MANDOLINS Antonyms

• a stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body

• a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing

• a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end

• the sound of a drum

• a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

• a cylindrical metal container, commonly used for shipping or storage of liquids

• a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes

• small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

• make a rhythmic sound

• play a percussion instrument

• study intensively, as before an exam

• 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 stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking

• a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers

• a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade

• 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

• come back to

• play the harp

• (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) soft; in a quiet, subdued tone

• a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds

• (music) low loudness

• used as a direction in music; to be played relatively softly

• a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore

• bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow