violinn.

Brit.

/ˌvʌɪəˈlɪn/, U.S.

/ˌvaɪəˈlɪn/

Forms: 1500s violine, 1600s vyoline, viallin, 1600s– violin.

Etymology: < Italian violino (Portuguese violino , Spanish violin ), < viola viola n.² Compare violon n.

a. A musical instrument in common use, having four strings tuned in fifths and played with a bow; a fiddle.In general structure the violin is composed of a resonant box of elaborately curved outline, and a neck or handle from the end of which the strings are stretched over a bridge to a tailpiece.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > violin

violon1552

violin1579

violet1688

catgut1709

macaroni fiddle1777

violan1850

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Apr. 103 I see Calliope speede her to the place, where my Goddesse shines: And after her the other Muses trace, with their Violines.

1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B3^v Then were it high time for..all Peace-Makers, to put vp their pipes, or else in steed of the soft violine, learne to sound a shrill trumpet.

1608 B. Jonson Masques in Wks. (1616) 964 The first [dance] was to the Cornets, the second to the Vyolines.

1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. ii. vii. 173 Some excellently pleasing lesson plaide vpon soft wind-instruments, or violins.

1660 S. Pepys Diary 6 Mar. (1970) I. 78 I played upon a viall and he the viallin after dinner.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 258. ⁋4 Violins, Voices, or any other Organs of Sound.

1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 426 Orpheus or Amphion in bronze, playing upon a violin.

1842 E. Bulwer-Lytton Zanoni i. i He was not only a composer, but also an excellent practical performer, especially on the violin.

1884 H. R. Haweis My Musical Life I. 237 The violin is not an invention, it is a growth.

in extended use.1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 62 People..presently fancied the Moon, Mercury, and Venus to be a kind of Violins or Trebles to Jupiter and Saturn.

b. With distinctive premodifiers.

ΚΠ

1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv. sig. F Come, we must haue you turne Fiddler againe, slaue, 'get a Base Violin at your backe.

c1670 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 212 Before the restoration of K. Charles 2 and especially after, viols began to be out of fashion, and only violins used, as treble-violin, tenor and bass-violin.

1685 J. Playford (title) The division-violin: containing a collection of divisions upon several grounds for the treble-violin.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Word Violin, alone, stands for Treble Violin.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Counter-Tenor, Tenor, or Bass Violin.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 245/1 The tenor violin, in compass a fifth lower than the treble violin, appears to have preceded the latter.

c. to play first violin, to take the leading part. (Cf. fiddle n. Phrases) Similarly (rare), to play second violin, to take the subordinate part.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (intransitive)] > other

to take the right-hand file1616

first1635

to speak in capitals?1694

to take the (or a) lead1761

to play first (or second) fiddle1778

to play first violin1780

to be no great (some great, considerable, etc.) shakes1819

to pitch it strong1823

to come out strong1825

violin1895

repeat1923

1780 F. Burney Jrnl. Apr. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 99 [He] seemed to think nobody half so great as himself, &..chose to play 1st violin without further ceremony.

1902 G. B. Shaw Let. 20 May (1972) II. 273 I dont see Janet playing a silly second moral violin like Judith.

2. One who plays on the violin; a violinist.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > violin-player

violon1552

violin1667

violinistc1670

gut-scraper1707

violin-player1797

catgut-scraper1806

violan1850

1667 S. Pepys Diary 20 Feb. (1974) VIII. 73 They talk also how the King's viallin, Bannister, is mad.

c1670 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 485 Thomas Baltzar, one of the violins in the king's service.

1699 J. Jackson Let. 25 Dec. in S. Pepys Lett. & 2nd Diary (1932) 293 Corelli, the famous violin, playing, in concert with at least 30 more.

1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 346/2 At the early age of twenty he was chosen to fill the situation of first violin in the royal chapel of Turin.

1878 J. Fothergill (title) The First Violin.

3. A variety of organ stop. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > string-tone stops

viol1688

violin1688

viol da gamba1826

gamba1829

viola da (also di) gamba1852

violon1852

aeolina1855

German gamba1860

aeoline1865

viola1876

violoncello1876

1688 Ber. Smith in Hopkins Organ (1870) 453 Choir Organ... A Violl and Violin, of mettle,..61 pipes,..12 foote.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

violin-bow n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > bow

fiddlestick14..

archon1480

stick?1570

bow1580

archet1640

arco1740

fiddle-bow1827

violin-bow1858

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Violin-bow, a bow strung with horse-hair, for playing on a violin.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2711/1 The Hindus claim to have invented the violin-bow.

violin-case n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > violin > case for

boot1594

fiddle-case1647

violin-case1685

1685 London Gaz. No. 2041/4 Lost.., a black Leather Violin-Case, with a Violin in it.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxxiv. 286 She might as well have been dressed in a violin-case.

violin class n.

ΚΠ

1864 C. Engel Music Most Anc. Nations 86 Two other Hindoo instruments..belonging to the violin class.

violin clef n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > clefs

clef1579

B clef1597

G1597

G clef1725

soprano clef1786

treble clef1786

tenor clef1806

violin clef1876

alto clef1879

1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 449/1 Violin clef, the G clef placed upon the first line of the stave.

violin concerto n.

ΚΠ

1889 G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 293/2 Mozart in his younger years was hardly less great as a violinist than a piano~player, and his Violin Concertos,..are the most valuable compositions in that form.

1934 A. L. Bacharach Mus. Compan. iv. 591 The pianoforte concertos of the modern repertory begin with J. S. Bach, who arranged sixteen violin concertos of Vivaldi for the clavier.

violin family n.

ΚΠ

1865 J. Hullah Transit. Period Mus. 34 Of these instruments it would easily be found that incomparably the most important were the Violin family.

violin-kind n.

ΚΠ

1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 198/1 Cruth,..a musical instrument of the violin kind.

violin music n.

ΚΠ

1861 J. S. Adams 5000 Mus. Terms 108 Corde vuide, in violin music, indicates the open string.

violin-piano n.

ΚΠ

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2712/1 Violin-piano,..a form of the pianoforte patented..in England by Todd.

violin rosin n.

ΚΠ

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 242/2 (note) Violin rosin is called in French colophane.

violin school n.

ΚΠ

1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 5438 Violin school for joint practice of the elementary and advanced classes.

violin sonata n.

ΚΠ

1889 G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 288/2 Towards..1630, we find the first compositions containing rudimentally the form of the classical Violin Sonata.

violin-stand n.

ΚΠ

1915 D. H. Lawrence Rainbow iii. 80 A drawing-room..with a piano and a violin-stand.

violin string n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > violin > strings of

gut1611

fiddle-string1728

violin string1841

1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 160 Among the manufactures, those of the fine arts, leather, and violin-strings, are alone industriously practised.

1871 tr. H. Schellen Spectrum Anal. App. 433 The motion of a point near the end of a violin string.

1884 H. Thompson Tumours of Bladder 82 A very small écraseur, with violin-string ligature.

violin tribe n.

ΚΠ

1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 346 A lyre, or lute,..may be considered..as the parent of all instruments of the violin tribe.

violin-maker n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > making or fitting instruments > [noun] > instrument makers or fitters > violin maker or fitter

violin-maker1683

luthier1879

purfler1883

1683 London Gaz. No. 1862/8 Mr. Aguttar, Violin-Maker in the Strand.

1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 346 The same author [M. Otto] also gives the names of many German violin-makers.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2711/2 Antonio Stradivarius..stands, by common consent, at the head of all violin-makers.

violin-making n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > making or fitting instruments > [noun] > strings

stringing1620

violin-making1875

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2711/2 The art of violin-making..appears to have reached its culminating point in the productions of the Cremonese school.

violin-player n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > violin-player

violon1552

violin1667

violinistc1670

gut-scraper1707

violin-player1797

catgut-scraper1806

violan1850

1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 493 The most celebrated violin players of Italy..have been Farina, M. Angelo Rossi, [etc.].

1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. xii. 243 The late acquisition of a violin player in the servants' hall.

1865 S. Baring-Gould Bk. Were-wolves ix. 137 A violin-player, who..confessed to thirty-four murders.

violin-playing n.

ΚΠ

1815 J. Mayne Jrnl. 23 Jan. (1909) x. 250 The Romans have no idea of what good violin playing is.

1976 Y. Menuhin in D. Villiers Next Year in Jerusalem 335 The technical points of violin-playing common to the Jew and the gypsy.

violin-like adj.

ΚΠ

1884 ‘E. Lyall’ We Two II. iii. 62 Violin-like sensitiveness of nature.

violin-shaped adj.

ΚΠ

1802 R. Hall Elem. Bot. 158 Panduriform, panduriformis, violin-shaped.

C2.

violin spider n. [see quot. 1969²] a small brown and orange spider, Loxosceles læta, whose bite can be fatal to man and which is chiefly found in South America.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > miscellaneous types > laxosceles laeta (violin spider)

violin spider1969

1969 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 8 June 14/1 War on a colony of deadly South American violin spiders in Sierra Madre Memorial Park was intensified Saturday when the city of Sierra Madre called a commercial exterminator into the battle.

1969 Pest Control Oct. 54/2 The violin spider is so named because in most instances it has the discernible shape of a violin on its head. The handle of the violin points toward the abdomen.

1979 Daily Tel. 15 Dec. 15/3 Hundreds of thousands of poisonous violin spiders, whose bite can be lethal and for which there is no known antidote, have invaded Johannesburg.

Derivatives

vioˈlinic adj. (rare),

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [adjective] > violin

piccolo1832

violinistic1921

violinic1963

1963 V. Nabokov Gift iv. 231 He had no real understanding of the real, violinic essence of the anapaest.

violiˈnistic adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [adjective] > violin

piccolo1832

violinistic1921

violinic1963

1921 A. Rivarde Violin & its Technique i. 11 Many violinists..are constantly blustering with long bows, very often spoiling the phrasing and making violinistic rather than musical effects.

1978 Gramophone Aug. 348/3 The violinistic ‘treatments’ applied to every phrase are at first startling because people don't dare to play like this any more.

violiˈnistically adv.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [adverb] > violin

violinistically1977

1977 Y. Menuhin Unfinished Journey 376 Violinistically I can point to an understanding of my instrument which has grown day by day, year by year.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	violin
释义	violinn. Brit. /ˌvʌɪəˈlɪn/, U.S. /ˌvaɪəˈlɪn/ Forms: 1500s violine, 1600s vyoline, viallin, 1600s– violin. Etymology: < Italian violino (Portuguese violino , Spanish violin ), < viola viola n.² Compare violon n. 1. a. A musical instrument in common use, having four strings tuned in fifths and played with a bow; a fiddle.In general structure the violin is composed of a resonant box of elaborately curved outline, and a neck or handle from the end of which the strings are stretched over a bridge to a tailpiece. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > violin violon1552 violin1579 violet1688 catgut1709 macaroni fiddle1777 violan1850 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Apr. 103 I see Calliope speede her to the place, where my Goddesse shines: And after her the other Muses trace, with their Violines. 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B3^v Then were it high time for..all Peace-Makers, to put vp their pipes, or else in steed of the soft violine, learne to sound a shrill trumpet. 1608 B. Jonson Masques in Wks. (1616) 964 The first [dance] was to the Cornets, the second to the Vyolines. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. ii. vii. 173 Some excellently pleasing lesson plaide vpon soft wind-instruments, or violins. 1660 S. Pepys Diary 6 Mar. (1970) I. 78 I played upon a viall and he the viallin after dinner. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 258. ⁋4 Violins, Voices, or any other Organs of Sound. 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 426 Orpheus or Amphion in bronze, playing upon a violin. 1842 E. Bulwer-Lytton Zanoni i. i He was not only a composer, but also an excellent practical performer, especially on the violin. 1884 H. R. Haweis My Musical Life I. 237 The violin is not an invention, it is a growth. in extended use.1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 62 People..presently fancied the Moon, Mercury, and Venus to be a kind of Violins or Trebles to Jupiter and Saturn. b. With distinctive premodifiers. ΚΠ 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv. sig. F Come, we must haue you turne Fiddler againe, slaue, 'get a Base Violin at your backe. View more context for this quotation c1670 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 212 Before the restoration of K. Charles 2 and especially after, viols began to be out of fashion, and only violins used, as treble-violin, tenor and bass-violin. 1685 J. Playford (title) The division-violin: containing a collection of divisions upon several grounds for the treble-violin. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Word Violin, alone, stands for Treble Violin. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Counter-Tenor, Tenor, or Bass Violin. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 245/1 The tenor violin, in compass a fifth lower than the treble violin, appears to have preceded the latter. c. to play first violin, to take the leading part. (Cf. fiddle n. Phrases) Similarly (rare), to play second violin, to take the subordinate part. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (intransitive)] > other to take the right-hand file1616 first1635 to speak in capitals?1694 to take the (or a) lead1761 to play first (or second) fiddle1778 to play first violin1780 to be no great (some great, considerable, etc.) shakes1819 to pitch it strong1823 to come out strong1825 violin1895 repeat1923 1780 F. Burney Jrnl. Apr. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 99 [He] seemed to think nobody half so great as himself, &..chose to play 1st violin without further ceremony. 1902 G. B. Shaw Let. 20 May (1972) II. 273 I dont see Janet playing a silly second moral violin like Judith. 2. One who plays on the violin; a violinist. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > violin-player violon1552 violin1667 violinistc1670 gut-scraper1707 violin-player1797 catgut-scraper1806 violan1850 1667 S. Pepys Diary 20 Feb. (1974) VIII. 73 They talk also how the King's viallin, Bannister, is mad. c1670 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 485 Thomas Baltzar, one of the violins in the king's service. 1699 J. Jackson Let. 25 Dec. in S. Pepys Lett. & 2nd Diary (1932) 293 Corelli, the famous violin, playing, in concert with at least 30 more. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 346/2 At the early age of twenty he was chosen to fill the situation of first violin in the royal chapel of Turin. 1878 J. Fothergill (title) The First Violin. 3. A variety of organ stop. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > string-tone stops viol1688 violin1688 viol da gamba1826 gamba1829 viola da (also di) gamba1852 violon1852 aeolina1855 German gamba1860 aeoline1865 viola1876 violoncello1876 1688 Ber. Smith in Hopkins Organ (1870) 453 Choir Organ... A Violl and Violin, of mettle,..61 pipes,..12 foote. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. violin-bow n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > bow fiddlestick14.. archon1480 stick?1570 bow1580 archet1640 arco1740 fiddle-bow1827 violin-bow1858 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Violin-bow, a bow strung with horse-hair, for playing on a violin. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2711/1 The Hindus claim to have invented the violin-bow. violin-case n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > violin > case for boot1594 fiddle-case1647 violin-case1685 1685 London Gaz. No. 2041/4 Lost.., a black Leather Violin-Case, with a Violin in it. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxxiv. 286 She might as well have been dressed in a violin-case. violin class n. ΚΠ 1864 C. Engel Music Most Anc. Nations 86 Two other Hindoo instruments..belonging to the violin class. violin clef n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > clefs clef1579 B clef1597 G1597 G clef1725 soprano clef1786 treble clef1786 tenor clef1806 violin clef1876 alto clef1879 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 449/1 Violin clef, the G clef placed upon the first line of the stave. violin concerto n. ΚΠ 1889 G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 293/2 Mozart in his younger years was hardly less great as a violinist than a piano~player, and his Violin Concertos,..are the most valuable compositions in that form. 1934 A. L. Bacharach Mus. Compan. iv. 591 The pianoforte concertos of the modern repertory begin with J. S. Bach, who arranged sixteen violin concertos of Vivaldi for the clavier. violin family n. ΚΠ 1865 J. Hullah Transit. Period Mus. 34 Of these instruments it would easily be found that incomparably the most important were the Violin family. violin-kind n. ΚΠ 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 198/1 Cruth,..a musical instrument of the violin kind. violin music n. ΚΠ 1861 J. S. Adams 5000 Mus. Terms 108 Corde vuide, in violin music, indicates the open string. violin-piano n. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2712/1 Violin-piano,..a form of the pianoforte patented..in England by Todd. violin rosin n. ΚΠ 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 242/2 (note) Violin rosin is called in French colophane. violin school n. ΚΠ 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 5438 Violin school for joint practice of the elementary and advanced classes. violin sonata n. ΚΠ 1889 G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 288/2 Towards..1630, we find the first compositions containing rudimentally the form of the classical Violin Sonata. violin-stand n. ΚΠ 1915 D. H. Lawrence Rainbow iii. 80 A drawing-room..with a piano and a violin-stand. violin string n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > violin > strings of gut1611 fiddle-string1728 violin string1841 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 160 Among the manufactures, those of the fine arts, leather, and violin-strings, are alone industriously practised. 1871 tr. H. Schellen Spectrum Anal. App. 433 The motion of a point near the end of a violin string. 1884 H. Thompson Tumours of Bladder 82 A very small écraseur, with violin-string ligature. violin tribe n. ΚΠ 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 346 A lyre, or lute,..may be considered..as the parent of all instruments of the violin tribe. b. violin-maker n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > making or fitting instruments > [noun] > instrument makers or fitters > violin maker or fitter violin-maker1683 luthier1879 purfler1883 1683 London Gaz. No. 1862/8 Mr. Aguttar, Violin-Maker in the Strand. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 346 The same author [M. Otto] also gives the names of many German violin-makers. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2711/2 Antonio Stradivarius..stands, by common consent, at the head of all violin-makers. violin-making n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > making or fitting instruments > [noun] > strings stringing1620 violin-making1875 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2711/2 The art of violin-making..appears to have reached its culminating point in the productions of the Cremonese school. violin-player n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > violin-player violon1552 violin1667 violinistc1670 gut-scraper1707 violin-player1797 catgut-scraper1806 violan1850 1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 493 The most celebrated violin players of Italy..have been Farina, M. Angelo Rossi, [etc.]. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. xii. 243 The late acquisition of a violin player in the servants' hall. View more context for this quotation 1865 S. Baring-Gould Bk. Were-wolves ix. 137 A violin-player, who..confessed to thirty-four murders. violin-playing n. ΚΠ 1815 J. Mayne Jrnl. 23 Jan. (1909) x. 250 The Romans have no idea of what good violin playing is. 1976 Y. Menuhin in D. Villiers Next Year in Jerusalem 335 The technical points of violin-playing common to the Jew and the gypsy. c. violin-like adj. ΚΠ 1884 ‘E. Lyall’ We Two II. iii. 62 Violin-like sensitiveness of nature. violin-shaped adj. ΚΠ 1802 R. Hall Elem. Bot. 158 Panduriform, panduriformis, violin-shaped. C2. violin spider n. [see quot. 1969²] a small brown and orange spider, Loxosceles læta, whose bite can be fatal to man and which is chiefly found in South America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > miscellaneous types > laxosceles laeta (violin spider) violin spider1969 1969 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 8 June 14/1 War on a colony of deadly South American violin spiders in Sierra Madre Memorial Park was intensified Saturday when the city of Sierra Madre called a commercial exterminator into the battle. 1969 Pest Control Oct. 54/2 The violin spider is so named because in most instances it has the discernible shape of a violin on its head. The handle of the violin points toward the abdomen. 1979 Daily Tel. 15 Dec. 15/3 Hundreds of thousands of poisonous violin spiders, whose bite can be lethal and for which there is no known antidote, have invaded Johannesburg. Derivatives vioˈlinic adj. (rare), ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [adjective] > violin piccolo1832 violinistic1921 violinic1963 1963 V. Nabokov Gift iv. 231 He had no real understanding of the real, violinic essence of the anapaest. violiˈnistic adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [adjective] > violin piccolo1832 violinistic1921 violinic1963 1921 A. Rivarde Violin & its Technique i. 11 Many violinists..are constantly blustering with long bows, very often spoiling the phrasing and making violinistic rather than musical effects. 1978 Gramophone Aug. 348/3 The violinistic ‘treatments’ applied to every phrase are at first startling because people don't dare to play like this any more. violiˈnistically adv. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [adverb] > violin violinistically1977 1977 Y. Menuhin Unfinished Journey 376 Violinistically I can point to an understanding of my instrument which has grown day by day, year by year. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022). violinv. Brit. /ˌvʌɪəˈlɪn/, U.S. /ˌvaɪəˈlɪn/ Etymology: < violin n. rare. †1. transitive. To entice by violin-playing. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > play stringed instrument [verb (transitive)] > entice by violin-playing violin1708 1708 W. Darrell Suppl. to 1st Pt. Gentleman Instructed iv. 75 Was not Madam W. plaid out of her Reputation, and violin'd into a Match below her Quality? 2. intransitive. To play the violin; figurative, to play a leading part. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (intransitive)] > other to take the right-hand file1616 first1635 to speak in capitals?1694 to take the (or a) lead1761 to play first (or second) fiddle1778 to play first violin1780 to be no great (some great, considerable, etc.) shakes1819 to pitch it strong1823 to come out strong1825 violin1895 repeat1923 1895 G. Meredith Amazing Marriage II. xxx. 66 How does he enjoy playing second fiddle with the maid while Mr. tall brown-face Taffy violins it to her ladyship? Derivatives violining n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > [noun] > playing violin violinism1844 violining1899 1899 Daily News 15 Feb. 5/2 The songs..and the violining..all perfect in their degree. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1579v.1708
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