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presto
[ pres-toh ]
adverb
- quickly, rapidly, or immediately.
- at a rapid tempo (used as a musical direction).
adjective
- quick or rapid.
- executed at a rapid tempo (used as a musical direction).
noun
plural prestos.
- Music. a movement or piece in quick tempo.
presto
/ ˈɛəʊ /
adjective
- music to be played very fast
adverb
- immediately, suddenly, or at once (esp in the phrase hey presto )
noun
- music a movement or passage directed to be played very quickly
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of presto1
1590–1600; < Italian: quick, quickly < Late Latin praestus (adj.) ready, Latin ō (adv.) at hand
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of presto1
C16: from Italian: fast, from Late Latin praestus (adj) ready to hand, Latin ō (adv) present
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A legal success, and presto, it’s alive again.
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Then, presto — all that data appeared on the Android.
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Start with a dysfunctional City Council majority, add a pandemic and its effects, throw in metropolitan areas and states upping their game and … presto!
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You combine the need for an authoritarian with the evangelical/fervent belief in God’s ordained plan, presto - you have Donald Trump.
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A blob that learns to walk could share genes with a squiggle that swims, and presto, you’d have a walking blob-squiggle.
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