fingerboard
English Thesaurus
1. a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers (noun.artifact)
| hypernym | : | strip, |
| definition | : | thin piece of wood or metal (noun.artifact) |
| part meronym | : | banjo, |
| definition | : | a stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body (noun.artifact) |
| part meronym | : | guitar, |
| definition | : | a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking (noun.artifact) |
| part meronym | : | lute, |
| definition | : | chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard (noun.artifact) |
| part meronym | : | mandolin, |
| definition | : | a stringed instrument related to the lute, usually played with a plectrum (noun.artifact) |
2. a bank of keys on a musical instrument (noun.artifact)
| hypernym | : | keyboard, |
| definition | : | device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like (noun.artifact) |
| part meronym | : | accordion, piano accordion, squeeze box, |
| definition | : | a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player (noun.artifact) |
| part meronym | : | organ, pipe organ, |
| definition | : | wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard (noun.artifact) |
| part meronym | : | forte-piano, piano, pianoforte, |
| definition | : | a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds (noun.artifact) |
3. a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger (noun.communication)
| hypernym | : | guidepost, signpost, |
| definition | : | a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way (noun.communication) |
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