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ligature
ligatureIn writing, a ligature is a combination of two or more letters joined into a single unit. There were many ligatures used in English at one time, formed to make typesetting easier (known as typographical ligatures), but these were all discarded as printing became easier and less expensive. However, there are two other ligatures that originated in Latin and were carried over into English as distinct letters: Æ (in lowercase, æ) and Œ (in lowercase, œ). While these two letters were eventually divided in modern English (and eventually reduced to just E/e in American English), there is another Latin ligature that is used in English today: & (known as an ampersand).Finally, there is one other ligature that arose as Latin evolved over time and is now a part of the modern English alphabet: W.Continue reading... ligatureopening notes of "The Star-Spangled Banner"lig·a·ture L0161600 (lĭg′ə-cho͝or′, -chər)n.1. The act of tying or binding.2. a. A cord, wire, or bandage used for tying or binding.b. A thread, wire, or cord used in surgery to close vessels or tie off ducts.c. Something that unites; a bond.3. A character, letter, or unit of type, such as æ, combining two or more letters.4. Music a. A group of notes intended to be played or sung as one phrase.b. A curved line indicating such a phrase; a slur.c. A passage of notes sung by repeating the same syllable.d. A metal band that attaches the reed to the mouthpiece of the clarinet and related instruments.tr.v. lig·a·tured, lig·a·tur·ing, lig·a·tures To ligate.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin ligātūra, from Latin ligātus, past participle of ligāre, to bind; see leig- in Indo-European roots.]ligature (ˈlɪɡətʃə; -ˌtʃʊə) n1. the act of binding or tying up2. something used to bind3. a link, bond, or tie4. (Surgery) surgery a thread or wire for tying around a vessel, duct, etc, as for constricting the flow of blood to a part5. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) printing a character of two or more joined letters, such as fl, ffi, ffl6. (Classical Music) music a. a slur or the group of notes connected by itb. (in plainsong notation) a symbol indicating two or more notes grouped togethervb (tr) to bind with a ligature; ligate[C14: from Late Latin ligātūra, ultimately from Latin ligāre to bind]lig•a•ture (ˈlɪg ə tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər)
n., v. -tured, -tur•ing. n. 1. the act of binding or tying up. 2. anything that serves for binding or tying up, as a band, bandage, or cord. 3. a tie or bond. 4. a stroke or bar connecting two letters. 5. a character or type combining two or more letters, as fl and ffl. 6. a group of musical notes connected by a slur. 7. a thread or wire for surgical constriction of blood vessels or for removing tumors by strangulation. v.t. 8. to bind with a ligature; tie up; ligate. [1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin ligātūra. See ligate, -ure] ligature
Past participle: ligatured
Gerund: ligaturing
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| ligature | | ligature |
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| I ligature | | you ligature | | he/she/it ligatures | | we ligature | | you ligature | | they ligature |
| Preterite |
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| I ligatured | | you ligatured | | he/she/it ligatured | | we ligatured | | you ligatured | | they ligatured |
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| I am ligaturing | | you are ligaturing | | he/she/it is ligaturing | | we are ligaturing | | you are ligaturing | | they are ligaturing |
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| I have ligatured | | you have ligatured | | he/she/it has ligatured | | we have ligatured | | you have ligatured | | they have ligatured |
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| I was ligaturing | | you were ligaturing | | he/she/it was ligaturing | | we were ligaturing | | you were ligaturing | | they were ligaturing |
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| I had ligatured | | you had ligatured | | he/she/it had ligatured | | we had ligatured | | you had ligatured | | they had ligatured |
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| I will ligature | | you will ligature | | he/she/it will ligature | | we will ligature | | you will ligature | | they will ligature |
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| I will have ligatured | | you will have ligatured | | he/she/it will have ligatured | | we will have ligatured | | you will have ligatured | | they will have ligatured |
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| I will be ligaturing | | you will be ligaturing | | he/she/it will be ligaturing | | we will be ligaturing | | you will be ligaturing | | they will be ligaturing |
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| I have been ligaturing | | you have been ligaturing | | he/she/it has been ligaturing | | we have been ligaturing | | you have been ligaturing | | they have been ligaturing |
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| I will have been ligaturing | | you will have been ligaturing | | he/she/it will have been ligaturing | | we will have been ligaturing | | you will have been ligaturing | | they will have been ligaturing |
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| I had been ligaturing | | you had been ligaturing | | he/she/it had been ligaturing | | we had been ligaturing | | you had been ligaturing | | they had been ligaturing |
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| I would ligature | | you would ligature | | he/she/it would ligature | | we would ligature | | you would ligature | | they would ligature |
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| I would have ligatured | | you would have ligatured | | he/she/it would have ligatured | | we would have ligatured | | you would have ligatured | | they would have ligatured |
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | ligature - (music) a group of notes connected by a slurmusic - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous mannermusical phrase, phrase - a short musical passage | | 2. | ligature - character consisting of two or more letters combined into onegrapheme, graphic symbol, character - a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" | | 3. | ligature - a metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophoneband - a restraint put around something to hold it together | | 4. | ligature - thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood)thread, yarn - a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving | | 5. |  ligature - something used to tie or bind binderligament - any connection or unifying bond | | 6. |  ligature - the act of tying or binding things togethertyingfastening, attachment - the act of fastening things togetherligation - (surgery) tying a duct or blood vessel with a ligature (as to prevent bleeding during surgery) |
ligaturenounThat which unites or binds:bond, knot, ligament, link, nexus, tie, vinculum, yoke.TranslationsLigature
ligatureIn writing, a ligature is a combination of two or more letters joined into a single unit. There were many ligatures used in English at one time, formed to make typesetting easier (known as typographical ligatures), but these were all discarded as printing became easier and less expensive. However, there are two other ligatures that originated in Latin and were carried over into English as distinct letters: Æ (in lowercase, æ) and Œ (in lowercase, œ). While these two letters were eventually divided in modern English (and eventually reduced to just E/e in American English), there is another Latin ligature that is used in English today: & (known as an ampersand).Finally, there is one other ligature that arose as Latin evolved over time and is now a part of the modern English alphabet: W.Continue reading...ligature1. Surgery a thread or wire for tying around a vessel, duct, etc., as for constricting the flow of blood to a part 2. Musica. a slur or the group of notes connected by it b. (in plainsong notation) a symbol indicating two or more notes grouped together Ligature (religion, spiritualism, and occult)A magical spell used to cause impotency. It is also sometimes referred to as an aiguillette, from its use in sixteenth and seventeenth century France. In Italian Witchcraft it is called ghirlanda delle streghe; in Latin, vaecordia. Ligature is also the name given to the state of impotency caused by this black magic. A length of cord or thread is tied with knots, with the desired effect in the mind of the spell-caster. It was suspected that one time this might be done was during a wedding ceremony. In fact, marriages were annulled when the husband was unable to perform and ligature was suspected. Francesco-Maria Guazzo, in his Compendium Maleficarum (1608), gives seven headings under which ligature might have occurred: When one of the married couple is made hateful to the other, or both hateful to each other. When some bodily hindrance keeps a husband and wife apart in different places, or when some thing or phantasm is interposed. When the vital spirit is hindered from flowing to the penis and the emission of semen is prevented. When the semen is not fertile. When a man's penis becomes flabby whenever he wishes to perform the sex act. When certain natural drugs are given a woman to prevent her from conceiving. When the female genitals become narrow or close up, or when the male organ retracts. As can be seen from the sixth instance above, sometimes potions were administered in addition to knots being tied. However, the tying of knots was generally believed to be sufficient to cause the loss of erection, impotence, or sterility. Ligature (1) Decorative script in which the letters are linked into an unbroken ornament. Ligatures were used to decorate titles in ancient Byzantine and Slavic manuscripts and in books published in Russia before the 18th century; they were most often placed at the beginning of a text. They were also occasionally used in the applied arts as ornamentation on dishes. Two methods—the contraction of letters (by drawing together and uniting parts of letters or by the subordination of one letter to another) and the decoration of letters with ornamental elements—were used in writing ligatures. The ligature was first used in Byzantine books of the mid-11th century, by the South Slavs in the first half of the 13th century, and in Russian books of the late 14th century. By the late 15th century the ligature had become an accepted calligraphic method of designing Russian books, especially in Novgorod and Pskov and in the Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery. The best examples of ligatures were created in Moscow in the mid-16th century during the reign of Ivan IV in the calligraphic workshop directed by Metropolitan Makarii, and also in Novgorod. The books of Ivan Fedorov, an early Russian printer, are famous for their printed ligatures. The art of making ligatures fell into decline in the 18th century and was preserved only in books of the Old Believers in the 18th and 19th centuries. (2) The combination of two or more letters into a single compound symbol or a fused group of symbols (for example, in Indian Devanagari script). REFERENCESCherepnin, L. V. Russkaia paleogrqfiia. Moscow, 1956.
Shchepkin, V. N. “Viaz’.” Drevnosti: Trudy Moskovskogo arkheologicheskogo obshchestva, 1904, vol. 20, issue 1.A. G. SHITSGAL
Ligature (1) A letter or symbol of phonetic transcription, which is formed by combining two letters, or two transcription symbols, into one, for example, æ in Danish, Icelandic, and Norwegian, and β in German. (2) A single written symbol indicating a combination of letters, a syllable, or a word. (3) In printing, two or several letters printed as a single character. This kind of ligature is encountered in Cyrillic and in foreign typefaces (for example, Æ, the printing of A and E as a single letter). In typesetting, a ligature is two letters cast as a single type character.
Ligature in medicine, the thread tied around a blood vessel or left in a wound after an operation to join tissues. It was proposed in the first century by A. C. Celsus. It is used to stop or prevent bleeding and to apply a ligation suture. Silk, polycaprolactam fiber, cotton and linen threads, and catgut are used for ligatures.
Ligature a sign in musical notation; an arched line, curving either up or down. A ligature connecting two notes of the same pitch requires that they be played as one note of combined duration. A ligature under a group of notes of various pitch directs that they be executed in a connected fashion (legato) and separately from surrounding notes or groups; in vocal music, all notes united by a ligature should be sung as one syllable. ligature[′lig·ə·chər] (medicine) A cord or thread used for tying vessels and ducts. ligatureTwo or more typeface characters that are designed as a single unit (physically touch). Fi, ffi, ae and oe are common ligatures.ligature
ligature [lig´ah-chur] any material, such as a thread or wire, used in surgery to tie off blood vessels to prevent bleeding, or to treat abnormalities in other parts of the body by constricting the tissues; see also strangulation. Ligatures are used both inside and outside the body. If one must be left within the body after an operation, the type used will usually be of animal tissue or synthetic material that will dissolve or become incorporated in the patient's own body tissue. Those used on the outside of the body for stitches of cuts or incisions can be of any durable material and are removed after they have served their purpose. Special instruments have been developed for the application of ligatures to parts of the body that are difficult for the surgeon's hands to reach or to work in.lig·a·ture (lig'ă-chūr), 1. A thread, wire, fillet, or the like, tied tightly around a blood vessel, the pedicle of a tumor, or other structure to constrict it. 2. In orthodontics, a wire or other material used to secure an orthodontic attachment or tooth to an archwire. [L. ligatura, a band or tie, fr. ligo, to tie] ligature (lĭg′ə-cho͝or′, -chər)n.1. The act of tying or binding.2. a. A cord, wire, or bandage used for tying or binding.b. A thread, wire, or cord used in surgery to close vessels or tie off ducts.c. Something that unites; a bond.3. A character, letter, or unit of type, such as æ, combining two or more letters.4. Music a. A group of notes intended to be played or sung as one phrase.b. A curved line indicating such a phrase; a slur.c. A passage of notes sung by repeating the same syllable.d. A metal band that attaches the reed to the mouthpiece of the clarinet and related instruments.tr.v. liga·tured, liga·turing, liga·tures To ligate.ligature Surgery 1. A material–silk, gut, wire, etc used to ligate.2. A tissue plus the ligating material.lig·a·ture (lig'ă-chŭr) 1. A thread, wire, fillet, or the like, tied tightly around a blood vessel, the pedicle of a tumor, or other structure to constrict it. 2. orthodontics A wire or other material used to secure an orthodontic attachment or tooth to an archwire. ligature Any thread-like surgical material tied tightly round any structure. Ligatures are commonly made of absorbable material, such as catgut or collagen, but may be non-absorbable.lig·a·ture (lig'ă-chŭr) 1. In orthodontics, a wire or other material used to secure an orthodontic attachment or tooth to an archwire. 2. A thread, wire, fillet, or the like, tied tightly around a blood vessel or other structure to constrict it. ligature
Synonyms for ligaturenoun that which unites or bindsSynonyms- bond
- knot
- ligament
- link
- nexus
- tie
- vinculum
- yoke
Synonyms for ligaturenoun (music) a group of notes connected by a slurRelated Words- music
- musical phrase
- phrase
noun character consisting of two or more letters combined into oneRelated Words- grapheme
- graphic symbol
- character
noun a metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophoneRelated Wordsnoun thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood)Related Wordsnoun something used to tie or bindSynonymsRelated Wordsnoun the act of tying or binding things togetherSynonymsRelated Words- fastening
- attachment
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