Word Meanings - TINTINNABULUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bell; also, a set or combination of bells or metal plates used as a musical instrument or as a toy.

Related words: (words related to TINTINNABULUM)

• METALOGICAL
  Beyond the scope or province of logic.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• METALLIC
  Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
• METALLIFORM
  Having the form or structure of a metal.
• MUSICALLY
  In a musical manner.
• METALLIFACTURE
  The production and working or manufacture of metals. R. Park.
• METALLOGRAPH
  A print made by metallography.
• METALLINE
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a metal; metallic; as, metalline properties. Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water.
• COMBINATION
  The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making
• METALLOPHONE
  An instrument like a pianoforte, but having metal bars instead of strings. An instrument like the xylophone, but having metallic instead of wooden bars.
• METALLICLY
  In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
• METALLICAL
  See METALLIC
• METALEPTIC
  Of, pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by, metalepsy. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a metalepsis. 2. Transverse; as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle.
• METALLOGRAPHIC
  Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography.
• MUSICALE
  A social musical party.
• INSTRUMENTALITY
  The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense
• METALMAN
  A worker in metals.
• METALLOGRAPHIST
  One who writes on the subject of metals.
• INSTRUMENTATION
  1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical
• METALLOCHROME
  A coloring produced by the deposition of some metallic compound; specifically, the prismatic tints produced by depositing a film of peroxide of lead on polished steel by electricity.
• PHILOMUSICAL
  Loving music. Busby.
• BIMETALLIST
  An advocate of bimetallism.
• NONMETAL
  Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.
• MONOMETALLIC
  Consisting of one metal; of or pertaining to monometallism.
• BIMETALLIC
  Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.
• MONOMETALLISM
  The legalized use of one metal only, as gold, or silver, in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of money values. See Bimetallism.
• STERROMETAL
  Any alloy of copper, zinc, tin, and iron, of which cannon are sometimes made.