concertina
/ˌkɒnsəˈtiːnə/US/ˌkɑnsɚˈtinə/
concertina noun: a musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.
Noun
concertina (plural concertinas)
- A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.
- That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
- Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices...1978, Jan Romein, The Watershed of Two Eras: Europe in 1900, page 303
- Something multiply folded like a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together.
- Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle.
- A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert.
Verb
concertina (third-person singular simple present concertinas, present participle concertinaing, simple past and past participle concertinaed)
- To become compressed into a shape reminiscent of a concertina.
- The car concertinaed into the wall.
- Millions of years ago the mica schists surrounding the old Brandberg West Mine became folded and concertinaed by enormous horizontal pressures.2012, Amy Schoeman, Skeleton Coast, page ii
- To be drawn closer and farther apart repeatedly, or up and down, as if situated on a working concertina's folds.
- This resulted in some fragmentation of the line as the boats in some cases closed to just 50 metres as they concertinaed in and out of sight of each other.2007, David W Cameron, 25 April 1915: The Day the Anzac Legend Was Born, page 36
concertina meaning in Tamil and Tagalog
concertina in Tamil
- துருத்திபோன்ற இசைக்கருவி வகை
concertina in Tagalog
- musical instrument
- konsertina
Examples of concertina in a sentence
- I managed to catch it before it landed and the icing rippled in the middle as the cake concertinaed.
- Millions of years ago the mica schists surrounding the old Brandberg West Mine became folded and concertinaed by enormous horizontal pressures.
- A majority of polka bands use an accordion or concertina.
Forms of concertina
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | concertinas |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | concertinas |
| present participle | concertinaing |
| past participle | concertinaed |
| past | concertinaed |
Origin of concertina
From concert + -ina.
Words formed from concertina
- anglo concertina
- concertina book
- concertina frame
- concertina wire
- concertinist
Phrases with concertina
Questions about concertina
- What does concertina mean?
- Concertina means a musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.
- What is concertina in Tamil?
- Concertina in Tamil is துருத்திபோன்ற இசைக்கருவி வகை. See Concertina meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is concertina?
- Concertina can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce concertina?
- Concertina is pronounced /ˌkɒnsəˈtiːnə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of concertina?
- The plural of concertina is concertinas.
Words near concertina in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: concertina (page history and authors); concertina (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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