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Meanings of timpani in English
Large percussion musical instrument which produces a definite pitch.
Synonyms
Examples for "kettledrums"
Examples for "kettledrums"
1
I will play on the lute, and you shall beat the kettledrums.
2
Mounted behind him, concealed under a tarp, were two brass kettledrums.
3
Flags waved, kettledrums beat, fans were flung into my very lap to autograph.
4
They came anyway, filling his ears like the pounding of kettledrums.
5
He heard the first major drive of strings and kettledrums.
1
The membrana tympani is larger than in other quadrupeds of the same size.
2
Wilson reports two cases of rupture of the membrane tympani caused by diving.
3
Synergism of chorda tympani responses to a mixture of MSG and IMP was not observed.
4
One temporal bone showed fibrosis and osteogenesis in the scala tympani of the basal turn.
5
My heart was thudding like a slowly beaten tympani.
1
The effects of the anti-gelatinase antibodies and the TIMPs are not additive.
2
TIMPs were also found bound to selective regions of extracellular matrix.
3
Little is known about the role of MMPs and TIMPs in severe sepsis.
4
HUCB-MSCs treatment also prevented the induction of TIMPs expression.
5
Regulation of type IV collagen may contribute to the balance of MMPs and TIMPs in LSCC.
1
There was a cry; Georgiana had swooned sideways on to Lord Timpany's shoulder.
2
At any moment she might die; at any moment she might become Lady Timpany.
3
If she became Lady Timpany: it was a horrible thought.
4
Egbert and me was at school at Timpany's; he's going to Eton next half.
5
Mr Coppel was drafted in after founder Allen Timpany resigned and its shares were suspended.
1
A tympany beat and the sound track filled with violins.
2
Jake took piano lessons for a year, then drums, and was an expert on tympany in four years.
3
For performance Nature has no mercy, and sacrifices the performer to get it done,-makesa dropsy or a tympany of him.
4
These Frogs baked and beat to Powder, and taken with Orrice-Root cures a Tympany.
5
Tympany's solution will revolutionise how ENT surgeons operate and will also allow many more procedures to be carried out in outpatient settings.
1
The writer visits May Timpano, a woman in her 50's, who lives on the top floor.
2
Miss Timpano had visited the house for all those years and has lived there for the past six.
3
Miss Timpano had met Fred while she had been a waitress at Kirsch's, and the two were companions for thirty years.
1
Her heart boomed like a kettle drum, and again she looked away.
2
His heart pounded like a kettle drum in his ears.
3
After two a kettle drum was banging fortissimo.
4
Another plaything of his was a kettle drum with which he amused himself in the summer twilight for many seasons.
5
Those membranes are like two little kettle drums, and they are its song organs.
Usage of timpani in English
1
The students took up a position one by one, behind the timpani.
2
Making a timpani of the floor, Merlin galloped out of the room.
3
This Morning's theme tune was played by a string quartet and timpani.
4
Add a falsetto vocal, swooping strings, timpani and an oboe or two.
5
Molto vivace The Scherzo is a madcap chase launched by the timpani.
6
Unusually for a slow movement of this era, it includes trumpets and timpani.
7
Cellos and basses start, but then the timpani joins in, ever so slightly.
8
The movement's central climax of brass and timpani was powerfully delivered.
9
The gun clunked against the dumpster below like a timpani strike.
10
Elsewhere, timpani is in evidence on more than one occasion.
11
An arrangement on the album merged Arnaud's timpani-and-trumpet-infused march segueing into Williams' bombastic theme.
12
African djembe drums upon which the player sits replaced timpani.
13
It exaggerated every movement on it, thumping like a timpani.
14
The world premiere of her work which offers the timpani player a rare starring role.
15
I looked down to where he was pointing, my teeth changing to a quieter timpani.
16
The rhythmic timpani beat of tires on planks stopped.
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Translations for timpani
Portuguese
Timpani through the time