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Octavated vs Octavates - What's the difference?

octavated | octavates |

As an adjective octavated

is altered to sound a pitch one octave lower than its usual range.

As a verb octavates is

third-person singular of octavate.

As a noun octavates is

plural of lang=en.

octavated

English

Adjective

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  • (music, rare, of an instrument) to (l) a (l) one (l) lower than its usual (l).
  • * 1987 , Bastiaan Blomhert, The Harmoniemusik of Die Entführung aus dem Serail by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , page 60
    • Ob 2 = violin 2 (octavated , except bar 4, which is from basset-horn 2)

    octavates

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (octavate)

    • Noun


    • octavate

    English

    Verb

  • (music) one (l) higher or lower.
  • # (of an instrument) or sound one octave higher or lower.
  • #* 1922 , Diran Alexanian [aut.] and Frederick Fairbanks [tr.], Complete Cello Technique (2003 repub.), page 105
  • The string, originally divided, will continue for some time to “octavate ”.
  • #* 1947 , Ernest Closson [aut.] and Delano Ames [tr.], History of the Piano , page 64
  • Adolphe Sax, when he invented the saxophone, had at first only in mind the object of improving the clarinet by permitting it to ‘octavate .’
  • #* 1948 , The Galpin Society Journal I–IV, page 69
  • ‘Octavate ’ (i.e. overblow at the octave. Does decimate mean to overblow at the tenth? Is the Primate the fundamental note of an instrument?).
  • #* 1957 , Marin Mersenne [aut.] and Roger Eddington Chapman [tr.], Harmonie Universelle , page 305
  • When it octavates', the holes being closed, it often assumes its natural pitch again on opening the holes, instead of continuing its tones to the octave above, so that it ' octavates much more easily when the holes are closed than when they are unstopped.
  • # (of a person) a musical (l).
  • #* 1984 , VdGSA News XXI–XXIV, page 39
  • Ability to ornament, octavate , play chords and do some improvising.
  • #* 2004 , Deutschland , page 23
  • He varies and octavates , leaving Bach listeners thunderstruck.
  • #* 2007', Michael Gallant, “'''OCTAVATE !: Spread your hands to create powerful sounds.” in ''Keyboard XXXIII–XXXIV, page unknown
  • # the (l) of (a part of itself).
  • #* 1999 , Jon Chappell, The Recording Guitarist , page 133
  • A 12-string doubles the octaves of only the lower four strings…. A doubled, capoed guitar “octavates up” the top two strings.
  • (mathematics, rare) (the (l) of a (l)) from (l) to (l) (l).
  • * 1949 , The American Mathematical Monthly LVI, page 463
    • To octavate the number one hundred the reasoning is as follows. The square of eight goes into one hundred once with remainder thirty-six. This remainder contains eight to the first power four times with remainder four. Hence to express one hundred to the base 8 we write the digits 144 which in somewhat longer form may be put as 100 = 1×8² + 4×8 + 4.

    Derived terms

    * (l), (l)

    Related terms

    * (l)

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) (l) (transfiguratively)
  • * 2000 , Supriya Kumar Bhattacharjee, Handbook of Aromatic Plants , page 18
    • There is an octavate' of odours as well as ' octavates of notes in music. Like the keys of instruments, certain odours coincide or blend.