Harp vs Triangle - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between harp and triangle

is that harp is a musical instrument consisting of an upright frame strung with strings that are stroked or plucked with the fingers while triangle is a polygon with three sides and three angles.

As proper nouns the difference between harp and triangle

is that harp is {{surname|A=An|occupational|from=occupations}} for a player of the harp while Triangle is the area comprising the cities of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill in North Carolina. Used with "the" except when attributive.

As a verb harp

is usually with on To repeatedly mention a subject.

harp

English

(wikipedia harp)

Noun

(en noun)

A musical instrument consisting of an upright frame strung with strings that are stroked or plucked with the fingers.

(label) A harmonica.

(label) A grain sieve.

Derived terms

* harpist

Verb

(en verb)

To repeatedly mention a subject.

(US)

(UK)

(label) To play on (a harp or similar instrument)

(label) To play (a tune) on the harp.

(label) To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.

— Shakespeare.

Synonyms

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Anagrams

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triangle

English

Noun

(en noun)

(geometry) A polygon with three sides and three angles.

(music) A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.

(cue sports) A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.

A love triangle.

* 2009 , Neil McDonald, Quadrant , November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 104:

One of the writers' most pleasing inventions was to treat the triangle love story as comedy.

(systemics) The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.

A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.

(historical) A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment.

Synonyms

* (polygon) trigon (rare) * (love triangle) love triangle, * See also

Derived terms

* acute-angled triangle * acute triangle * anal triangle * Bermuda Triangle * black triangle * circular triangle * cyclic triangle * Devil's Triangle * equilateral triangle * eternal triangle * femoral triangle * golden triangle * Golden Triangle * isosceles triangle * love triangle * North Atlantic Triangle * obtuse-angled triangle * obtuse triangle * Pascal's triangle * Polynesian Triangle * pubic triangle * Reuleaux triangle * right-angled triangle * right triangle * scalene triangle * set triangle * Sierpinski triangle * spherical triangle * star-triangle relation * Sunni Triangle * triangle choke * triangle inequality * triangle offense * triangle piercing * triangle test * triangle wave * triangular * triangular distribution * triangular function * triangular prism * triangulate * triangulation

External links

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Anagrams

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