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Meanings of whole step in English

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tono completo

A musical interval of two semitones.

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        Usage of whole step in English
        1
        On the stairway it was a whole step higher than when he had left.
        The Rains Came
        2
        I would not feel the road having your company; I would walk every whole step of Ireland.
        New Comedies
        3
        He says he took one look at Will and threw the whole step-grandpa thing out the window.
        Feminist dot com
        4
        And so, I lower like, you know, half step, whole step, or whatever with my songs whenever I go live.
        Wired
        5
        She managed to hold her tongue for ten whole steps.
        Walking dead
        6
        Whole step ripped off the crew bay.
        Jacinto's Remnant
        7
        'I think the whole step has been too precipitate,' he wrote to his brother-in-law.
        Eminent Victorians
        8
        It's any two tones that are three whole steps apart and played at the same time, like middle C plus the F above it.
        Wired
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