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  • 1run the gamut — look at what is available, check the range of choices    We ran the whole gamut of colors but she didn t like any of them …

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  • 2gamut — noun (singular) the complete range of possibilities (+ of): College life opened up a whole gamut of new experiences. | run the (whole) gamut (=include or experience all the possibilities between two extremes): Her feelings that day ran the whole… …

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  • 3gamut — n. 1) to run the gamut from; to 2) the whole gamut (her performance ran the whole gamut from outstanding to terrible) * * * [ gæmət] to to run the gamut from the whole gamut (her performance ran the whole gamut from outstanding to terrible) …

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  • 4gamut — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ complete, entire, full, whole ▪ wide VERB + GAMUT ▪ cover, run, run …

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  • 5gamut — gam|ut [ gæmət ] noun singular the complete range of things of a particular type: recipes for the whole gamut of culinary tastes run the gamut (=include the widest possible range): Prices in the restaurants run the gamut from cheap to very… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 6gamut — [[t]gæ̱mət[/t]] 1) N SING: usu the N of n The gamut of something is the complete range of things of that kind, or a wide variety of things of that kind. Varied though the anthology may claim to be, it does not cover the whole gamut of Scottish… …

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  • 7gamut — UK [ˈɡæmət] / US noun [singular] the complete range of things of a particular type recipes for the whole gamut of culinary tastes run the gamut (= include the widest possible range): Prices in the restaurants run the gamut from cheap to very… …

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  • 8gamut — [ gamət] noun 1》 the complete range or scope of something: the whole gamut of human emotion. 2》 Music a complete scale of musical notes; the range of a voice or instrument. 3》 historical a scale consisting of seven overlapping hexachords,… …

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  • 9gamut — In music, gamut properly means ‘the note G at the pitch now indicated by the lowest line of the bass staff’. (The word is formed from medieval Latin gamma (= the note G) + ut, the first of six arbitrary names forming the hexachord (ut, re, mi, fa …

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