glissando
(adverb) (musical direction) in the manner of a glissando (with a rapidly executed series of notes); “this should be played glissando, please”
glissando
(noun) a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale
Source: WordNet® 3.1
glissando (plural glissandi or glissandos or glissandoes)
(music) Either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another ("true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another ("effective" glissando).
A method of playing an electric guitar in which a metal bar is held at right angles across the strings and rapidly moved up and down, creating a smooth, lush sound.
glissando (third-person singular simple present glissandos, present participle glissandoing, simple past and past participle glissandoed)
(music) To play with a glissando or sliding effect.
Source: Wiktionary
Glis*san"do, n. & a. Etym: [As if It. = Fr. glissant sliding.] (Mus.)
Definition: A gliding effect; gliding.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
