Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A musical four-string
instrument , generally played with abow or by plucking the string. Pitch is set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers. - noun music A
violinist .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And so it wasn't like I ever said oh, you know, violin is not my true love or is my true love.
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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.
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"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.
USA TODAY's college all-stars gifted in class and beyond 2009
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And so it wasn't like I ever said oh, you know, violin is not my true love or is my true love.
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Woolley had to reconstruct a missing part for the second violin from a similar Vivaldi work kept in Turin.
Vivaldi flute concerto discovered Severin Carrell 2010
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And so it wasn't like I ever said oh, you know, violin is not my true love or is my true love.
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The violin is a type of string instrument that can be played by vibrating its four strings with a bow.
Violin Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2008
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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.
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The magic violin is given to her and she is able to play it from the heart.
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Campaign to get new students to enrol in violin classes.
Cursos de Violino/ Violin courses Red 2007
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Hip dips (the BS buzz-term for gentle, small indentations found below your hips and above your thighs, sometimes also called 'violin hips') used to be just another body part the media seem to want to make people feel bad about.
What are hip dips and why do you get them? Emma Pritchard 2024
chained_bear commented on the word violin
Interesting backstory about Nero's fiddling while Rome burned is on kithara.
November 3, 2008