mandolin

Word family nounmandolamandolinistmandolinmandora

Related topics: Music

man·do·lin, mandoline /ˌmændəˈlɪn/ noun [countableC]

APMa musical instrument with eight metal strings and a round back, played with a plectrum (=small piece of plastic, metal etc) 曼陀林〔一种八根金属弦、圆形琴身、用拨子演奏的乐器〕 →5 see picture at 见图 stringed instrument

Examples from the Corpus

mandolin• Try comparing a plucked note on a violin and on a mandolin and you will certainly notice the difference.• A young fellow strummed on a mandolin and a woman sang a Hebrew song.• This can be done with the slicer blade of a food processor or a mandolin.• They had no mandolin but Ollie's guitar would do.• Brown learned to play guitar, violin, harmonica, piano, mandolin, viola and drums.• Yet the solo mandolin enjoyed a now-forgotten renaissance between about 1885 and 1920.• Gish died in 1993, but the mandolin is still with us.• And since the mandolin has a different tuning to the guitar, it gives you a different chord voicing to everybody else.

Origin mandolin

(1700-1800) Italian mandolina, from mandola “large type of mandolin”, from French mandore

单词	mandolin
释义	mandolin Word family nounmandolamandolinistmandolinmandora Related topics: Music man·do·lin, mandoline /ˌmændəˈlɪn/ noun [countableC] APMa musical instrument with eight metal strings and a round back, played with a plectrum (=small piece of plastic, metal etc) 曼陀林〔一种八根金属弦、圆形琴身、用拨子演奏的乐器〕 →5 see picture at 见图 stringed instrument Examples from the Corpus mandolin• Try comparing a plucked note on a violin and on a mandolin and you will certainly notice the difference.• A young fellow strummed on a mandolin and a woman sang a Hebrew song.• This can be done with the slicer blade of a food processor or a mandolin.• They had no mandolin but Ollie's guitar would do.• Brown learned to play guitar, violin, harmonica, piano, mandolin, viola and drums.• Yet the solo mandolin enjoyed a now-forgotten renaissance between about 1885 and 1920.• Gish died in 1993, but the mandolin is still with us.• And since the mandolin has a different tuning to the guitar, it gives you a different chord voicing to everybody else. Origin mandolin (1700-1800) Italian mandolina, from mandola “large type of mandolin”, from French mandore
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