From en.wiktionary.org:
[Duet]
** English
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], diminutive of [it].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
[en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A musical composition in two part s, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
2. [en] A song composed for and/or performed by a duo .
3. A pair or couple , especially one that is harmonious or elegant.
4. * [en]
**** Synonyms
- [musical composition in two parts] [en]
- [pair or couple] [en] , [en] , [en] ; see also Thesaurus:duo
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
**** Translations
[a musical composition for two performers]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] [vocal] , [ja] [instrumental] , [ja] , [ja]
- Maori: [mi]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [collective] [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Welsh: [cy]
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*** Verb
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1. [en] To perform a duet.
2. * 1822 , [Lord Byron] , Letter to 吴语: Thomas Moore , Pisa, July 12, 1822, in _The Letters of George Gordon Byron_ , edited by [Mathilde Blind] , London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 277, see https://books.google.ca/books?id=-DF4Zs_eezUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
3. *: When you can spare time from _DUETTING_ , _coquetting_ , and claretting with your Hibernians of both sexes, let me have a line from you.
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1879 | author=w:George Meredith | title= 吴语: The Egoist (novel) | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1684/pg1684-images.html | chapter=20
|passage=He was about as accordantly coupled with Dr. Middleton in discourse
as a drum DUETTING with a bass-viol [...]}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2011 | author=w:Julian Barnes | title=w:The Sense of an Ending | publisher=Random House Canada | page=45 | pageurl=https://books.google.ca/books?id=KkZeDWkc6WYC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
|passage=‘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.}}
1. [en] To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song .
2. * 1975 , 吴语: E. O. Wilson , _Sociobiology: The New Synthesis_ , Belknap Press, p. 223,
3. *: DUETTING species are typically monogamous.
4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1986 | author= 吴语: Thomas Sebeok | title=I Think I Am a Verb: More Contributions to the Doctrine of Signs | location=New York | publisher=Springer Science+Business | year_published=2013 | chapter=7 | page=87 | url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=R6mgBwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
|passage=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.}}
1. [en] To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet.
2. * [footer=Oxford University Press, 2012, p. 377]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1941 | author=w:Emily Carr | title=w:Klee Wyck | url=http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100131h.html | chapter=1
|passage=After the Lord's Prayer the Missionaries DUETTED a hymn while the
children stared at me.}}
1. [en] ( _of two people_ ) To say at the same time, to chorus .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1864 | author=w:Charles Whitehead | chapter=The Stock-Broker | title=Heads of the People: or, Portraits of the English | volume=I | location=London | publisher=Henry G. Bohn | page=23 | url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=dYTFAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
|passage=“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.}}
1. * 1884 , Anonymous, _A Speculation_ , Denver: D. M. Richards, Chapter 12, p. 50, see https://books.google.ca/books?id=RsFQAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
2. *: “A bear!” exclaimed the Major, jumping up and coming forward.
3. *: “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
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*** Anagrams
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** Dutch
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [nl] or [nl] (itself borrowed from Italian).
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
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*** Noun
[n]
1. a duet [musical piece performed by two players or two singers]
2. a ballet routine performed by two dancer s
**** Descendants
- [af]
- [id]
- [fy]
[nl]
** Indonesian
[lang=id]
*** Etymology
From [id], from [id] or [id] (itself borrowed from Italian).
*** Pronunciation
- [id]
- [id]
*** Noun
[id-noun]
1. [en] [musical piece performed by two players or two singers]
*** Further reading
- [R:KBBI Daring]
** Norwegian Bokmål
*** Pronunciation
- [nb]
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*** Verb
[nb]
1. [nb]
** Polish
[lang=pl]
*** Etymology
[pl], from [pl].
*** Pronunciation
[a=Pl-duet.ogg]
*** Noun
[m-in]
1. [pl] [en] [group of two musicians]
2. [pl] [en] [piece of music written for two musicians]
3. [en] [group of two people or things]
**** Declension
[pl-decl-noun-m-in]
*** Further reading
- [R:pl:WSJP]
- [R:pl:PWN]
[pl]
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro].
*** Noun
[n]
1. [ro] [en]
**** Declension
[ro-noun-n]