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
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
