"te" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Altered from si in the 19th century to prevent having two notes of the musical scale starting with the same letter, to become ti; the vowel was then changed to 'e' to signify a flattened note.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "orig": "en:Music",
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            "Art",
            "Sound",
            "Culture",
            "Energy",
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        "In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): ta."
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          "B-flat",
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        ],
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          "fixed-do",
          "fixed-do"
        ],
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          "ta",
          "ta"
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        "(music) In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): ta."
      ],
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          "word": "ta"
        },
        {
          "word": "B-flat"
        },
        {
          "word": "li"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/tiː/"
    },
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iː"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "T"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "tea"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "tee"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "ti"
    }
  ],
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    "te"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "The name of the Cyrillic script letter Т / т."
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        [
          "Т",
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  "etymology_text": "Altered from si in the 19th century to prevent having two notes of the musical scale starting with the same letter, to become ti; the vowel was then changed to 'e' to signify a flattened note.",
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      ],
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          "B-flat",
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          "ta",
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        "(music) In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): ta."
      ],
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        "music"
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    },
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    },
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    },
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      "word": "ta"
    },
    {
      "word": "B-flat"
    },
    {
      "word": "li"
    }
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