Vocabulary Word
Word: gamut
Definition: entire range
Definition: entire range
Sentences Containing 'gamut'
And there, I think, for the first time, the whole gamut of natural vision, tone, color, form, light and shade, atmosphere, focus,&c., considered as one impression, were put on canvas.
There is a kind of screaminess set up when one goes the whole gamut of tone, that gives a look of unrestraint and weakness; somewhat like the feeling experienced when a vocalist sings his or her very highest or very lowest note.
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