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Banjo vs Lute - What's the difference?

banjo | lute |

As nouns the difference between banjo and lute

is that banjo is a stringed musical instrument with a round body and fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings while lute is a fretted stringed instrument, similar to a guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox.

As verbs the difference between banjo and lute

is that banjo is to play the banjo while lute is to play on a lute, or as if on a lute.

banjo

English

(wikipedia banjo)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (musical instruments) A stringed musical instrument with a round body and fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.
    • I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee ...
  • (slang) An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.

    • Derived terms

    * banjoist * banjo enclosure * banjo eyes, banjo-eyes, banjo-eyed

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To play the banjo
  • (slang, British) To beat; to knock down
  • * 1989 , Susan S. M. Edwards, Policing 'domestic' Violence: Women, the Law and the State , page 95
    • Admitting the assault, the husband said that he had given her a 'banjoing ' but that she had asked for it.
  • * 1998 , "Fergie's world just gets Madar."(Sport), Sunday Mail m Jan 4, 1998
    • Madar was turfed out on a final misdemeanour of banjoing one of his teammates in training before a big game
  • * 2007 , "Return of Smeato, the extraordinary hero", Times Online , Jul 31, 2007
    • "Me and other folk were just trying to get the boot in and some other guy banjoed [decked] him”.
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    lute

    English

    (wikipedia lute)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) lut (modern (luth)), from (etyl) (probably representing an (etyl) or North African pronunciation).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fretted stringed instrument, similar to a guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox.
    • Related terms
    * archlute * lutanist, lutenist * lutherie * luthier * lutist

    See also

    * barbiton, barbitos * guembri * guqin * mandola * mandolin * oud * pipa * rebab * samisen, shamisen * theorbo

    Verb

    (lut)
  • To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
  • * Tennyson
    • Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.
    (Piers Plowman)
    (Keats)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lut, ultimately from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
  • A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
  • (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mould.

    • Verb

    (lut)
  • To fix or fasten something with lute.
  • * 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Friend's Friend’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio Society 2005, page 179:
    • To protect everything till it dried, a man luted a big blue paper cap from a cracker, with meringue-cream, low down on Jevon's forehead.

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