Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
violin or its sound.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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There's more to Johnson than only those signature, violinlike guitar solos.
chron.com Chronicle 2010
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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
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Use a violinlike control scheme by pressing the B, C and Z buttons while moving the Wii remote left and right.
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