Answer to "Bit of music" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word STRAIN , but the solution may also be TUNE which is one of the most recent solution (2005 in Newsday).

Bit of music crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
STRAIN	25 %	6
TUNE	25 %	4
BAR	25 %	3
PHRASE	25 %	6

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Bit of music

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• melody
• tune
• air
• strain
• song
• vocal
• troll
• vocalization
• catch
• lied
• organize
• recital

Crossword Answer definitions

STRAIN noun

1. Treasure.
2. The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
3. Race; lineage, pedigree.
4. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
5. A tendency or disposition.
6. Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style
7. A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
8. A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
9. A kind or sort (of person etc.).
10. Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.

STRAIN noun

1. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
2. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
3. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
4. A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
5. The track of a deer.

STRAIN verb

1. To hold tightly, to clasp.
2. To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
3. To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
4. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
5. To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
6. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
7. To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
8. To percolate; to be filtered.
9. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
10. To urge with importunity; to press.
11. Hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.

STRAIN verb

1. To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result STRAIN

• Go beyond the limit
• Air, or pressure
• Overexert
• Exertion
• Considerable effort
• Muscle problem
• Use a sieve
• Variety
• Back problem
• Sports injury

More clues leading to the result TUNE

• Adjust a radio
• Melody
• Use a fork, in a way
• Pull strings?
• Something to whistle
• Air
• Adjust, as a motor
• Jukebox pick
• Change into a G-string, say?
• Do an upright job?

More clues leading to the result BAR

• Kind of code
• Milky Way unit
• Prevent
• Refuse admission to
• Serving counter
• Soap unit
• Word in many ranch names
• Word with roll or salad
• Close off
• Exclude

More clues leading to the result PHRASE

• Crossword clue, often
• See 27D
• Sequence of meaningful words
• Syntactic unit
• Put into words
• Sentence fragment
• Musical riff
• Grammatical unit
• Expression
• Couch