Noun

(en noun)

A minor distinction.

Subtlety or fine detail.

Understanding the basics is easy; appreciating the nuances takes years.

* 1901: Alpheus Spring Packard, Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution

...the richer our collections become, the more numerous are the proofs that all is more or less shaded (nuance ), that the remarkable differences become obliterated...

Noun

(en noun)

A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.

:

*{{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page= 266

, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}

*, chapter=5

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song , the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,

(label) Any musical composition.

Poetical composition; poetry; verse.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:This subject for heroic song .

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:The bard that first adorned our native tongue / Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song .

The act or art of singing.

A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.

:

*(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)

*:That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.

Something that cost only a little; chiefly in for a song.

:

*(Benjamin Silliman) (1779–1864)

*:The soldier's pay is a song .

*

*:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song , and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.

An object of derision; a laughing stock.

*(Bible), (w) xxx. 9

*:And now am I their song , yea, I am their byword.