Hautboy vs Fiddle - What's the difference?
hautboy | fiddle |
(dated, musical instruments) The oboe.
(music) A reed stop on an organ giving a similar sound.
A tall-growing strawberry, , having a musky flavour.
(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
In music|lang=en terms the difference between hautboy and fiddle
is that hautboy is (music) a reed stop on an organ giving a similar sound while fiddle is (music) to play traditional tunes on a violin in a non-classical style.As nouns the difference between hautboy and fiddle
is that hautboy is (dated|musical instruments) the oboe while fiddle is (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.As a verb fiddle is
to play aimlessly.hautboy
English
Alternative forms
* hautboisNoun
(en noun)Anagrams
*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.
