Fiddled vs Fiddler - What's the difference?
fiddled | fiddler |
(fiddle)
(music) Any of various bowed string instruments, often used to refer to a violin when played in any of various traditional styles, as opposed to classical violin.
A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher ) with leaves shaped like the musical instrument.
An adjustment intended to cover up a basic flaw.
A fraud; a scam.
(nautical) On board a ship or boat, a rail or batten around the edge of a table or stove to prevent objects falling off at sea. (Also fiddle rail )
To play aimlessly.
* Samuel Pepys
To adjust in order to cover a basic flaw or fraud etc.
(music) To play traditional tunes on a violin in a non-classical style.
* Francis Bacon
One who plays the fiddle.
One who fiddles.
* 2005 , Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The drama of my life'' (in ''The Independent online, [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/the-drama-of-my-life-483792.html])
A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus , of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle.
The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus ); so called because it continually oscillates its body.
As a verb fiddled
is past tense of fiddle.As a noun fiddler is
one who plays the fiddle.fiddled
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Verb
(head)fiddle
English
(wikipedia fiddle)Noun
(en noun)- When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like that, it's a violin.
- That parameter setting is just a fiddle to make the lighting look right.
Synonyms
* (instrument) violinDerived terms
* fiddle brake * fiddle factor * fiddle-faddle * fiddlehead * fiddly * first fiddle * fit as a fiddle * lead fiddle * second fiddleSee also
* crowd, crwthVerb
(fiddl)- Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers.
- You're fiddling your life away.
- I needed to fiddle the lighting parameters to get the image to look right.
- Fred was sacked when the auditors caught him fiddling the books.
- Themistocles said he could not fiddle , but he could make a small town a great city.
Synonyms
* (to adjust in order to cover a basic flaw) fudgeDerived terms
* fiddle about * fiddle around * fiddle the books * fiddle with * fiddlerSee also
* fritterfiddler
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Noun
(en noun)- We were the self-controlled, cautious, nifty merchants, decorous fiddlers of accounts, hoarders of wealth, excellent bribers, family and community creatures governed by manners.