presto

5 definitions found

presto - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Presto \Pres"to\, adv. [It. or Sp. presto quick, quickly. See
     Prest, a.]
     1. Quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly.
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              Presto! begone! 'tis here again.      --Swift.
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     2. (Mus.) Quickly; rapidly; -- a direction for a quick,
        lively movement or performance; quicker than allegro, or
        any rate of time except prestissimo.
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presto - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  presto
      adv 1: suddenly; "Presto! begone! 'tis here again"- Swift
      2: at a very fast tempo (faster than allegro)
      adj 1: (of tempo) very fast

presto - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  PRESTO
  
     A parallel language for shared-memory multiprocessors, built
     on top of C++ by Bershad et al, U Washington 1987.  PRESTO
     provides classes for threads and spinlocks as well as
     Mesa-style monitors and condition variables.
  
     (ftp://cs.washington.edu/pub/presto1.0.tar.Z).  E-mail:
     <presto@cs.washington.edu>.
  
     ["PRESTO: A Kernel for Parallel Programming Environments",
     B.N. Bershad et al, U Wash CS TR, Jan 1987].
  

presto - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Presto, PA
    Zip code(s): 15142

presto - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  76 Moby Thesaurus words for "presto":
     accelerando, adagietto, adagio, affrettando, allegretto, allegro,
     andante, andante tempo, andantino, beat, compound time, con anima,
     con brio, crescendo, decrescendo, desto, diminuendo, duple time,
     expeditiously, flat-out, forte, fortissimo, full tilt, hastily,
     immediate, instant, instantaneous, larghetto, larghissimo, largo,
     legato, lickety-split, lightning-like, marcando, march tempo,
     mixed times, moderato, momentaneous, momentary, pianissimo, piano,
     pizzicato, posthaste, prestissimo, quick as lightning,
     quick as thought, quickly, rag, ragtime, rallentando, rapidly,
     ritardando, ritenuto, rubato, scherzando, scherzo, sextuple time,
     simple time, spiccato, staccato, stretto, syncopation, syncope,
     tempo, tempo rubato, three-quarter time, time, time pattern,
     timing, triple time, triplet, two-four time, veloce, vivace,
     vivacissimo, waltz time