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/əˈkôrdēən/,
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accordions, plural;
  1. A portable musical instrument with metal reeds blown by bellows, played by means of keys and buttons
    • - an accordion player
  2. Folding like the bellows of an accordion
    • - an accordion pleat
  1. a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player
  2. (accordionist) a musician who plays the accordion
  3. In a graphical user interface, an accordion is a vertically stacked list of items (e.g. labels or thumbnails). Each item can be "expanded" or "stretched" to reveal the content associated with that item. There can be zero or more items expanded at a time, depending on the configuration.
  4. Accordion is a solitaire game using one deck of playing cards. The object is to compress the entire deck into one pile like an accordion.
  5. A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds; To fold up, in the manner of an accordion; Pleated
  6. A musical instrument with a small keyboard and free-vibrating metal reeds that sound when air is generated by pleated bellows.
  7. Squeeze-Box or Groan-Box
  8. free reed instrument with a keyboard originating in Saxony and Bohemia, now common throughout the world in folk music. Various types include piano and button keyboards, and chromatic and diatonic tunings.
  9. the dominant, identifying instrument in Cajun music and zydeco. Some practitioners of Cajun music and zydeco play iatonic accordions that only include whole notes, or steps, within a given scale. ...
  10. A portable hand-held reed instrument with bellows which are expanded and contracted by arm movements and which is played by means of a keyboard or buttons. ...
  11. (occasionally "accordeon") the accordion has been ruined for a lot of people by being extravagantly played by overdressed grinning showbiz types doing the quintessential cornball accordion piece: "Lady of Spain". ...
  12. Used to describe the structure of a handbag's interior when its compartments fold open like the bellows of an accordion.
  13. A reed instrument with hand-operated bellows. Sound is produced by wind passing over the reeds. The accordion is carried by two straps on the player’s chest, whose left hand pumps and plays the bass part while the right hand plays the keyboard or melody keys.
  14. improper interval for line of march consisting of bunching and stretching of the FILE or COLUMN; a typical pattern for inexperienced troops or a CONVOY of mixed military and civilian vehicles. See CATERPILLAR, INDIAN FILE, COMBAT SPREAD, HEADWAY.
  15. German-derived instrument used in several genres in Latin America, including vallenato (Colombia), tango and chamamé  (actually with the accordion relative the bandoneón, from Argentina) and música norteña (México).
  16. 1x1 rib knit alternating with a 2x2 rib.
  17. a musical instrument with keys and hand-operated bellows
  18. To see an accordion in your dream means that you can be very flexible.  If you are the one playing with an according, suggest that you are a very negative person.  You are having too many negative emotions and need to become more positive.
  19. To dream of hearing the music of an accordion, denotes that you will engage in amusement which will win you from sadness and retrospection. You will by this means be enabled to take up your burden more cheerfully. ...
  20. Wind instrument driven by bellows, which produces sounds on having blown and to make to vibrate a few tongues of free movement inside the instrument. There usually has a keyboard (like that of the piano, but smaller) that touches with the right hand, and other of buttons, to the left.
  21. Expressive term used to describe how Side Folding Curtains operate.
  22. n.: A bagpipe with pleats.