Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small lutelike instrument with a typically pear-shaped body and a straight fretted neck, having usually four sets of paired strings tuned in unison or octaves.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A musical instrument of the lute class, having from four to six single or double metallic strings, which are stretched over an almond-shaped body, and a neck with numerous frets. It is played with a plectrum of tortoise-shell held in the right hand.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A small and beautifully shaped instrument resembling the lute.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A
stringed instrument and a member of thelute family, having eightstrings in fourcourses , frequently tuned as aviolin . They have either abowl back or aflat back. - noun A kitchen tool used for slicing vegetables (usually spelled
mandoline ). - noun military An
RAF World War II code name for patrols to attack enemy railway transport.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a stringed instrument related to the lute, usually played with a plectrum
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The note duration on mandolin is short, the fiddle notes are longer sustain, and we're all playing exactly the same notes.
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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The note duration on mandolin is short, the fiddle notes are longer sustain, and we're all playing exactly the same notes.
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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waaah waaah somebody call mandolin a waaaaahmbulance. what a repuke wussy.
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The mandolin was his first instrument, which he quickly traded in for the trombone.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Thirty-Two 2009
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Everybody knows that the mandolin is the "bad boy" of the lute family, and since Letle Viride is, in turn, the "bad boy" of mandolin players, this makes him exponentially bad.
Bike Buzz: Old Bikes, New Humiliations BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Everybody knows that the mandolin is the "bad boy" of the lute family, and since Letle Viride is, in turn, the "bad boy" of mandolin players, this makes him exponentially bad.
Archive 2009-02-01 BikeSnobNYC 2009
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In fact the mandolin is the instrument of my heart. '
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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Very Italian, too, is the "Serenade" with accompaniment à la mandolin, which is the most fetching number in the suite "Captive Memories," published in 1899.
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Rösle also make a non-flimsy V grater for slicing potatoes for dauphinois - a tool my mother always called a mandolin.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Learning to pick out tunes on the mandolin is the easy part ... the difficulty comes from leaning proper techniques, timing, taste, and TONE.
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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