(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.
Reed
Definition:
(a.) Red.
(v. & n.) Same as Rede.
(n.) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
(n.) A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (Phragmites communis).
(n.) A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.
(n.) An arrow, as made of a reed.
(n.) Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
(n.) A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube.
(n.) One of the thin pieces of metal, the vibration of which produce the tones of a melodeon, accordeon, harmonium, or seraphine; also attached to certain sets or registers of pipes in an organ.
(n.) A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten.
(n.) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
(n.) Same as Reeding.
Example Sentences:
(1) 53 outpatients with HIV-infection classified according to the Walter Reed staging system (WR1 to WR6).
(2) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
(3) That's, in fact, just what Reed Brody was thinking.
(4) In 19% of all cases, Reed-Sternberg cells were positive for epithelial membrane antigen and in 93% they were positive with TAL1B5 (anti-class II MHC).
(5) Furthermore, the large atypical cells of lymphomatoid papulosis also expressed other antigens (for example, T3, T4, HLA-DR, IL-2 receptors) that have previously been demonstrated on Reed-Sternberg cells.
(6) Belfast in Odd Man Out Released in 1947, directed by Carol Reed Facebook Twitter Pinterest Carol Reed is a brilliant director of cities in films.
(7) Reed and Heller represent the two states – Rhode Island and Nevada – with the highest unemployment rates in the US.
(8) Using this assay EBV was detected in the Reed-Sternberg cells of 33% and 45% of the two series of HD cases examined in this study.
(9) He did, but not for long: it was Reed's last season as a professional referee.
(10) But it was predictably a thin reed on which to build a doctrine.
(11) In a sneak preview of the findings, Howard Reed of Landman Economics, who was commissioned to do the work, told a meeting this week that "most of the gain" from raising the income tax allowance goes to "families who aren't very poor in the first place", and instead increasing tax credits for working low-income families was the "best targeted way of encouraging work among lone parents and workless couples".
(12) Archer, which Reed originally pitched to the FX channel as "James Bond meets Arrested Development" takes this premise – the comedy of displacement activity – and runs with it.
(13) Besides non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, paraffin sections of 87 biopsies from Hodgkin's disease were investigated for CIg in Hodgkin's and Sternberg-Reed cells.
(14) This requirement is one that Americans comply with every day to engage in mundane activities like cashing a check, opening a bank account or boarding a plane,” said Reed Clay, a special assistant under Abbott.
(15) Using monoclonal antibodies to leukocyte common antigen, granulocyte-related antigen, and B-cell specific antigens, L&H variants of Reed-Sternberg (R-S) cells in Hodgkin's disease, lymphocyte predominance type (nodular), exhibited a unique staining profile as compared with R-S cells of other histologic types.
(16) Jack Reed of Rhode Island, an honorary and non-voting member of the committee due to his seat as ranking member of the Senate armed services committee, also signed the letter, which was dated Tuesday and publicly released on Wednesday.
(17) The diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease continues to depend upon the finding of Reed-Sternberg cells in an appropriate histological setting.
(18) It's also a big day for company results, both in the UK: David Buik (@truemagic68) UK results today - INMARSAT, WINCANTON, HALFORDS, C&W COMM, SUPERGROUP, REED ELSEVIER, WM MORRISON, INVENSYS, TATE & LYLE, RANDGOLD November 7, 2013 And across Europe: Squawk Box Europe (@SquawkBoxEurope) Big earnings day in Europe.
(19) Other cell types including foam cells, lymphocytes, plasma cells, eosinophils, Reed-Sternberg-like and ganglion-like cells were commonly present.
(20) Both talents combined to push the genre to its limits: Reed could make great art out of pop.