Accordion

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A portable wind instrument with a small keyboard and free metal reeds that sound when air is forced past them by pleated bellows operated by the player.
  • adj. Having folds or bends like the bellows of an accordion: accordion pleats; accordion blinds.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.
  • adj. Pleated, or folded like a bellows from an accordion.
  • v. To fold up, in the manner of an accordion
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A small keyed wind-instrument, opening and shutting like a bellows, and having its tones generated by the play of wind thus produced upon metallic reeds.
  • Resembling in its folds the bellows of an accordion: as, an accordion camera (one that is extensible), accordion skirts, etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player
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    Synonym
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    squeezebox   
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    Edwardian    Gordian    gordian   
    Same Context
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