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Flute vs Accordion - What's the difference?

flute | accordion |

As verbs the difference between flute and accordion

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

As an adjective flute

is reedy (of a voice).

As a noun 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.

flute

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) flaute, from (etyl) flaut, ultimately from three possibilities: * Blend of Provencal * From Latin * Imitative.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (musical instruments) A woodwind instrument consisting of a metal, wood or bamboo tube with a row of circular holes and played by blowing across a hole in the side of one end or through a narrow channel at one end against a sharp edge, while covering none, some or all of the holes with the fingers to vary the note played.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • The breathing flute's soft notes are heard around.
  • A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
  • a lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a can escape
  • (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
  • A long French bread roll.
  • (Simmonds)
  • An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
  • Derived terms
    * pan flute * skin flute
    See also
    * bansuri

    Verb

  • To play on a .
  • To make a flutelike sound.
  • To utter with a flutelike sound.
  • *
  • To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).
  • Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) ?, (etyl) fluit.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
  • 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