单词 | cymbal |
释义 | cymbaln. 1. a. One of a pair of concave plates of brass or bronze, which are struck together to produce a sharp ringing sound. Also used singly and struck with a drumstick or the like. Till late in the 18th cent. apparently known only as the name of ancient and foreign instruments of the type described (esp. as mentioned in the Bible). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > [noun] > cymbal cymbalc825 chimea1300 chime-bellc1300 basinsa1350 target1696 zill1754 cymbalon1824 finger cymbal1845 crash cymbal1927 choke-cymbal1934 sock cymbal1936 sizzle cymbal1944 top cymbal1948 ride1956 splash cymbal1961 c825 Vesp. Psalter cl. 5 Hergað hine in cymbalan bel hleoðriendum hergað in cimbalan wynsumnisse. c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 202 Cimbalan oððe psalteras oððe strengas. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. xiii. 1 I am maad as bras sownnynge, or a symbal [a1425 L.V. cymbal] tynkynge. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxlii. 1392 Cymbales..beþ ysmyte togideres, and sowneþ and ryngeþ. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1415 Symbales & sonetez sware þe noyse. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cl. 3 Prayse him in the cymbals and daunse. 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Biijv A great noyse of cimbals, drumslades, timbrelles, shames..and diuerse other musical instrumentes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. iv. 51 The Trumpets, Sack-buts, Psalteries, and Fifes, Tabors, and Symboles, and the showting Romans. View more context for this quotation 1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xxiii, in Poems 10 In vain with Cymbals ring, They call the grisly king. 1795 R. Southey Occas. Pieces ii It is the funeral march..Hark! from the blacken'd cymbal that dead tone! a1839 W. M. Praed Poems II. 331 Hark to the cymbal, and the bellowing drum! 1934 E. Little Mod. Rhythmic Drumming 17 The cymbal should be struck with that part of the stick at a point about half-way between the fingers and the tip. 1959 Collins Mus. Encycl. 174 There are also two ways of using a single cymbal: (a) hitting it with a stick, hard or soft, in the manner of a gong, (b) performing a roll on it with timpani or side-drum sticks. 1961 J. Blades in A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages xiv. 340 In modern works in general, an additional cymbal suspended on a stand..is necessary. b. figurative (with reference to 1 Corinthians xiii. 1). ΚΠ 1875 A. Helps Social Pressure xv. 217 I often wonder at the sort of passionate delight which Milverton, and people like him, have in the tinkling of cymbals. 2. Formerly applied loosely or without knowledge to other musical instruments. ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Modern Cymbal is a paltry Instrument, chiefly in use among Vagrants, Gypsies, &c. It consists of steel Wire, in a triangular Form, whereon are pass'd five Rings, which are touch'd and shifted along the Triangle with an iron Rod held in the left Hand. 1745 J. G. Cooper Power Harmony i. (R.) Let but the tuneful rod On brazen Cymbal strike. 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 160/1 It took me just five months to learn the—cymbal, if you please—the hurdy-gurdy ain't it's right name. 3. A kind of stop on an organ. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > mixture-stops > specific cornet1660 clarionc1670 sesquialtera1688 sesquialter1841 cymbal1852 harmonica1852 plein jeu1855 sext1855 fourniture1876 rauschpfeife1876 tertian1876 zimbel1888 cornet-stop- 1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 174 In large organs the great organ often contains both a mixture and a cymbal, the latter with more ranks than the former. 1876 J. Hiles Catech. Organ (1878) x. 76 Cymbel, the most acute of the Mixture stops, and formed exclusively of octaves. 4. A sort of spongy cake or doughnut. U.S. local. ΚΠ 1860 J. E. Worcester Dict. Eng. Lang. 1867 O. W. Holmes Guardian Angel xix The genteel form of doughnut called in the native dialect cymbal..which graced the board with its plastic forms. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as cymbal-beating, cymbal-player, cymbal-tinkler. ΚΠ 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. xi. 401 Roman triumphs and ovations, Cabiric cymbal-beatings. 1889 Furnivall in Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Dec. 2/1 Some talk and writing of a certain cymbal-tinkler being a greater poet..than Browning. C2. ΚΠ 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης viii. 72 How much he was the Disciple of those Cymbal Doctors. Derivatives ˈcymbal v. to play on cymbals. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing other instruments > play other instruments [verb (intransitive)] > play cymbals cymbala1400 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 13140 Before þe kyng in his palaise..She cymbaled tomblyng wiþ alle. ˈcymbaled adj. (a) furnished with cymbals; (b) produced or accompanied by cymbals. ΚΠ 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 118 Among the statues, statuelike, Between a cymbal'd Miriam and a Jael. 1861 J. C. H. Fane & Ld. Lytton Tannhäuser 22 Cymbal'd music. ˈcymballing n. playing on cymbals. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing other instruments > [noun] > playing cymbals cymballinga1525 a1525 Ballat Our Lady in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 271 Quhar cherubim sweit syngis sweit osanna With organe tympane harpe & symbalyne. 1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xii. ix. 291 With..pomp and processional cymballing. cymbaˈleer n. (also cymba'lier) [French cymbalier] a cymbalist. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > percussion player > [noun] > cymbals player cymbalist1656 cymbaleer1836 cymballer1879 1836 F. Mahony Songs of France in Rel. Father Prout (1859) iv. 309 Now come the cymbaleers. cymˈbalics n. music produced by cymbals. ΚΠ 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 279 Brassy screeds, and tinkling cymbalics. ˈcymbaline adj. cymbal-like. ΚΠ 1878 E. Jenkins Haverholme 224 The cymbaline clatter of the Turcophile Gazette. ˈcymbalist n. a player on the cymbals. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > percussion player > [noun] > cymbals player cymbalist1656 cymbaleer1836 cymballer1879 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Cymbalist, he that plays on the Cymbals. 1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 349 One of the Duke of York's black cymbalists. c1878 Oxf. Bible-Helps 239 David appointed Asaph chief of the cymbalists. ˈcymballer n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > percussion player > [noun] > cymbals player cymbalist1656 cymbaleer1836 cymballer1879 1879 E. Arnold Light of Asia ii. 47 A chosen band Of nautch girls, cup-bearers, and cymballers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.c825 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。