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idioglot

idioglot adjective: having a vibrating reed that is an integral part of the instrument.

Adjective

idioglot (not comparable)

  1. Having a vibrating reed that is an integral part of the instrument.
    • Further north, in rural Lithuania, a folk clarinet has a cylindrical tube closed at the top, with idioglot reed taken in the player's mouth for its entire length.1975, Sibyl Marcuse, A survey of musical instruments, page 729
    • Pipes with idioglot reeds (not separate pieces of cane, but cut in the tube itself) have been identified from later civilisations, for example the Greek aulos and the Sardinian launeddas.1995, Colin James Lawson, The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet, →ISBN, page 2

Noun

idioglot (plural idioglots)

  1. An idioglot instrument.
    • Masa (tongs) -an idioglot with a sound-rhythmical effect and with a secondary musical function; made of iron.1987, The World of Music - Volume 29, page 69
    • These simple instruments (idioglots) still found in Syria, Crete, Turkmenistan amongst others are also used by children who have a good supply of reeds nearby.1988, Eric Montbel, Le Roseau et la musique, page 78
  2. A person who speaks an idiolect.
    • In a case quoted by Romanes, the reference to which we give later, a child aged 4½ years was the subject of idioglossia, but her younger brother was able to converse with her in her own idioglot language, although he also talked childish English.1891, W. Hale White, C.H. Golding-Bird, “Two Cases of Idioglossia, with Phonographic Demonstration of the Peculiarity of Speech”, in Medico-chirurgical transactions, volume 74
    • For some reason it is the destiny of Richard Tull, to be surrounded by ideoglots. Idioglots, with their idiolects.1995, Martin Amis, The Information, →ISBN

Examples of idioglot in a sentence

  • Alongside the clarinet of today, idioglot instruments are still played in many European countries, along the Baltic and in the Balkans, as well as Asia, Africa and South America.2008, Eric Hoeprich, The Clarinet, →ISBN, page 13:
  • The single reed iterations were often idioglots because of the simple structural design required to produce such a sound generator.2016, Michael J. Pagliaro, Basic Elements of Music, →ISBN, page 88:
  • I am an idioglot using a personalised idiolect.2009, B Geary, “Essential tropical emergency medicine skills”, in Emergency Medicine Journal, volume 26, number 6:

Antonyms of idioglot

Forms of idioglot

pluralidioglots

Questions about idioglot

What does idioglot mean?
Idioglot means having a vibrating reed that is an integral part of the instrument.
How do you use idioglot in a sentence?
Alongside the clarinet of today, idioglot instruments are still played in many European countries, along the Baltic and in the Balkans, as well as Asia, Africa and South America.
What part of speech is idioglot?
Idioglot can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near idioglot in the dictionary

  1. idiogenetic
  2. idiogenous
  3. idioglossia
  4. idioglossias
  5. idioglossic
  6. idioglot
  7. idioglots
  8. idioglottic
  9. idiogram
  10. idiograms
  11. idiograph

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