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单词 lyra-wise
释义

lyre /līr/

noun

A musical instrument like the harp, used esp in ancient Greece as an accompaniment to poetry, consisting of a convex resonating box with a pair of curved arms connected by a crossbar, from which the strings were stretched over a bridge to a tailpiece

ORIGIN: L lyra, from Gr lyrā

Lyˈra noun (astronomy)

One of the northern constellations

lyˈrate or lyˈrated adjective

  1. Lyre-shaped
  2. Having the terminal lobe much larger than the lateral ones (botany)

lyˈra-way or lyˈra-wise adverb

According to lute tablature

lyric /lirˈ/ adjective

  1. (of poems or their authors) expressing individual or private emotions
  2. (of a singing voice) having a light quality
  3. Relating to the lyre
  4. Intended or suitable to be sung, orig to the lyre
noun
  1. A lyric poem
  2. A song
  3. (in pl) the words of a popular song
  4. A composer of lyric poetry (obsolete)

lyrical /lirˈ/ adjective

  1. Lyric
  2. Song-like
  3. Expressive or imaginative
  4. Effusive

lyrˈically adverb

lyricism /lirˈi-sizm/ noun

  1. A lyrical expression
  2. Lyrical quality

lyrˈicist noun

  1. The writer of the words of a song, musical, opera, etc
  2. A lyric poet

lyrˈicon noun

An electronic wind instrument like a large flute (but played like a clarinet), used with a synthesizer

lyriform /līˈ/ adjective

Shaped like a lyre

lyrˈism /līrˈ or lirˈ/ noun

  1. Lyricism
  2. Singing

lyrist /līrˈ or lirˈ/ noun

  1. A player on the lyre or harp
  2. /lirˈ/ a lyric poet

lyˈra-viˈol or lyra viol noun

An obsolete instrument like a viola da gamba adapted for playing from lute tablature

lyreˈbird noun

Either of two Australian passerine ground-dwelling birds of the genus Menura about the size of a pheasant, the tail feathers of the male arranged, in display, in the form of a lyre

lyre guitar noun

A form of lyre with a fingerboard, at its greatest popularity in the late 18c and early 19c

lyriform organs plural noun (zoology)

Patches of well-innervated chitin on the legs and other parts of spiders, believed to act as mechanoreceptors

wax lyrical

To become increasingly expressive or effusive in praise of something

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