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Act
verb · 78% connection
play a role or part; "Gielgud played Hamlet"; "She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role"; "She played the serv…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, shaped, like, lute, strung.
Angelot
noun · 78% connection
An instrument of music, of the lute kind, now disused.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, shaped, like, lute, strung.
Banister
noun · 78% connection
A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is play…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, shaped, like, lute, strung.
Bead
noun · 78% connection
A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catho…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, shaped, like, lute, strung.
Bobbin
noun · 78% connection
A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, shaped, like, lute, strung.
Cable
noun · 78% connection
A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension brid…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, shaped, like, lute, strung.
Calamary
noun · 78% connection
A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, shaped, like, lute, strung.
Cloth
noun · 78% connection
A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adap…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, shaped, like, lute, strung.
Crow-quill
noun · 78% connection
A quill of the crow, or a very fine pen made from such a quill.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, shaped, like, lute, strung.
Diapasm
noun · 78% connection
Powdered aromatic herbs, sometimes made into little balls and strung together.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, shaped, like, lute, strung.
Domino
noun · 78% connection
A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, bu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, shaped, like, lute, strung.
Fescue
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, shaped, like, lute, strung.
Fiddlestick
noun · 78% connection
The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, shaped, like, lute, strung.
Filigree
noun · 78% connection
Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, shaped, like, lute, strung.
Filipendulous
adjective · 78% connection
Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, shaped, like, lute, strung.
Harpsichord
noun · 78% connection
A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by mean…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, shaped, like, lute, strung.
High-strung
adjective · 78% connection
Strung to a high pitch; spirited; sensitive; as, a high-strung horse.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, shaped, like, lute, strung.
Interlude
noun · 78% connection
A short piece of instrumental music played between the parts of a song or cantata, or the acts of a drama; especially, in church music…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, shaped, like, lute, strung.
