Basso rhymes with:

adv 1: with increasing speed; "here you must play accelerando" adj 1: gradually increasing in tempo n 1: a gradually increasing tempo of music; "my ear will not accept such violent accelerandos"

n 1: an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts [syn: brassiere, bra, bandeau]

n 1: a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids [syn: commando, ranger] 2: an amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy territory

n 1: one of the dwelling units in a condominium [syn: condominium, condo]

adj 1: gradually increasing in volume n 1: (music) a gradual increase in loudness v 1: grow louder; "The music crescendoes here" [ant: decrescendo]

adj 1: gradually decreasing in volume [syn: decrescendo, diminuendo] n 1: (music) a gradual decrease in loudness [syn: decrescendo, diminuendo] v 1: grow quieter; "The music decrescendoes here" [ant: crescendo]

adj 1: gradually decreasing in volume [syn: decrescendo, diminuendo] n 1: (music) a gradual decrease in loudness [syn: decrescendo, diminuendo]

adv 1: (musical direction) in the manner of a glissando (with a rapidly executed series of notes); "this should be played glissando, please" n 1: a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale

n 1: an indirect (and usually malicious) implication [syn: insinuation, innuendo]

n 1: Belgian composer (1532-1594) [syn: Lasso, Orlando di Lasso, Roland de Lassus] 2: a long noosed rope used to catch animals [syn: lasso, lariat, riata, reata] v 1: catch with a lasso; "rope cows" [syn: lasso, rope]

n 1: the basic unit of money in Uruguay; equal to 100 centesimos [syn: Uruguayan peso, peso] 2: the basic unit of money in the Philippines; equal to 100 centavos [syn: Philippine peso, peso] 3: the basic unit of money in Mexico; equal to 100 centavos [syn: Mexican peso, peso] 4: the basic unit of money in Guinea-Bissau; equal to 100 centavos [syn: Guinea-Bissau peso, peso] 5: the basic unit of money in the Dominican Republic; equal to 100 centavos [syn: Dominican peso, peso] 6: the basic unit of money in Cuba; equal to 100 centavos [syn: Cuban peso, peso] 7: the basic unit of money in Colombia; equal to 100 centavos [syn: Colombian peso, peso] 8: the basic unit of money in Chile; equal to 100 centesimos [syn: Chilean peso, peso]

n 1: a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata [syn: rondo, rondeau]

n 1: a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air 2: a transparent opening in a vehicle that allow vision out of the sides or back; usually is capable of being opened 3: a transparent panel (as of an envelope) inserted in an otherwise opaque material 4: an opening that resembles a window in appearance or function; "he could see them through a window in the trees" 5: the time period that is considered best for starting or finishing something; "the expanded window will give us time to catch the thieves"; "they had a window of less than an hour when an attack would have succeeded" 6: a pane of glass in a window; "the ball shattered the window" [syn: windowpane, window] 7: an opening in a wall or screen that admits light and air and through which customers can be served; "he stuck his head in the window" 8: (computer science) a rectangular part of a computer screen that contains a display different from the rest of the screen

n 1: a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia [syn: gold, Au, atomic number 79] 2: a unit of length used for distances within the solar system; equal to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun (approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers) [syn: Astronomical Unit, AU]

n 1: a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata [syn: rondo, rondeau] 2: a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas [syn: rondeau, rondel]

n 1: the second or lower part of a duet (especially a piano duet)

adv 1: slowing down; "this passage should be played rallentando" adj 1: gradually decreasing in tempo [syn: rallentando, ritardando, ritenuto, rit.]

adj 1: gradually decreasing in tempo [syn: rallentando, ritardando, ritenuto, rit.]

n 1: brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea [syn: gulfweed, sargassum, sargasso, Sargassum bacciferum]

n 1: a city in central Florida; site of Walt Disney World

n 1: Italian poet who wrote an epic poem about the capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade (1544-1595) [syn: Tasso, Torquato Tasso]

n 1: larded veal braised and glazed in its own juices

adj 1: gradually decreasing in tempo and volume

n 1: prolific and influential Spanish artist who lived in France (1881-1973) [syn: Picasso, Pablo Picasso]