(n.) A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings.
(n.) A large rope sometimes used in weighing anchor.
Example Sentences:
(1) They tended to preseverate in their errors and frequently resorted to game-rule viole perform many years below MA expectations on tasks requiring foresight and logic.
Violist
Definition:
(n.) A player on the viol.
Example Sentences:
(1) Violinists and violists showed significantly poorer thresholds at 3-6 kHz in the left ear than in the right ear, consistent with the left ear's greater exposure from their instruments.
(2) Fiddler's neck is a dermatosis of violinists and violists.
(3) I’m not the world’s greatest violist.” But the staunchly pro-Palestinian Barenboim regularly included him in press conferences from Berlin to Salzburg to Andalusia.
(4) Tensions between Hoffman and his violist wife Juliette (Catherine Keener) over long-suppressed resentments also emerge, even before they learn that their daughter Alex (Imogen Poots) is sleeping with Daniel.
(5) Now 36, Ramzi is a professional, even world-class violist, but the bouzouk has become his primary means of making music – alongside his other work, administering and fund-raising for Al Kamandjâti, which now has eight branches in the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon, with 500 students a year and another 2,500 visited in primary schools, and 15 alumni have become music professionals.
(6) I buy some (it tastes like fishy polystyrene, but is pretty satisfying to gnaw on) and walk over to the concert venue, where a violist and cellist from the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra are creating conceptual classical sound waves with their bows.
(7) After HTLs were corrected for age and sex, HTLs were found to be significantly better for both ears of musicians playing bass, cello, harp, or piano and for the right ears of violinists and violists than for their left ears or for both ears of other musicians.