Definition of tambourine in English:
tambourine
noun ˌtambəˈriːnˌtæmbəˈrin
A percussion instrument resembling a shallow drum with metal discs in slots around the edge, played by being shaken or hit with the hand.
- They were greeted by staff playing all manner of musical instruments from tambourines to recorders and the less musically gifted banging pots and pans.
- Yet we knew from the happy-clappy Sunday services that they were comfortable with guitars and tambourines.
- Often nights we'd be up until after midnight with guitars, tambourines and drumming, sitting in the rainforest in our owner-built homes playing away.
- I then used it to record additional percussion, including tambourine, djembe, shaker and bass drum.
- He seemed more at home with the crowd when he came up front to sing a couple of songs with his tambourine.
- We were given drums, triangles, maracas and tambourines to experiment with.
- Other instruments used in folk music include transverse and vertical flutes, drums, cymbals, gongs, and tambourines.
- The primary instruments are the viola (a plucked, metal stringed instrument), tambourine, and caixa (a type of drum).
- They concluded the set properly by inviting two audience members to grace the stage to shake a pair of tambourines and their booties as well.
- The angels are playing a collection of musical instruments, including the harp, tambourine, cymbals, lyre and psaltery.
- I play guitar, bass drum, a tambourine on my foot and a snare drum.
- Musical groups danced the samba all the way, beating bongo drums and shaking tambourines.
- This page is great for inspiration as it suggests ways of making a tambourine, drum, chimes, horn, cymbals, xylophone, guitar, comb buzzer and hand bells.
- Every song they present is a staggering collage of guitars and drums, bells, tambourines, brass, and every other manner of beep or squeak under the sun, all falling in line in lush, swaying arrangements.
- They brought their tambourines, harmonicas, and were playing along.
- The Turks made their dawn prayers and then advanced with castanets, tambourines, cymbals and terrifying war cries.
- Some looked like variants of things I recognized; there were string instruments like lutes or small guitars, there were drums, chimes, tambourines.
- Percussion is composed of sleigh bells, tambourine, xylophone and kettle drums.
- Three chords, the right amount of carelessness in the attitude and those irresistible tambourines with the drums make them deserved hit singles.
- Instead, the record reveals the true force of his songs: bouncy, repetitive chamber pop nuggets, gilt with glockenspiels, tambourines and evocative sacred-sexual imagery.
Derivatives
tambourinist
- Many tambourinists hold the instrument still and move only the hand that is striking it.
- If you're lucky, you can catch the odd open-air concert in the harbourside area to the south: Polish folk music or tambourinists from Burkhina Faso.
- At this stage we are confident however there is a rumour circulating around musical circles that one of the tambourinists may be taking a ‘break’ from music mid to late next year.
noun
Origin
Late 16th century: from French tambourin (see tambourin).
Rhymes
Aberdeen, Amin, aquamarine, baleen, bean, been, beguine, Benin, between, canteen, careen, Claudine, clean, contravene, convene, cuisine, dean, Dene, e'en, eighteen, fascine, fedayeen, fifteen, figurine, foreseen, fourteen, Francine, gean, gene, glean, gombeen, green, Greene, Halloween, intervene, Janine, Jean, Jeannine, Jolene, Kean, keen, Keene, Ladin, langoustine, latrine, lean, limousine, machine, Maclean, magazine, Malines, margarine, marine, Mascarene, Massine, Maxine, mean, Medellín, mesne, mien, Moline, moreen, mujahedin, Nadine, nankeen, Nazarene, Nene, nineteen, nougatine, obscene, palanquin, peen, poteen, preen, quean, Rabin, Racine, ramin, ravine, routine, Sabine, saltine, sardine, sarin, sateen, scene, screen, seen, serene, seventeen, shagreen, shebeen, sheen, sixteen, spleen, spring-clean, squireen, Steen, submarine, supervene, tangerine, teen, terrine, thirteen, transmarine, treen, tureen, Tyrrhene, ultramarine, umpteen, velveteen, wean, ween, Wheen, yean
Definition of tambourine in US English:
tambourine
nounˌtæmbəˈrinˌtambəˈrēn
A percussion instrument resembling a shallow drum with small metal disks in slots around the edge, played by being shaken or hit with the hand.
- They were greeted by staff playing all manner of musical instruments from tambourines to recorders and the less musically gifted banging pots and pans.
- Percussion is composed of sleigh bells, tambourine, xylophone and kettle drums.
- Instead, the record reveals the true force of his songs: bouncy, repetitive chamber pop nuggets, gilt with glockenspiels, tambourines and evocative sacred-sexual imagery.
- The Turks made their dawn prayers and then advanced with castanets, tambourines, cymbals and terrifying war cries.
- They concluded the set properly by inviting two audience members to grace the stage to shake a pair of tambourines and their booties as well.
- I play guitar, bass drum, a tambourine on my foot and a snare drum.
- Some looked like variants of things I recognized; there were string instruments like lutes or small guitars, there were drums, chimes, tambourines.
- Yet we knew from the happy-clappy Sunday services that they were comfortable with guitars and tambourines.
- The primary instruments are the viola (a plucked, metal stringed instrument), tambourine, and caixa (a type of drum).
- They brought their tambourines, harmonicas, and were playing along.
- Other instruments used in folk music include transverse and vertical flutes, drums, cymbals, gongs, and tambourines.
- Often nights we'd be up until after midnight with guitars, tambourines and drumming, sitting in the rainforest in our owner-built homes playing away.
- Three chords, the right amount of carelessness in the attitude and those irresistible tambourines with the drums make them deserved hit singles.
- We were given drums, triangles, maracas and tambourines to experiment with.
- The angels are playing a collection of musical instruments, including the harp, tambourine, cymbals, lyre and psaltery.
- Musical groups danced the samba all the way, beating bongo drums and shaking tambourines.
- He seemed more at home with the crowd when he came up front to sing a couple of songs with his tambourine.
- Every song they present is a staggering collage of guitars and drums, bells, tambourines, brass, and every other manner of beep or squeak under the sun, all falling in line in lush, swaying arrangements.
- This page is great for inspiration as it suggests ways of making a tambourine, drum, chimes, horn, cymbals, xylophone, guitar, comb buzzer and hand bells.
- I then used it to record additional percussion, including tambourine, djembe, shaker and bass drum.
Origin
Late 16th century: from French tambourin (see tambourin).