xylophone

From xylo- (“of wood”) +‎ -phone (“sound”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈzaɪ.lə.ˌfəʊn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈzaɪləˌfoʊn/

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• Hyphenation: xy‧lo‧phone

xylophone (plural xylophones)

1. (music) Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.

   All I know how to play on my xylophone is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Would you like to hear it?

• glockenspiel
• marimba
• vibraphone

• Vienna Symphony Orchestra. "Xylophone".

xylophone (third-person singular simple present xylophones, present participle xylophoning, simple past and past participle xylophoned)

1. To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
2. To move above a ridged surface or series of surfaces so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.
   • 2002, Amu Nnadi, The Fire Within: Poetry : Includes the Abiola Manuscript:

     my eager fingers xylophoning over the memories

   • 2010 October 26, Barrie Summy, I So Don't Do Spooky, Yearling, →ISBN, page 27:

     Like a cat, I arch into the back of the bench, my spine xylophoning along the slats while the tension of the day slowly drains out of me. I'm totally chill and mellow.

   • 2015 July 7, Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus, Trollhunters: The Book That Inspired the Netflix Animated Series TROLLHUNTERS!, Disney Electronic Content, →ISBN:

     The others waged active war, claws xylophoning across Jack's pinwheeling swords.

   • 2020 August 4, George A. Romero, Daniel Kraus, The Living Dead, Tor Books, →ISBN:

     His right hand, the good one, found one of Glass's ankles, pulled. Glass fell, her ulna, clavicle, pevis, and kneecap xylophoning along stair edges.

• oxyphenol

From xylo- +‎ -phone.

• IPA^(key): /ɡzi.lɔ.fɔn/, /ksi.lɔ.fɔn/

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xylophone m (plural xylophones)

1. xylophone

• → Russian: ксилофо́н (ksilofón) (see there for further descendants)
• → Romanian: xilofon
• → Turkish: ksilofon

• “xylophone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.