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See also: Ensemble

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ensemble.

Pronunciation

Noun

ensemble (plural ensembles)

  1. A group of separate things that contribute to a coordinated whole.
  2. (fashion) A coordinated costume or outfit; a suit.
  3. (collective) A group of musicians, dancers, actors, etc who perform together; e.g. the chorus of a ballet company.
    • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
      On paper, Continental Drift boasts a jaw-dropping voice cast, including but not limited to Jennifer Lopez, Patrick Stewart, Wanda Sykes, Aziz Ansari, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Nicki Minaj, Drake, and Alan Tudyk. But in practice, the overstuffed ensemble leaves the cast no room to distinguish themselves, and directors Steve Martino and Michael Thurmeier don’t seem interested in coaxing performances that might render their money stars less identifiable.
  4. (Can we add an example for this sense?) (music) A piece for several instrumentalists or vocalists.
  5. (mathematics, physics) A probability distribution for the state of the system.
  6. (machine learning) A supervised learning algorithm combining multiple hypotheses.

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Translations

Verb

ensemble (third-person singular simple present ensembles, present participle ensembling, simple past and past participle ensembled)

  1. To put together in a coordinated whole.
    • 1908, Ohio State Board of Agriculture, Annual Report - Volume 62, page 969:
      Landscape gardening or landscape architecture is the art that seeks the production of the most beautiful landscape effects, ensembling the various objects of interest into a grand whole and harmonious unit.
  2. (music) To perform in a musical ensemble.

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Etymology

Borrowed from French ensemble.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɑnˈsɑm.blə/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: en‧sem‧ble

Noun

ensemble n (plural ensembles, diminutive ensembletje n)

  1. ensemble
  2. ensemble (group of musicians)
  3. (theater) troupe

Derived terms

  • ensemblemuziek
  • theaterensemble

Descendants

  • Indonesian: ansambêl

Finnish

Etymology

< French ensemble

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑnsɑːbl/, [ˈɑ̝ns̠ɑ̝ːbl]
  • IPA(key): /ˈɑ̃ˈsɑ̃ːbl/, [ˈɑ̝̃ˈs̠ɑ̝̃ːbl]
  • Rhymes: -ɑnsɑːbl

Noun

ensemble

  1. ensemble (group of musicians, dancers, actors, etc who perform together)

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...
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