Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
tympano .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
timpani .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it
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Examples
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The three muscles which regulate the tension of these membranes are termed the _tensor tympani, laxator tympani_, and _stapedium tympani.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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The sound system was spectacular, no distortion, loud without being too loud and you could hear the full range of sound from the flutes way up high to the guy banging away on the tympani, the way music was meant to be heard.
Star Wars In Concert 2009
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Most of the actors play a great variety of drums, from tympani and bass, to African drums thumped with hands and fists.
Kevin Spacey Is the Perfect 'Richard III' Paul Levy 2011
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There were copper bottom tympani in horse platoons, thundering, thundering all along the way.
Learning to Die in Miami Carlos Eire 2010
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We lie in bed listening to the tympani of rain on the tile roof and burrowing into each other's warmth.
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GROSS: One of the things I like about that recording, it's so vivid, and I just love all the orchestral things going on in the background and, like, is it kettle drum or tympani that you ...
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Its concert tent may have been a-hum with persistent air-conditioning noises, but over these, the youthful orchestra paraded an elegant woodwind section, agile strings and brass and a clutch of percussionists whose talents spanned everything from the most delicate triangle touches to a physical assault on the tympani at the end of the Berlioz “Symphonie Fantastique” that left the attacker red-faced and sweaty.
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A low roll of thunder made itself heard over the city sounds, not close by, just a deep tympani rumble off in the distance.
The Overton Window Glenn Beck 2010
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A low roll of thunder made itself heard over the city sounds, not close by, just a deep tympani rumble off in the distance.
The Overton Window Glenn Beck 2010
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We lie in bed listening to the tympani of rain on the tile roof and burrowing into each other's warmth.
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