单词 | embouchure |
释义 | embouchuren. 1. The mouth of a river or creek. Also transferred the opening out of a valley into a plain. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > mouth or outfall mouthlOE issue1423 firthc1425 estuary15.. fall1511 port1555 inset1559 water mouth1574 open1582 emboguing1603 ostium1611 inver1615 outfall1629 ostiary1646 influx1652 disclosure1660 discharge1688 waterfoot1730 outflux1739 embouchure1792 sortie1809 beal1819 debouchure1832 salting-place1842 embouchement1844 debouchment1859 ria1887 1792 J. Budworth Fortnight's Ramble Lakes xvi. 114 We reached the embouchure of the fall. 1812 Examiner 14 Sept. 580/2 Near to the embouchier of Berezina. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 238 The city Foah..so late as the beginning of the fifteenth century, was on this embouchure. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine ii. i. 71 Huge cones of white clay and sand..guarding the embouchure of the valleys. 1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 100 It lies..at the embouchure of several rivers. 2. Music. ‘The part of a musical instrument applied to the mouth’ (Grove). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > [noun] > parts generally > part applied to lips mouthpiece1673 mouth1727 embouchure1834 1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (1849) xvii. 169 The embouchure of a flute. 1873 W. Lees Acoustics i. iii. 27 The air..is made to play upon the thin edge of the pipe at the embouchure C. 3. Music. ‘The disposition of the lips, tongue and other organs necessary for producing a musical tone’ (Grove). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > [noun] > disposition of mouth embouchure1762 lip1889 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 108 You see..I have got the Ambusheer already [on the German flute]. 1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 536 The second octave is produced by a stronger pressure of wind and an alteration of embouchure. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1762 |
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