Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Music The concluding passage of a movement or composition.
- noun A conclusion or closing part of a statement.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music: The tail or stem of a note.
- noun A passage added to a composition for the purpose of bringing it to a complete close: it is especially important in works that are constructed in canon, rondo, or sonata form.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A
passage which brings amovement orpiece to aconclusion throughprolongation . - noun linguistics The optional
final part of asyllable , placed after itsnucleus , and usually composed of one or moreconsonants . - noun geology In
seismograms , the gradual return tobaseline after aseismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate eventmagnitude , and the shape sometimes reveals details ofsubsurface structures. - noun The conclusion of a statement.
- noun Alternative spelling of
CODA .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the closing section of a musical composition
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There's a scene in what we call the coda, where he comes out in a diagonal - a shooting diagonal, begging - doing these things called brisé.
NYT > Home Page By ELLEN BARRY 2011
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A tragic coda is that although Saro-Wiwa was widely admired in the West, the oil-dependent democracies that profess their devotion to human rights did little to save him.
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A tragic coda is that although Saro-Wiwa was widely admired in the West, the oil-dependent democracies that profess their devotion to human rights did little to save him.
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The coda is perfect, switching between the main lip-syncher and the crowds XD
I Only Know A Little Piano... fantasyecho 2008
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Yet the experience of watching this intentionally incongruous coda is excruciating, and to no defensible effect beyond a shrug of the shoulders and an acknowledgement that literalizing the metaphysical is not Fassbinder's forte.
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The coda is rather amazing: a silent (music but no dialog) series of scenes that build into perhaps the best example I've seen of why the secular is preferable to the religious, ending with a quietly inclusive moment of sheer, sweet perfection.
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How do you explain the free variation of glottalization -- a marked feature -- in English coda stops?
Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2 2008
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Rob: How do you explain the free variation of glottalization -- a marked feature -- in English coda stops?
Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2 2008
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Until the coda, that is, when Mr. Nelson's inimitable tenor takes over, and the prim cablevision audience erupts.
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And finally, they're surprised by the coda, which is a personal coda, and well, I won't tell people what's in the coda, but people are astonished and taken by it.
chained_bear commented on the word coda
"Females tend to employ a Morse code-like series of clicks, known as a coda, and male sperm whales make slower, louder clicks called clangs."
--Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, 87
May 1, 2008