Parry vs Gamut - What's the difference?
parry | gamut |
A defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying.
(fencing) A simple defensive action designed to deflect an attack, performed with the forte of the blade.
To avoid, deflect, or ward off (an attack, a blow, an argument, etc.).
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A (normally) complete range.
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* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), Chapter 2
(music) All the notes in the musical scale.
All the colours available to a device such as a monitor or printer.
As a proper noun parry
is .As a noun gamut is
gamut (colour range available to a monitor or printer).parry
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(parries)Derived terms
* beat parry * opposition parry * yielding parryVerb
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gamut
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Noun
(en noun)- She delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.
- 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...
