different between xylophone vs cartwheel

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).

English

Etymology

cart +? wheel

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??t?wi?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??t?wil/

Noun

cartwheel (plural cartwheels)

1. The literal wheel of a cart.
2. A gymnastic maneuver whereby the gymnast rotates to one side or the other while keeping arms and legs outstretched, spinning for one or more revolutions.
3. (Britain, historical, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
   • 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words

     Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.

4. (US, historical, obsolete slang) A silver dollar of the larger size produced before 1979.

Translations

Verb

cartwheel (third-person singular simple present cartwheels, present participle cartwheeling, simple past and past participle cartwheeled)

1. To perform the gymnastics feat of a cartwheel.
2. To flip end over end: normally said of a crashing vehicle or aircraft.

   The race car hit a bump and cartwheeled over the finish line.