Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
technical . - noun The method of performance or manipulation in any art, or that peculiar to any artist or school; technical skill or manipulation; artistic execution; specifically, in music, a collective term for all that relates to the purely mechanical part of either vocal or instrumental performance, but most frequently applied to the latter.
- noun Same as
technics .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The method of performance in any art; technical skill; artistic execution; technique.
- noun Technical terms or objects; things pertaining to the practice of an art or science.
- adjective Technical.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The method of performance in any art.
- noun plural Technical terms or objects; things pertaining to the practice of an art or science.
- noun plural The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the arts.
- adjective
Technical
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Examples
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Eleanor was surprised to find that Quin, while ignorant of the meaning of the word technic nevertheless had decided and worth-while opinions about every detail, and that his comments were often startlingly pertinent.
Quin Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906
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Let us use the word technic in its large sense, the sense which includes all that pertains to the executive side of piano playing.
Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers Harriette Brower 1898
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Sudermann is not a representative naturalist; his technic is a compromise between the older practice and the new theories.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The technic is the usual one for laryngeal operations.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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It is in this significance that Harold Bauer calls technic "an art in itself."
Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers Harriette Brower 1898
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A glass vase is used a technic, which is glass blowing and molding to create different surface between outside and inside.
Dezeen 2010
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Musicians speak of "technic" in playing and artists of "technic" in painting.
The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance Marjory MacMurchy Willison
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Further, the growing mastery of technic which is so clearly perceptible in the comedies of the second period must have been accompanied by a restlessness under the hampering conditions as to the manipulation of character and plot which were imposed by the less plastic material of the chronicles.
The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson
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Psychiatry has been furnished with a body of well-arranged facts, and with a technic which is not inferior in system and precision to that of many other branches of medicine.
A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 Various
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But this seeking for the right effect has little to do with the kind of technic which necessitates one to keep every muscle employed in piano-playing properly exercised, and I may reiterate with all possible emphasis that the source of my technical equipment is scales, scales, scales.
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