Word Meanings - DOUBLE-TONGUING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.

Related words: (words related to DOUBLE-TONGUING)

• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• PLAY
  quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• PLAYTE
  See PLEYT
• RAPID
  1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth;
• ARTICULATOR
  One who, or that which, articulates; as: One who enunciates distinctly. One who prepares and mounts skeletons. An instrument to cure stammering.
• TONGUELET
  A little tongue.
• FLUTED
  1. Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes. Busby. 2. Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.
• RAPIDNESS
  Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.
• CORNET-A-PISTON
  A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet. (more info) piston. Etym:
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• ARTICULATELY
  1. After the manner, or in the form, of a joint. 2. Article by article; in distinct particulars; in detail; definitely. Paley. I had articulately set down in writing our points. Fuller. 3. With distinct utterance of the separate sounds.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• RAPIDITY
  The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of growth or improvement. Syn. -- -- Rapidness; haste; speed; celerity; velocity; swiftness; fleetness; quickness; agility.
• ACTIONABLE
  That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
• RAPIDLY
  In a rapid manner.
• TONGUESTER
  One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• MONOTESSARON
  A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony.
• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• ABARTICULATION
  Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. Coxe.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• HONEY-TONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• REDACTION
  The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
• SHRILL-TONGUED
  Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
• CHYLIFACTION
  The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
• MEDAL PLAY
  Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.