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The synonyms of “Orchestrate” are: direct, engineer, mastermind, organise, organize, arrange, adapt, score, put together, plan, set up, bring about, manage, mobilize, mount, stage, choreograph, coordinate
Orchestrate as a Verb
Definitions of "Orchestrate" as a verb
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “orchestrate” as a verb can have the following definitions:
- Write an orchestra score for.
- Plan or coordinate the elements of (a situation) to produce a desired effect, especially surreptitiously.
- Plan and direct (a complex undertaking.
- Arrange or score (music) for orchestral performance.
Synonyms of "Orchestrate" as a verb (18 Words)
adapt | Adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions. A large organization can be slow to adapt to change. |
arrange | Arrange thoughts ideas temporal events. Accommodation can be arranged if required. |
bring about | Induce or persuade. |
choreograph | Plan and control (an event or operation. Balanchine choreographed many pieces to Stravinsky s music. |
coordinate | Form a coordinate bond to an atom or molecule. The stud fastenings are coloured to coordinate with the shirt. |
direct | Direct the course determine the direction of travelling. The book is directed at the younger reader. |
engineer | Design as an engineer. She engineered another meeting with him. |
manage | Be the manager of a sports team or a performer. She managed her parents affairs after they got too old. |
mastermind | Plan and direct (an ingenious and complex scheme or enterprise. He masterminded the robbery. |
mobilize | Get ready for war. It would be hard for worker representatives to mobilize the workforce against the employers. |
mount | Organize and initiate (a campaign or other course of action. He mounted the steps. |
organise | Form or join a union. |
organize | Coordinate the activities of (a person or group) efficiently. Julie organized food and drink for the band. |
plan | Make a design of plan out in systematic often graphic form. He plans to fly on Wednesday. |
put together | Attribute or give. |
score | Decide on the scores to be awarded in a match or competition. Score the clay before firing it. |
set up | Decide upon or fix definitely. |
stage | Perform a play especially on a stage. The show is being staged at the Grand Opera House in Belfast. |
Usage Examples of "Orchestrate" as a verb
- The situation has been orchestrated by a tiny minority.
- The song cycle was stunningly arranged and orchestrated.
Associations of "Orchestrate" (30 Words)
accordion | Folding like the bellows of an accordion. An accordion player. |
arpeggio | A chord whose notes are played in rapid succession rather than simultaneously. |
blues | A piece of blues music. A blues in C. |
chord | Play sing or arrange notes in chords. The triumphal opening chords. |
clarion | An organ stop with a quality resembling that of a clarion. Clarion trumpeters. |
drum | Small to medium sized bottom dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise. Hooves drummed on the turf. |
ensemble | The coordination between performers executing an ensemble passage. The buildings in the square present a charming provincial ensemble. |
flute | A wind instrument made from a tube with holes that are stopped by the fingers or keys held vertically or horizontally in which case it is also called a transverse flute so that the player s breath strikes a narrow edge The modern orchestral form is a transverse flute typically made of metal with an elaborate set of keys. What do you do she fluted. |
guitar | A stringed musical instrument, with a fretted fingerboard, typically incurved sides, and six or twelve strings, played by plucking or strumming with the fingers or a plectrum. |
harmonize | Produce a pleasing visual combination. The economic group founded to harmonize national development plans. |
harp | A musical instrument consisting of a frame supporting a graduated series of parallel strings played by plucking with the fingers The modern orchestral harp has an upright frame with pedals which enable the strings to be retuned to different keys. She harped the Saint Saens beautifully. |
harpsichord | A keyboard instrument with horizontal strings which run perpendicular to the keyboard in a long tapering case, and are plucked by points of quill, leather, or plastic operated by depressing the keys. It is used chiefly in European classical music of the 16th to 18th centuries. |
instrument | Equip something with measuring instruments. Instruments of torture. |
lyre | A stringed instrument like a small U-shaped harp with strings fixed to a crossbar, used especially in ancient Greece. Modern instruments of this type are found mainly in East Africa. |
melody | A succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence. We have the melody and bass of a song composed by Strozzi. |
music | Music the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments or reproductions of such sounds. The background music of softly lapping water. |
orchestration | An arrangement of a piece of music for performance by an orchestra or band. The skillful orchestration of his political campaign. |
organize | Take responsibility for providing or arranging. Julie organized food and drink for the band. |
percussion | The act of playing a percussion instrument. Percussion instruments. |
piano | (music) low loudness. The piano passages in the composition. |
pizzicato | A note or passage played pizzicato. An inspired pizzicato movement by the Philharmonic strings. |
plangent | (of a sound) loud and resonant, with a mournful tone. The plangent sound of a harpsichord. |
playing | The act of playing a musical instrument. |
rendition | A visual representation or reproduction. A pen and ink rendition of Mars with his sword drawn. |
staccato | A piece or passage marked to be performed staccato. Staccato notes. |
strings | The section of an orchestra that plays stringed instruments. |
tremolo | A mechanism in an organ producing a tremolo effect. |
viola | Large genus of flowering herbs of temperate regions. |
violin | Bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow. |
violinist | A musician who plays the violin. The most renowned virtuoso violinist of his time. |