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Definition: SISTRUM |
SISTRUM1. An instrument consisting of a thin metal frame, through which passed a number of metal rods, and furnished with a handle by which it was shaken and made to rattle. It was peculiarly Egyptian, and used especially in the worship of Isis. It is still used in Nubia. |
Date "SISTRUM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The sistrum was a sacred instrument in ancient Egypt. It was used in dances and religious ceremonies, particularly in the worship of the goddess Hathor, with the U-shape of the sistrum's handle and frame seen as resembling the face and horns of the cow goddess. It was also shaken to avert the flooding of the Nile and to frighten away Set.
Sistra (pl.) are still used in the rites of the Coptic and Ethiopian churches. The Sistrum was occasionally revived in 19th century western orchestral music, nowadays however it is replaced by its close modern equivalent, the tambourine. The effect produced by the sistrum in music when shaken in short, sharp, rythmic pulses is to arouse movement and activity. The rhythmical shaking of the sistrum, like the tambourine, is associated with religious or ecstatic events, whether shaken as a sacred rattle in the worship of Hathor of ancient Egypt, in the strident jangling of the tambourine in modern-day Evangelism, gypsy song and dance, on stage at a rock concert, or to heighten a large-scale orchestral tutti.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sistrum."
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
the sistrum | 14 |
egyptian sistrum | 2 |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SISTRUM": sistrums. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "SISTRUM" (pronounced 'Sis"trum'): Alabastrum, Antrum, Calamistrum, Centrum, Claustrum, Colostrum, lustrum, Nostrum, Plectrum, Pleurocentrum, rostrum, Sequestrum, spectrum, tantrum, Zygantrum. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: trismus, truisms. | |
| Words within the letters "i-m-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: strums, truism, tsuris. | |
-2 letters: mists, musts, risus, rusts, situs, smuts, stirs, strum, stums, suits, trims, truss. | |
-3 letters: isms, mirs, miss, mist, muss, must, muts, rims, rums, rust, ruts, sims, sirs, sits, smit, smut, sris, stir, stum, suit, sums, trim, tuis. | |
-4 letters: ism, its, mir, mis, mus, mut, rim, rum, rut, sim, sir, sis, sit. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-m-r-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: brutisms, mistrust, sistrums, tourisms. | |
+2 letters: altruisms, diestrums, futurisms, hirsutism, humorists, misroutes, misstruck, mistrusts, mistruths, mistutors, moistures, muralists, naturisms, resubmits, saturnism, tiramisus, trismuses, ultraisms. | |
+3 letters: antiserums, costumiers, drumsticks, fremituses, hirsutisms, impostures, mistrusted, moisturise, musketries, mysterious, ritualisms, saturnisms, sestertium, simulators, squirmiest, strabismus, strontiums, summeriest, summiteers, summitries, terminuses. | |
+4 letters: amateurisms, consortiums, consumerist, costumeries, customizers, ecotourisms, euhemerists, hucksterism, instruments, manicurists, manuscripts, marquisates, microbursts, misconstrue, misfortunes, mistrustful, mistrusting, moisturised, moisturises, moisturizes, nasturtiums, naturalisms, neutralisms, ostensorium, outpromises, puritanisms, quizmasters, resumptions, rheumatisms, rumbustious, sanatoriums, sanitariums, sanitoriums, scrumptious, stimulators, stramoniums, subminister, subprimates, sudatoriums, summertimes, suppertimes, supremacist, suprematism, suprematist, traumatises, traumatisms, tristimulus, ureotelisms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 49 53 54 52 55 4D |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .. ... - .-. ..- -- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001001 01010011 01010100 01010010 01010101 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S I S T R U M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0049 0053 0054 0052 0055 004D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53435354525547 |
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