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Definition of Strike a note
1. Verb. Refer to or be relevant or familiar to. "I hope this message hits home!"
Generic synonyms: Affect, Impress, Move, Strike
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strike A Note
Literary usage of Strike a note
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language: Crowned by the French Academy by Auguste Brachet (1882)
"These accompanying secondary notes, which emerge directly we strike a note, are
called ' the harmonics ' or ' resonant sounds ' : the experiment Y ..."
2. The Musical World (1888)
"There are many very good players who yet do not strike a note with the thumb
without bringing a little of the side action into play. ..."
3. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"Such an instrument would be quite sufficient for the purpose for which it was
intended—to prelude or strike a note or two by way of accompaniment to the ..."
4. Child Training: A System of Education for the Child Under School Age by Virgil Mores Hillyer (1915)
"strike a note and touch its string gently. You will feel the shaking and if you
stop the shaking you stop the sound. Strike a drinking glass, a bell, ..."
5. Lectures on the science of language by Max Muller (1885)
"If we place little soldiers —very light cavalry—on the strings of a pianoforte
and then strike a note, all the riders that sit on strings representing the ..."
6. Experimental Psychology: A Manual of Laboratory Practice by Edward Bradford Titchener, ( (1901)
"Use all the sources of musical sound that the laboratory possesses : strike a
note in the upper, lower and middle regions of the piano scale, blow a Quincke ..."
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