单词 | concertina |
释义 | concertinan. 1. A portable musical instrument played by stretching and squeezing a central, usually polygonal, bellows to blow air over metal reeds, the notes being sounded by buttons or keys on either side of the bellows. Occasionally more generally: any similar instrument consisting of buttons and bellows, as the accordion (accordion n.).The invention of the concertina is popularly attributed to Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802–75) who introduced the hexagonal English concertina in 1844 (see quot. 1844). This was developed from a mouth-operated instrument patented in 1829 (although the word concertina does not appear in that patent). For further details see A. W. Atlas The Wheatstone English Concertina in Victorian England (1996) 28–34 and A. Latham The Oxford Companion to Music (2011) (Electronic ed.) (at cited word). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > other keyboard instruments > [noun] > concertina or accordion accordion1830 concertina1834 melophone1841 melophonic guitar1842 flutina1859 piano accordion1860 lantum1876 melodeon1880 squeeze-box1909 squiffer1914 bandoneon1925 box1929 organetto1983 1834 in R. M. Sillard Barry Sullivan & his Contemporaries (1901) I. iv. 34 The concertina is at present esteemed by fashionable circles in London the most elegant novelty in the list of the instruments played upon by ladies. 1835 Belfast News-let. 6 Oct. (advt.) Master Regondi, the celebrated performer on the guitar and concertina. 1844 C. Wheatstone Brit. Patent 10,041 2 This musical instrument has since [1829, the date of the patent] been termed the concertina. 1864 Lady Duff-Gordon in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1862–3 161 When I went into the hall, a Dutchman was screeching a concertina hideously. 1872 H. Cullwick Diaries (1984) 236 Dalson said he could play any tune he knew on a concertina or a tin whistle. 1932 D. L. Sayers Have his Carcase xii. 146 Campers..brought gramophones or concertinas or ukeleles. 1971 L. Beckwith About my Father's Business (1973) x. 122 The woebegone little man outside the market place..regularly pumped out hymn tunes on a chesty concertina. 1990 N. Blei Chi Town 9 They waltzed and danced the polka to the music of buttonbox concertinas. 2000 Cornish World Oct. 34/1 The first haunting notes of his emotively played concertina. 2. Originally Military. More fully concertina wire. Wire arranged in coils, used as an obstruction or defence. Cf. Danaert n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > barricade > [noun] > barbed wire wire entanglement1871 barbed wire1900 wire1915 concertina1917 apron1918 dannert wire1945 1917 Notes on Constr. & Equipm. Trenches (Army War College (U.S.)) 62 Extend the concertina and drop it over the pickets. 1918 B. Adams Nothing of Importance 113 They made up ‘concertina’ or ‘gooseberry’ wire by day and were out three or four hours every night putting it out. 1930 E. Blunden Poems 40 The sappers' waggons stowed with frames and concertina wire. 1972 Economist 9 Dec. 50/2 The formidable barrier of double steel cyclone fences, topped with barbed concertina wire. 2011 H. L. Barnes When we walked above Clouds xi. 82 Rolls of unused concertina sat rusting. Compounds C1. a. General attributive and objective, as concertina music, concertina player, etc. ΚΠ 1841 Observer 18 Apr. 4/2 A concert was given last evening..by Mr. Sedgwick, the clever concertina player. 1855 Chambers's Jrnl. 7 Apr. 220/2 A big eight-sided box, like a gigantic concertina-case. 1912 W. Owen Let. 23 Mar. (1967) 126 Concertina-practice fills up intervals. 1946 Billboard 15 June 128 With juke box and concertina music setting the tone, more than 100 Atlas Novelty Company staffers..had fun at the firm's Decoration Day picnic. 2004 Sing Out! Summer 142/2 English singer and concertina squeezer Keith Kendrick gives us a charming..collection of songs. b. General attributive with the sense ‘resembling or suggestive of a concertina, esp. in having or consisting of a series of folds’. ΚΠ 1891 R. Kipling in San Antonio (Texas) Daily Express 21 Feb. 6 The authorities are fascinated with the idea of the sliding scale or concertina army. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. x. [Wandering Rocks] 220 A concertina skirt. 1935 C. Isherwood Mr. Norris changes Trains xii. 205 My glance wandered away to..the soft, snout-like nose, the concertina chin. 1964 Times 11 Feb. 11/6 The recent ‘concertina’ crashes on the M 1 and M 6. 1984 Geogr. Jrnl. 150 138 The more conventional, double-sided single-sheet map with one bender fold and six concertina folds. 2007 Independent 21 Feb. (Green Property section) 3 Full height glass concertina doors lead out to a minimal Japanese style garden. C2. concertina fish n. a deep-bodied marine perciform fish, Drepane longimana (family Drepaneidae), found in the Indian Ocean and West Pacific, so named from the manner in which its jaws extend and contract. ΚΠ 1905 Natal Mercury Pictorial (Durban) 141 The fish portrayed this week is locally known as the Concertina fish. 1993 R. van der Elst Guide Common Sea Fishes S. Afr. (ed. 3) 191 The concertina fish is a wedge-shaped, deep-bodied species that is strongly compressed. 2013 Anat. Rec. 296 1145/1 The gross morphology of the hyperostotic bones in the concertina fish, Drepane longimana (Drepanidae),..and the longfin batfish Platax teira..are described. Derivatives ˌconcerˈtina-ˌlike adj. resembling or suggestive of a concertina, esp. in having or consisting of a series of folds. ΚΠ 1877 R. A. Sterndale Seonee viii. 270 Combustion is kept up by a pair of concertina-like bellows, working one in each hand of the operator. 1902 How to make Things 20/1 A collapsing or concertina-like box. 2003 New Yorker 18 Aug. 25/1 Printed on one long concertinalike page, the table can be read like a book or unfolded into a seventeen-foot-long frieze. concerˈtinist n. a person who plays the concertina. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > other instrumentalists > [noun] > concertina player concertinist1842 1842 Musical World 24 Feb. 61/1 Popular airs..excellently adapted for the Concertina. A bonne bouche for concertinists. 1880 Daily Tel. 7 Sept. The concertinist is..the best masthead man of the fleet. 1996 A. W. Atlas Wheatstone Eng. Concertina in Victorian Eng. iv. 39 The fingering system that the concertinist adopted also influenced the way in which he or she held the instrument. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). concertinav. 1. transitive. To cause (a thing) to fold, collapse, or wrinkle in a manner suggestive of a concertina's bellows. Also figurative. Cf. accordion v. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > reduce in size or extent [verb (transitive)] > fold up or roll up wrapa1375 roll?a1425 wind?1523 to roll together1525 to roll up1530 fold1561 to wind up1590 furdel1594 to fold up1621 uproll1623 furla1657 telescope1844 concertina1891 accordion1897 1891 in C. G. Gordon & A. E. Hake Event Taeping Rebellion 524 The hat was concertinaed; it and the clothes were then made into a bundle, tied up with string. 1907 W. J. Locke Beloved Vagabond ix. 112 ‘It makes one talk unmentionable imbecility.’ He just missed concertina-ing the last two words. 1917 R. Kipling Diversity of Creatures 251 Then Beetle, concertinaing his books, observed to Winton, ‘When King's really on tap he's an interestin' dog.’ 2001 P. H. Jackson Chameleon Candidate i. 1 The force of the crash had concertinaed the vehicle. 2. intransitive. To fold, collapse, or wrinkle in the manner of a concertina's bellows. Frequently with prepositional phrase. Cf. accordion v. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > become reduced in size or extent [verb (intransitive)] > fold or roll up furl1676 uproll1805 telescope1866 roll1901 fold1914 concertina1918 accordion1943 the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > corrugation > become corrugated [verb (intransitive)] > become wrinkled rivelOE snurpc1300 runklea1425 crumple?c1450 wrinkle1528 purse1597 pucker1598 crinklea1600 crimple1600 rumple1622 ruckle1695 ruck1758 crunkle1825 pocket1873 crease1876 full1889 concertina1918 furrow1961 1918 Evening News (London) 11 Apr. 3/7 I know them in the past—trousers ‘concertinaing’ over your boots, sleeves showing a foot of shirt cuff. 1928 Daily Express 1 June 5/2 When closed the trellis work ‘concertinas’ into a very small space. 1953 J. Masters Lotus & Wind iii. 38 He saw that the force had concertinaed to a halt. 1998 C. Barker Galilee vi. 346 It [sc. a Mercedes] had concertinaed against the rear of the truck and was virtually unrecognizable. 2010 H. Jacobson Finkler Question i. 4 He would sometimes catch himself rehearsing his last words to her..as though time had concertinaed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1834v.1891 |
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