Violin

Word VIOLIN
Character 6
Hyphenation vi o lin
Pronunciations /ˌvɑe.ɘˈlɘn/

Definitions and meanings of "Violin"

What do we mean by violin?

A stringed instrument played with a bow, having four strings tuned at intervals of a fifth, an unfretted fingerboard, and a shallower body than the viol and capable of great flexibility in range, tone, and dynamics. noun

An emetic substance contained in all parts of the sweet-scented violet, Viola odorata. It has not been obtained pure, and is perhaps identical with emetin from ipecacuanha. noun

The modern form of the smaller medieval viola da braccio. noun

A player on the violin; a violinist: as, the first violin of an orchestra. noun

A small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle. noun

A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string. Pitch is set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers. noun

A violinist. noun

Bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow noun

A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string, with the pitch set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers; also any instrument of the violin family.

A violinist.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Violin

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The word "violin" in example sentences

And so it wasn't like I ever said oh, you know, violin is not my true love or is my true love. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The violin is an integral part of this musical group; one of the most best known violinists was Don Silvestre Vargas, founder of the world renowned Mariachi Vargas of Tecalitlan. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"The mere fact I'm at an American university with the chance to learn whatever I want puts me in such a privileged group," says Bashore, a biochemistry major who also plays the violin, is learning Polish and helps raise start-up funds for a school for girls and women in Malawi, Africa. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Woolley had to reconstruct a missing part for the second violin from a similar Vivaldi work kept in Turin. ❋ Severin Carrell (2010)

The violin is a type of string instrument that can be played by vibrating its four strings with a bow. ❋ Michael James (2008)

But at least for a moment we might consider a different point of view, which I believe to be Wordsworth's, according to which the blessing of verse as well as violin is precisely the ability to forget about money and the economic base of all relations — about "getting and spending," to quote from the 1807 Poems 'best known sonnet. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The magic violin is given to her and she is able to play it from the heart. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Campaign to get new students to enrol in violin classes. ❋ Red (2007)

(A fiddle and a violin are the same instrument so really I just started to call the violin I've had since I was sixteen a fiddle.) ❋ Unknown (2008)

Her voice was low and husky, a shock after Wanda's thin violin notes. ❋ Unknown (2004)

What i have to do ... call violin teacher call violin accompanier practice 1st violin for carmen (- CURSES -- SWEARS -) ❋ Yanxious (2005)

A violin is described thus: "One small bokkis (box) belong whiteman all he scratch him belly belong him sing out good fella." ❋ Unknown (1947)

Eric took the violin from the Frenchman, and Minna Oleson sat at the organ, and the music grew more and more characteristic -- rude, half-mournful music, made up of the folk-songs of the North, that the villagers sing through the long night in hamlets by the sea, when they are thinking of the sun, and the spring, and the fishermen so long away. ❋ Willa Sibert Cather (1910)

He showed me the instrument he used to play, a little thing he called a violin, and its tones could not reach beyond the limits of a small room. ❋ Unknown (1888)

-Lilian did particularly badly in the recognition of drawings: she called a violin a banjo, a glove a statue, a razor a pen, and pliers a banana. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Here, boy! "he said, turning to one of the small darkies standing about to snuff the candles," tell Caesar to bring me 'Pet.'"-- for it was thus he called his violin, which had been saved by Caesar's devotion and bravery when all else at Elk Hill was destroyed by order of my Lord ❋ Carter Goodloe (N/A)

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