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Gamut vs Ambit - What's the difference?

gamut | ambit |

As nouns the difference between gamut and ambit

is that gamut is a (normally) complete range while ambit is the sphere or area of control and influence of something.

gamut

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A (normally) complete range.
  • * 19?? , (Dorothy Parker), review of (Katharine Hepburn) in the Broadway play (The Lake)
    • She delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), Chapter 2
    • The entire gamut of the view's changes should have been known to her; its winter aspect, spring, summer and autumn; how storms came up from the sea; how the moors shuddered and brightened as the clouds went over; she should have noted the red spot where the villas were building; and the criss-cross of lines where the allotments were cut...
  • (music) All the notes in the musical scale.
  • All the colours available to a device such as a monitor or printer.

    • Derived terms

    * run the gamut

    Related terms

    * ut

    References

    ambit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sphere or area of control and influence of something.
  • * 1913 , , The Judgment House , ch. 34,
    • He had invited Destiny to sweep him up in her reaping, by placing himself in the ambit of her scythe.
  • A circuit, or a boundary around a property.
  • A span of actions, thoughts, or words.

    • Derived terms

    * ambit claim

    Anagrams

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