Ocarina

Definition: Ocarina

Ocarina

Noun

1. Egg-shaped terra-cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes.

Date "ocarina" was first used: 1877. (references)

Etymology: Ocarina \Oc`a*ri"na\, noun. [Compare to Italian carino pretty.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Ocarina

Domain	Definitions
Fine Arts	Small egg-shaped instrument made of metal or clay, giving a flute-like sound. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Ocarina

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

An ocarina is a wind instrument, closed at both ends to produce an enclosed space, and punctured with a finger holes. A mouth tube projects from it, often from the side, and one sound hole is added, usually on the underside of the instrument's body.

The ocarina is a very old instrument, believed to date back some 12,000 years. It is of particular importance in Chinese and Mesoamerican cultures (where they are often shaped as animals, many times birds). Its common use in the West dates to the 19th century, when the modern form of the ocarina was invented by Italian Giuseppe Donati. The name is derived from Italian (ocarina="little goose", for the instrument's resemblance to the animal).

The ocarina is a closed-pipe instrument, which gives it the unusual quality of not relying on the pipe length to produce a particular tone. Instead the tone is dependent on ratio of the total surface area of opened holes to the total volume enclosed by the instrument. This means that, unlike a flute or recorder, the placement of the holes on an ocarina is irrelevant -- merely their size. As a closed instrument, it is also incapable of creating harmonic overtones.

Different notes are produced by fingering the holes, opening and closing more or less of the total hole area. The tone is then produced through the sound hole. The tone can also be varied by changing the strength with which one blows through the instrument.

Ocarinas are experiencing a slight surge in popularity recently (2002) due to the release of a popular game for the Nintendo 64 entitled Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in 1998, in which the hero Link used the instrument to travel through time and magically manipulate his environment.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ocarina."

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Synonym: Ocarina

Synonym: sweet potato (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Ocarina

Non-English Usage: "Ocarina" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (ocarina), Italian (ocarina), Portuguese (occasion), Spanish (ocarina).

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Commercial Usage: Ocarina

Domain	Title
Books	Concierto de ocarina (reference) Fun with the Ocarina (reference) Legend of Zelda W/Reference Card for Toys: The Ocarina of Time (reference) The Legend of Zelda : Ocarina of Time Perfect Guide (reference) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (reference) (more book examples) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
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Usage Frequency: Ocarina

"Ocarina" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ocarina" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ocarina

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
zelda ocarina of time	696	ocarina music	24
ocarina of time	491	hint ocarina time zelda	21
the legend of zelda ocarina of time	384	code ocarina time zelda	20
ocarina	371	guide ocarina time zelda	20
zelda ocarina of time walk through	265	cheat code ocarina time zelda	18
ocarina through time walk	155	download ocarina rom time zelda	15
cheat ocarina time zelda	121	zelda ocarina of time strategy guide	14
legend of zelda ocarina of time walk through	116	ocarina sheet music	13
zelda ocarina	97	ocarina play	13
cheat legend ocarina time zelda	89	ocarina songbird	12
ocarina rom time zelda	45	cheat code legend ocarina time zelda	12
legend master ocarina quest time zelda	40	legend master ocarina quest through time walk zelda	12
ocarina rom time	36	master ocarina quest through time walk zelda	12
ocarina zelda.com	35	legend ocarina picture time zelda	12
master ocarina quest time	35	n64 ocarina through time walk zelda	12
zelda ocarina walk through	32	music for zelda ocarina of time	11
ocarina song	32	ocarina wav	11
master ocarina quest time zelda	27	ocarina picture time zelda	11
cheat ocarina time	27	de guia ocarina time zelda	11
legend ocarina rom time zelda	27	zelda ocarina of time song	10
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Modern Translations: Ocarina

Language		Translations for "ocarina"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		okarinë. (various references)

Arabic		‏الأ كرينة آلة موسيقية بسيطة. (various references)

Bulgarian		окарина. (various references)

Czech		okarína. (various references)

Danish		okarina. (various references)

Dutch		ocarina. (various references)

Farsi		نوعی الت موسیقی شبیه نای(مو.). (various references)

Finnish		savikukko (toy ocarina), saviastia (toy ocarina). (various references)

French		ocarina. (various references)

German		Okarina. (various references)

Greek		οκαρίνα. (various references)

Hungarian		okarína. (various references)

Italian		ocarina. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		オイラーの定理 (engine oil, Euler's theorem, kerosene, occult, occult culture, oil, oil ball, oil brake, oil dollar, oil facility, oil fence, oil massage, oil money, oil pack, oil paint, oil painting, oil road, oil shale, oil shock, oiled leather, oiled sand, oiled sardine, oiled silk, oil-heater, oilskin, oxidant, oxide, wood briquet). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		オカリナ . (various references)

Pig Latin		ocarinaay

Portuguese		ocarina (occasion), evidência (evidence, palpability, patency, plainness). (various references)

Romanian		ocarinã. (various references)

Russian		окарина. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		okarina. (various references)

Spanish		ocarina. (various references)

Swedish		okarina. (various references)

Thai		เครื่องดนตรีประเภทเป่าชนิดหนึ่ง (oboe). (various references)

Ukranian		окарина. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Ocarina

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	avicula. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Ocarina

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ocarina": ocarinas. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ocarina" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: akarana, Avarina, Boccerini, Comacina, coraine, Foscarini, locrian, Obadina, ocarin, ocarine, ocarino, ocarna, ocarnia, occarina, okarina, Osmarino, ovarina, oxazine, pomarina, Posavina, rocardian, toarcian, yossarian. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Ocarina"

Words rhyming with "ocarina" (pronounced 'Oc`a*ri"na'): Abuna, Achatina, Alcanna, Alhenna, Alumna, Amphirhina, Amphisbaena, Angina, Anna, Anona, Antenna, arena, Avena, Avifauna, Banana, Becuna, BELLADONNA, Bellona, Carina, Casuarina, Catena, Cavatina, Concertina, Coquina, Cromorna, Curtana, Czarevna, Czarina, Damiana, DIANA, Echidna, Erythrina, Galena, Gehenna, Gena, Globigerina, Glucina, Hemina, henna, Hosanna, HYENA, iguana, Krishna, lacuna, Lena, Levana, Limacina, Linguatulina, Littorina, Luna. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Ocarina

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-n-o-r"
	-1 letter: acinar, arnica, carina, crania.
	-2 letters: acari, acorn, cairn, coria, naira, narco, naric, noria, orcin, racon.
	-3 letters: airn, anoa, arco, aria, cain, carn, ciao, cion, coin, coir, coni, corn, icon, inro, iron, naoi, narc, noir, nori, orca, raia, rain, rani, roan.
	-4 letters: ain, air, ana, ani, arc, can, car, con, cor, ion, nor, oar, oca.
	-5 letters: aa.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-n-o-r"
	+1 letter: armonica, macaroni, marocain, ocarinas, paranoic, raincoat.
	+2 letters: anaerobic, anaphoric, androecia, arachnoid, armonicas, cantorial, caparison, carbamino, carbanion, carcinoma, carnation, carnivora, covariant, draconian, harmonica, macaronic, macaronis, marocains, nonracial, oceanaria, panoramic, paranoiac, paranoics, pharaonic, raincoats.
	+3 letters: abreaction, aeronautic, anachronic, anamorphic, arachnoids, aragonitic, archegonia, attraction, caparisons, carabinero, caracoling, carbanions, carcinomas, carnations, carpogonia, castration, cautionary, chairwoman, cochairman, contrarian, covariance, endocardia, fascinator, fractional, harmonicas, laceration, macaronics, macaronies, maceration, machinator, maraschino, microfauna, monarchial, morganatic, noncardiac, oceanarium, paranoiacs, pyromaniac, tractional, vacationer, vaccinator.
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