Tympans

Word TYMPANS
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Definitions and meanings of "Tympans"

What do we mean by tympans?

A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed.

The stretched membrane of a drum.

A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with such a membrane at each end.

A tympanum.

Moving a muscle in your ear to make a low rumbling noise, only the genetically superior can do this. Urban Dictionary

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The word "tympans" in example sentences

Le vivant me repugne, quand on me parle je plisse les yeux et fait la grimace parce que la voix des gens me blesse les tympans, je ne fait jamais la bise ni ne sert la main sauf si la personne en face attends comme un blaireau. ❋ Pinku-tk (2006)

D'ailleurs je trouve que je suis assez diversifié sur ce qui "cérumenise" mes tympans. ❋ Pinku-tk (2006)

In the arches of these three porticos are figures of a smaller size, which like the bas-reliefs of the tympans, exhibit either scenes taken from Scripture, or saints and angels. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Internally, this portion of the Exhibition comprises a vast entertainment hall, brilliantly and artistically decorated with tympans representing the three principal ports of commerce -- Havre, Bordeaux, and Marseilles -- and with pictures by the best marine painters. ❋ Various (N/A)

Your breath falls around me like dew—your pulse lulls the tympans of my ears; ❋ Unknown (1900)

Will you not little shells to the tympans of temples held, 25 ❋ Unknown (1900)

These tympans are interchangeable at will, and the arm which carries them is also provided with a turning tool for smoothing the wax cylinder prior to its receiving the print. ❋ John Munro (1889)

Above that forest gleamed colored triglyphs; from tympans stood forth the sculptured forms of gods; from the summits winged golden quadrigæ seemed ready to fly away through space into the blue dome, fixed serenely above that crowded place of temples. ❋ Henryk Sienkiewicz (1881)

I see brains and lips closed -- tympans and temples ❋ Unknown (1867)

I see brains and lips closed -- tympans and temples unstruck, ❋ Walt Whitman (1855)

Your breath falls around me like dew -- your pulse lulls the tympans of my ears, ❋ Walt Whitman (1855)

Will you not little shells to the tympans of temples held, ❋ Walt Whitman (1855)

Your breath falls around me like dew, your pulse lulls the tympans of my ears, ❋ Walt Whitman (1855)

I see brains and lips closed, tympans and temples unstruck, ❋ Walt Whitman (1855)

Your breath falls around me like dew-your pulse lulls the tympans of my ears; ❋ Unknown (2008)

Hey si le dément démantèlement t’excites tellement que c’est comme de la musique à tes oreilles, comment t’aimes le tintamarre des barbares, dans tes tympans d’avare hagard? ❋ Uncorrectedproofs (2007)

Yo [Amy] is [so hot] since she can do [tensor tympansing]. ❋ Blazing Human (2018)

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