| 单词 | xylophone |
| 释义 | xylophone (once / 52298 pages) n A xylophone is a long musical instrument with wooden bars that is played by hitting it with small hammer-like mallets. The xylo- part of this word comes from the Greek for wood — xylon — and clues us in to what gives this instrument its unique sound: the graduated bars representing tones of the scale. A related word in English is xylem, the tissue that forms the woody part of plants. The phone part means "a sound" in Greek. If your instrument has metal bars instead of wooden ones, it is more likely to be a glockenspiel, instead of a xylophone. WORD FAMILYxylophone: xylophones, xylophonist USAGE EXAMPLESIn the sixth grade, I learned to play the xylophone. The New Yorker(Dec 26, 2016) Mr. Nayeri offered to bring in his homemade xylophone for research. Wall Street Journal(Dec 06, 2016) He says he might ditch the recorder, xylophone or piano in the future because of the kids’ strumming success. Washington Times(Dec 03, 2016) n a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets Syn|Hyper marimba percussion instrument, percussive instrument a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another |
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