Definitions for passing-note

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Passing-Note is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 1149 anagrams from letters in passing-note (-aeginnopsst).

Definitions for passing-note

noun

  1. a note that is foreign to a harmony and is introduced between two successive chord tones in order to produce a melodic transition.

Origin of passing-note

First recorded in 1720-30

Examples for passing-note

This is his favourite wife, and her story is worth a passing note.

Shakespeare's mention of the Strawberry and the Nettle (No. 2) deserves a passing note.

This is an extremely brilliant descending passage in octaves, with the ninth used as a passing note.

The passing note of a bird or the scent of a flower may be enough to upset a most admirably contrived plan.

Thomas Wilkinson of Yanwath, the friend of Wordsworth and the subject of these verses, deserves more than a passing note.

This seems to bear out the common view of the Enharmonic as produced by the introduction of an 'accidental' or passing note.

And in passing note the fact that he still got letters from his people after he came to Tombstone with a price on his head.

Elizabeth, this man's wife, is worthy of more than a passing note.

The Countess d'Agoult is worthy of much more than a passing note.

Word Value for passing-note
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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