concertina

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      Noun

      concertina (plural concertinas)

      1. (music) A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.
      2. Something resembling a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together.
      3. Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle.[1]
      4. A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert.

      Derived terms

      Translations

      the musical instrument

      Verb

      concertina (third-person singular simple present concertinas, present participle concertinaing, simple past and past participle concertinaed)

      1. to become compressed into a shape reminiscent of a concertina
        The car concertinaed into the wall.
        • 2012, Amy Schoeman, Skeleton Coast, page ii
          Millions of years ago the mica schists surrounding the old Brandberg West Mine became folded and concertinaed by enormous horizontal pressures.
      2. to be drawn closer and farther apart repeatedly, or up and down, as if situated on a working concertina's folds
        • 2007, David W Cameron, 25 April 1915: The Day the Anzac Legend Was Born, page 36
          This resulted in some fragmentation of the line as the boats in some cases closed to just 50 metres as they concertinaed in and out of sight of each other.

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      References

        • ^ Webster's New Dictionary And Thesaurus, Geddes & Grosset Ltd., New Lanark, Scotland 1990
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