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Definition: Concertina |
ConcertinaNoun1. Coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle. 2. Free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds. Verb1. Collapse like a concertina. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "concertina" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1866. (references) |
Etymology: Concertina \Con`cer*ti"na\, noun. [From Italian concerto concert.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Fine Arts | A variety of accordion. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Concertina |
| English words defined with "concertina": Free reed ♦ reed organ. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "concertina": ACCORDION REPAIRER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "concertina": Concertino. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Concertina" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (concertina), Portuguese (concertina), Spanish (concertina), Swedish (concertina). |
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| "Concertina" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Concertina" is used about 41 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% | 41 | 53,521 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "concertina": concertina-ed, concertina-folded, concertina-like, concertina-style. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "concertina"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 六'手风琴状. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | concertina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | concertina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | concertina, stroppen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | concertina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ziehharmonika (accordion), konzertina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κονσερτίνα, κοντσερτίνα, φυσαρμόνικα (accordion, harmonica), είδοσ ακορντεόν. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מפוחית (harmonica). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | harmonika (accordion), összecsukható drótakadály. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | concertina, piccola fisarmonica. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | コンソル公債 (combine, concerto, conductor, consolidated annuities, consols, contact, contact lens, container, container bag, containerization, contest, context, continental, continental breakfast, continental look, continental plan, continental style, continental tango, continuation, continuity, group of companies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | コンチェルティナ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | conserteen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oncertinacay concertina, sanfona (accordion), acordeão (accordion). (various references) concertinã. (various references) концертино. (various references) vrsta harmonike. (various references) concertina. (various references) concertina. (various references) akerdeona benzer bir çalgı. (various references) концертина. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "concertina": concertinas. (additional references) | |
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"Concertina" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Concertata, concertined, concertone. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "concertina" (pronounced kÄnsertē"nu) |
| 4 | -t ē" n u | cantina, catena, patina. |
| 3 | -ē" n u | arena, ballerina, Farina, galena, hyena, Marina, Mina, Pina, Regina, Salina, subpoena, vena, verbena, Vina. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-n-n-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: accretion, anorectic, container, crenation. | |
-2 letters: accentor, acentric, acetonic, anointer, anoretic, cocinera, concerti, cratonic, creation, narcotic, necrotic, reaction, reanoint. | |
-3 letters: aconite, acronic, acrotic, actinon, ancient, cannier, canonic, carotin, centric, ceratin, cerotic, certain, cocaine, coenact, cointer, conceit, concent, concern, concert, connate, connect, contain, cornice, creatin, crocein, crocine, enactor, enation, entrain, erotica, intoner, narcein, noticer, oceanic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-i-n-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: anacreontic, concertinas, contrivance, necromantic. | |
+2 letters: anacreontics, androcentric, consecrating, consecration, contrivances, interoceanic, nonarchitect, recontacting, transoceanic. | |
+3 letters: concentrating, concentration, concentrative, concretionary, confectionary, consecrations, contraception, counteracting, counteraction, incarceration, nonaccredited, nonarchitects, nondemocratic, nonelectrical, revaccination. | |
+4 letters: anticarcinogen, concelebrating, concelebration, concentrations, concentrically, concretization, contraceptions, contraindicate, counteractions, deconsecrating, deconsecration, econometrician, incarcerations, reconciliation, reconsecrating, reconsecration, revaccinations, uncontradicted. | |
+5 letters: anthropocentric, anticarcinogens, anticholinergic, carcinogenicity, concelebrations, concretizations, confectionaries, contraindicated, contraindicates, countercampaign, counterchanging, countercharging, counterclaiming, counterinstance, countermarching, counterreaction, deconcentrating, deconcentration, deconsecrations, econometricians, frenchification, necromantically, nonarchitecture, noncertificated, precancellation, reconcentrating, reconcentration, reconciliations, reconsecrations. | |
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