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The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

concert

SYLLABICATION:	con·cert
PRONUNCIATION:	knsûrt, -srt
NOUN:	1. Music A performance given by one or more singers or instrumentalists or both. 2a. Agreement in purpose, feeling, or action. b. Unity achieved by mutual communication of views, ideas, and opinions: acted in concert on the issue. c. Concerted action: “One feels between them an accumulation of gentleness and strength, a concert of energies” (Vanity Fair).
VERB:	Inflected forms: con·cert·ed, con·cert·ing, con·certs (kn-sûrt)
TRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To plan or arrange by mutual agreement. 2. To adjust; settle.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	To act together in harmony.
ETYMOLOGY:	French, from Italian concerto, from Old Italian, agreement, harmony, from concertare, to bring into agreement, possibly from Vulgar Latin ^*concertre, to settle by argument, from Latin, to debate : con-, com- + certre, to contend, frequentative of cernere, to separate, decide by fighting; see krei- in Appendix I.


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