Staccato vs Disconnected - What's the difference?
staccato | disconnected |
(music) An articulation marking directing that a note or passage of notes are to be played in an abruptly disconnected manner, with each note sounding for a very short duration, and a short break lasting until the sounding of the next note; as opposed to legato. Staccato is indicated by a dot directly above or below the notehead.
(music) A passage having this mark.
(music) Describing a passage having this mark.
Made up of abruptly disconnected parts or sounds.
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(disconnect)
That is no longer connected.
Feeling a lack of empathy or association with something.
(mathematics, of a topological space) That can be partitioned into two nonempty subsets which are both open and closed.
As adjectives the difference between staccato and disconnected
is that staccato is (music) describing a passage having this mark while disconnected is that is no longer connected.As a noun staccato
is (music) an articulation marking directing that a note or passage of notes are to be played in an abruptly disconnected manner, with each note sounding for a very short duration, and a short break lasting until the sounding of the next note; as opposed to legato staccato is indicated by a dot directly above or below the notehead.As an adverb staccato
is (music) played in this style.As a verb disconnected is
(disconnect).staccato
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(en-noun)Adjective
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* (music) (l)Anagrams
* ----disconnected
English
Verb
(head)- The phone company disconnected my DSL.
Adjective
(en adjective)- There's no use trying to make a call on the disconnected phone.
- I just feel so disconnected from people living on the other side of the world.