seven.
Synonyms
- 7th, 7th, VIIth; (in names of monarchs and popes) VII
Translations
Noun
seventh (plural sevenths)
- The person or thing in the seventh position.
- One of seven equal parts of a whole.
- (music) A tone of the seventh degree from a given tone, the interval between two such tones, or the two tones sounding in unison.
Translations
Middle English
Adjective
seventh
- Alternative form of sevenþe
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octave
English
Etymology
From Latin octavus (“eighth”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??kt?v/, /??kte?v/
- (US) IPA(key): /??kt?v/, /??kte?v/
Noun
octave (plural octaves)
- (music) An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency.
- (music) The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch.
- The bass starts on a low E, and the tenor comes in on the octave.
- (music) A coupler on an organ which allows the organist to sound the note an octave above the note of the key pressed (cf sub-octave)
- (poetry) A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.
- With mournful melody it continued this octave.
- (fencing) The eighth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword out straight at knee level.
- 2009, Ray Finkleman
- If they always do a lateral parry quarte, and never a semicircular octave, that gives you an opening.
- 2009, Ray Finkleman
- (Christianity) The day that is one week after a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
- 2014, Jennifer Gregory Miller
- It was extended to the entire Church by 1814, and then in 1913 the feast was transferred to September 15, the octave day of the Birth of Mary and the day after the Exaltation of the Cross.
- 2014, Jennifer Gregory Miller
- (Christianity) An eight-day period beginning on a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
- 1870, The Night Hours of the Church, trans. Rev. J. M. Neale
- Of an Octave the Office is said. or at least commemorated, (when any Sunday or Feast intervene), for eight successive days.# A small cask of wine, one eighth of a pipe.
- 1870, The Night Hours of the Church, trans. Rev. J. M. Neale
- (mathematics, obsolete) An octonion.
- (signal processing) Any of a number of coherent-noise functions of differing frequency that are added together to form Perlin noise.
- (astrology) The subjective vibration of a planet.
- 2016: Kristin Fontana, The Beach Reporter
- Mercury then joins its higher octave and generous counterpart Jupiter early next week, and it opens gates of opportunity.
- 2016: Kristin Fontana, The Beach Reporter
Abbreviations
- (interval): P8
Derived terms
Related terms
- octavo
- oct-
- octave key
Translations
See also
- interval
- unison
- second
- third
- fourth
- fifth
- sixth
- seventh
- Octave (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Octave in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Verb
octave (third-person singular simple present octaves, present participle octaving, simple past and past participle octaved)
- Alternative form of octavate
Adjective
octave (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Consisting of eight; eight in number.
- Boccace […] is said to have invented the octave rhye
Anagrams
- avocet, vocate
Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ok?ta.ve/
Adjective
octave
- eighth
Latin
Numeral
oct?ve
- vocative masculine singular of oct?vus
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