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choir

/kwahyuhr/US // kwaɪər //UK // (kwaɪə) //

合唱团,唱诗班,合唱,合唱机

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a company of singers, especially an organized group employed in church service.
    • : any group of musicians or musical instruments; a musical company, or band, or a division of one: string choir.
    • : Architecture. the part of a church occupied by the singers of the choir.the part of a cruciform church east of the crossing.
    • : one of the orders of angels.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : professed to recite or chant the divine office: a choir monk.
  1. 1
    • : to sing or sound in chorus.

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Examples

  • Singing and talking, particularly when done loudly, are risky activities, as researchers learned from the Washington choir practice that became a Covid-19 superspreader event.

  • Experts have pointed to the spread of the virus in choirs, buses, fitness classes and other poorly ventilated spaces.

  • If you look at superspreading events, for example the Washington choir case, it is impossible they are being spread by droplets.

  • In one notorious case, a single person at a choir practice in Washington state infected 52 others, leading to two deaths.

  • A database of Covid-19 superspreading events around the world lists numerous choir practices and a few concerts as sources of contagion.

  • I know the verse because Mrs. Bertalan used to have us do it in ninth-grade choir.

  • Here it is being performed by the Westminster Cathedral Choir.

  • But I was a choir geek, and then got frustrated and took an acting class and realized that was the thing for me.

  • It was in the vestry where the choir was putting on its garments.

  • Then, as I sat here on this “throne,” this beautiful choir struck my ears and senses.

  • The steady use of the organ for an hour-and-a-half's choir rehearsal would exhaust the batteries.

  • When fifteen he became voluntary organist and choir-master to the Birkenhead School Chapel.

  • B'lieves in candles and vestures; got Tim into the choir one Sunday, and now you can't keep him out of it.

  • The body is an octagon of thirty-two feet diameter; and the choir, of the same shape, is twenty-one feet in diameter.

  • This is also a good point from which to study the clerestory as seen in choir and crossing.