distress vs harmony

distress

noun
  • A cause of such discomfort. 

  • The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction. 

  • Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature. 

  • Serious danger. 

  • A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt. 

  • An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt. 

verb
  • To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age. 

  • To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain. 

  • To cause strain or anxiety to someone. 

harmony

noun
  • A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency. 

  • A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds. 

  • The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously. 

  • The academic study of chords. 

  • Agreement or accord. 

  • Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord. 

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