different between staccato vs garble

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian staccato (“detached, disconnected”), past participle of staccare (“to detach, separate”), aphetic variant of distaccare (“to separate, detach”), from Middle French destacher (“to detach”), from Old French destachier (“to detach”), from des- +? atachier (“to attach”), alteration of estachier (“to fasten with or to a stake, lay claim to”), from estache (“a stake”), from Low Frankish *stakka (“stake”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz, *stakk?n (“stick, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“stick, stake”). Akin to Old High German stecko (“post”) (German Stecken (“stick”)), Old Saxon stekko (“stake”), Old Norse stakkr (“hay stack, heap”), Old English staca (“stake”). More at stake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??k??to?/
• Rhymes: -??t??

Noun

staccato (plural staccatos or staccati)

1. (music) An articulation marking directing that a note or passage of notes are to be played in an abruptly disconnected manner, with each note sounding for a very short duration, and a short break lasting until the sounding of the next note; as opposed to legato. Staccato is indicated by a dot directly above or below the notehead.
2. (music) A passage having this mark.
3. (figuratively) Any sound resembling a musical staccato.

Translations

Adverb

staccato (comparative more staccato, superlative most staccato)

1. (music) played in this style

   Now, play the same passage very staccato.

Adjective

staccato (comparative more staccato, superlative most staccato)

1. (music) Describing a passage having this mark.
2. Made up of abruptly disconnected parts or sounds.

Antonyms

• (music): legato

Anagrams

• stoccata, toccatas

Italian

Etymology

From staccare (“to detach, separate”).

Verb

staccato m (feminine singular staccata, masculine plural staccati, feminine plural staccate)

1. past participle of staccare
2. past participle of staccarsi

Adjective

staccato (feminine staccata, masculine plural staccati, feminine plural staccate)

1. disjointed, disunited, separate
2. loose (pages in a book)
3. (sports) outdistanced

Noun

staccato m (plural staccati)

1. staccato

Anagrams

• stoccata

Polish

Etymology

From Italian staccato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stak?ka.t?/

Noun

staccato n

1. (music) staccato (style of playing short sharp notes)

Declension

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English garbelen, from Anglo-Norman garbeler (“to sift”), from Medieval Latin garbellare (or a similar Italian word), from Arabic ????????? (?arbala, “to sift”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????(?)b?l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)b?l

Verb

garble (third-person singular simple present garbles, present participle garbling, simple past and past participle garbled)

1. To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert
2. To make false by mutilation or addition [from 17th c.]

3. (obsolete) To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt [14th–19th c.]

Derived terms

• garbley gook

Translations

Noun

garble (countable and uncountable, plural garbles)

1. Confused or unintelligible speech.
   • 1976, Boating (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)

     The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.

2. (obsolete) Refuse; rubbish.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wolcott to this entry?)

3. (obsolete) Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings.

Further reading

• garble in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• garble in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Gabler, Grable, garbel