Definizione monolingua

accordion

accordion (third-person singular simple present accordions, present participle accordioning, simple past and past participle accordioned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To fold up, in the manner of an accordion
   • 2000 December 29, Charles Dickinson, “Qi”, Chicago Reader:

     Still in reverse, she goosed the gas and accordioned the running board a fraction of an inch more.

   • 2005, Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town^[1]:

     It accordioned down and he tugged the shirt around it so that it came free […] .

accordion (plural accordions)

1. A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.
   • 1869, Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad:

     A disreputable accordion that had a leak somewhere and breathed louder than it squawked.

   • Ambrose Bierce, Devil’s Dictionary:

     Accordion: an instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

accordion (not comparable)

1. Pleated.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     An accordion underskirt of blue silk moirette.

Definizione dizionario accordion

	fisarmonica
	A small, portable, keyed wind instrument
	A portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.

fisarmònica

organetto

Altri significati:

(transitive, intransitive) To fold up, in the manner of an accordion

Pleated.

A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.