different between violin vs saccade

English

Etymology

From Italian violino, diminutive form of viola with diminutive suffix -ino.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?va???l?n/, [?va?????l?n]
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?v?e?l?n/, /?v?e.??l?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

violin (plural violins)

1. (music) A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string, with the pitch set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers; also any instrument of the violin family.

   Synonym: fiddle
2. (music) A violinist.

   The first violin often plays the lead melody lines in a string quartet.

Derived terms

Related terms

• viol
• viola
• violoncello

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (baiorin)
• ? Korean: ???? (baiollin)

Translations

Verb

violin (third-person singular simple present violins, present participle violining, simple past and past participle violined)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To play on, or as if on, a violin.

See also

• bass viol
• cello
• double bass
• viola

Anagrams

• olivin

Catalan

Verb

violin

1. third-person plural present subjunctive form of violar
2. third-person plural imperative form of violar

Danish

Etymology

From Italian violino, diminutive form of viola with diminutive suffix -ino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /violi?n/, [vio?li??n]
• Rhymes: -in

Noun

violin c (singular definite violinen, plural indefinite violiner)

1. violin

Declension

References

• “violin” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “violin” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vju?li?/

Noun

violin m (plural violin)

1. violin

English

Etymology

From French saccade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??k??d/

Noun

saccade (plural saccades)

1. (rare) A sudden jerking movement.
2. A rapid jerky movement of the eye (voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another.
   • 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:

     He added the bill with a single saccade of his pulsing eyes.

   • 2000, Tim Radford, The Guardian, 21 Nov 2000:

     Then 130 milliseconds or thousandths of a second later, each made a "saccade" - an extremely fast eye movement - to roughly where the ball was likely to bounce.
3. The act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins.
4. (music) The sounding of two violin strings together by using a sudden strong pressure of the bow.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

saccade (third-person singular simple present saccades, present participle saccading, simple past and past participle saccaded)

1. (of the eye) To make a rapid jerking movement to focus elsewhere.

See also

• eyetracking
• scanpath

Anagrams

• Cascade, cascade

French

Etymology

From saquer or its Spanish cognate sacar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.kad/

Noun

saccade f (plural saccades)

1. a jerk (jerking movement)
2. a rapid jerky movement of the eye (voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another
3. the act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins

Derived terms

• ronfler par saccades

Verb

saccade

1. first-person singular present indicative of saccader
2. third-person singular present indicative of saccader
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of saccader
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of saccader
5. second-person singular imperative of saccader

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• accédas, cascade, cascadé