Crossword clues for presto
presto
- Magician's exclamation
- Magician's declaration
- Revealing cry
- Cousin of "Voilà!"
- Quite fast, in music
- Quick movement
- Faster than allegro
- Fast, in music
- Fast movement
- Conjurer's word
- "Abracadabra" alternative
- The magic word?
- Really fast
- Quick tempo
- It's faster than allegro
- '89 Rush album
- ''Ta da!''
- Rush's 13th for a magic show?
- Magician's utterance
- In a fast tempo
- As quickly as possible
- (Musically) fast
- "___ change-o!"
- Wand-waver's cry
- Voila's kin
- Very fast, in scores
- Tricky word?
- To be played quickly
- Sight on a theater lobby wall
- Rapid-music direction
- Rapid tempo
- Quickly, on a score
- Passage played at a quick tempo
- Mazur's "quickly"
- Kin of "Shazam!"
- In quick tempo
- FryDaddy brand
- Fast, for fiddlers
- Cry at a magic act
- Conjurer's command
- Companion of chango
- At a rapid tempo
- At a quick tempo
- Appearance announcement
- A magician's command
- 1st Atlantic album by Rush in '89
- 1989 Rush album with a rabbit in a top hat on its cover
- 1989 Rush album
- (Of music) very fast
- (In music) fast
- "And now there's a rabbit in my top hat!"
- "And now the rabbit's gone!"
- "--- change-o!"
- ''Abracadabra!'' equivalent
- Man, to hold battle: magical success!
- As if by magic, he's poetry in motion
- _____ chango (magician's command)
- Wand waver's word
- With rapid tempo
- "Shazam!"
- Magician's word
- Word said with a wave of the hand
- Magic word
- Direction in 23-Across
- Immediately
- Magician's cry
- Chop-chop
- Magical utterance
- Abracadabra alternative
- Quickly, in music
- Cousin of "Abracadabra!"
- Fast tempo
- Really moving, musically
- Lively tempo
- Cry just before a rabbit appears?
- Cousin of "VoilГ !"
- Part of a magician's mumbo-jumbo
- Rapidly
- Scored very quickly?
- Upwards of 170 beats per minute
- Rapid tempo marking
- On the double
- P.D.Q.
- Double-quick
- Thaumaturgist's word
- Magical word
- Chango preceder
- In rapid tempo
- At a rapid tempo, in music
- Word from Doug Henning
- Magician's command
- Quickly, maestro!
- Magician's "___ chango!"
- Very quickly forgetting name of 15's keyboard player
- Quickly stop work in Post Office
- Quickly find some cash - balance nil!
- Quick sauce containing radish top
- Others in work turned over very quickly
- Others entering Italian river quickly
- Fast-moving Lancashire city never closing
- Lancashire football team mostly played very fast
- Runner takes break very fast
- In a quick tempo
- Hey ___ !
- Deposit balance in Post Office without delay
- The last to leave English city, quickly
- Musical direction
- At once
- Trick ending?
- In a jiffy
- "Just like that!"
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Presto \Pres"to\, adv. [It. or Sp. presto quick, quickly. See Prest, a.]
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Quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly.
Presto! begone! 'tis here again.
--Swift. (Mus.) Quickly; rapidly; -- a direction for a quick, lively movement or performance; quicker than allegro, or any rate of time except prestissimo.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "quickly," used by conjurers, etc., from Italian presto "quick, quickly" in conjuror's patter, from Latin praestus "ready," praesto (adv.) "ready, available," from prae "before" (see pre-) + stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Compare Latin praesto esse "to be at hand, be ready," source of French prêt "ready." As a musical direction, it is a separate borrowing from Italian, first recorded 1683.
Wiktionary
adv. (context music English) Very fast or quickly; a directive for the musician(s) to play in a very quick tempo. interj. Used by magicians when performing a trick; ta-da; voilà. n. (context poker slang English) A pair of fives as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
WordNet
adj. (of tempo) very fast
adv. suddenly; "Presto! begone! 'tis here again"- Swift
at a very fast tempo (faster than allegro)
Wikipedia
Presto may refer to:
Presto is the thirteenth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1989. It was recorded at Le Studio in Morin Heights and at McClear Place in Toronto. Presto was Rush's first album with their new international label Atlantic Records, which the band signed to in early 1989 after deciding not to renew its contract with Mercury/ PolyGram Records.
The band had intended to co-produce the album with Peter Collins, who had produced the previous two studio albums, Power Windows and Hold Your Fire; however, he reluctantly declined the offer for personal reasons. Instead, Rupert Hine, who had been approached for Grace Under Pressure, produced the album.
All singles released from the album (" Show Don't Tell", " The Pass" and "Superconductor") charted, with "Show Don't Tell" hitting #1 on the Album Rock Tracks chart. The album itself charted at #16 on the Billboard 200 album chart, and sales of Presto earned the band a gold record (sales in excess of 500,000 copies) in the US, and Platinum in Canada. The album has been remastered and reissued twice: once in 2004 as a continuation of "The Rush Remasters" series and again in 2013 as a part of the box set The Studio Albums 1989–2007.
Presto was the layout engine of the Opera web browser for a decade. It was released on 28 January 2003 in Opera 7, and later used to power the Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers. As of Opera 15, the desktop browser uses a Chromium backend, replacing Presto with the Blink layout engine.
Presto is a dynamic engine. Webpages can be re-rendered completely or partially in response to DOM events. Its releases saw a number of bug fixes and optimizations to improve the speed of the ECMAScript ( JavaScript) engine. It is proprietary software only available as a part of the Opera browsers.
Presto is a 2008 American Pixar computer-animated short film shown in theaters before their feature-length film WALL-E. The short is about a magician trying to perform a show with his uncooperative rabbit and is a gag-filled homage to classic cartoons such as Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes. Presto was directed by veteran Pixar animator Doug Sweetland, in his directorial debut.
The original idea for the short was a magician who incorporated a rabbit into his act who suffered from stage fright. This was considered to be too long and complicated, and the idea was reworked. To design the theater featured in Presto, the filmmakers visited several opera houses and theaters for set design ideas. Problems arose when trying to animate the theater's audience of 2,500 patrons; this was deemed too expensive, and was solved by showing the back of the audience.
Reaction to the short was positive, and reviewers of WALL-Es home media release considered it to be an enjoyable special feature. Presto was nominated for an Annie Award and Academy Award. It was included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2008.
Presto Foodmarkets was a chain of supermarkets and convenience stores in Great Britain, which first appeared in the early 1960s. While the fate of most of the chain's stores was conversion to Safeway, the final stores still trading as Presto were either closed or sold during 1998.
Presto is an Australian streaming company which offers subscriptions to unlimited viewing of selected movies, and from 2015, TV shows. The service, initially owned wholly by Foxtel, launched on 13 March 2014 featuring films exclusively. There are three separate subscription options for Presto, named Presto Movies, Presto TV, and bundled option Presto Entertainment.
Presto is an Apache-licensed, open source SQL query engine optimized for high-speed interactive analytics at scale.
Usage examples of "presto".
Muggledrone played allegretto, Trumtwang allegro, Whistlerap presto, and Scrapesqueak prestissimo.
Young couples would purchase that property, they would take up occupancy, they would quarrel, the quarreling would escalate to shouting and table-pounding, they would anathematize each other, and, presto, they would move out, not together but separately.
Presto: parasympathetic symptoms before all hell breaks loose secondary to the nerve and muscle cell destruction.
Nancy, add one simple search of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, and presto, chango, voila!
After that, Chalabi would take overand, presto chango, Iraq would be a U.
Hey presto again, she was best-selling author of a monthly series of semi-fictional booklets with settings from Demerara to Siberia expounding all the principles of political economy.
Plato wants to banish, scrape away every fiction get down to the truth, to the naked animal banish them yes, banish the Lydian mode and the Ionian and the flute above all the flute worse than all the strings together invented for nothing but pleasure and Homer, banish Homer and all of the poets and painters and sculptors whose love poems and naked Venuses celebrate women as instruments of pleasure take that first movement of The Kreutzer Sonata, the presto you say, can we allow it to be played in a drawing room full of women in lowcut dresses?
At the summit Henry and Jalong went to work with their parangs and -- presto!
Muggledrone played allegretto, Trumtwang allegro, Whistlerap presto, and Scrapesqueak prestissimo.
Bilbo faceva la sua apparizione fin dall’inizio, che ricalca molto l’atmosfera dell’Hobbit, ma ben presto egli passa la mano al nipote Frodo, che è l’eroe de Il Signore degli Anelli, e con questa scelta l’atmosfera cambia, s’approfondisce, diviene sempre più coinvolgente.
It described Locke's career over the past fifteen years at IF, listing the numerous successful marketing programs he had developed, all of which Peter recognized: Holy Cow ice cream, Presto Microwave Popcorn, and one of the most popular beverages of all time, Orange Fresh carbonated juice.
Così, una volta presa questa decisione, mi sono un poco rasserenato ripromettendomi di iniziare al più presto la costruzione di un muro circolare fatto di pali, cavi e tutto il resto, come la prima volta, e che all'interno avrei sistemato la tenda.
Dato che gli Hyatt presto si sarebbero trasferiti in una nuova casa più grande e un po' più vicina alla costa, diedero quel party non solo per festeggiare il compleanno ma anche come addio alla casa che per prima li aveva ospitati come famiglia.
Percorsero una galleria che sicuramente aveva ospitato di recente un torrente sotterraneo, perché il fango era alto fin sopra le ginocchia e dal soffitto l'acqua gocciolava loro sulla testa, una tortura in più della quale ben presto ebbero modo di sentirsi grati, quando il passaggio si strinse al punto che non sarebbero riusciti a strisciarvi dentro se non fossero stati fradici com'erano.
If we try to heterodyne his radio -- presto -- it has twice the heat energy anyway, though we might reduce it to a frequency that penetrated the ship instead of all staying in it.