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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Concert \Con"cert\ (k[o^]n"s[~e]rt), noun [F. concert, It. concerto, conserto, fr. concertare. See {Concert}, verb (used with an object)]
1. Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.
All these discontents, how ruinous soever, have arisen from the want of a due communication and concert. --Swift.
2. Musical accordance or harmony; concord.
Let us in concert to the season sing. --Cowper.
3. A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.
Visit by night your lady's chamber window With some sweet concert. --Shak.
And boding screech owls make the concert full. --Shak.
{Concert pitch}. See under {Pitch}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Concert \Con*cert"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Concerted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Concerting}.] [F. concerter, It. concertare, conertare, prob. from L. consertus, p. p. of conserere to join together; con- + serere to join together, influenced by concertare to contend; con- + centare to strive; properly, to try to decide; fr. cernere to distinguish. See {Series}, and cf. {Concern}.]
1. To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.
It was concerted to begin the siege in March. --Bp. Burnet.
2. To plan; to devise; to arrange.
A commander had more trouble to concert his defense before the people than to plan . . . the campaign. --Burke.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Concert \Con*cert"\, verb (used without an object) To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.
The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert with Talbot. --Bp. Burnet
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
concert
noun: a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging
verb
1: contrive (a plan) by mutual agreement
2: settle by agreement; "concert one's differences"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
271 Moby Thesaurus words for "concert": Philharmonic concert, acclamation, accompaniment, accord, accordance, act in concert, act together, affiliate, affinity, agreement, agreement of all, alliance, ally, amalgamate, argue, arrange, assent, associate, association, attune, attunement, band, band concert, band together, be in league, bipartisanship, cahoots, calculate, cast, chamber concert, chime, chiming, chorus, club together, co-working, coact, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, coalesce, cochairmanship, codirectorship, coherence, coincide, coincidence, collaborate, collaboration, collaborativeness, collectivism, collectivity, collude, collusion, combination, combine, combined effort, commensalism, common assent, common consent, common effort, common enterprise, communalism, communism, communitarianism, community, compatibility, complicity, concentus, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concord, concordance, concourse, concur, concurrence, confederate, confluence, conformance, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, conjunction, consensus, consensus gentium, consensus of opinion, consensus omnium, consent, consentaneity, consilience, consistency, consolidate, consonance, consonancy, consort, conspiracy, conspire, contrive, cooperate, cooperation, cooperativeness, correspondence, cut out, debate, design, devise, diapason, discuss, do business with, dramatico-musical, duet, duumvirate, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, equivalence, esprit, esprit de corps, euphony, federate, fellow feeling, fellowship, figure, forecast, frame, fuse, general acclamation, general agreement, general consent, general voice, get heads together, get together, go partners, hang together, harmonics, harmonize, harmony, heavy harmony, hold together, homophony, hook up, instrumental, intend, intersection, jazz, jazzy, join, join in, join together, joining of forces, joint effort, joint operation, junction, keep together, lay plans, league, league together, like-mindedness, make a projection, make arrangements, make common cause, mass action, meeting of minds, merge, methodize, monochord, monody, morale, musical performance, musical program, mutual assistance, mutual understanding, mutualism, mutuality, octet, one accord, one voice, oneness, orchestral, organize, overlap, parallelism, parasitism, partner, peace, performance, philharmonic, plan, plan ahead, play ball, pooling, pooling of resources, pop concert, pops, popular concert, prearrange, program, program of music, project, prom, promenade concert, pull together, pulling together, put heads together, quartet, quintet, rapport, rationalize, reciprocate, reciprocity, recital, rock, same mind, saprophytism, schedule, schematize, self-consistency, septet, service of music, set up, settle, sextet, shape, simultaneity, single voice, solidarity, stand together, swing, symbiosis, symmetry, symphonic, symphony, symphony concert, sync, synchronism, synchronization, syncopated, synergism, synergy, systematize, tally, team spirit, team up, teamwork, three-part harmony, throw in together, tie in, tie up, timing, total agreement, trio, triumvirate, troika, tune, unanimity, unanimousness, understanding, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, unite, unite efforts, united action, universal agreement, work out, work together, work up
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
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