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  • adjective Resembling a violin or its sound.

Etymologies

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violin +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Similar to how a cricket chirps by rubbing together sound-making apparatus in its hind legs, male club-winged manakins (Machaeropterus deliciosus) use specially adapted feathers in each wing to make a violinlike hum, a Cornell University animal behaviorist Kimberly Bostwick writes in Science magazine (July 29, 2005).

    Science 2005

  • There's more to Johnson than only those signature, violinlike guitar solos.

    chron.com Chronicle 2010

  • The researchers found that when the enlarged sixth and seventh feathers are excited at their resonant frequency -- an object's natural frequency of vibration -- all nine hollow feathers resonate as a unit at 1500 Hertz to create the violinlike note close to an F-sharp.

    unknown title 2009

  • Use a violinlike control scheme by pressing the B, C and Z buttons while moving the Wii remote left and right.

    hattiesburgamerican.com - 2008

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