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plural violins
A small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow. quotations examples
She was looking more like Sherlock Holmes than ever. Slap a dressing-gown on her and give her a violin, and she could have walked straight into Baker Street and no questions asked.
1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins
(inexact, sometimes proscribed) Any instrument of the violin family, always inclusive of violins, violas, and cellos and sometimes further including the double bass. examples
(music, metonymically) The position of a violinist in an orchestra or group. examples
third-person singular simple present violins, present participle violining, simple past and past participle violined
(transitive, intransitive) To play on, or as if on, a violin. examples