Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Ti.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The chemical symbol of silicon.
  • noun In solmization, the syllable used for the seventh tone of the scale, or the leading tone.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Mus.) A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century.

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  • noun music A syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.

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  • noun a complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists; fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvin) and amount of matter (mole) and luminous intensity (candela)
  • noun the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization
  • noun a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Italian, from Medieval Latin; see gamut.]

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Examples

  • Although Berne had permitted the temporary residence of the deposed count at Oron, and had granted to the countess the revenues of a small piece of land, the refugees soon left the "logis" which they found "_si froid et si mal fourni de vivres_," and repaired to Burgundy and the protection of their powerful de Vergy relatives.

    The Counts of Gruyère Mrs. Reginald de Koven

  • "_Ah! si la jeunesse savait_, -- _si la vieillesse pouvait_!"

    The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902

  • "_Si, si, si_!" he cried, nodding quickly and pointing right away into the distant valley.

    !Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War George Manville Fenn 1870

  • "_Si, si, si_!" is the simultaneous answer of assent, Calderon alone seeming to give it with reluctance; though he hesitates from timidity, not mercy.

    The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Mayne Reid 1850

  • [20] And, indeed, if the intellectual ability, etc. -- _Quod si -- animi virtus_, etc. "Quod si" can not here be rendered _but if; _ it is rather equivalent to _quapropter si_, and might be expressed by

    Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844

  • Palmerius conjectured _simul tentandi gratiâ, si paterentur; et opportunitate loci, _ which Gerlach and Kritsius adopt, except that they change the place of the _et_, and put it before _si_.

    Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844

  • So enjoy the show, y para los nominados que se preguntan si esta será su noche, les digo, ¡si se puede!

    VivirLatino 2009

  • So enjoy the show, y para los nominados que se preguntan si esta será su noche, les digo, ¡si se puede!

    VivirLatino 2009

  • "_Si, Senor, si, si_," answered a short, stout, black-bearded individual who formed one of the trio on the stranger's poop, "we are full of water and sinking.

    The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer Harry Collingwood 1886

  • That 100-year period used to be known as a saeculum — the root of our secular and the French word siècle for century:

    Astrology or Psychohistory? « Isegoria 2008

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  • Welcome to the Maths class:

    si (Spa) ≠ (Spa)

    si (Spa) = if (Eng)

    (Spa) = yes (Eng)

    if (Eng) ≠ yes (Eng)

    Understood?

    October 22, 2007

  • LOL, nice way of diagramming it. :-) I just wish accent marks weren't so tricky to type. I'm not usually one to deliberately misspell things out of laziness, but I admit in the case of avoiding unusual characters, I'm pretty notorious.

    October 23, 2007

  • Chemical element symbol for Silicon.

    December 2, 2007