whole note

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noun Music.

a note equivalent in duration to four quarter notes.

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Origin of whole note

First recorded in 1590–1600

Words nearby whole note

whole language, whole-length, wholemeal, whole megillah, whole milk, whole note, whole number, whole numbers, whole rest, wholesale, wholesale price index

How to use whole note in a sentence

In that photo, Merabet has a big smile that spreads across his whole face and lights up his eyes.
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“We talked about the science the whole time the other day,” Krauss told The Daily Beast in a phone interview.
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If the Israel model ban were directed towards disordered eating, Ravin says she would support it whole-heartedly.
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What an amazing thing to be able to listen to any music you want, a whole world of bands.
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And Air Force assessors are the first to say such imaging never tells the whole story.
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You would not think it too much to set the whole province in flames so that you could have your way with this wretched child.
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Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.
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But Polavieja started his campaign with the immense advantage of having the whole of the dry season before him.
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All changes are to be Rang either by walking them (as the term is) or else Whole-pulls, or Half-pulls.
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The plant as a whole remains green until late in the autumn.
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British Dictionary definitions for whole note

whole note

noun

US and Canadian a note, now the longest in common use, having a time value that may be divided by any power of 2 to give all other notesAlso called (in Britain and certain other countries): semibreve

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