(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.
Concertina
Definition:
(n.) A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads.
Example Sentences:
(1) The concertina effect is a phenomenon where the QRS complexes reflect alternating phases of gradual widening and narrowing.
(2) During the follow-up, the detached posterior hyaloidal membrane appeared to have collapsed on the anterior retina in concertina-like folds.
(3) So we've gone through the process that BT went through over 25 years, but we've concertinaed it into three."
(4) At the pub on the island there was a concertina-player and we got the feeling – fuelled by pints of rich dark stout – that we were being absorbed into a community.
(5) Synchronized electromyography and cinematography were used to determine the muscle activity of colubroid snakes during sidewinding and concertina locomotion.
(6) Either equally spaced X-ray fractions (concertina design) or single or multiple pairs of X-ray doses (single and multiple split-dose designs) were given at varying intervals, followed by graded doses of neutrons.
(7) Airstrikes have concertinaed hundreds of buildings and carved large slices out of hundreds more.
(8) Mulling over the wars – Operation Cast Lead in 2008-09, Operation Pillar of Defence in 2012 and the current Operation Protective Edge – concertinaed into her short life, Najia concludes that this one is the worst.
(9) He tells aides: “The trouble with all options other than going immediately is they collapse like a concertina.
(10) Marked ;concertinaing', or gathering of the small intestine proximal to the mercury weight, was seen at laparotomy in all six subjects.
(11) On a dirt road, concertinaed slabs of concrete and wire drape from flattened buildings, next to the only remaining housing that was not blown apart in the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas.
(12) Third, experiments using three or more evenly spaced fractions, 'concertina'-style, permit interaction between non-adjacent fractions.
(13) The scaphoid has lost its stabilizing function as a bridge between the proximal and distal carpal row, so that the wrist shows the typical "concertina" deformity of dorsal instability.
(14) The high court was told negotiations between the firm and investigators had been “concertinaed” to complete an agreement with US regulators before Donald Trump becomes president on Friday.
(15) Theoretical considerations combined with observed differences suggest that the more elongate body of Elaphe is advantageous for performing concertina locomotion.
(16) Embryos from mothers homozygous for mutations in the concertina (cta) gene begin furrow formation by forming a zone of tightly apposed cells, constrict some cells, and then fail to constrict enough cells to form an organized groove.
(17) The walls had been raised to 3.6 metres (12ft) and topped with barbed wire and concertina barbed wire.
(18) But even in this "concertinaed" timeline - extending millions of centuries into the future, as well as into the past - this century is special.
(19) As elastin is laid down in a contracted form, this elastosis may be responsible for the shortening or 'contracture' of the taeniae which in turn leads to the characteristic concertina-like corrugation of the circular muscle.
(20) Back-up pacing or concertina mode were used in 3 of 4 patients.