(n.) A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Calculated results indicate that the experimentally observed low-frequency modes at 22 cm-1 for the A-form octanucleotide (d[CCCCGGGG]) and at 18 cm-1 for the B-form dodecanucleotide (d[CGCAA ATTTGCG]) may result from accordion-like motions, while those observed at 12 cm-1 and 15 cm-1 may result from combinations of twist-like oscillations excited in the intact segments of B- and A-DNA's, respectively.
(2) Ventilation was measured with a spirometer or with a pneumatic thoracic transducer: an accordion shaped balloon, strapped around the thorax.
(3) "Tejano" is Spanish for "Texan" while "Conjunto" means "group" or "ensemble", and the music made across this festival focuses on the accordion as the voice of cultural expression and Tejano pride.
(4) The band wanted to talk about their adventurous musical policy more than their lyrics (they mix brassy banda styles with accordion-based norteno ballads) but agreed that narcocorrido was crucial for their success.
(5) The ceremony takes place at a black Catholic Church in the Prairie Hamlet of Frilot Cove: the priest imagines Collins arriving in heaven and resolving to 'take this place apart', before the Hail Mary is sung in French, and accordions play a zydeco standard entitled 'I'm Coming Home' as the coffin is laid in the ground.
(6) The defining sound of forró is in the accordion, an instrument favoured the world over by travellers and street musicians.
(7) The musician's website says he has "defined" norteño music, which is known for its use of the accordion and bajo sexto.
(8) Founded in 1919, shortly after the first world war, Maugein employed around 300 workers by 1939 and was producing hundreds of accordions every year.
(9) We are seated on sofas in a cavernous, wood-floored room in his Los Angeles base, Studio Della Morte, where instruments (several gongs, a discarded accordion on the floor) compete for space with macabre props (cow skulls, dolls in various states of metamorphosis or dismemberment) and oddball paintings (a hare with boxing gloves).
(10) On a stage in a country town square, the accordion band struck up Edith Piaf's bitter-sweet love song, La Vie en Rose .
(11) Sertanejo – Brazilian country music – is king in this area, yet its inhabitants are seeking solace from accordion-led country-pop with power-rock trio Macaco Bong.
(12) When you're waiting for the arrival of the procession in the strikingly silent environs of the local rice fields, it acts as a kind of siren, heralding the approach of The Run with the aid of violins, acoustic guitars and the inevitable accordions.
(13) Alys North choreographed a dance performed by 70 young people in Durham Market Place this lunchtime, and says events are still on in the square until 3pm - there are circus performers, accordion players and female comedians, alongside campaigners who have been talking about women’s issues, including services for rape survivors, the trafficking of women, sexism in popular music and gender stereotypes in the toy market.
(14) The phase-3 and phase-4 block as well as the accordion effect in the Kent bundle were similar to the same phenomena previously described in patients with diseased or in dogs with injured intraventricular conducting fascicles.
(15) The Maugein factory makes the accordions from scratch and had a turnover of €800,000 in 2012.
(16) Fortaleza has a very strong local roots music scene, dominated by the style forró, a stripped down but upbeat type of dance music, usually played by a trio featuring accordion, triangle and zambua (bass drum).
(17) The music marked the return of the accordion to French politics, not seen since the faux-rustic former president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing played it in the 1970s – an important message about Hollande's rural, Mr Normal image.
(18) I took to hugging strangers for emotional support during Marz and by the time his final song, Queen of Denmark, finished, I was so overwhelmed I spent the next hour sitting in the Green Fields listening to hippies playing the accordion.
(19) Perla had a tiny, four-string pink guitar that looked like a toy, her sisters Rozika and Franziska played on quarter-sized violins, Frieda struck on the cimbalom, Micki played both a half-sized cello and accordion, while the energetic Elizabeth took on the drums.
(20) Often cryptic, sometimes boring, Carax nevertheless has a showman's touch, and though his films deal with navel-gazing issues – blocked artists are a recurring motif – it's hard to think of another film-maker whose work features hair-eating leprechauns, accordion blues solos and Kylie Minogue.
Bellows
Definition:
(n. sing. & pl.) An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind.
Example Sentences:
(1) To give variations in the peak flow-rate (from pulsatile to intermediate to non-pulsatile), three types of blood pump (piston-bellows, screw, and centrifugal) were applied to dogs.
(2) Partition coefficients for anesthetic circuit components (masks, bellows, bags, airways, and circuit tubes) consistently ranked halothane greater than isoflurane greater than sevoflurane greater than I-653, suggesting a reverse order of washin and washout rates for an anesthetic circuit constructed from similar components.
(3) She tried to rescue him from accusations of an apparent comparison of Israel to Islamic State, but a Jewish MP leaving in tears after being bellowed at by a Corbynite is all anyone will remember of Labour and Jewishness.
(4) The performance was not without some good‑natured heckling, largely involving bellowed chants of "We want you to stay" from the assembled playing staff.
(5) Water-sealed spirometer (Harvard), dry bellow wedge spirometer (Vitalograph) and computerized pneumotachograph (Gould), all of them satisfying the ATS recommendations were compared.
(6) Chosen by impressive writers and critics – including Elizabeth Bowen, Philip Larkin, George Steiner, Saul Bellow, AS Byatt, Ruth Rendell, John Carey – these shortlists demanded, at least, some respect.
(7) Bellows is known for his powerful paintings representing the hardship and desperation and grittiness of life in New York as it emerged in to the 20th century.
(8) Each time the home secretary referred to numbers of extra staff being drafted in to sort out the backlog, there were bellows of "You sacked that many!"
(9) Fans bellowed “Beat The Heat!”, turning a summertime slogan into a mission statement and a double-entendre.
(10) Coquelin is relatively new to the side but at one point he could be seen bellowing at his team-mates, demanding they did not lower their standards.
(11) In the end the Chelsea players who had hoped to conquer the world were left slumped on the turf as the Brazilian drums pounded and the raucous hordes of Corinthians supporters bellowed their celebration into the night sky.
(12) All examinations were performed with a half--open dry bellows spirometer.
(13) It is, however, the perfect place in which to contemplate the bellowing horror of 19th-century rural-industrial injustice.
(14) Leicester survive late scare against Swansea to secure first win of season Read more Conte, wearing a black armband in memory of those who lost their lives in the earthquake which struck central Italy on Wednesday, never stopped bellowing instructions at any point, even when the game was clearly won.
(15) All parts subject to wear, such as filter, tubings, and bellows, are commercially available through the medical equipment market.
(16) Expiration occurs by opening the diaphragm bellows to the atmosphere.
(17) Allen cites a list of actors, including Jeff Daniels (Purple Rose of Cairo), Patricia Clarkson (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and Dianne Wiest (Hannah and Her Sisters), who Taylor persuaded him to use, as well as being able to convince already well-known personalities such as Saul Bellow, Marshall McLuhan and Susan Sontag to make cameo appearances.
(18) During the second period of IMO the level of AVP in plasma decreased even bellow the control values which was accompanied by water diuresis.
(19) In 1949, Saul Bellow went to a cocktail party hosted by Cyril Connolly, and found his preconceptions of literary England being undermined: “Although I don’t judge the inverted with harshness, still it is rather difficult to go to London thinking of Dickens and Hardy to say nothing of Milton and Marx and land in the midst of fairies.” Most of the people I’ve mentioned were living their lives more or less openly.
(20) After his death the obituaries proclaimed Bellows one of the greatest of all American painters – a man more famous at the time than his friend and contemporary Edward Hopper.