Viol vs Fiddle - What's the difference?
viol | fiddle |
A viola da gamba, a family of musical instruments that preceded the violin and viola and similar string instruments
To play the viol.
* (Sir Walter Scott)
* (Thomas Hardy)
(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
As nouns the difference between viol and fiddle
is that viol is a viola da gamba, a family of musical instruments that preceded the violin and viola and similar string instruments while fiddle is 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 verbs the difference between viol and fiddle
is that viol is to play the viol while fiddle is to play aimlessly.viol
English
(wikipedia viol)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- “Keep your gold for those who lack it, mistress,” said Henry, “and do not offer to honest hands the money that is won by violing , and tabouring, and toetripping, and perhaps worse pastimes.
- Through snowy woods and shady / We went to play a tune / To the lonely manor-lady / By the light of the Christmas moon. / We violed till, upward glancing / To where a mirror leaned, / It showed her airily dancing
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.