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Meanings of accordion in English

Russian
accordion
Portuguese
acordeona
Spanish
acordeón a piano
Catalan
acordió
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Musical instrument.

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        accordion
        Portuguese
        gaita
        Catalan
        acordió
        Spanish
        acordeón

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

              gaita
              Russian
              аккордеон

              Expandable GUI element containing vertically stacked list of items.

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                      аккордеон

                      Patience card game.

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                            Usage of accordion in English
                            1
                            Until recent years, every night also featured Brennan himself on the accordion.
                            The Irish Times
                            2
                            Baal. He pointed to it on the accordion-folded length of computer paper.
                            Phantoms
                            3
                            The sound of an accordion rose above the muffled moaning of fog-whistles.
                            The Blood Red Dawn
                            4
                            I know she waits for me in the Library with the accordion.
                            Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
                            5
                            I was sweltering inside the open accordion door of a phone booth.
                            Lit: a memoir
                            6
                            Again there came to Philip's ears the wheezing notes of the accordion.
                            Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
                            7
                            Others emerged with accordion files, binders stuffed with papers and full valises.
                            Reuters
                            8
                            In an inn nearby, music started rustily, a violin and an accordion.
                            Voices in the dark
                            9
                            If he ain't too attached to the accordion, I might buy it.
                            Lonesome dove
                            10
                            Mrs. Klein turned on the radio and we listened to accordion music.
                            The new yorker
                            11
                            He didn't have a bone in him-allcrumpled up like an accordion.
                            Under the Andes
                            12
                            Emma Smith meets the provocative Canadian popster who plays accordion for us.
                            Radio NZ
                            13
                            Sven beamed lovingly at her, picked up his accordion and unstrapped it.
                            The corfu trilogy
                            14
                            Tell us if you will play the accordion, or try to to-day?
                            Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University...
                            15
                            Ruth ripped into him, smashing him in the face with her accordion.
                            Escape
                            16
                            A man plays an accordion on the streets of Tehran July 2010.
                            Reuters
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                            Translations for accordion
                            Accordion through the time
                            Accordion across language varieties
                            Ireland
                            Common
                            United States of America
                            Common
                            United Kingdom
                            Less common