Xylophone

Quick meaning: Xylophone is a noun meaning To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.

Meaning

To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.

More Meanings

1. To move above a ridged surface or series of surfaces so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.
2. (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.

Example Sentences

my eager fingers xylophoning over the memories

The others waged active war, claws xylophoning across Jack's pinwheeling swords.

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

His right hand, the good one, found one of Glass's ankles, pulled. Glass fell, her ulna, clavicle, pevis, and kneecap xylophoning along stair edges.

Word Forms

• xylophones
• xylophoning
• xylophoned

Synonyms for xylophone

Depending on context, synonyms include marimba.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include marimba, lamellophone, metallophone, panmelodion, idiophone, dulcitone.

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