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coda — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • coda noun A passage that brings a piece of music to a close, added after the main structure has finished.
  • line noun A long, thin mark or stroke, straight or curved, on a surface.
  • queue noun A line of people or vehicles waiting their turn, served in the order they arrived.
  • tail noun The flexible appendage extending from the rear of an animal's body.

Senses

coda is used for these senses in English:

  • coda (music) A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
  • line A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation. [from mid-16th c.]
  • queue A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.
  • queue (computing) A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (in the case of a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide. [from 20th c.]
  • tail An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.

coda — full definition

  1. noun A passage that brings a piece of music to a close, added after the main structure has finished.
  2. noun A concluding part of a book, film, speech or series of events that rounds it off or adds a final reflection.
  3. noun The consonant or consonants that follow the vowel at the end of a syllable.

line — full definition

  1. noun A long, thin mark or stroke, straight or curved, on a surface.
  2. noun A row or sequence of people, things, or words, one after another.
  3. verb To arrange people or things in a row, or to form such a row.
  4. verb To cover the inside surface of something with a layer of material.
  5. noun A telephone or other communication connection.

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