WIND INSTRUMENT Synonyms

• a male singer

• the second lowest adult male singing voice

• the second lowest brass wind instrument

• lower in range than tenor and higher than bass

• a double-reed instrument; the tenor of the oboe family

• a single-reed instrument with a straight tube

• a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

• a bass horn (brass wind instrument) that is the tenor of the tuba family

• a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown

• a tall narrow wineglass

• a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)

• form flutes in

• a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole

• a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece

• a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together

• a small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute

• equipment for making records

• someone responsible for keeping records

• a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs

• a tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece

• a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore

• the lowest brass wind instrument

• a brass instrument consisting of a long tube whose length can be varied by a U-shaped slide

• a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

• proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet

• play or blow on the trumpet

• utter in trumpet-like sounds

• the lowest brass wind instrument

• A musical instrument endemic to the Top End of Australia, consisting of a long hollowed-out log, which, when blown into, produces a low, deep mesmerising drone with sweeping rhythms

• a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves

• the act of winding or twisting

• air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure

• a tendency or force that influences events

• breath

• empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

• an indication of potential opportunity

• a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath

• a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus

• to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course

• catch the scent of; get wind of

• extend in curves and turns

• arrange or coil around

• coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem

• form into a wreath

• raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help