Crossword clues for orchestrate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
orchestrate \orchestrate\ v. t.
to write an orchestra score for; -- of a musical composition.
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To be the chief coordinator of (an activity requiring action by more than one person); to organize and coordinate.
Syn: mastermind, engineer, direct, organize.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to compose or arrange (music) for an orchestra," 1855, back-formation from orchestration. The figurative sense is attested from 1883. Related: Orchestrated; orchestrating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To arrange or score music for performance by an orchestr
2 To compose or arrange orchestral music for a dramatic performance. 3 To arrange or direct diverse elements to achieve a desired effect
WordNet
v. write an orchestra score for
plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery" [syn: mastermind, engineer, direct, organize, organise]
Usage examples of "orchestrate".
Indeed, Admiral Ackbar had seemed the logical choice to represent Mon Calamari on the Advisory Council, as he had done back when the first Provisional Council was formed, but when the push for Pwoe - a push Luke suspected orchestrated by Borsk - had become serious, Ackbar had waved away all thoughts of rejoining the council and had retired.
From his organization, the conglomerate orchestrated the printing and distribution of one hundred seventy-six newspapers, twelve magazines, seventeen on-line research companies and united two hundred seven affiliate newsrooms across the U.
Solomon Oversoul, marshal of the jihad in service to the Witch-King of Corea, credited with orchestrating the defeat of the Bellipotent Composition during the Era of the Fifth Mental Structure.
To think that I helped orchestrate the event that will provide their precoital entertainment tomorrow night.
The continental wars, the influx of Southerling refugees, the rise of Corolini, everything has been orchestrated, planned for some purpose we do not know.
Honored Pedure is actually at Southmost in person, orchestrating things.
In addition to looking after the day-to-day affairs of his gallery, orchestrating his disputes with fellow members of the American Communist Party, and pulling off his celebrated fetes, he was also, in idle moments, writing a largely unpunctuated novel, already more than a thousand pages long, which described, in cellular detail, the process of his own birth.
But when he arrived in Canada in 1934, few people knew much about Charles Eugene Bedaux, and what they were told, thanks to his own carefully orchestrated publicity, was all flattering.
At a crucial moment, when the singing and blaring of martial brass had been silenced, Robespierre descended from the mountain like some Jacobinical Moses, parting the waves of tricolored patriots, and graciously received the burst of orchestrated applause that broke over his head.
Venice have been carefully orchestrated to leave the city helpless and at odds with itselfwhile Jagiellon has moved to precipitate a war in northern Italy.
He looked around, and saw Margit performing an elaborate Lissajous manoeuvre, smoothly orchestrating a dozen transitions at once.
He orchestrated their desires until they themselves began to believe that Mars was the logical objective of their own plans and ambitions.
Maybe the Oirat had summoned fell magic and orchestrated a ruse against Umai, the womb goddess to deceive her into giving the marks to Temuchin.
The careful pavane of jugs, orchestrated by a terrified Rushad, served by stone-faced women.
With the discovery of superstring theory, musical metaphors take on a startling reality, for the theory suggests that the microscopic landscape is suffused with tiny strings whose vibrational patterns orchestrate the evolution of the cosmos.