Thesaurus / play by ear
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synonyms for play by ear
- ad-lib
- blend
- coin
- combine
- compose
- compound
- concoct
- construct
- contrive
- cook up
- devise
- dream up
- fabricate
- fabulize
- fake it
- fashion
- fictionalize
- fix
- formulate
- frame
- fuse
- hatch
- improv
- improvise
- invent
- join
- knock off
- make
- meld
- merge
- mingle
- mix
- originate
- prepare
- pretend
- put together
- ready
- storify
- trump up
- whip up
- wing it
- write
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How to use play by ear in a sentence
I assure you, no matter how beautifully we play any piece, the minute Liszt plays it, you would scarcely recognize it!
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYBut I hope at least to play to him a few times, and what is more important, to hear him play repeatedly.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYWhen we were mounted Mac leaned over and muttered an admonitory word for Piegan's ear alone.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRAll along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.What the ear hears is the fundamental pitch only; the overtones harmonize with the primary or fundamental tone, and enrich it.
EXPRESSIVE VOICE CULTUREJESSIE ELDRIDGE SOUTHWICKTo fill up the time till Liszt came, our hostess made us play, one after the other, beginning with the latest arrival.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYAgain the sallow fingers began to play with the book-covers, passing from one to another, but always slowly and gently.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENSHer attachment to impressionism leads this artist to many experiments in color—or, as one critic wrote, "to play with color."
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENTOur class has swelled to about a dozen persons now, and a good many others come and play to him once or twice and then go.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYIt was one day when a student from the Stuttgardt conservatory attempted to play the Sonata Appassionata.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYWORDS RELATED TO PLAY BY EAR
- ad-lib
- blend
- coin
- combine
- compose
- compound
- concoct
- construct
- contrive
- cook up
- devise
- dream up
- fabricate
- fabulize
- fake it
- fashion
- fictionalize
- fix
- formulate
- frame
- fuse
- hatch
- improv
- improvise
- invent
- join
- knock off
- make
- meld
- merge
- mingle
- mix
- originate
- play by ear
- prepare
- pretend
- put together
- ready
- storify
- trump up
- whip up
- wing it
- write
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.