Word Meanings - MELODIOGRAPH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A contrivance for preserving a record of music, by recording the action of the keys of a musical instrument when played upon.

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• PLAY
  quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• MUSIC HALL
  A place for public musical entertainments; specif. , esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.
• PLAYTE
  See PLEYT
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• MUSICALLY
  In a musical manner.
• ACTIONABLE
  That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
• MUSIC DRAMA
  An opera in which the text and action are not interrupted by set arias, duets, etc., the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness; musical drama of this character, in general. It involves the use of a kind of melodious
• PLAYFELLOW
  A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak.
• MUSICALE
  A social musical party.
• INSTRUMENTALITY
  The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense
• RECORDATION
  Remembrance; recollection; also, a record. Shak.
• INSTRUMENTATION
  1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical
• PLAYTHING
  A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse. A child knows his nurse, and by degrees the playthings of a little more advanced age. Locke.
• RECORD
  L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- + cor, cordis, the heart or 1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. "I it you record." Chaucer. 2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. They longed to see the day, to hear the lark
• PRESERVATIVE
  Having the power or quality of preserving; tending to preserve, or to keep from injury, decay, etc.
• PLAYSOME
  Playful; wanton; sportive. R. Browning. -- Play"some*ness, n.
• MUSICOMANIA
  A kind of monomania in which the passion for music becomes so strong as to derange the intellectual faculties. Dunglison.
• PHILOMUSICAL
  Loving music. Busby.
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• REDACTION
  The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
• CHYLIFACTION
  The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
• MEDAL PLAY
  Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.
• FACTION
  One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
• SPLAYFOOT
  A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.
• REFACTION
  Recompense; atonemet; retribution. Howell.
• COLLIQUEFACTION
  A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.
• DIRECT ACTION
  See BELOW
• HORSEPLAY
  Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
• UNDERACTION
  Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode. The least episodes or underactions . . . are parts necessary or convenient to carry on the main design. Dryden.