FIPPLE

Meaning of FIPPLE in English

[ 'fɪp(ə)l ]

■ noun the mouthpiece of a recorder or similar wind instrument which is blown endways, in which a thin channel cut through a block directs a stream of air against a sharp edge.

Origin

C17: perh. related to Icelandic flipi 'horse's lip'.

Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004

FIPPLE — ˈfipəl noun ( -s ) Etymology: origin unknown : a grooved plug in the end of a whistle, flute, or …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FIPPLE — (n.) A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music.
Английский словарь Webster
FIPPLE — /fip"euhl/ , n. Music. a plug stopping the upper end of a pipe, as a recorder or a whistle, and …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FIPPLE — n. block of wood in a woodwind musical instrument which directs the flow of air
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
FIPPLE — noun a stopper, as in a wind instrument of music.
Webster English vocab
FIPPLE — fipple BrE AmE ˈfɪp ə l ▷ fipple|s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
FIPPLE — n. a plug at the mouth-end of a wind instrument. øfipple flute a flute played by blowing endwise, e.g. a …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
FIPPLE — n. a plug at the mouth-end of a wind instrument. fipple flute a flute played by blowing endwise, e.g. a …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FIPPLE — n. a plug at the mouth-end of a wind instrument. Phrases and idioms: fipple flute a flute played by blowing …
Oxford English vocab
FIPPLE FLUTE — noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1911 any of a group of wind instruments (as a flageolet or recorder) having a …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
FIPPLE FLUTE — noun : a wind instrument (as the recorder and flageolet) in which the air blown into the mouthpiece strikes a …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FIPPLE FLUTE — Music. a recorder or other flutelike instrument equipped with a fipple. [ 1910-15 ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FIPPLE FLUTE — also called whistle flute any of several end-blown flutes having a plug (block, or fipple) inside the pipe below the …
Britannica English vocabulary
TONETTE — noun Etymology: 1tone + -ette Date: 1939 a simple fipple flute with a range somewhat larger than an octave that …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PENNYWHISTLE — noun Date: 1789 a small fipple flute, a toy whistle
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
FLAGEOLET — I. noun see: blow Date: 1659 a small fipple flute resembling the treble recorder, II. noun see: frijole Date: 1877 …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
RECORDER — I In music, a cylindrical, usually wooden, wind instrument with fingerholes. As a fipple (duct) flute, its rather soft tones …
Английский словарь Британика
WHISTLE — I. ˈhwisəl also ˈwi- noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: in sense 1, from Middle English, from Old …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PIPE — I. ˈpīp noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English pīpa; akin to Old Frisian …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FLAGEOLET — I. |flajə|let, -lā noun ( -s ) Etymology: French, from Old French flajolet, from flajol flute (from assumed Vulgar Latin …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
RECORDER — rə̇ˈkȯrdər, rēˈ-, -ȯ(ə)də noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, partly from recorden to record + -er, partly from Anglo-French …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PENNY WHISTLE — noun 1. : a small fipple flute — called also tin whistle 2. : a simple toy whistle
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FLÛTE À BEC — |flüd.]ə|bek, ](ˌ)ä|b- noun ( plural flûtes à bec “, -üts]\) Etymology: French, literally, flute with a beak : fipple flute …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BEAK FLUTE — noun Etymology: translation of French flûte à bec : fipple flute
Webster's New International English Dictionary
WHISTLE — — whistleable , adj. /hwis"euhl, wis"-/ , v. , whistled, whistling , n. v.i. 1. to make a clear musical …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
RECORDER — /ri kawr"deuhr/ , n. 1. a person who records, esp. as an official duty. 2. Eng. Law. a. a judge …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FLAGEOLET — /flaj'euh let", -lay"/ , n. 1. a small end-blown flute with four finger holes in front and two in the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
TIN WHISTLE — small inexpensive wind instrument similar to a recorder, fipple flute
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
WIND INSTRUMENT — any musical instrument that uses air as the primary vibrating medium for the production of sound. musical instrument that uses …
Britannica English vocabulary
RECORDER — in music, wind instrument of the fipple, or whistle, flute class, closely related to the flageolet. Most recorders made since …
Britannica English vocabulary
FLAGEOLET — (from Old French flageol: pipe, or tabor pipe), wind instrument closely related to the recorder. Like the recorder it is …
Britannica English vocabulary

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