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ACCORDION
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
Etymology
Noun
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.
Synonyms
• squeezebox
Verb
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
Anagrams
• 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
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REPLACEMENT
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
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