Concertina vs. Accordion

Concertina vs. Accordion — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Concertina and Accordion

Concertinanoun

(musical instruments) A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.

Accordionnoun

A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.

Concertinanoun

Something resembling a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together.

Accordionnoun

(GUI) A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents.

Concertinanoun

Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle.

Accordionverb

To fold up, in the manner of an accordion

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Concertinanoun

A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert.

Accordionnoun

a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player

Concertinaverb

to become compressed into a shape reminiscent of a concertina

The car concertinaed into the wall.

Accordionadjective

arranged in parallel folds;

plicate leaves

Concertinaverb

to be drawn closer and farther apart repeatedly, or up and down, as if situated on a working concertina's folds

Concertinanoun

coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle

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Concertinanoun

free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds

Concertinaverb

collapse like a concertina