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concertina

[ kon-ser-tee-nuh ]

noun

  1. a musical instrument resembling an accordion but having buttonlike keys, hexagonal bellows and ends, and a more limited range.


verb (used without object)

concertinaed concertinaing
  1. to fold, crush together, or collapse in the manner of a concertina:

    The car concertinaed when it hit the truck.

verb (used with object)

concertinaed concertinaing
  1. to cause to fold or collapse in the manner of a concertina.

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or resembling a concertina:

    concertina pleats.

concertina

/ 藢办蓲苍蝉蓹藞迟颈藧苍蓹 /

noun

  1. a small hexagonal musical instrument of the reed organ family in which metallic reeds are vibrated by air from a set of bellows operated by the player's hands. Notes are produced by pressing buttons
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. intr to collapse or fold up like a concertina
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藢肠辞苍肠别谤藞迟颈苍颈蝉迟, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 肠辞苍顎卌别谤路迟颈顎僴颈蝉迟 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of concertina1

Apparently coined by the original instrument's inventor, English instrument-maker Charles Wheatstone (1802鈥75), who patented it in 1829; concertino, seraphina a similar instrument
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of concertina1

C19: concert + -ina
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Meanwhile, the Border Patrol, with the assistance of 750 U.S. military troops, has reinforced six miles of the border wall with concertina wire.

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May鈥檚 next film, 鈥淭he Heartbreak Kid,鈥 adapted from a Neil Simon hit and co-starring her daughter Jeannie Berlin, is a beautifully calibrated and funny social critique wrapped in concertina wire.

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After weeks of desperation, migrants pass a toddler under a tangle of concertina wire strung across the edge of U.S. soil.

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Abbott has deployed the Texas National Guard to the border, placed concertina wire along parts of the Rio Grande in defiance of U.S.

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They were headed, about 150 of them, for the demilitarized zone: the narrow buffer strip between North and South Korea that is heavily guarded by concertina wire and rifle-toting soldiers.

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