Tambourine

Definition: Tambourine

Tambourine

Noun

1. A shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides.

Date "tambourine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Tambourine

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To dream of a tambourine, signifies you will have enjoyment in some unusual event which will soon take place. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Fine Arts	A hoop covered with skin and fitted with jingles. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Tambourine

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The tambourine is musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a single drumhead mounted on a ring with small metal jingles. It is held in the hand and can be played in numerous ways, from stroking or shaking the jingles to striking it sharply with hand or stick or using the tambourine to strike the leg or hip. It is found in many forms of music, classical music, gypsy music, gospel music, pop music and rock and roll.

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

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Crosswords: Tambourine

English words defined with "tambourine": Pulsatile ♦ Tambourin, Tamburin, timbrel, Timburine. (references)

Specialty definitions using "tambourine": End, End-. (references)

Etymologies containing "tambourine": Taborine, Tambourin. (references)

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Modern Usage: Tambourine

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	But then you know there's always drums, and bass, and maybe even one day a tambourine. (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith)
Lyrics	Dancing Queen, feel the beat from the tambourine ("Dancing Queen"; performing artist: Abba)
Movie/TV Titles	Tambourine Dance by Annabelle (1896)
Song Titles	Mr. Tambourine Man (performing artist: The Byrds) Green Tambourine (performing artist: The Lemon Pipers)
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Commercial Usage: Tambourine

Domain	Title
Books	Get me a tambourine (reference) Mr. Tambourine Man : Leben und Musik von Bob Dylan (reference) Pooh's Tunes-Day Parade: With Tambourine (reference) Tambourine Moon (reference) Tap the Tambourine! (Rockin' Rhythm Band Board Books) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Mr. Tambourine Man (reference) The Best of the Lemon Pipers: Green Tambourine [Buddha] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Image Slideshow: Tambourine

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Sounds Captioned with "Tambourine".

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	A high-pitched tambourine hit.		Tambourine jingling once.
	A single tambourine snap.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Tambourine

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	END, n. The position farthest removed on either hand from the Interlocutor. The man was perishing apace Who played the tambourine; The seal of death was on his face -- 'Twas pallid, for 'twas clean. "This is the end," the sick man said In faint and failing tones. A moment later he was dead, And Tambourine was Bones. Tinley Roquot
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Usage Frequency: Tambourine

"Tambourine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Tambourine" is used about 36 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)	91.67%	33	60,273
Noun (proper)	8.33%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	36	N/A

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

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Expression: Tambourine

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "tambourine": tambourine-playing.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tambourine

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
tambourine	70
lyrics man mr tambourine	11
byrds lyrics man mr tambourine	4
history tambourine	4
green tambourine	3
dance tambourine	3
lyrics man tambourine	3
man tambourine	3
bob dylan man mr tambourine	3
tambourine instrument	2
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Modern Translations: Tambourine

Language		Translations for "tambourine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		def, darje (tabor). (various references)

Arabic		‏الرق آلة موسيقية, ‏دف صغير. (various references)

Bulgarian		тамбурина, дайре. (various references)

Czech		tamburína (timbrel), bubínek (drum, tympanum). (various references)

Danish		tamburin. (various references)

Dutch		tamboerijn, tamboereerraam (timbrel), tamboerĳn (timbrel), tamboerýn (timbrel), rinkelbom (timbrel). (various references)

Esperanto		tamburino (timbrel). (various references)

Farsi		دایره زنگی زدن , دایره زنگی (Fascia), دایره (Bureau, Circle, Compass, Disk, Rhomb, Roundel, Section, Sphere). (various references)

Finnish		tamburiini. (various references)

French		tambour de basque. (various references)

German		Tamburin (timbrel), tambourin, schellentrommel. (various references)

Greek		βάσκικο τύμπανο, τυμπάνιο. (various references)

Hebrew		תוף מרים, טמבורין, ט� בורית. (various references)

Hungarian		tamburindob (tabor), tambura, dobosgalamb (tambourine pigeon), csörgős baszk dob (tabor), csörgődob. (various references)

Indonesian		tambur (tymbal), gedempak. (various references)

Italian		tamburello (tabor, timbrel). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		太�" (drum). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たい�" (ancient times, drum, loud cry, shout). (various references)

Manx		dollan beg (timbrel). (various references)

Pig Latin		ambourinetay.(various references)

Portuguese		pandeiro (tambourin, timbrel). (various references)

Romanian		tamburinã. (various references)

Russian		тамбурин (timbrel), бубен (timbrel). (various references)

Sepedi		moropana. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tamburin, daire (timbrel). (various references)

Spanish		pandereta. (various references)

Swedish		tamburin. (various references)

Thai		กลองมือกลมที่ติ�"ลูกกระพรวน. (various references)

Turkish		tef. (various references)

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

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Ancestral Language Translations: Tambourine

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	tympanum. (various references)
French	1500-Modern	tambourin. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Tambourine

Derivations
	Words beginning with "tambourine": tambourines. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Tambourine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Albourne, Cambourne, Darbourne, Easbourne, Hagbourne, Radbourne, Sambourne, tamberine, tamborine, tamboureen. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Tambourine"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "tambourine" (pronounced ta'mberē"n)
3	-er ē" n	aquamarine, careen, figurine, marine, serene, tangerine, wolverine.
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Anagrams: Tambourine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-m-n-o-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: brominate.
	-2 letters: aerobium, baritone, braunite, obtainer, reobtain, routeman, ruminate, taborine, umbonate, urbanite.
	-3 letters: ambient, amniote, automen, baronet, bitumen, boatmen, bornite, bromate, bromine, enamour, imbrute, manitou, minaret, minuter, moraine, mounter, muriate, natrium, neuroma, niobate, outbeam, outearn, raiment, rainout, reboant, remount, romaine, romaunt, routine, ruinate, taborin, tambour, taurine, terbium, tinamou, tonearm, tribune, turbine, unmiter, unmitre, uranite, urinate.
	-4 letters: airmen, amount, anomie, antrum, arbute, aroint, atoner, atrium, auntie, baiter, banter, barite, barium, barmen, barmie, batmen, bemoan, binate, boater, bonier, bonita, borane, borate, bourne, bromin, brunet, bunter, burnet, burnie, burton, butane, enamor, entomb, erbium, etamin, imaret, imbrue, inmate, intomb, iterum, manito, manitu, manure, marine, marten, martin, matron, mature, mentor, merino, minter, minuet, minute, moaner, murein, murine, mutine, nature, norite, numbat, number, nutria, obtain, omenta, orient, ornate, ourebi, outman, outran, ratine, ration, rebait, rebato, remain, remint, retain, retina, rubati, rubato, rumina, tabour, tambur, tamein, tenour, terbia, timber, timbre, tonier, triune, turban, umbrae, unbear, uniter, unrobe, untame, untrim, urbane, uremia.
	-5 letters: abort, about, aimer, amber, ambit, ament, amine, amino, amnio, amort, amour, anime, antre, armet, atone, aurei, bairn, baron, baton, beano, beaut, beton, biome, biont, biota, biter, boart, boite, boner, borne, bourn, brain, brant, bream, brent, brine, brome, bruin, bruit, brume, brunt, brute, buran, buret, burin, burnt, buteo, embar, enorm, entia, imbue, inarm, inert, inter, intro, inure, irate, irone, manor, mater, matin, mbira, meant, menta, merit, metro, miaou, minae, miner, minor, miter, mitre, moira, moire, monie, monte, morae, mount, mourn, muter, muton, namer, niter, nitre, nitro, noria, noter, notum, nubia, oaten, oater, omber, ombre, onium, orate, orbit, ourie, outer, outre, ramen, ramet, ramie, ratio, rebut, reman, remit, retia, riant, robin, roman, rouen, route, rumba, rumen, rutin, taber, tabor, tabun, tamer, tenia, tenor, terai, timer, tinea, toman, toner, train, tribe, trine, trona, trone, tubae, tuber, tumor, tuner, turbo, umber, umbra, unarm, unbar, unite, unmet, untie, uraei, urate, urban, urbia, urine, uteri.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-m-n-o-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: tambourines.
	+3 letters: perambulation, troublemaking, unproblematic.
	+4 letters: cyanobacterium, insurmountable, neurofibromata, perambulations, subnormalities, troublemakings, turbomachinery.
	+5 letters: corynebacterium, enterobacterium, mountebankeries.
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