A bow used in playing the violin.

synoniem: violin bow.

Roget 417: musical instruments; band; string-band, brass-band; orchestra; orchestrina^†.    [Stringed instruments], monochord^†, polychord^†; harp, lyre, lute, archlute^†; mandola^†, mandolin, mandoline^†; guitar; zither; cither^†, cithern^†; gittern^†, rebeck^†, bandurria^†, bandura, banjo; bina^†, vina^†; xanorphica^†.    viol, violin, fiddle, kit; viola, viola d'amore [Fr.], viola di gamba [It]; tenor, cremona, violoncello, bass; bass viol, base viol; theorbo^†, double base, contrabasso^†, violone^†, psaltery [Slang]; bow, fiddlestick^†.    piano, pianoforte; harpsichord, clavichord, clarichord^†, manichord^†; clavier, spinet, virginals, dulcimer, hurdy-gurdy, vielle^†, pianino^†, Eolian harp.    [Wind instruments]; organ, harmonium, harmoniphon^†; American organ^†, barrel organ, hand organ; accordion, seraphina^†, concertina; humming top.    flute, fife, piccolo, flageolet; clarinet, claronet^†; basset horn, corno di bassetto [It], oboe, hautboy, cor Anglais [Fr.], corno Inglese^†, bassoon, double bassoon, contrafagotto^†, serpent, bass clarinet; bagpipes, union pipes; musette, ocarina, Pandean pipes; reed instrument; sirene^†, pipe, pitch-pipe; sourdet^†; whistle, catcall; doodlesack^†, harmoniphone^†.    horn, bugle, cornet, cornet-a-pistons, cornopean^†, clarion, trumpet, trombone, ophicleide^†; French horn, saxophone, sax [Slang], buglehorn^†, saxhorn, flugelhorn^†, althorn^†, helicanhorn^†, posthorn^†; sackbut, euphonium, bombardon tuba^†.    [Vibrating surfaces] cymbal, bell, gong; tambour^†, tambourine, tamborine^†; drum, tom-tom; tabor, tabret^†, tabourine^†, taborin^†; side drum, kettle drum; timpani, tympani^†; tymbal^†, timbrel^†, castanet, bones; musical glasses, musical stones; harmonica, sounding-board, rattle; tam-tam, zambomba^†.    [Vibrating bars] reed, tuning fork, triangle, Jew's harp, musical box, harmonicon^†, xylophone.    sordine^†, sordet^†; sourdine^†, sourdet^†; mute.    (iv) PERCEPTION OF SOUND ... meer laten zien

Roget 643: unimportance, insignificance, nothingness, immateriality.    triviality, levity, frivolity; paltriness etc. adj.; poverty; smallness etc. 32; vanity etc. (uselessness) 645; matter of indifference etc. 866; no object.    nothing, nothing to signify, nothing worth speaking of, nothing particular, nothing to boast of, nothing to speak of; small matter, no great matter, trifling matter etc. adj.; mere joke, mere nothing; hardly anything; scarcely anything; nonentity, small beer, cipher; no great shakes, peu de chose [Fr.]; child's play, kinderspiel.    toy, plaything, popgun, paper pellet, gimcrack, gewgaw, bauble, trinket, bagatelle, Rickshaw, knickknack, whim-wham, trifle, trifles light as air;" yankee notions [U.S.].    trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras^†, frippery; leather or prunello;" chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb; weed; refuse etc. (inutility) 645; scum etc. (dirt) 653.    joke, jest, snap of the fingers; fudge etc. (unmeaning) 517; fiddlestick^†, fiddlestick end^†; pack of nonsense, mere farce.    straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, farthing, brass farthing, doit^†, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son; cent, mill, picayune, pistareen^†, red cent [U.S.].    minutiae, details, minor details, small fry; dust in the balance, feather in the scale, drop in the ocean, flea-bite, molehill.    nine days' wonder, ridiculus mus [Lat.]; flash in the pan etc. (impotence) 158; much ado about nothing etc. (overestimation) 482.    ... meer laten zien