different between xylophone vs saxophone

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

Borrowed from French saxophone, a combination of the surname of its inventor Adolphe Sax (1814–1894) + -o- + -phone (“phone”), from Ancient Greek ???? (ph?n?, “voice”). The first element surname is a variant of the German Sachs (“Saxon”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?sæks?fo?n/

Noun

saxophone (plural saxophones)

1. (music) A single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards.

   Synonyms: sax, gobble-pipe, saxomaphone

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• saxophone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Wilson, R.M., and Reaney, Percy H., Dictionary of English Surnames, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 1995.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sak.s?.f?n/
• Homophones: saxophonent, saxophones

Noun

saxophone m (plural saxophones)

1. saxophone

Verb

saxophone

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