accordion, squeeze box
(noun) a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player
Source: WordNet® 3.1
accordion (plural accordions)
A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.
(GUI) A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents.
• squeezebox
accordion (third-person singular simple present accordions, present participle accordioning, simple past and past participle accordioned)
(transitive, intransitive) To fold up, in the manner of an accordion
• Concordia
Source: Wiktionary
Ac*cor"di*on, n. Etym: [See Accord.] (Mus.)
Definition: A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
