Prelude vs Chimerical - What's the difference?
prelude | chimerical |
An introductory or preliminary performance or event; a preface.
(music) A short piece of music that acts as an introduction to a longer piece.
To introduce something, as a prelude.
To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance.
* Sir Walter Scott
* Jeffrey
Of or pertaining to a chimera.
Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
* 1877 ,
Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.
As a noun prelude
is an introductory or preliminary performance or event; a preface.As a verb prelude
is to introduce something, as a prelude.As an adjective chimerical is
of or pertaining to a chimera.prelude
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(prelud)- The musicians preluded on their instruments.
- We are preluding too largely, and must come at once to the point.
References
* ----chimerical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "Yes; I have a turn both for observation and for deduction. The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical , are really extremely practical—so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese."
- a chimerical goal