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Appropriate key found by composer
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germane
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. related to the topic being discussed or considered. n. 1 (cx inorganic chemistry English) germanium tetrahydride, GeH 4 2 (cx organic chemistry especially in combination English) Any organic derivative of this compound.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Because altruistic love was germane to both, he could argue for a perfect union. ▪ Such a search is not germane to therapy. ▪ The Articles which are germane to the subject being discussed here are Articles 10 and 11. ▪ These ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "having the same parents," derived from german (adj.); compare human/humane , urban/urbane . Main modern sense of "closely connected, relevant" (c.1600) derives from use in "Hamlet" Act V, Scene ii: "The phrase would bee more Germaine to the matter: ...
Usage examples of germane.
The good man began to philosophise and to jest on her malady, and he told me some stories, germane to the question, which the girls pretended not to understand.
The presentation of the astrolabe, which he now repocketed, had been a fascinating diversion from which Sparta had learned nothing germane to her case.
A counterpoint that is sometimes given to this well substantiated and close relationship of birds to saurischians is that the survival of birds is not germane to the issue of dinosaur extinction because the large, ecologically similar dinosaurs became extinct while the smaller birds did not.
The good man began to philosophise and to jest on her malady, and he told me some stories, germane to the question, which the girls pretended not to understand.
Said creatures would scarcely appreciate wasting such a delectable treat by having it pour down upon an enemy, but the Harskeel hardly considered the wants of the bats germane to its own plans.
There is another scruple cast in by Divinity concerning its production, much disputed in the Germane auditories, and with that indifferency and equality of arguments, as leave the controversie undetermined.
Although it is not immediately germane to our narrative, it is of interest to note that Pulendius was among those who had managed to flee the Alaria successfully.
Nothing germane to the issue in your amended complaint when we called for the bill of particulars and all your people would surrender were the first two acts and the prologue, could have pursued it of course for another delay to keep running up your costs but I managed to convince my people to take mercy, always wondered how it came out.
He expounded upon those laws pertaining to property rights in beasts mansuete and he quoted from cases of attainder insofar as he reckoned them germane to the corruption of blood in the prior and felonious owners of the horses now dead among the bones.
Probably none of it was germane to his mission, but you never knew, and anyway, he enjoyed the gab session.