单词 | polyphone |
释义 | polyphonen.ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > guitar or lute type > [noun] > lute > types of lute tamboura1585 orpharion1593 theorbo1605 stumpa1623 polyphone1655 polythore1661 poliphant1664 dyphone1676 archlute1728 oud1738 chitarrone1740 pandoura1797 pipa1838 yüeh ch'in1839 tamboura1864 saz1870 laud1876 opheriona1922 tiorba1940 plectrum lute1970 1655 F. Prujeane in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 5 The polyphon is an instrument of so different a stringing and tuning that its impossible to play what is sett to it on any other hand instrument. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1661 (1955) III. 294 He plaied to me likewise on the Polyphone, an Instrument having something of the Harp, Lute, Theorb &c. 1702 J. Kersey New Eng. Dict. A Polyphon, a musical Instrument, that has many things [(ed. 2) Strings] and a great variety of sounds. 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Polyphon..a musical instrument with many strings. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > thing heard > [noun] > sound > specific sound-producing instruments polyphone1684 talking machine1844 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > other musical instruments > [noun] > others coriunc1275 symphonyc1290 symphan1303 minstrelsyc1390 bougounc1400 clokarde?c1475 dulsacordisa1525 symphioun1578 sumphion?1590 clasher1621 orphion1658 polyphone1684 roundball1688 phonomime1834 orchestrion1838 sabbeka1844 bullroarer1848 creaker1855 melodikon1857 symphonia1864 organophone1880 magnetophone1883 Kaffir piano1897 jazzophone1926 mouth bow1932 wobbleboard1960 singing bowl1980 1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 483 By a Polyphone or Polyacoustick well ordered one sound may be heard as many. ?1735 R. Nab Addr. Batchelors Great Brit. 44 By a proper Polyphone, the Ladies have there contrived, one sound may be heard as many. 1796 J. Guy Misc. Select. II. v. 160 A microphone or magnifying ear-instrument; polyphone or multiplying ear-instrument. 3. Phonetics. A written character having more than one phonetic value; a letter or other symbol which stands for different sounds. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > letter > representing more than one sound polyphone1872 1872 A. H. Sayce Assyrian Gram. Pref. 7 Polyphones—that is, characters with more than one value..actually exist in Japanese for the same reason that they existed in Assyrian. 1896 W. St. C. Boscawen Bible & Monuments i. 18 Its elaborate syllabary, the use of polyphones..all tend to show clearly that this writing was not the invention of the Semites. 1937 Antiquity 11 273 Many of the Sumerian word~signs were polyphons. 1995 Kansas City (Missouri) Star (Nexis) 3 Dec. The arcane world of cryptology, with its homophones, polyphones, digraphs, bigraphs and nulls. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > counterpoint counterpoint1597 contrapunct1694 polyphony1790 polyphonism1864 triple counterpoint1869 polyphone1875 1875 S. Lanier Symphony 106 Nature, singing sweet and lone, Breathes through life's strident polyphone The flute-voice in the world of tone. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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