Concert vs Spectacle - What's the difference?
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To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.
* Bishop Burnet
To plan; to devise; to arrange.
* Burke
To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.
* Bishop Burnet
(uncountable) Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.
(uncountable) Musical accordance or harmony; concord.
(countable) A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.
Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
An exciting exhibition, performance or event.
An embarrassing situation
(usually, in the plural) An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light.
(figuratively) An aid to the intellectual sight.
* Chaucer
(obsolete) A spyglass; a looking-glass.
The brille of a snake.
Concert is a related term of spectacle.
As nouns the difference between concert and spectacle
is that concert is (uncountable) agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action while spectacle is something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant.As a verb concert
is to plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.concert
English
Verb
(en verb)- It was concerted to begin the siege in March.
- A commander had more trouble to concert his defence before the people than to plan the campaign.
- The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert with Talbot.
Noun
(wikipedia concert)- I'm going to the rock concert on Friday.
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* English heteronyms ----spectacle
Noun
(en noun)- In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
- He made a spectacle out of himself
- Poverty a spectacle is, as thinketh me, Through which he may his very friends see.