| KENDO | • kendo n. A Japanese martial art using "swords" of split bamboo. • KENDO n. (Japanese) a martial art, stick fighting. |
| ZENDO | • zendo n. A hall at a Zen buddhist monastery where formal seated meditation (zazen) is practiced. • ZENDO n. (Japanese) a place where Zen Buddhists study. |
| MORENDO | • morendo adv. (Music) Fading away in tone or tempo. • MORENDO n. (Italian) a gentle decrescendo at the end of a musical strain. |
| INNUENDO | • innuendo n. A derogatory hint or reference to a person or thing. An implication, intimation or insinuation. • innuendo n. (Logic) A rhetorical device with an omitted, but obvious conclusion, made to increase the force of an argument. • innuendo n. (Law) Part of a pleading in cases of libel and slander, pointing out what and who was meant by the libellous… |
| PERDENDO | • perdendo adv. (Music) Losing strength or momentum. • PERDENDO adv. (Italian) slowing and softening at the same time, also PERDENDOSI. |
| REDDENDO | • reddendo n. (Law, Scotland, historical) A clause in a charter specifying the services to be rendered by a vassal to his superior. • REDDENDO n. (Scots) in Scots law, service to be rendered or money to be paid by a vassal. |
| CRESCENDO | • crescendo n. (Music) An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex… • crescendo n. (Figuratively) A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax. • crescendo n. (Figuratively, nonstandard) The climax of a gradual increase. |
| SCORRENDO | • scorrendo adv. (Music) Gliding or passing smoothly between tones. • SCORRENDO adv. (Italian) in a gliding manner. |
| DIMINUENDO | • diminuendo n. (Music) A dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly. • diminuendo n. (Music) A passage having this mark. • diminuendo n. (Metaphoric) The gradual dying away of something. |
| INQUIRENDO | • inquirendo n. (Law) An authority to inquire. • INQUIRENDO n. the authority to inquire into something e.g. for the benefit of the Crown. |
| STRINGENDO | • stringendo n. (Music) A passage in music to be played gradually faster; a section of music with in which the tempo slowly increases. • stringendo adv. (Music) Played with gradually increasing tempo. • STRINGENDO adv. (Italian) urging or hastening the time, as to a climax. |
| DECRESCENDO | • decrescendo n. (Music) An instruction to play gradually more softly. • decrescendo v. (Music) To gradually become quieter. • decrescendo adj. Becoming quieter gradually. |