the whole gamut
the entire range (everything)
TRANSLATION
the whole gamut = das ganze Spektrum, den ganzen Bereich, die ganze Skala (DH) --- GOOGLE INDEX the whole gamut: approximately 400,000 hits
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the whole gamut = das ganze Spektrum, den ganzen Bereich, die ganze Skala
(DH)
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GOOGLE INDEX
the whole gamut: approximately 400,000 hits
(DH)
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GOOGLE INDEX
the whole gamut: approximately 400,000 hits
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the whole gamut
noun phrase
- the whole range of things that can be included in something
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
The whole gamut is actually a redundant phrase, since the word gamut already implies the whole or the entirety of something. It nevertheless is frequently used.
Gamut (circa 1530) originally referred to the lowest note in the medieval musical scale in the system of notation devised by Guido d'Arezzo. It's a contraction of the Medieval Latin "gamma ut", which derived from the Greek letter gamma, indicating a low G, and ut, first note of the lowest hexachord. Ut derived from the first word in a Latin hymn to Saint John the Baptist, the initial syllables of successive lines of which were sung to the notes of an ascending scale CDEFGA:
"Ut queant laxis resonare fibris
Mira gestorum famuli tuorum
Solve polluti labii reatum,"
Gamut eventually came to be used for the whole musical scale by 1529. The figurative sense of an entire scale or range of anything was first recorded in 1626.
Guido d'Arezzo was an Italian Benedictine monk known for his contributions to musical notation and theory. His theoretical work Micrologus (circa 1025) is one of the principal sources of our knowledge of organum, an early form of polyphony (music with two or more independent melodic parts sounded together). His work in musical notation included the addition of two lines (one red, one yellow) to the two already serving as a staff and the use of both the lines and the spaces.
Also important was his system of solemnisation (sometimes called Aretinian syllables), whereby the syllables ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la are used as names for the six tones - C to A - known as the hexachord. As the octave replaced the hexachord, an additional syllable, si or ti, was added, and eventually ut was replaced by "do", which was easier to sing. Other revisions of Guido's system that have been suggested from time to time have not survived.
(sources: The American Heritage Dictionary Of The English Language: Fourth Edition, The Online Etymology Dictionary, The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition)
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noun phrase
- the whole range of things that can be included in something
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
The whole gamut is actually a redundant phrase, since the word gamut already implies the whole or the entirety of something. It nevertheless is frequently used.
Gamut (circa 1530) originally referred to the lowest note in the medieval musical scale in the system of notation devised by Guido d'Arezzo. It's a contraction of the Medieval Latin "gamma ut", which derived from the Greek letter gamma, indicating a low G, and ut, first note of the lowest hexachord. Ut derived from the first word in a Latin hymn to Saint John the Baptist, the initial syllables of successive lines of which were sung to the notes of an ascending scale CDEFGA:
"Ut queant laxis resonare fibris
Mira gestorum famuli tuorum
Solve polluti labii reatum,"
Gamut eventually came to be used for the whole musical scale by 1529. The figurative sense of an entire scale or range of anything was first recorded in 1626.
Guido d'Arezzo was an Italian Benedictine monk known for his contributions to musical notation and theory. His theoretical work Micrologus (circa 1025) is one of the principal sources of our knowledge of organum, an early form of polyphony (music with two or more independent melodic parts sounded together). His work in musical notation included the addition of two lines (one red, one yellow) to the two already serving as a staff and the use of both the lines and the spaces.
Also important was his system of solemnisation (sometimes called Aretinian syllables), whereby the syllables ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la are used as names for the six tones - C to A - known as the hexachord. As the octave replaced the hexachord, an additional syllable, si or ti, was added, and eventually ut was replaced by "do", which was easier to sing. Other revisions of Guido's system that have been suggested from time to time have not survived.
(sources: The American Heritage Dictionary Of The English Language: Fourth Edition, The Online Etymology Dictionary, The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition)
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"Our services run the whole gamut from manufacturing, maintenance, sales and marketing to customer support and after-sales repair."
