English words for 'A small four-stringed guitar.'
Closest matches for "A small four-stringed guitar." are ranked by semantic fit across dictionary definitions.
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noun
- a stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body
- A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.
- (slang, vulgar) The frenulum of the penis.
- Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard.
- (mining) A miner's round-nosed shovel.
- (Malaysia) An egg sandwich fried on a flattop and served in a bun as would a burger, ellipsis of egg banjo.
- (UK, Dagenham) A cul-de-sac with a round end.
- (slang) An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.
verb
noun
- A stringed instrument with only one string.
- A bass note on a piano that has a single string.
- A musical instrument for experimenting with the mathematical relations of musical sounds, consisting of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which can be moved, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.
noun
noun
- (music) A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.
- (anatomy, zoology) A projection of bone or other stiff tissue, such as the ridges in some insects' stridulatory organs.
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
noun
adj
- (social media, offensive) Euphemistic form of autistic.
- (weaponry) Of an explosive mine or other weapon, able to be set off by sound waves.
- (transferred sense, humorous or proscribed) Nonelectric; mechanical or otherwise basic.
- (architecture, of building materials) Used for soundproofing or modifying sound.
- Of a device or system, using sound energy in its operation.
- (music) Naturally producing or produced by an instrument without electrical amplification or the need thereof.
- of or relating to the science of acoustics
noun
- (informal) An electric guitar.
- (informal, sometimes humorous) A domineering, antagonistic woman.
- An ancient military weapon, an axe designed for combat, including (in heraldry) when borne on arms as a mark of prowess.
- (Australia, usually spelt "battleaxe") An allotment of land at the rear of another property, with a long, narrow strip of land connecting it to the roadway.
noun
- a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings
- A small, quill-plucked, gut-strung musical instrument, most commonly with three to four strings in doubles courses; it is a flat-backed predecessor of the guitar, and it originated around the 13th century, coming to Europe via Moorish Spain.
verb
noun
- (music) A guitar having a cutaway.
- A diagram or model having outer layers removed so as to show the interior.
- (television, cinematography) A brief shot that temporarily takes the viewer away from the principal action, especially to show a reaction, illustration etc.; an instance of moving to such a shot.
- (music) An indentation in the upper bout of a guitar's body adjacent to the neck, allowing easier access to the upper frets.
- A men's coat with the front cut back away from the waist, as worn on formal occasions.
- (Ireland) Short for cutaway bog
- a man's coat cut diagonally from the waist to the back of the knees
- a representation (drawing or model) of something in which the outside is omitted to reveal the inner parts
adj
noun
- The string of a musical instrument.
- (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
- (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
- (graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
- (rail transport) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
- (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
- (nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
- (geometry) A line segment between two points of a curve.
- (anatomy) A cord.
- (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
- a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
- a straight line connecting two points on a curve
verb
noun
- a stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings
- a trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers
- A stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually trapezoidal, played by plucking on the strings (traditionally with a quill) or by tapping on them (in the case of the hammer dulcimers).
noun
- (music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
- (music) Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
- a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking
verb
noun
- (music) A type of stringed instrument, most often an acoustic guitar, with a flat top (as opposed to an archtop), with strings held in place with pins, and with a complex system of bracing struts on the top.
- (US, navy, informal) An aircraft carrier.
- (US) A short haircut in which the hair is brushed straight up then cut flat across the top.
- (cooking) A grill with a flat cooking surface rather than metal bars.
- a closely cropped haircut; usually for men or boys
- a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
noun
- A small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal, having a double bulged body, traditionally of wood, with a small rib and four metallic strings, sometimes attached by wooden pegs.
- A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.
- a large heavy knife used as a weapon or for cutting vegetation
verb
noun
- (music) Of a ukulele, a break in the pitch order of strings.
- (law) The reestablishment of possession under a right or rights reserved in a previous conveyance.
- (card games, bridge, whist) A re-entry card.
- (law) The act of retaking possession of land, etc.; the entry by a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease.
- (surfing) A trick involving climbing a wave and then returning back down its face.
- (card games, bridge, whist) The act of retaking the lead by winning a trick.
- (physiology) The reactivation of (a region of) myocardial tissue by a single, returning impulse.
- (countable, uncountable) The act of entering again.
- (aerospace) The return of a spacecraft into the Earth's atmosphere.
noun
- (music) A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard
- An act of making a light hit or strike against something.
- The process by which a resource is tapped or exploited.
- (electrical engineering) A connection made to some point between the end terminals of a transformer coil or other component.
- the sound of light blow or knock
verb
verb
adj
noun
- Anything that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.
- The act of cheating a person.
- A dance performed to ska, dub, or reggae music.
- (derogatory, slang) A lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
- (music) A style of rhythmic guitar strumming in ska, reggae, and punk.
- a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees
- any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant
noun
- A musical instrument designed to have multiple strings played simultaneously.
- (physics, string theory) One of Multiple simultaneously vibrating strings.
- (programming, data structures) A data structure that represents multiple text strings.
- (CAD) A component of a model representing multiple parallel strings or lines.
adj
noun
- One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
- (figurative) A support; a reason; a pretext.
- Ellipsis of clothes peg.
- A protrusion used to hang things on.
- (journalism) A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.
- A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
- (psychology) An easily recalled image that a person mentally visualizes with something else, in order to remember that other thing. See mnemonic peg system.
- (UK) A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
- A step; a degree.
- A place formally allotted for fishing
- (cribbage) A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
- (finance) A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.
- (slang) The penetration during anal sex using a strap-on dildo.
- (India) A serving of any hard spirit, particularly whisky.
- (cricket, slang) A stump.
- a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
- a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
- regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- informal terms for the leg
- a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
verb
- (transitive, slang) To indicate or ascribe an attribute to.
- (slang, transitive) To engage in anal sex by penetrating with a strap-on dildo.
- (transitive) To fix a value or price.
- (transitive) To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
- (intransitive) To keep working hard at something; to peg away.
- (transitive, slang) To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).
- (cribbage) To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
- (transitive, slang) To throw.
- (transitive) To affix or pin.
- (transitive) To fasten using a peg.
- (transitive, kickball) To throw a ball at (someone), to hit (someone) with a ball.
- succeed in obtaining a position
- fasten or secure with a wooden pin
- stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations
- pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into
adj
- of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow
- have legs that curve outward at the knees
- forming or resembling an arch
- showing an excessively deferential manner
- Having been played by a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
- Having a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
- Bent or curved.
- (in combination) Equipped with a bow (weapon).
verb
noun
- a stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body
- A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.
- (slang, vulgar) The frenulum of the penis.
- Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard.
- (mining) A miner's round-nosed shovel.
- (Malaysia) An egg sandwich fried on a flattop and served in a bun as would a burger, ellipsis of egg banjo.
- (UK, Dagenham) A cul-de-sac with a round end.
- (slang) An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.
verb
noun
- A stringed instrument with only one string.
- A bass note on a piano that has a single string.
- A musical instrument for experimenting with the mathematical relations of musical sounds, consisting of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which can be moved, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.
noun
noun
- (music) A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.
- (anatomy, zoology) A projection of bone or other stiff tissue, such as the ridges in some insects' stridulatory organs.
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
noun
adj
- (social media, offensive) Euphemistic form of autistic.
- (weaponry) Of an explosive mine or other weapon, able to be set off by sound waves.
- (transferred sense, humorous or proscribed) Nonelectric; mechanical or otherwise basic.
- (architecture, of building materials) Used for soundproofing or modifying sound.
- Of a device or system, using sound energy in its operation.
- (music) Naturally producing or produced by an instrument without electrical amplification or the need thereof.
- of or relating to the science of acoustics
noun
- (informal) An electric guitar.
- (informal, sometimes humorous) A domineering, antagonistic woman.
- An ancient military weapon, an axe designed for combat, including (in heraldry) when borne on arms as a mark of prowess.
- (Australia, usually spelt "battleaxe") An allotment of land at the rear of another property, with a long, narrow strip of land connecting it to the roadway.
noun
- a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings
- A small, quill-plucked, gut-strung musical instrument, most commonly with three to four strings in doubles courses; it is a flat-backed predecessor of the guitar, and it originated around the 13th century, coming to Europe via Moorish Spain.
verb
noun
- (music) A guitar having a cutaway.
- A diagram or model having outer layers removed so as to show the interior.
- (television, cinematography) A brief shot that temporarily takes the viewer away from the principal action, especially to show a reaction, illustration etc.; an instance of moving to such a shot.
- (music) An indentation in the upper bout of a guitar's body adjacent to the neck, allowing easier access to the upper frets.
- A men's coat with the front cut back away from the waist, as worn on formal occasions.
- (Ireland) Short for cutaway bog
- a man's coat cut diagonally from the waist to the back of the knees
- a representation (drawing or model) of something in which the outside is omitted to reveal the inner parts
adj
noun
- The string of a musical instrument.
- (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
- (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
- (graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
- (rail transport) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
- (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
- (nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
- (geometry) A line segment between two points of a curve.
- (anatomy) A cord.
- (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
- a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
- a straight line connecting two points on a curve
verb
noun
- a stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings
- a trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers
- A stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually trapezoidal, played by plucking on the strings (traditionally with a quill) or by tapping on them (in the case of the hammer dulcimers).
noun
- (music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
- (music) Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
- a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking
verb
noun
- (music) A type of stringed instrument, most often an acoustic guitar, with a flat top (as opposed to an archtop), with strings held in place with pins, and with a complex system of bracing struts on the top.
- (US, navy, informal) An aircraft carrier.
- (US) A short haircut in which the hair is brushed straight up then cut flat across the top.
- (cooking) A grill with a flat cooking surface rather than metal bars.
- a closely cropped haircut; usually for men or boys
- a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
noun
- A small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal, having a double bulged body, traditionally of wood, with a small rib and four metallic strings, sometimes attached by wooden pegs.
- A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.
- a large heavy knife used as a weapon or for cutting vegetation
verb
noun
- (music) Of a ukulele, a break in the pitch order of strings.
- (law) The reestablishment of possession under a right or rights reserved in a previous conveyance.
- (card games, bridge, whist) A re-entry card.
- (law) The act of retaking possession of land, etc.; the entry by a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease.
- (surfing) A trick involving climbing a wave and then returning back down its face.
- (card games, bridge, whist) The act of retaking the lead by winning a trick.
- (physiology) The reactivation of (a region of) myocardial tissue by a single, returning impulse.
- (countable, uncountable) The act of entering again.
- (aerospace) The return of a spacecraft into the Earth's atmosphere.
noun
- (music) A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard
- An act of making a light hit or strike against something.
- The process by which a resource is tapped or exploited.
- (electrical engineering) A connection made to some point between the end terminals of a transformer coil or other component.
- the sound of light blow or knock
verb
noun
- A musical instrument designed to have multiple strings played simultaneously.
- (physics, string theory) One of Multiple simultaneously vibrating strings.
- (programming, data structures) A data structure that represents multiple text strings.
- (CAD) A component of a model representing multiple parallel strings or lines.
adj
noun
- One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
- (figurative) A support; a reason; a pretext.
- Ellipsis of clothes peg.
- A protrusion used to hang things on.
- (journalism) A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.
- A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
- (psychology) An easily recalled image that a person mentally visualizes with something else, in order to remember that other thing. See mnemonic peg system.
- (UK) A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
- A step; a degree.
- A place formally allotted for fishing
- (cribbage) A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
- (finance) A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.
- (slang) The penetration during anal sex using a strap-on dildo.
- (India) A serving of any hard spirit, particularly whisky.
- (cricket, slang) A stump.
- a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
- a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
- regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- informal terms for the leg
- a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
verb
- (transitive, slang) To indicate or ascribe an attribute to.
- (slang, transitive) To engage in anal sex by penetrating with a strap-on dildo.
- (transitive) To fix a value or price.
- (transitive) To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
- (intransitive) To keep working hard at something; to peg away.
- (transitive, slang) To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).
- (cribbage) To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
- (transitive, slang) To throw.
- (transitive) To affix or pin.
- (transitive) To fasten using a peg.
- (transitive, kickball) To throw a ball at (someone), to hit (someone) with a ball.
- succeed in obtaining a position
- fasten or secure with a wooden pin
- stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations
- pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into
noun
- (music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
- (music) Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
- a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking
verb
noun
- The string of a musical instrument.
- (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
- (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
- (graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
- (rail transport) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
- (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
- (nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
- (geometry) A line segment between two points of a curve.
- (anatomy) A cord.
- (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
- a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
- a straight line connecting two points on a curve
verb
verb
adj
noun
- Anything that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.
- The act of cheating a person.
- A dance performed to ska, dub, or reggae music.
- (derogatory, slang) A lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
- (music) A style of rhythmic guitar strumming in ska, reggae, and punk.
- a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees
- any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant
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adj
- of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow
- have legs that curve outward at the knees
- forming or resembling an arch
- showing an excessively deferential manner
- Having been played by a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
- Having a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
- Bent or curved.
- (in combination) Equipped with a bow (weapon).