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Accordion
noun · 78% connection
A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, combined, characteristic, tones, organ.
Air
noun · 78% connection
A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, combined, characteristic, tones, organ.
Alto
noun · 78% connection
(of a musical instrument) the second highest instrument in a family of musical instruments
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, combined, characteristic, tones, organ.
Band
verb · 78% connection
A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, combined, characteristic, tones, organ.
Beat
verb · 78% connection
To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instrumen…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, combined, characteristic, tones, organ.
Bellows
n. sing. & pl. · 78% connection
An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air throug…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, combined, characteristic, tones, organ.
Biorgan
noun · 78% connection
A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, combined, characteristic, tones, organ.
Bombardon
noun · 78% connection
Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now gi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, combined, characteristic, tones, organ.
Catheter
noun · 78% connection
The name of various instruments for passing along mucous canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the bladde…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, combined, characteristic, tones, organ.
Deepen
verb · 78% connection
To make more grave or low in tone; as, to deepen the tones of an organ.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, combined, characteristic, tones, organ.
Essential
adjective · 78% connection
Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, combined, characteristic, tones, organ.
Firework
noun · 78% connection
A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, combined, characteristic, tones, organ.
Harmonics
noun · 78% connection
Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, combined, characteristic, tones, organ.
Harmonium
noun · 78% connection
A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing ai…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, combined, characteristic, tones, organ.
Horn
noun · 78% connection
A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, combined, characteristic, tones, organ.
Instrument
noun · 78% connection
That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechani…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, combined, characteristic, tones, organ.
Key
noun · 78% connection
A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, combined, characteristic, tones, organ.
Lens
noun · 78% connection
A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, combined, characteristic, tones, organ.
