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con·cer·ti·na

(kŏn′sər-tē′nə)

A small instrument with bellows like an accordion but with buttons in place of keys.

[concert + Italian -ina, feminine diminutive suff.]

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concertina

(ˌkɒnsəˈtiːnə)

(Instruments) a small hexagonal musical instrument of the reed organ family in which metallic reeds are vibrated by air from a set of bellows operated by the player's hands. Notes are produced by pressing buttons

vb, -nas, -naing or -naed

(intr) to collapse or fold up like a concertina

[C19: concert + -ina]

ˌconcerˈtinist n

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con•cer•ti•na

(ˌkɒn sərˈti nə)

n. -nas,

1. a musical instrument resembling an accordion but having buttonlike keys, hexagonal bellows and ends, and a more limited range.

v.i., v.t.

2. to fold or collapse in the manner of a concertina.

adj.

3. of or resembling a concertina.

[appar. coined by its inventor, Charles Wheatstone (1802–75)]

con`cer•ti′nist, n.

accordion, concertina - Accordion derives from Italian accordare, "to tune," and both it and the concertina operate on the same basic principle; however, the accordion has a pianolike keyboard and is rectangular and bulky, while the concertina has buttons in headboards and is hexagonal and more portable.

concertina

Past participle: concertinaed
Gerund: concertinaing

Imperative
concertina
concertina

Present
I concertina
you concertina
he/she/it concertinas
we concertina
you concertina
they concertina

Preterite
I concertinaed
you concertinaed
he/she/it concertinaed
we concertinaed
you concertinaed
they concertinaed

Present Continuous
I am concertinaing
you are concertinaing
he/she/it is concertinaing
we are concertinaing
you are concertinaing
they are concertinaing

Present Perfect
I have concertinaed
you have concertinaed
he/she/it has concertinaed
we have concertinaed
you have concertinaed
they have concertinaed

Past Continuous
I was concertinaing
you were concertinaing
he/she/it was concertinaing
we were concertinaing
you were concertinaing
they were concertinaing

Past Perfect
I had concertinaed
you had concertinaed
he/she/it had concertinaed
we had concertinaed
you had concertinaed
they had concertinaed

Future
I will concertina
you will concertina
he/she/it will concertina
we will concertina
you will concertina
they will concertina

Future Perfect
I will have concertinaed
you will have concertinaed
he/she/it will have concertinaed
we will have concertinaed
you will have concertinaed
they will have concertinaed

Future Continuous
I will be concertinaing
you will be concertinaing
he/she/it will be concertinaing
we will be concertinaing
you will be concertinaing
they will be concertinaing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been concertinaing
you have been concertinaing
he/she/it has been concertinaing
we have been concertinaing
you have been concertinaing
they have been concertinaing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been concertinaing
you will have been concertinaing
he/she/it will have been concertinaing
we will have been concertinaing
you will have been concertinaing
they will have been concertinaing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been concertinaing
you had been concertinaing
he/she/it had been concertinaing
we had been concertinaing
you had been concertinaing
they had been concertinaing

Conditional
I would concertina
you would concertina
he/she/it would concertina
we would concertina
you would concertina
they would concertina

Past Conditional
I would have concertinaed
you would have concertinaed
he/she/it would have concertinaed
we would have concertinaed
you would have concertinaed
they would have concertinaed

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Noun	1.	concertina - coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle barbed wire, barbwire - strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage
	2.	concertina - free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds bandoneon - a type of concertina popular in South America free-reed instrument - a wind instrument with a free reed
Verb	1.	concertina - collapse like a concertina collapse - fold or close up; "fold up your umbrella"; "collapse the music stand"

Translations

lمِعْزَف يَدَوي سُداسي

harmonika

concertinalillesekskantet trækharmonika

Ziehharmonika

konsertína

accartocciarsi piccola fisarmonica

koncertina

harmonikas

konsertina

körüklü armonika

六角手风琴

concertina

[ˌkɒnsəˈtiːnə]

A. N → concertina f

B. VI the vehicles concertinaed into each other → los vehículos quedaron hechos un acordeón

C. CPD concertina crash N (Aut) → choque m or colisión f en cadena

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

concertina

[ˌkɒnsə^rˈtiːnə]

n → concertina m

vi → se télescoper, se caramboler

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concertina

n → Konzertina f

vi → sich wie eine Ziehharmonika zusammenschieben

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concertina

[ˌkɒnsəˈtiːnə]

1. n → piccola fisarmonica

2. vi → accartocciarsi, piegarsi come una fisarmonica

concertina

(konsəˈtiːnə) noun

a portable musical wind instrument with bellows and a keyboard.

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The young man had a concertina, and he played the tunes popular on the music-halls a dozen years before.

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I thought of hobgoblins and banshees, and will-o'-the-wisps, and those wicked girls who sit up all night on rocks, and lure people into whirl- pools and things; and I wished I had been a better man, and knew more hymns; and in the middle of these reflections I heard the blessed strains of "He's got `em on," played, badly, on a concertina, and knew that we were saved.

I do not admire the tones of a concertina, as a rule; but, oh!

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He was singing Figaro's famous song in the Barber of Seville, with that crisply fluent vocalisation which is never heard from any other than an Italian throat, accompanying himself on the concertina, which he played with ecstatic throwings-up of his arms, and graceful twistings and turnings of his head, like a fat St.

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Besides the two drunken men he had met on the steps, a group consisting of about five men and a girl with a concertina had gone out at the same time.

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'Why, you play--if you can--the Concertina, you know,' replied Fledgeby, meditating very slowly.

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Defense officials said at a news briefing that the total size of the US deployment of troops to the Southern border would reach 6,000 by March 1, with 140 miles of additional Concertina wiring to be installed, The Hill reported.

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