accordion
IPA: ʌkˈɔrdiʌn
noun
- A box-shaped musical instrument with means of keys and buttons, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.
- (graphical user interface) A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents.
- (figurative) A set of items (concepts, links, or otherwise) that can be packed and unpacked cognitively, or their representation as a set of virtual objects.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To fold up, in the manner of an accordion
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Examples of "accordion" in Sentences
- He studied solfege and accordion.
- He also plays the accordion and the piano.
- The latter is based on the European accordion.
- He plays the accordion or the drums in the band.
- He was able to play the accordion and the violin.
- His hobby was to play the accordion and the piano.
- Raichel began to play the accordion at the age of nine.
- He plays the accordion or the drums in the Heman Hunters.
- Larry plays the accordion and sings a song about homophones.
- The main instruments of the group are the fiddle and the accordion.
- Eventually, the name accordion was used for all instrument of this type.
- A chord from the accordion was the signal for the final episode … the dancing.
- About half a century ago, the accordion was a very popular musical instrument around the world.
- It was only when he contemplated college and looked for a major in accordion that he realized he had a problem.
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- He won an accordion from a Chinese barkeep in Luna City by cheating at onethumb and thereafter kept going by singing to the miners for drinks and tips until the rapid attrition in spacemen caused the Company agent there to give him another chance.
- The Hammer Museum will be showing a beautiful newly-restored print of the 1913 Feuillade Fantômas serial Le Mort Qui Tue, with a live musical accompaniment by talented Mr. James Fearnley, whom you may better know as the accordion player in The Pogues.
- The Hammer Museum will be showing a beautiful newly-restored print of the 1913 Feuillade Fantômas serial Le Mort Qui Tue, with a live musical accompaniment by talented Mr. James Fearnley, whom you may better know as the accordion player in The Pogues.