crescendo vs surf

crescendo

verb
  • To increase in intensity; to reach or head for a crescendo. 

adv
  • Gradually increasing in force or loudness. 

noun
  • An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin. 

  • A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax. 

  • The climax of a gradual increase. 

surf

verb
  • To bodysurf; to swim in the surf at a beach. 

  • To surf at a specified place. 

  • To browse the Internet, television, etc. 

  • To ride a wave on a surfboard; to pursue or take part in the sport of surfing. 

noun
  • A dance popular in the 1960s in which the movements of a surfboard rider are mimicked. 

  • The bottom of a drain. 

  • An instance or session of riding a surfboard in the surf. 

  • Waves that break on an ocean shoreline. 

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