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A good long-distance attack, especially in combination with Handwork. An advance followed by a lunge might have a tempo of 1-2---3, but an advance-lunge should have a tempo of 1--2-3. Allez! Command used to commence action between fencers. French imperative meaning 'go' or 'come on!' Full phrase spoken at outset is En garde! Prêts? Allez!
The word derives from the French word allonge, meaning "to lengthen", and the Latin longa ("long"). [4] [5] The spellings longe and lunge are interchangeable in English, but longe is more common in the USA and lunge is more common in the UK. [2]: 130 [1]: 307 The usage of the spelling lungeing in English dates back at least to the 1800s. [6]
A footwork preparation, consisting of a jump or hop forwards with an immediate lunge. This is the definition found in the French national fencing glossary, though it is common in the English world for balestra to refer to only a jump. Jumps are faster than a normal step, which helps change the rhythm and timing of moves
Lunge refer to: Lunge (exercise), a weight training exercise; Lunge (fencing), the fundamental offensive fencing technique; Longeing, also spelled Lungeing or Lunging, a technique for training horses where a horse is asked to work at the end of a long line; Lunge (surname), a surname; Lunge feeding, an extreme feeding method used by some whales
Layback spin with catchfoot A leg wrap position in midair A lunge LP The scoring abbreviation for the long program ladies The official term for female competitors landing leg The leg on which a skater lands a rotational jump – opposite of free leg. For right-handed skaters, it is usually the right leg, and vice versa. lasso lift
A lunge can refer to any position of the human body where one leg is positioned forward with knee bent and foot flat on the ground while the other leg is positioned behind. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is used by athletes in cross-training for sports, by weight-trainers as a fitness exercise, and by practitioners of yoga as part of an asana regimen.
A rolling (i.e. a florid vocal phrase) rubato Stolen, robbed (i.e. flexible in tempo), applied to notes within a musical phrase for expressive effect ruhig (Ger.) Calm, peaceful run A rapid series of ascending or descending musical notes which are closely spaced in pitch forming a scale, arpeggio, or other such pattern. See: Fill (music) and ...
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...