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HARMONY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Compatibility in opinion and action
Synonyms:
harmoniousness; harmony
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("harmony" is a kind of...):
compatibility (capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "harmony"):
congruence; congruity; congruousness (the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate)
Derivation:
harmonical (involving or characterized by harmony)
harmonize (go together)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An agreeable sound property
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("harmony" is a kind of...):
sound property (an attribute of sound)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "harmony"):
consonance; harmoniousness (the property of sounding harmonious)
Antonym:
dissonance (disagreeable sounds)
Derivation:
harmonic (of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and rhythm)
harmonical (involving or characterized by harmony)
harmonious (musically pleasing)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords
Synonyms:
harmony; musical harmony
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("harmony" is a kind of...):
music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "harmony"):
harmonisation; harmonization (a piece of harmonized music)
four-part harmony (harmony in which each chord has four notes that create four melodic lines)
preparation ((music) a note that produces a dissonant chord is first heard in a consonant chord)
resolution ((music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord)
Derivation:
harmonic (of or relating to the branch of acoustics that studies the composition of musical sounds)
harmonical (involving or characterized by harmony)
harmonious (musically pleasing)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Agreement of opinions
Synonyms:
concord; concordance; harmony
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("harmony" is a kind of...):
agreement (the verbal act of agreeing)
Derivation:
harmonical (involving or characterized by harmony)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole
Synonyms:
concord; concordance; harmony
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("harmony" is a kind of...):
order (established customary state (especially of society))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "harmony"):
peace (harmonious relations; freedom from disputes)
comity (a state or atmosphere of harmony or mutual civility and respect)
accord; agreement (harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters)
Derivation:
harmonic; harmonical (involving or characterized by harmony)
harmonious (existing together in harmony)
harmonious (exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities)
harmonise (bring into consonance or accord)
harmonise (bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously)
harmonize (bring into consonance or accord)
harmonize (bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously)
harmonize (go together)
Context examples:
Here's harmony! said she; here's repose!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The ability of brain regions to activate neurons in harmony with each other, thereby elevating a specific signal above the background noise may be impaired in many brain disorders.
(How the brain pays attention to faces and places, NIH)
Researchers from the University's Sainsbury Laboratory decided to examine the clock across all the major organs of the plant to help us understand how plants coordinate their timing to keep the entire plant ticking in harmony.
(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)
And yet there was a change, a touch of dignity in the expression, a suggestion of confidence in the bearing which seemed, now that it was supplied, to be the one thing which had been needed to give him harmony and finish.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They settled in town, received very liberal assistance from Mrs. Ferrars, were on the best terms imaginable with the Dashwoods; and setting aside the jealousies and ill-will continually subsisting between Fanny and Lucy, in which their husbands of course took a part, as well as the frequent domestic disagreements between Robert and Lucy themselves, nothing could exceed the harmony in which they all lived together.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Elizabeth soon perceived, that though this great lady was not in commission of the peace of the county, she was a most active magistrate in her own parish, the minutest concerns of which were carried to her by Mr. Collins; and whenever any of the cottagers were disposed to be quarrelsome, discontented, or too poor, she sallied forth into the village to settle their differences, silence their complaints, and scold them into harmony and plenty.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It chanced that out of one of the bundles there stuck the end of what the clerk saw to be a cittern, so drawing it forth, he tuned it up and twanged a harmony to the merry lilt which the dancers played.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The disproportion in their fortune was nothing; it did not give her a moment's regret; but to have no family to receive and estimate him properly, nothing of respectability, of harmony, of good will to offer in return for all the worth and all the prompt welcome which met her in his brothers and sisters, was a source of as lively pain as her mind could well be sensible of under circumstances of otherwise strong felicity.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Shortly before ten o'clock the stillness of the air grew quite oppressive, and the silence was so marked that the bleating of a sheep inland or the barking of a dog in the town was distinctly heard, and the band on the pier, with its lively French air, was like a discord in the great harmony of nature's silence.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
