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• cres., cresc.

語源

Borrowed from Italian crescendo, gerund of crescere (“to grow, to increase”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /kɹɪˈʃɛn.dəʊ/, /kɹəˈʃɛn.dəʊ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /kɹɪˈʃɛn.doʊ/, /kɹəˈʃɛn.doʊ/
• ハイフネーション: cres‧cen‧do

名詞

crescendo (plural crescendos or crescendi or crescendoes)

1. (music) An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin.
2. (figuratively) A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax.

   Their fighting rose in a fearsome crescendo.

3. (figuratively, nonstandard) The climax of a gradual increase.

   Their arguing rose to a fearsome crescendo.

   • 2011 October 20, Michael da Silva, “Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv”, in BBC Sport‎:

     With the Stoke supporters jeering Ziv's every subsequent touch, the pantomime atmosphere created by the home crowd reached a crescendo when Ziv was shown a straight red shortly after the break in extraordinary circumstances.

使用する際の注意点

• The musical sense indicates that the figurative sense is an increase rather than the climax of the increase. The use of this word to mean the climax of an increase is nonstandard but commonplace.

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “music”): decrescendo, diminuendo
• (antonym(s) of “the climax of a gradual increase”): climax, conclusion

動詞

crescendo (third-person singular simple present crescendoes or crescendos, present participle crescendoing, simple past and past participle crescendoed)

1. To increase in intensity; to reach or head for a crescendo.

   The band crescendoed and then suddenly went silent.

   • 2021 November 1, Haley Nahman, “I got a camera to spy on my cat – and it made me question everything about myself”, in The Guardian‎:

     And similarly, they are full of tricks: when the imagined stranger calls your name, the music crescendos romantically; when the video freezes on your laugh, it immediately desaturates the candid photo, making you look old-timey or famous or dead.

副詞

crescendo (not comparable)

1. (music) Gradually increasing in force or loudness.

アナグラム

• conceders

Participle

crēscendō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of crēscendus