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WIND INSTRUMENT
I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath
Synonyms:
wind; wind instrument
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("wind instrument" is a kind of...):
instrument; musical instrument (any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds)
Meronyms (parts of "wind instrument"):
bell (the flared opening of a tubular device)
embouchure; mouthpiece (the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wind instrument"):
brass; brass instrument (a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece)
free-reed instrument (a wind instrument with a free reed)
kazoo (a toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a sound when you hum into the mouthpiece)
ocarina; sweet potato (egg-shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes)
organ; pipe organ (wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard)
organ pipe; pipe; pipework (the flues and stops on a pipe organ)
pipe (a tubular wind instrument)
post horn (wind instrument used by postilions of the 18th and 19th centuries)
whistle (a small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it)
wood; woodwind; woodwind instrument (any wind instrument other than the brass instruments)
