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Pronunciation: [plˈɛktɹəm] (IPA)

Plectrum refers to a small flat tool which is used to pluck the strings of a musical instrument, especially a guitar. Although this word is commonly used by musicians, there are also other words that can be used as synonyms for plectrum. Some of these words include pick, plucker, quill, and flatpick. Pick and plucker specifically refer to the tool used to play stringed instruments, while quill refers to the feather or synthetic material often used for older types of plectrum. Flatpick refers to the type of plectrum that has a flat surface, as opposed to a rounded or pointed one. Ultimately, all of these words can be used interchangeably to talk about the small tool that musicians use to play stringed instruments.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

  • Other hypernyms:

    musical accessory, small object, stringed instrument accessory.

Usage examples for Plectrum

It was played with a plectrum, which the performer holds in his right hand.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner
This instrument appears, as in the present case, to have been sometimes played with the fingers only, and sometimes with a plectrum.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner
Yet, could I let one word go free To touch your chords with fire, Become the wind upon the sea The plectrum of the lyre, Then, my Althea, should we be Two lovers without shame, All things in their epitome, The Universe our name.
"A Legend of Old Persia and Other Poems"
A. B. S. Tennyson

Famous quotes with Plectrum

  • In his discussion on slavery Aristotle said that when the shuttle wove by itself and the plectrum played by itself chief workmen would not need helpers nor masters slaves. At the time he wrote, he believed that he was establishing the eternal validity of slavery; but for us today he was in reality justifying the existence of the machine. Work, it is true, is the constant form of man's interaction with his environment, if by work one means the sum total of exertions necessary to maintain life; and the lack of work usually means an impairment of function and a breakdown in organic relationship that leads to substitute forms of work, such as invalidism and neurosis. But work in the form of unwilling drudgery or of that sedentary routine which... the Athenians so properly despised—work in these forms is the true province of machines. Instead of reducing human beings to work-mechanisms, we can now transfer the main part of burden to automatic machines. This potentially... is perhaps the largest justification of the mechanical developments of the last thousand years.
    Aristotle

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