ALL meanings of concertina
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C c - variable noun concertina A concertina is a musical instrument consisting of two end pieces with stiff paper or cloth that folds up between them. You play the concertina by pressing the buttons on the end pieces while moving them together and apart. 3
- noun concertina 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 3
- verb concertina to collapse or fold up like a concertina 3
- noun concertina a musical instrument similar to an accordion but smaller and with buttons instead of a keyboard 3
- noun concertina a musical instrument resembling an accordion but having buttonlike keys, hexagonal bellows and ends, and a more limited range. 1
- noun concertina concertina wire. 1
- verb without object concertina to fold, crush together, or collapse in the manner of a concertina: The car concertinaed when it hit the truck. 1
- verb with object concertina to cause to fold or collapse in the manner of a concertina. 1
- adjective concertina of, relating to, or resembling a concertina: concertina pleats. 1
- noun concertina musical instrument: accordion 1
- intransitive verb concertina become folded 1
- noun concertina A small musical instrument, typically polygonal in form, played by stretching and squeezing between the hands, to work a central bellows that blows air over reeds, each note being sounded by a button. 1
- noun concertina (music) A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends. 0
- noun concertina Something resembling a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together. 0
- noun concertina Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle. 0
- noun concertina A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert. 0
- verb concertina to become compressed into a shape reminiscent of a concertina. 0
- verb concertina to be drawn closer and farther apart repeatedly, or up and down, as if situated on a working concertina's folds. 0