Refrain definitions

Refrain

1) Abstain 2) Abstain from tune 3) Choose not to consume 4) Chorus 5) Fa la la la la la la la la 6) French word used in English 7) Hold back 8) It may follow a bridge 9) Music 10) Musical phrase 11) One might forbear to sing it 12) Resist doing something 13) Restrain yourself 14) Stop 15) Stop at the chorus
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Refrain

1) Abstain 2) Air 3) Catchphrase 4) Desist 5) Forbear 6) Melody 7) Refret
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Refrain

A refrain (from Vulgar Latin refringere, `to repeat`, and later from Old French refraindre) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the `chorus` of a song. Poetic fixed forms that feature refrains include the villanelle, the virelay, and the sestina. The use of refrains is particularly associated with where the verse-choru...
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Refrain

[Stockhausen] Refrain for three players (piano with woodblocks, vibraphone with alpine cowbells, and amplified celesta with antique cymbals) is a chamber-music composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, and is number 11 in his catalog of works. ==History== Refrain was composed in June and July 1959 on commission from G. von Westerman for the Ber...
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refrain

one or more lines repeated before or after the stanzas of a poem.
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Refrain

• (v. t.) To abstain from • (v. i.) To keep one`s self from action or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain. • (v.) The burden of a song; a phrase or verse which recurs at the end of each of the separate stanzas or divisions of a poetic composition. • (v. t.) To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bou...
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refrain

a phrase, line, or group of lines repeated at intervals throughout a poem, generally at the end of the stanza. Refrains are found in the ancient ... [4 related articles]
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Refrain

A line or set of lines at the end of a stanza or section of a longer poem or song--these lines repea
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Refrain

One or more lines repeated before or after the stanzas of a poem.
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Refrain

Re·frain' noun [ French refrain , from Old French refraindre ; confer Pr. refranhs a refrain, refranher to repeat. See Refract , Refrain , v. ] The burden of a song; a phrase or verse which recurs at the end of each of the separate sta...
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Refrain

Re·frain' transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Refrained (-fr?nd'); present participle & vb/ noun Refraining .] [ Middle English refreinen , Old French refrener , French refr...ner , from Latin refrenar...
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Refrain

Re·frain' intransitive verb To keep one's self from action or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain. « Refrain from these men, and let them alone.» Acts v. 38. « They refrained therefrom [ eating flesh] some time after.» Sir T. Browne.
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Refrain

A line or phrase that recurs throughout a poem - especially at the end of stanzas. In his poem Easter 1916 W.B.Yeats used the refrain 'A terrible beauty is born.' Another famous refrain line is 'Sweet Thames! run softly, till I end my song' from Spenser's Prothalamion.
Many French verse forms employ refrains.
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Refrain

See Chorus
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refrain

[n] - the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers 2. [v] - not do something
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