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Definition of plectrum in English English dictionary
- An anatomical part resembling a plectrum in shape
- A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- a small thin piece of plastic, metal, or wood that you use for playing some musical instruments with strings, such as a guitar = pick (plektron, from plessein )
- A small triangular shaped piece of plastic used for striking the guitar strings with the right hand
- A small instrument of ivory, wood, metal, or quill, used in playing upon the lyre and other stringed instruments
- Also called a Pick, this is the small, usually heart/pear shaped piece of plastic or nylon used to strum the guitar
- The part of the jack which actually plucks the string It is mounted in the tongue It can be made of leather, quill or plastic
- {i} small piece of plastic or metal used to pluck strings on musical instruments, pick, small piece of metal or plastic with which a stringed instrument may be played
- The small tongue of quill, leather, or plastic that plucks the string of a harpsichord
- plectra
- plural of plectrum
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[ 'plek-tr&m ] (noun.) 1626. From Latin plēctrum, from Ancient Greek πλήκτρον (pléktron) “anything to strike with, an instrument for striking the lyre, a spear point”, from πλήσσειν (pléssein) “to strike, to smite, to sting”.Resimler
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