xylophoneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈzaɪ.lə.ˌfəʊn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈzaɪləˌfoʊn/
• ハイフネーション: xy‧lo‧phone

名詞

xylophone (複数形 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.

   All I know how to play on my xylophone is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Would you like to hear it?

派生語

参考

• glockenspiel
• marimba
• vibraphone

参照

• Vienna Symphony Orchestra. "Xylophone".

動詞

xylophone (三人称単数 現在形 xylophones, 現在分詞 xylophoning, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

アナグラム

• oxyphenol