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(music) Having a vibrating reed that is made from a different material than the instrument itself and is often removable..
The more specific definition will become useful when we discuss the earliest manifestations of the eighteenth- century clarinet and distinguish these from the closest relative of the clarinet — the chalumeau with a heteroglot reed.
Depending on whether the reeds are single or double, slit from the pipe itself or inserted separately the bagpipe is an idioglot, a heteroglot, or mixed.
Some reed-pipes are made not with what is termed an 'idioglot reed' - one sliced from the reed or cane material of the tube itself - but from a 'heteroglot reed', in which the vibrating reed is a separate sliver of reed or other suitable material, these days including plastic tied over an aperture in a reed-bearing mouthpiece.
Any existent language system is first and foremost a heteroglot entity, stratified according to the actually existent social diversity of speech types (dialects, jargons, generic languages and so on).
A heteroglot novel (or 'novelistic hybrid'), he says, is 'an artistically organized system for bringing different languages in contact with one another.
This situation, however, is in sharp contrast with the findings of ethnographic research that reconstruct a discontinuity between monoglot language policy set up in education and heteroglot language repertoires brought along by immigrant minority pupils.
Despite the length and interiority of many contemporaneous novels, their heteroglot dialogue was far more flexible and expressive of a much wider range of social classes and ethnic types.
This is essential in plural, heteroglot communities, if the school is to be inclusive, and is essential in those school subjects which are contentious and contended.
Use heteroglot when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Heteroglot means (music) Having a vibrating reed that is made from a different material than the instrument itself and is often removable..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include idioglot.
The more specific definition will become useful when we discuss the earliest manifestations of the eighteenth- century clarinet and distinguish these from the closest relative of the clarinet — the chalumeau with a heteroglot reed.
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