Large percussion musical instrument which produces a definite pitch.
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The students took up a position one by one, behind the timpani.
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Making a timpani of the floor, Merlin galloped out of the room.
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This Morning's theme tune was played by a string quartet and timpani.
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Add a falsetto vocal, swooping strings, timpani and an oboe or two.
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Molto vivace The Scherzo is a madcap chase launched by the timpani.
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I will play on the lute, and you shall beat the kettledrums.
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Mounted behind him, concealed under a tarp, were two brass kettledrums.
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Flags waved, kettledrums beat, fans were flung into my very lap to autograph.
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They came anyway, filling his ears like the pounding of kettledrums.
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He heard the first major drive of strings and kettledrums.
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The membrana tympani is larger than in other quadrupeds of the same size.
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Wilson reports two cases of rupture of the membrane tympani caused by diving.
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Synergism of chorda tympani responses to a mixture of MSG and IMP was not observed.
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One temporal bone showed fibrosis and osteogenesis in the scala tympani of the basal turn.
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My heart was thudding like a slowly beaten tympani.
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The effects of the anti-gelatinase antibodies and the TIMPs are not additive.
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TIMPs were also found bound to selective regions of extracellular matrix.
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Little is known about the role of MMPs and TIMPs in severe sepsis.
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HUCB-MSCs treatment also prevented the induction of TIMPs expression.
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Regulation of type IV collagen may contribute to the balance of MMPs and TIMPs in LSCC.
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There was a cry; Georgiana had swooned sideways on to Lord Timpany's shoulder.
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At any moment she might die; at any moment she might become Lady Timpany.
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If she became Lady Timpany: it was a horrible thought.
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Egbert and me was at school at Timpany's; he's going to Eton next half.
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Mr Coppel was drafted in after founder Allen Timpany resigned and its shares were suspended.
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A tympany beat and the sound track filled with violins.
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Jake took piano lessons for a year, then drums, and was an expert on tympany in four years.
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For performance Nature has no mercy, and sacrifices the performer to get it done,-makesa dropsy or a tympany of him.
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These Frogs baked and beat to Powder, and taken with Orrice-Root cures a Tympany.
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Tympany's solution will revolutionise how ENT surgeons operate and will also allow many more procedures to be carried out in outpatient settings.
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The writer visits May Timpano, a woman in her 50's, who lives on the top floor.
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Miss Timpano had visited the house for all those years and has lived there for the past six.
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Miss Timpano had met Fred while she had been a waitress at Kirsch's, and the two were companions for thirty years.
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Her heart boomed like a kettle drum, and again she looked away.
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His heart pounded like a kettle drum in his ears.
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After two a kettle drum was banging fortissimo.
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Another plaything of his was a kettle drum with which he amused himself in the summer twilight for many seasons.
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Those membranes are like two little kettle drums, and they are its song organs.