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In music, the change in tone-quality between different registers of voices and of wind instruments, a natural defect which may be more or less successfully corrected by technical means.
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Compare its durability to a laptop computer that could conk out on the slightest coffee spill.
Did you wash those hands? (Comment) by Lacter, Mark / Los Angeles Business Journal
Summer books should grip you so hard you can't sleep, and if you do manage to conk out, you wake up reaching for your book.
GREAT BOOKS FOR SUMMER READING by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Though the cheetah might outsprint the pronghorn on the short track, the big cat would conk out after 30 seconds.
Life in the fast lane by Endo, Sarah / Science World
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