pizzicato
bow
bowing
spiccato
string
bowed stringed instrument
twang
hair
bowed
saltando
guitar
arco
pick
string player
downpick
violin
draw
violin bow
bowhunting
fiddlestick
fingerpick
downstrike
bowstringer
tip
rehair
spike fiddle
down bow
stopping
compound bow
ruche
bowmaking
edge play
screed
mouthbow
peg
bowstave
downpicking
spiccato bowing
fingerpicking
dulcimer
jitterbug
strum
bow grip
double-stop
stringed instrument
pull back
rabab
bowstring
sarinda
thrum
lutherie
sheepshank
pluck
up bow
igil
viol
chord
violin family
fidicinal
bracer
sternforemost
bow maker
take a bow
fiddle
piping
catshank
rope
bowstringed
pull-off
banjo
dry fire
saccade
luthiery
slack-key
reefing bowsprit
frog
sinew
tied
sarangi
autoharp
fastened
nock
bowman
bowed
arco
fidicinal
bowstringed
slack-key
tied
fastened
pizzicato
saltando
sternforemost
arco
bowing
spiccato
string
bowed stringed instrument
guitar
string player
violin
violin bow
bowhunting
fiddlestick
bowstringer
tip
spike fiddle
down bow
stopping
compound bow
bowmaking
edge play
mouthbow
bowstave
downpicking
spiccato bowing
bow
fingerpicking
dulcimer
jitterbug
bow grip
strum
stringed instrument
rabab
bowstring
sarinda
lutherie
sheepshank
up bow
igil
viol
twang
chord
violin family
bracer
bow maker
fiddle
piping
catshank
pull-off
banjo
saccade
luthiery
reefing bowsprit
frog
sinew
sarangi
autoharp
bowman
bow
twang
hair
pick
downpick
draw
fingerpick
downstrike
rehair
ruche
screed
peg
strum
double-stop
pull back
thrum
pluck
take a bow
rope
string
dry fire
nock
verb
- To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow.
- To become bent or curved.
- To defer (to something).
- To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
- To make something bend or curve.
- To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
- To debut.
- To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
noun
- A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
- Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
- The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
- The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
- A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
- A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
- Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
- A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
- Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
- The front of a boat or ship.
- A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
- Either of the arms of a pair of spectacles, running from the side of the lens to behind the wearer's ear.
- The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
- A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
- A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
noun
- stringed instruments that are played with a bow
- a lightweight cord
- a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, as a part of an instrument or a tennis racket
- a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding
- a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.)
- a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening
- a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod)
- (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop
- a collection of things threaded on a single strand, or as if threaded on a single strand
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
verb
verb
- To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping.
- To produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go.
- To have a nasal sound.
- To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent.
noun
- The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument.
- An annoying or stupid person, recalcitrant.
- The sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed.
- A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars.
- A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice.
- A sharp, disagreeable taste or flavor.
verb
- To string the bow for a violin.
- To remove the hair from.
- To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
- To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair
noun
- A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.
- A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.
- A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
- The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.
- Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
- A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
- Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
- Complexity; difficulty; the quality of being hairy.
verb
- To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- To screen.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
noun
- Pasture; feed, for animals.
- A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- A screen.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- A pickoff.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- A good defensive play by an infielder.
- An interception.
- An anchor.
- That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
noun
- A small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow.
- Any instrument of the violin family, always inclusive of violins, violas, and cellos and sometimes further including the double bass.
- The position of a violinist in an orchestra or group.
verb
verb
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
verb
- To play a stringed instrument with a downward plucking motion.
- To move downward in a stiking motion.
- To go in a downward direction.
- To arc to ground in a downstrike.
- To dismay, reject, demote, or render lowly.
- To strike from above.
- To point (finish a joint) by pressing mortar in at the bottom.
- To strike down; to knock down, kill, or cripple.
noun
- A variety of various devices that operates primarily by a downward striking action.
- A downward plucking motion on a stringed instrument.
- A line that is drawn with a downward stroke.
- A blow by a hand or weapon that occurs with a downward striking motion.
- A type of manual typewriter that causes the letters to print on the downstroke of the keys and retract as the key rises.
- A bolt of lightning that touches ground.
- A (usually unintended) branch of current that arcs downward to ground.
- A downstroke; a downward movement that terminates in striking something.
adv
adj
noun
- The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
- Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”)
- A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
- A small piece of meat.
- A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation.
- A recycling centre.
- A piece of advice.
- Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
- A very untidy place.
- A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
- The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
- An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump.
- A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
- An act of tipping up or tilting.
- A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
- A tram for expeditiously transferring coal.
- A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
- The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
- A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.
- A prediction or bet about the outcome of something.
verb
- (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
- To dump (refuse).
- To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
- To cause the contents of a container to be emptied out by tilting it.
- To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
- To predict or bet on something having a particular outcome.
- (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.
- To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
- To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
- To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
- To give, pass.
verb
- To play bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
- To become rent or torn.
- To use a screed to produce a smooth, flat surface of concrete, plaster, or similar material; also (generally) to put down a layer of concrete, plaster, etc.
- To make a discordant or harsh scratching or tearing sound.
noun
- Chiefly in the plural form screeds: a large quantity.
- A speech or piece of writing which contains angry and extended criticism.
- A tool such as a long strip of wood or other material which is drawn over a wet layer of concrete, plaster, etc., to make it smooth and flat; also, a machine that achieves this effect; a screeder.
- A smooth, flat layer of concrete, plaster, or similar material, especially if acting as a base for paving stones, tiles, wooden planks, etc.
- A (discordant) sound or tune played on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
- The sound of something scratching or tearing.
- A piece of writing (such as an article, letter, or list) or a speech, especially if long.
- A tool, usually a long strip of wood or other material, placed on a floor to be covered with concrete, a wall to be plastered, etc., as a guide for producing a smooth, flat surface.
adj
noun
verb
- pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into
- 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
noun
- a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- informal terms for the leg
- a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
- regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument
- a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
noun
- The refined and precise manner of holding the bow of a bowed string instrument.
- The small section of a stringed instrument's bow near the heel having grippy material such as goatskin leather or snakeskin wrapped tightly around the bow stick between the lapping and the frog, so as to facilitate it being held and to protect the stick.
verb
- To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
- To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
- To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- To pull or twitch sharply.
- To remove feathers from a bird.
- Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
noun
noun
- The string of a musical instrument.
- A straight line between two points of a curve.
- A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
- The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
- A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
- An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
- A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
- A horizontal member of a truss.
- A cord.
- An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
verb
noun
noun
- Synonym of violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow; the position of a violinist in a band; (usually proscribed) any of various bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.
- Synonym of workaround, a quick and less than perfect solution for some flaw or problem.
- A rack for drying pottery after glazing.
- A dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves supposed to resemble the musical instrument.
- Synonym of clown: an unserious person entertaining a group.
- Any rail or device that prevents items from sliding off a table, stove, etc. in rough water.
- A long pole pulled by a draft animal to drag loose straw, hay, etc.
verb
- To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style.
- To cheat or swindle; to commit fraud.
- Synonym of tinker, to make small adjustments or improvements.
- To fidget or play; to idly amuse oneself, to act aimlessly, idly, or frivolously, particularly out of nervousness or restlessness.
verb
- To tie (something) with rope.
- To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
- To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
- To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
- To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
- My life is a mess; I might as well rope.
noun
- A cohesive strand of something.
- A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
- A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.
- Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
- A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
- A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
- A hard line drive.
- The small intestines.
- Semen being ejaculated.
- Death by hanging.
- An individual length of such material.
- A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
- A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
- Rohypnol.
- Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
noun
- 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.
- Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard.
- A cul-de-sac with a round end.
- An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.
- A miner's round-nosed shovel.
verb
noun
- The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached.
- A French person.
- Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.
- A French-speaking person from Quebec.
- defector: a politician who simply switches between different political parties.
- An organ on the bottom of a horse’s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood.
- The part of a railway switch or turnout where the running-rails cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse’s hoof).
- An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of an oblong button (covered with netted thread), toggle, or knot, that fits through a loop.
- A type of fishing lure that resembles a frog.
- The depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick.
- Road. Shorter, more common form of frog and toad.
- A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt.
verb
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