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Gamut vs Chic - What's the difference?

gamut | chic |

As nouns the difference between gamut and chic

is that gamut is gamut (colour range available to a monitor or printer) while chic is .

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

    References

    chic

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • stylish; elegant
  • Derived terms

    * ecochic

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Good form; style.
  • Usage notes

    * The noun chic is very often used with an attributive noun or adjective modifier, indicating the kind of style; hence "heroin chic", "boho-chic", "shabby chic", and so on.

    Derived terms

    * (List of chics)

    See also

    * ("chic" on Wikipedia) ----