| harp | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. harp | a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers. |
| ~ aeolian harp, aeolian lyre, wind harp | a harp having strings tuned in unison; they sound when wind passes over them. |
| ~ chordophone | a stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers. |
| ~ lyre | a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. harp | a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade. |
| ~ support | any device that bears the weight of another thing.; "there was no place to attach supports for a shelf" |
| n. (artifact) | 3. harmonica, harp, mouth harp, mouth organ | a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole. |
| ~ free-reed instrument | a wind instrument with a free reed. |
| v. (communication) | 4. dwell, harp | come back to.; "Don't dwell on the past"; "She is always harping on the same old things" |
| ~ ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell | to say, state, or perform again.; "She kept reiterating her request" |
| v. (creation) | 5. harp | play the harp.; "She harped the Saint-Saens beautifully" |
| ~ music | musical activity (singing or whistling etc.).; "his music was his central interest" |
| ~ pluck, pull off, pick off, tweak | pull or pull out sharply.; "pluck the flowers off the bush" |
| ~ play | perform music on (a musical instrument).; "He plays the flute"; "Can you play on this old recorder?" |
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