Definition of plectrum in English:

plectrum

nounPlural plectra, Plural plectrums ˈplɛktrəmˈplɛktrəm

1A thin flat piece of plastic, tortoiseshell, or other slightly flexible material held by or worn on the fingers and used to pluck the strings of a musical instrument such as a guitar.
Example sentencesExamples
- I used to work in the music shop there and we'd supply the studios with microphones and leads sometimes and plectrums, lots of plectrums.
- Ten of its twenty-five strings are played with a plectrum, while the others resonate.
- Ben strikes into song after song, the volume adjusted by only the slightest touch of his nimble plectrum, and the band just fall into place behind him and that breathy, to instantly soaring, vocal.
- With a jerk, I smashed the plectrum hard down my guitar, sending an ear splitting screech of metal throughout the building.
- If you refer to your collection of tortoiseshell guitar picks as plectra, the rest of your rock group are going to make merciless fun of you.
- Those plectrums are a bit like a collection of musical bus tickets.
- I spent another long evening easing the paint off the curves of the guitar with the edge of a plectrum.
- I normally don't use a plectrum but my right hand fingers were hurting so much I had to relent.
- There was a lone bass guitar propped up in a corner across the room, an unplugged amp beside it and plectrums and sheets of paper on the floor around it.
- All that is needed is an electric guitar, a plectrum, a good quality 20 ft lead and an enthusiasm to learn.
- The arched-top guitar came to the fore as the regular plectrum guitar for jazz, giving chords of a penetrating, rather metallic quality.
- No, we'd probably still be meeting in town each Saturday afternoon half-deaf in our denims with pockets full of plectrums and heads full of cheap dope and impossible dreams.
- I was wondering if I'd left a plectrum at your house last Saturday.
- However, this, their debut offering, favours the accomplished philosophy of Kirkwood's plectrum.
- In the record's silences, you can actually hear hands on strings, and then the pluck, pull and plectrum that give rise again to their unadorned sound.
- His fingers flew across the frets while I was sure the plectrum he was holding should have been worn to shreds as he played.
- He doesn't use a plectrum, preferring to stroke out bass notes with his thumb.
1. 1.1 The mechanical part corresponding to a plectrum which plucks the strings of an instrument such as a harpsichord.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In a harpsichord, there is a separate plectrum for each string.
  Of all the little maintenance procedures that harpsichord owners must attend to, replacing a plectrum is perhaps the thorniest of issues.
  The problems of construction, strings and tunings aside, the critical issue is that the instrument is played not with plectrums, bows or hammers, but only by the hand.
  ‘Its plectra - which pluck the strings to produce the harpsichord's sound - were replaced using black turkey quills, which they would have been made from originally,’ she said.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek plēktron 'something with which to strike', from plēssein 'to strike'.

Rhymes

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Definition of plectrum in US English:

plectrum

nounˈplektrəmˈplɛktrəm

1A thin flat piece of plastic, tortoiseshell, or other slightly flexible material held by or worn on the fingers and used to pluck the strings of a musical instrument such as a guitar.
Example sentencesExamples
- However, this, their debut offering, favours the accomplished philosophy of Kirkwood's plectrum.
- The arched-top guitar came to the fore as the regular plectrum guitar for jazz, giving chords of a penetrating, rather metallic quality.
- With a jerk, I smashed the plectrum hard down my guitar, sending an ear splitting screech of metal throughout the building.
- There was a lone bass guitar propped up in a corner across the room, an unplugged amp beside it and plectrums and sheets of paper on the floor around it.
- I normally don't use a plectrum but my right hand fingers were hurting so much I had to relent.
- In the record's silences, you can actually hear hands on strings, and then the pluck, pull and plectrum that give rise again to their unadorned sound.
- I used to work in the music shop there and we'd supply the studios with microphones and leads sometimes and plectrums, lots of plectrums.
- He doesn't use a plectrum, preferring to stroke out bass notes with his thumb.
- Ten of its twenty-five strings are played with a plectrum, while the others resonate.
- Those plectrums are a bit like a collection of musical bus tickets.
- If you refer to your collection of tortoiseshell guitar picks as plectra, the rest of your rock group are going to make merciless fun of you.
- All that is needed is an electric guitar, a plectrum, a good quality 20 ft lead and an enthusiasm to learn.
- I was wondering if I'd left a plectrum at your house last Saturday.
- I spent another long evening easing the paint off the curves of the guitar with the edge of a plectrum.
- Ben strikes into song after song, the volume adjusted by only the slightest touch of his nimble plectrum, and the band just fall into place behind him and that breathy, to instantly soaring, vocal.
- No, we'd probably still be meeting in town each Saturday afternoon half-deaf in our denims with pockets full of plectrums and heads full of cheap dope and impossible dreams.
- His fingers flew across the frets while I was sure the plectrum he was holding should have been worn to shreds as he played.
1. 1.1 The corresponding mechanical part that plucks the strings of an instrument such as a harpsichord.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In a harpsichord, there is a separate plectrum for each string.
  The problems of construction, strings and tunings aside, the critical issue is that the instrument is played not with plectrums, bows or hammers, but only by the hand.
  ‘Its plectra - which pluck the strings to produce the harpsichord's sound - were replaced using black turkey quills, which they would have been made from originally,’ she said.
  Of all the little maintenance procedures that harpsichord owners must attend to, replacing a plectrum is perhaps the thorniest of issues.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek plēktron ‘something with which to strike’, from plēssein ‘to strike’.

单词	plectrum
释义	Definition of plectrum in English: plectrum nounPlural plectra, Plural plectrums ˈplɛktrəmˈplɛktrəm 1A thin flat piece of plastic, tortoiseshell, or other slightly flexible material held by or worn on the fingers and used to pluck the strings of a musical instrument such as a guitar. Example sentencesExamples I used to work in the music shop there and we'd supply the studios with microphones and leads sometimes and plectrums, lots of plectrums. Ten of its twenty-five strings are played with a plectrum, while the others resonate. Ben strikes into song after song, the volume adjusted by only the slightest touch of his nimble plectrum, and the band just fall into place behind him and that breathy, to instantly soaring, vocal. With a jerk, I smashed the plectrum hard down my guitar, sending an ear splitting screech of metal throughout the building. If you refer to your collection of tortoiseshell guitar picks as plectra, the rest of your rock group are going to make merciless fun of you. Those plectrums are a bit like a collection of musical bus tickets. I spent another long evening easing the paint off the curves of the guitar with the edge of a plectrum. I normally don't use a plectrum but my right hand fingers were hurting so much I had to relent. There was a lone bass guitar propped up in a corner across the room, an unplugged amp beside it and plectrums and sheets of paper on the floor around it. All that is needed is an electric guitar, a plectrum, a good quality 20 ft lead and an enthusiasm to learn. The arched-top guitar came to the fore as the regular plectrum guitar for jazz, giving chords of a penetrating, rather metallic quality. No, we'd probably still be meeting in town each Saturday afternoon half-deaf in our denims with pockets full of plectrums and heads full of cheap dope and impossible dreams. I was wondering if I'd left a plectrum at your house last Saturday. However, this, their debut offering, favours the accomplished philosophy of Kirkwood's plectrum. In the record's silences, you can actually hear hands on strings, and then the pluck, pull and plectrum that give rise again to their unadorned sound. His fingers flew across the frets while I was sure the plectrum he was holding should have been worn to shreds as he played. He doesn't use a plectrum, preferring to stroke out bass notes with his thumb. 1.1 The mechanical part corresponding to a plectrum which plucks the strings of an instrument such as a harpsichord. Example sentencesExamples In a harpsichord, there is a separate plectrum for each string. Of all the little maintenance procedures that harpsichord owners must attend to, replacing a plectrum is perhaps the thorniest of issues. The problems of construction, strings and tunings aside, the critical issue is that the instrument is played not with plectrums, bows or hammers, but only by the hand. ‘Its plectra - which pluck the strings to produce the harpsichord's sound - were replaced using black turkey quills, which they would have been made from originally,’ she said. Origin Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek plēktron 'something with which to strike', from plēssein 'to strike'. Rhymes spectrum Definition of plectrum in US English: plectrum nounˈplektrəmˈplɛktrəm 1A thin flat piece of plastic, tortoiseshell, or other slightly flexible material held by or worn on the fingers and used to pluck the strings of a musical instrument such as a guitar. Example sentencesExamples However, this, their debut offering, favours the accomplished philosophy of Kirkwood's plectrum. The arched-top guitar came to the fore as the regular plectrum guitar for jazz, giving chords of a penetrating, rather metallic quality. With a jerk, I smashed the plectrum hard down my guitar, sending an ear splitting screech of metal throughout the building. There was a lone bass guitar propped up in a corner across the room, an unplugged amp beside it and plectrums and sheets of paper on the floor around it. I normally don't use a plectrum but my right hand fingers were hurting so much I had to relent. In the record's silences, you can actually hear hands on strings, and then the pluck, pull and plectrum that give rise again to their unadorned sound. I used to work in the music shop there and we'd supply the studios with microphones and leads sometimes and plectrums, lots of plectrums. He doesn't use a plectrum, preferring to stroke out bass notes with his thumb. Ten of its twenty-five strings are played with a plectrum, while the others resonate. Those plectrums are a bit like a collection of musical bus tickets. If you refer to your collection of tortoiseshell guitar picks as plectra, the rest of your rock group are going to make merciless fun of you. All that is needed is an electric guitar, a plectrum, a good quality 20 ft lead and an enthusiasm to learn. I was wondering if I'd left a plectrum at your house last Saturday. I spent another long evening easing the paint off the curves of the guitar with the edge of a plectrum. Ben strikes into song after song, the volume adjusted by only the slightest touch of his nimble plectrum, and the band just fall into place behind him and that breathy, to instantly soaring, vocal. No, we'd probably still be meeting in town each Saturday afternoon half-deaf in our denims with pockets full of plectrums and heads full of cheap dope and impossible dreams. His fingers flew across the frets while I was sure the plectrum he was holding should have been worn to shreds as he played. 1.1 The corresponding mechanical part that plucks the strings of an instrument such as a harpsichord. Example sentencesExamples In a harpsichord, there is a separate plectrum for each string. The problems of construction, strings and tunings aside, the critical issue is that the instrument is played not with plectrums, bows or hammers, but only by the hand. ‘Its plectra - which pluck the strings to produce the harpsichord's sound - were replaced using black turkey quills, which they would have been made from originally,’ she said. Of all the little maintenance procedures that harpsichord owners must attend to, replacing a plectrum is perhaps the thorniest of issues. Origin Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek plēktron ‘something with which to strike’, from plēssein ‘to strike’.
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