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unison

Music
a. the interval between two sounds of identical pitch
b. played or sung at the same pitch
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Overcome by the scene, we all raised a triumphant, tremendous shout, in unison. A startled man at my elbow said:
Heathcliff in unison, checking fiercer demonstrations with a punch of his foot.
"My last supplication of all, is this; and with it, I will relieve you of a visitor with whom I well know you have nothing in unison, and between whom and you there is an impassable space.
It has been already intimated that excises, in their true signification, are too little in unison with the feelings of the people, to admit of great use being made of that mode of taxation; nor, indeed, in the States where almost the sole employment is agriculture, are the objects proper for excise sufficiently numerous to permit very ample collections in that way.
They seemed to be grinding their teeth in unison. A woodpecker stuck his impudent head around the side of a tree.
Even as he went on, the shout, the laugh, the shriek the sob, rose up in unison, till they changed into the hollow, fitful, and uneven sound of the wind, as it fought among the pine-trees on those three lonely hills.