accordion
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Vulgar Latin *accordāre
Old French acorder
Middle French accorder
French accorderdeverb.
French accordbor.
German Akkord
German -ion
German Akkordeonbor.
English accordion
First attested in 1831. Borrowed from German Akkordeon, from Akkord (“harmony”), from French accord, from Old French acorder, based on Italian accordare (“to tune”). See also accord.
Inflected forms:
form: accordions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: accordeon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: accordions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: accordioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: accordioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: accordioned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: accordeon
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A box-shaped musical instrument played by compressing or expanding its bellows while pressing its buttons or its keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel (reeds).
pos: noun
examples: A disreputable accordion that had a leak somewhere and breathed louder than it squawked.
gloss: A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents.
pos: noun
gloss: Something, or set of things (concepts, etc), which can be expanded (or extended) and collapsed, like the musical instrument's pleated, folding bellows.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
figuratively
examples: See also: telescoping
"Accordion" skirts are named from the musical instrument of that title, because the peculiar plaiting draws out and falls together again, in the same kind of folds, and with the same effect.
During the 1980s, accordion skirts became a popular style. Near the end of one winter season, I found a suit with a blazer-style jacket and an accordion-pleated skirt on sale at one of Birmingham's better department stores and placed it on layaway[…]
[…] lugging their accordion cameras and bulky tripods from platform to hillock to ladder—even to the rooftop of a moving supply train—seeking to claim the most advantageous site for recording tomorrow's event.
I see myself losing you when the truth is we've just planted the pink bud of a love affair. There is no relationship here, and yet I look around this place and I have the disorienting sensation that I've been here for years. As if it's an intimate cove of my history and an accordion of memories lives here, only just beginning to unfold.
[…] her mind leaped forward many decades to a vision of her adult children […] This whole exchange would come to pass, subtracting the part about the sunporch and adding the latent disgust they eventually extended to her too, ducking her embrace whenever she reached for them, which was often. She'd remember this night in the yard and her vague premonition […] The accordion of memories would leave her feeling fated and alive and connected to every detail—the sharpening rod on the stoop, the red chiggers swarming on the well, the bark peeling off the birches, the crowded nettles. Of the moment in the country when everything fell apart.
He'd walked to pick up Matty, every other step filled with hope and relief and the others weighed down by disappointment and what-ifs. It was with this strange accordion of feelings, sandwiched somewhere between catharsis and fresh hurt, that he'd gotten to school five minutes early.
The accordion of "likeness" stretches and squeezes in different places as different provisions of the WTO Agreement are applied. The width of the accordion in any one of those places must be determined by the particular provision[…]
gloss: To fold up, in the manner of an accordion
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: I slit the wrapping with my pocketknife and the clothesline accordioned out in stiff loops.
Still in reverse, she goosed the gas and accordioned the running board a fraction of an inch more.
It accordioned down and he tugged the shirt around it so that it came free[…].
Related words: bandoneon
concertina
Derived words: accordion blind
accordionesque
accordion file
accordion fold
accordionist
accordionlike
accordion pleat
button accordion
Cajun accordion
diatonic button accordion
piano accordion
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: akkordeon
lang: Afrikaans
word: trekklavier
lang: Albanian
word: fizarmonikë
lang: Southern Altai
word: кагас комыс
roman: kagas komïs
lang: Southern Altai
word: кат комыс
roman: kat komïs
lang: Amharic
word: አኮርዲዮን
roman: ʾäkordiyon
lang: Arabic
word: أَكُورْدِيُون
roman: ʔakurdiyūn
lang: Armenian
word: ակորդեոն
roman: akordeon
lang: Asturian
word: acordión
lang: Azerbaijani
word: akkordeon
lang: Basque
word: akordeoi
lang: Basque
word: eskusoinu
lang: Belarusian
word: акардэо́н
roman: akardeón
lang: Bengali
word: অ্যাকর্ডিয়ন
roman: êkorḍiẏon
lang: Bengali
word: বাদ্যযন্ত্রবিশেষ
roman: baddojontrobiśeś
lang: Breton
word: akordeon
lang: Bulgarian
word: хармо́ника
roman: harmónika
lang: Bulgarian
word: акордео́н
roman: akordeón
lang: Burmese
word: အကော်ဒီယံ
roman: a.kaudiyam
lang: Catalan
word: acordió
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 手風琴 /手风琴
roman: sau² fung¹ kam⁴
lang: Chinese
word: 手風琴 /手风琴
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 手風琴 /手风琴
roman: shǒufēngqín
lang: Wu Chinese
word: 手風琴 /手风琴
roman: ⁵seu-fon-jin
lang: Czech
word: akordeon
lang: Czech
word: harmonika
lang: Danish
word: trækharmonika
lang: Danish
word: harmonika
lang: Danish
word: akkordeon
lang: Dutch
word: accordeon
lang: Dutch
word: harmonica
lang: Esperanto
word: akordiono
lang: Estonian
word: akordion
lang: Estonian
word: lõõtspill
lang: Faroese
word: harmonika
lang: Finnish
word: harmonikka
lang: Finnish
word: haitari
lang: Finnish
word: hanuri
lang: French
word: accordéon
lang: Galician
word: acordeón
lang: Georgian
word: აკორდეონი
roman: aḳordeoni
lang: German
word: Akkordeon
lang: German
word: Ziehharmonika
lang: German
word: Handharmonika
lang: German
word: Handorgel
lang: German
word: Quetsche
lang: German
word: Quetschkommode
lang: German
word: Schifferklavier
lang: Greek
word: ακορντεόν
roman: akornteón
lang: Hebrew
word: אָקּוֹרְדִּיּוֹן
roman: akordiyón
lang: Hindi
word: अकॉर्डियन
roman: akŏrḍiyan
lang: Hungarian
word: harmonika
lang: Hungarian
word: tangóharmonika
lang: Ido
word: akordeono
lang: Indonesian
word: akordeon
lang: Interlingua
word: accordion
lang: Irish
word: cairdín
lang: Irish
word: acordán
lang: Italian
word: fisarmonica
lang: Japanese
word: アコーデオン
roman: akōdeon
lang: Japanese
word: 手風琴
roman: tefūkin
lang: Kazakh
word: аккордеон
roman: akkordeon
lang: Khmer
word: អគ័រដេអុង
roman: ʼɑɑkɔədeeʼong
lang: Korean
word: 아코디언
roman: akodieon
lang: Korean
word: 수풍금
roman: supunggeum
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: akordiyon
lang: Kyrgyz
word: аккордеон
roman: akkordeon
lang: Latin
word: accordio
lang: Latvian
word: akordeons
lang: Lithuanian
word: akordeonas
lang: Macedonian
word: армоника
roman: armonika
lang: Macedonian
word: хармоника
roman: harmonika
lang: Macedonian
word: акордео́н
roman: akordeón
lang: Malay
word: akordion
lang: Malay
word: tetarik
lang: Manx
word: coardeen
lang: Māori
word: kōriana
lang: Mongolian
word: баян хуур
roman: bajan xuur
lang: Mongolian
word: аккордеон
roman: akkordeon
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠨ ᠬᠤᠭᠤᠷ
roman: bayan quɣur
lang: Norman
word: accordéon
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: trekkspell
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: trekkspill
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: dragspell
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: dragspill
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: trekkharmonika
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: harmonika
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: akkordeon
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: trekkspel
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: dragspel
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: trekkharmonika
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: harmonika
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: akkordeon
lang: Nǀuu
word: treklefirsi
lang: Pashto
word: اکوردیون
roman: akordún
lang: Persian
word: آکاردئون
roman: âkârde'on
lang: Polish
word: akordeon
lang: Polish
word: harmonia ręczna
lang: Portuguese
word: acordeão
lang: Portuguese
word: gaita
lang: Portuguese
word: sanfona
lang: Romanian
word: acordeon
lang: Russian
word: гармо́ника
roman: garmónika
lang: Russian
word: гармо́нь
roman: garmónʹ
lang: Russian
word: аккордео́н
roman: akkordeón
lang: Russian
word: бая́н
roman: baján
lang: Skolt-Sami
word: garmaan
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: bogsa-ciùil
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: хармо̀ника
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: harmònika
lang: Slovak
word: harmonika
lang: Slovak
word: akordeón
lang: Slovene
word: harmọ́nika
lang: Spanish
word: acordeón
lang: Swahili
word: kodiani
lang: Swahili
word: harimuni
lang: Swedish
word: dragspel
lang: Swedish
word: handklaver
lang: Swedish
word: dragharmonika
lang: Swedish
word: bälgaspel
lang: Swedish
word: ackordeon
lang: Swedish
word: ackordion
lang: Swedish
word: harmonika
lang: Tagalog
word: akordeyon
lang: Tagalog
word: akurdyon
lang: Tajik
word: аккордеон
roman: akkordeon
lang: Thai
word: หีบเพลงชัก
roman: hìip-pleeng-chák
lang: Thai
word: หีบเพลง
roman: hìip-pleeng
lang: Thai
word: แอกคอร์เดียน
roman: ɛ́k-kɔɔ-dîian
lang: Tibetan
word: ལག་སྦྲེང
roman: lag sbreng
lang: Turkish
word: akordiyon
lang: Turkmen
word: akkordeon
lang: Tuvan
word: аккордеон
roman: akkordeon
lang: Ukrainian
word: акордео́н
roman: akordeón
lang: Ukrainian
word: гармо́нія
roman: harmónija
lang: Uyghur
word: ئاككوردىيون
roman: akkordiyon
lang: Uzbek
word: akkordeon
lang: Vietnamese
word: phong cầm
lang: Vietnamese
word: đàn xếp
lang: Volapük
word: tiraharmonöm
lang: Welsh
word: acordion
lang: Welsh
word: cordion
lang: Yakut
word: аккордеон
roman: akkordeon
lang: Yiddish
word: אַקאָרדעאָן
roman: akordeon