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concertina 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/ˌkänsərˈtēnə/,
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concertinas, plural;
  1. Extend, compress, or collapse in folds like those of a concertina
    • - big rolls of concertinaed wire
    • - a request that the negotiations be concertinaed into a week-long session
Noun
  1. A small musical instrument, typically polygonal in form, played by stretching and squeezing between the hands, to work a central bellows that blows air over reeds, each note being sounded by a button

  2. Opening or closing in multiple folds
    • - concertina doors
  1. coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle
  2. collapse like a concertina
  3. free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds
  4. A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It has a bellows and buttons typically on both ends of it. When pressed, the buttons travel in the same direction as the bellows, unlike accordion buttons which travel perpendicularly to it. ...
  5. To Venus and Back, the fifth album released by singer and songwriter Tori Amos, is a two-disc album set including a studio album and a live album. The first disc, titled Venus: Orbiting, features eleven original songs that finds Amos experimenting heavily in electronica. ...
  6. 1942. CMH vol 6. WRC1-3315 (E. Keillor)
  7. Similar to the accordion but hexagonal in shape and a button keyboard for each hand. It is a free reed, bellows operated instrument that is fully chromatic.
  8. a BARBED WIRE or RAZOR WIRE coil, used to quickly emplace a temporary barrier which is easily retrieved and conveniently stowed; although derived from the musical instrument having a similar design, smooth or barbed wire that's stored on a spool tends to loop into entanglements unless stretched ...
  9. ('con·ser·'tee·nuh). A hexagonel-shaped, free-reed, bellows instrument played with keys (buttons) on both ends.
  10. a series of folds that can extend, compress or collapse.
  11. A mode of locomotion in snakes, characterized by sequential extension and contraction of the body from one anchored and stationary site to the next as the animal moves with accordion-like appearance in one direction.
  12. a small musical instrument, like an accordian
  13. An accordian fold book that can be combined with additional concertinas or page structures to make a more complex book structure.