What is "bravo"

Bravo \Bra"vo\, interj. [It. See Brave.] Well done! excellent! an exclamation expressive of applause. [1913 Webster] ||

Bravo \Bra"vo\, n.; pl. Bravoes. [I. See Brave, a.] A daring villain; a bandit; one who sets law at defiance; a professional assassin or murderer.

Safe from detection, seize the unwary prey. And stab, like bravoes, all who come this way.
--Churchill.

as an exclamation, "well done!," 1761, from Italian bravo, literally "brave" (see brave (adj.)). Earlier it was used as a noun meaning "desperado, hired killer" (1590s). Superlative form is bravissimo.It is held by some philologists that as "Bravo!" is an exclamation its form should not change, but remain bravo under all circumstances. Nevertheless "bravo" is usually applied to a male, "brava" to a female artist, and "bravi" to two or more. ["Elson's Music Dictionary," 1905]

interj. Used to express acclaim, especially to a performer. n. A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado. vb. To cheer or applaud, especially by saying ''bravo!''

1. n. a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a treacherous surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed; "his assassins were hunted down like animals"; "assassinators of kings and emperors" [syn: assassin, assassinator]

2. a cry of approval as from an audience at the end of great performance

3. v. applaud with shouts of `bravo' or `brava'

4. [also: bravoes (pl)]

Bravo may refer to:

Bravo Media, LLC, more commonly known as Bravo, is an American basic cable and satellite television network and flagship channel, launched on December 1, 1980. It is owned by NBCUniversal and headquartered in the Comcast Building in New York City. The channel originally focused on programming related to fine arts and film; it currently broadcasts several reality television series targeted at females ages 25 through 54 as well as the LGBT community, acquired dramas, and mainstream theatrically-released feature films.

As of July 2015, approximately 92,295,000 American households (79.3% of households with television) receive Bravo.

Bravo (styled bravo) is a Canadian English language Category A cable and satellite specialty channel that is owned by Bell Media. Bravo maintains an entertainment format, with a particular focus on television dramas and films.

The channel was founded as a Canadian version of the U.S. channel Bravo (which is now owned by NBCUniversal). However, the channels have since diverged from a focus on the arts; Bravo in the U.S. was relaunched with an emphasis on fashion and pop culture programming in 2003, while Bravo in Canada began to add more dramatic series to its lineup beginning in 2006. Aside from still airing programming such as Inside the Actors Studio, a 2012 rebranding effectively separated the Canadian Bravo from its American counterpart.

Bravo was a British television channel owned by Living TV Group, a subsidiary of BSkyB. Its target audience was males in their 20s to early 40s. It broadcast a variety of both archive programming (such as Knight Rider and MacGyver) and original productions.

The Bravo channel ceased broadcasting on 1 January 2011. Its most popular programmes including: Spartacus: Blood and Sand (now on Sky1), Chuck, Leverage (now on Fox), Dog the Bounty Hunter (now on Pick), Star Trek (now on CBS Action), TNA Wrestling (now on Challenge), Sun, Sea and A&E, Motorway Patrol, Highway Patrol, Brit Cops and Caribbean Cops (now on Pick and Sky Livingit) moved to other Sky channels.

Bravo is the largest teen magazine within the German-language sphere. The first issue was published in 1956, subtitled as "the magazine for film and television" . Marilyn Monroe's portrait graced the first published issue, the never-published dummy issue cover displayed Elvis Presley.

Bravo is a rock and roll band founded in 1983 in Moscow, Russia by guitarist Evgeny Havtan. Drawing a heavy inspiration from 1950's western music, Bravo was a part of Soviet rock and roll revival of the 1980s, along with Secret.

The band was one of the most popular acts in Russia in the 1980s, until the departure of original lead singer Zhanna Aguzarova ( :ru:Жанна Агузарова) in 1988. After this Bravo has achieved success in later years with several different singers, Valeriy Syutkin (1990-1994) and Robert Lentz (since 1996).

Bravo is the fourth album by 5566. It was released in 2008 on Avex Trax Records.

Bravo is the seventh album by the hard rock band Dr. Sin. It was released in July 2007 by Century Media in Brazil.

Bravo was a Romanian teens' magazine, the Romanian version of the German original format. It was published bimonthly between 1997 and 2014.

Bravo was the first WYSIWYG document preparation program. It provided multi-font capability using the bitmap displays on the Xerox Alto personal computer. It was produced at Xerox PARC by Butler Lampson, Charles Simonyi and colleagues in 1974.

Bravo was a modal editor—characters typed on the keyboard were usually commands to Bravo, except when in "insert" or "append" mode, in which case they were entered into the character buffer. Bravo made extensive use of the mouse for marking locations in the text, as well as selecting areas of the text, but it was not used for command entry. (Being at the very dawn of graphical user interface design, a non- command driven interface was judged too ambitious and possibly even inefficient and cumbersome.)

In addition to a long list of commands for controlling the formatting of the text (e.g. the ability to adjust left and right margins for sections of text, select fonts, etc.) Bravo also supported use of multiple buffers (i.e. files), and also multiple windows.

Although Bravo usually displayed the text with formatting (e.g. with justification, fonts, and proportional spacing of characters), it did not normally attempt to reproduce the way a page would look in hardcopy. This was because the Alto monitor provided a resolution of 72 pixels per inch, but the laser printers used at PARC provided a resolution of 300 PPI. This meant that the screen could at best only provide an approximation of the way the page would look when printed. Instead, the normal display mode showed the text using character sizes, etc., more suited to the capability of the display.

There was a special display mode which did attempt to show the text exactly as it would appear when printed, and the normal command set worked in that mode as well. However, because the screen image was necessarily an approximation, one would occasionally find characters and words slightly off (a problem that continues to this day with word processing systems).

The 72 PPI pixel size closely approximated the 72.27 points per inch used in the commercial printing industry, so that a pixel in Bravo would be the same size as a typeface point.

Bravo was the base for Gypsy, a later document system on the Alto, the first with a modern graphical user interface.

Bravo was followed by BravoX, which was developed under Simonyi's leadership at Xerox's Advanced Systems Development (ASD) group. BravoX was "modeless", as was Gypsy. While Bravo (and BravoX) were originally implemented in BCPL for the Xerox Alto, BravoX was later re-implemented in a language called "Butte" ("a Butte is a small Mesa", as Charles Simonyi used to say). Alto BCPL compiled into DCC machine instructions, which were in turn interpreted by Alto microcode. Butte compiled into Butte-specific byte codes, which were interpreted by special Alto microcode, similar to the Mesa bytecode interpreter.

Bravo was a Spanish musical group of the 1980s. The band was formed in 1982, with a similar line-up to ABBA (two men, two women). The band rose to fame in Spain when they were chosen to represent their country in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984. Spain had received nul points in 1983 and few were expecting a great result with Bravo's entry, " Lady, Lady".

However, the song finished in third place in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 and had great success in the charts in Spain and Latin America. The band was invited onto many shows in Latin America (including Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic) and participated in the Viña del Mar Festival in Chile. The band released two albums before dissolving in 1986.

Bravo is a Hispanic supermarket chain with locations in the northeastern and southeastern U.S. It carries Krasdale Foods brands. The company's headquarters is in New York. The company launched the El Sabor de tu Pais ("the flavor of your country") advertising campaign. In the early 1990s many independently owned Bravo stores opened in New York City. Bravo is a midsize supermaket.

Bravo stopped advertising with the New York Daily News after the paper ran a series deragatory of supermarket chains in the city. Bravo later resumed advertising with the paper after the Daily News mended fences with the industry.

Bravo is the second New Zealand television channel owned and operated by MediaWorks New Zealand and NBCUniversal International Networks, broadcast via the state-owned Kordia transmission network. The channel launched on 3 July 2016. Bravo focuses on design, food, glamour and pop culture.

Bravo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alfredo Bravo (1925-2003), Argentine activist and politician
• Ángel Bravo (born 1942), Venezuelan baseball player
• Arturo Bravo (born 1958), Mexican racewalker
• Charles Bravo (1845-1876), British lawyer and poisoning victim
• Ciara Bravo (born 1997), American actress
• Claudio Bravo (born 1983), Chilean footballer
• Daniel Bravo (born 1963), French international footballer
• Danny Bravo (born 1948), Indian-American child actor
• Darren Bravo (born 1989), West Indian cricketer
• Dino Bravo (1949–1993), professional wrestler
• Dwayne Bravo (born 1983), West Indian cricketer
• Émile Bravo (born 1964), French comics author
• Fabiana Bravo (born 1969), Argentine soprano
• Helia Bravo Hollis (1901–2001), Mexican botanist
• Guillermina Bravo (1920–2013), Mexican ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet director
• Leopoldo Bravo (1919-2006), Argentine politician
• Marcelo Bravo (born 1985), Argentine footballer
• Mario Bravo (1882-1944), Argentine politician and writer
• Martín Bravo (born 1986), Argentine footballer
• Nicolás Bravo (born 1786), Mexican politician
• Nino Bravo (1944-1973), Spanish singer
• Omar Bravo (born 1980), Mexican footballer
• Raúl Bravo (born 1981), Spanish footballer
• Rose Marie Bravo (born 1951), American businesswoman