легато — meaning in English

English meaning

• ligature noun A cord, thread, or wire used to tie something tightly, especially to close off a blood vessel in surgery.
• slur noun An offensive or insulting remark, especially one targeting a person's group identity.

Senses

легато is used for these senses in English:

• ligature (countable, music) A group of notes played as a phrase, or the curved line that indicates such a phrase.
• slur (music) The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).

ligature — full definition

1. noun A cord, thread, or wire used to tie something tightly, especially to close off a blood vessel in surgery.
2. noun A character formed by joining two or more letters into a single glyph, such as æ.

slur — full definition

1. noun An offensive or insulting remark, especially one targeting a person's group identity.
2. noun Unclear, poorly separated speech.
3. verb To pronounce words unclearly by running them together.

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