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Accordion vs Or - What's the difference?

accordion | or |

As nouns the difference between accordion and or

is that accordion is a small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds while or is gold.

As a verb accordion

is (intransitive) to fold up, in the manner of an accordion.

accordion

English

(wikipedia accordion)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.
  • * 1869 , , Innocents Abroad :
    • A disreputable accordion that had a leak somewhere and breathed louder than it squawked.
  • * , Devil’s Dictionary :
    • Accordion : an instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
  • * 1922 , , Ulysses :
    • An accordion underskirt of blue silk moirette.

    Synonyms

    * squeezebox

    Derived terms

    * accordionist * accordion player * button accordion * piano accordion * accordion file

    See also

    * bandoneon * concertina

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive) To fold up, in the manner of an accordion
  • * {{quote-news, year=2000, date=December 29, author=Charles Dickinson, title=Qi, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Still in reverse, she goosed the gas and accordioned the running board a fraction of an inch more. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2005, author=, title=Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It accordioned down and he tugged the shirt around it so that it came free

    or

    English

    (wikipedia or)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) .

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "eitheror".
  • *
    • The sporophyte foot is also characteristic: it is very broad and more or less lenticular or' disciform, as broad ' or broader than the calyptra stalk
  • Logical union of two sets of values. There are two forms, an exclusive or and an inclusive or.
  • Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
  • Otherwise; a consequence of the condition that the previous is false
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.}}
  • Connects two equivalent names.
    • Synonyms
    *
    See also
    * neither * nor

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
    • 1909', The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "'''or " and "argent". — Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, ''A Complete Guide to Heraldry
    1889', In engraving, "'''Or " is expressed by dots. — Charles Norton Elvin, ''A Dictionary of Heraldry
    Synonyms
    * (gold or yellow tincture) , Or
    Related terms
    * Au (chemical symbol for gold)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
    • Synonyms
    * gold

    Etymology 3

    Late (etyl) ). Compare (ere).

    Adverb

  • (obsolete) Early (on).
  • (obsolete) Earlier, previously.

    • Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Before; ere.
  • *, Book VII:
  • *:"Sey ye never so," seyde Sir Bors, "for many tymys or this she hath bene wroth with you, and aftir that she was the firste that repented hit."

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