TAMBOUR
\tˈambə], \tˈambə], \t_ˈa_m_b_ə]\
Definitions of TAMBOUR
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.
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A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
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A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
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To embroider on a tambour.
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A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame; - called also, in the latter sense, tambour work.
By Oddity Software
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A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.
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A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
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A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
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To embroider on a tambour.
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A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame; - called also, in the latter sense, tambour work.
By Noah Webster.
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To embroider on a tambour.
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A small, shallow drum: a small, drum-like, circular frame, for embroidering: a rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
By Daniel Lyons
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A kind of small military drum; a drumlike embroidery frame, usually consisting of two closely fitting hoops.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A frame for embroidery; embroidery.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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An apparatus devised to demonstrate movements of various kinds. It consists of a small metal chamber with a top of rubber-dam. Variations of pressure within the chamber cause expansion or collapse of the rubber membrane and thus movements are magnified and recorded by a suitable lever.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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