different between lyre vs xylophone

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (lúra, “lyre, a stringed instrument with a sounding-board formed of the shell of a tortoise”). Doublet of lira and Lyra.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?la?.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?la?.?/, /la??/
• Rhymes: -a??(r)
• Homophones: liar, lier

Noun

lyre (plural lyres)

1. (music) An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.
   1. Any instrument of the same musicological classification; any yoke lute.
2. A lyre-shaped sheet music holder that attaches to a wind instrument when a music stand is impractical.
3. (obsolete) A composer of lyric poetry.

Related terms

• Lyra
• lyrebird
• lyrical

Synonyms

• (a general class of instruments): yoke lute

References

• 2012. Kisir and Tanbura. Dahab Khalil and Artur Simon. Pg. 96.
• 2007. Origins and Development of Musical Instruments. Jeremy Montagu. Pg. 128.

Translations

See also

• harp

Further reading

• lyre in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• lyre in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Homophones

• lire

Anagrams

• Ryle, rely

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?/

Noun

lyre f (plural lyres)

1. lyre
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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

lyre f or m (definite singular lyra or lyren, indefinite plural lyrer, definite plural lyrene)

1. (music) a lyre

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

lyre f (definite singular lyra, indefinite plural lyrer, definite plural lyrene)

1. (music) a lyre

English

Etymology

From xylo- (“of wood”) +? -phone (“sound”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: z??l?-f?n', IPA^(key): /?za?.l?.?f??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?za?l??fo?n/
• Hyphenation: xy?lo?phone

Noun

xylophone (plural xylophones)

1. (music) Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• glockenspiel
• marimba
• vibraphone

References

• Vienna Symphony Orchestra. "Xylophone".

Verb

xylophone (third-person singular simple present xylophones, present participle xylophoning, simple past and past participle xylophoned)

1. To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
2. To move above a ridged surface so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.

Anagrams

• oxyphenol

French

Etymology

From xylo- +? -phone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?zi.l?.f?n/, /ksi.l?.f?n/

Noun

xylophone m (plural xylophones)

1. xylophone

Descendants

• ? Russian: ????????? (ksilofón) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “xylophone” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).