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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cello
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
piano/cello etc practice
▪ I’ve got to do my cello practice.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
play
▪ Knowing the Prince played the cello, the professor asked whether he would like to have a go.
▪ Later, he taught himself to play the violin and cello, all on the stage at Millers.
▪ She found two cellos with a nice timbre, perfect finish and undoubted charm-she plays the cello herself.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I had never heard cellos and low strings added to rock songs.
▪ I originally studied classical cello from age seven until I was fourteen, then moved to the upright bass.
▪ Not a note seems superfluous in this essay for flute, clarinet in A, vibraphone, piano, violin and cello.
▪ She did not leave the hospital without the cello she played in a London symphony orchestra.
▪ The senior one was a fearsome, mustachioed amateur cello player who addressed every class in a terrifying bawl.
▪ The violas can be used, however, also the cellos if they can be spared from the energetic bass part.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cello

Cello \Cel"lo\ (ch[e^]l"l[-o]), n.; pl. E. Cellos (ch[e^]l"l[-o]z), It. Celli (ch[e^]l"l[=e]). A contraction for Violoncello.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cello

1857, shortening of violoncello (q.v.).

Wiktionary
cello

Etymology 1 n. (context musical instruments English) A large stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings. (From lowest to highest C-G-D-A) Etymology 2

n. cellophane

WordNet
cello

n. a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing [syn: violoncello]

Wikipedia
Cello

The cello ( ; plural cellos or celli) or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. The strings from low to high are generally tuned to C2, G2, D3 and A3. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin and viola.

The cello is used as a solo musical instrument, as well as in chamber music ensembles, string orchestras, as a member of the string section of symphony orchestras, and some rock bands. It is the second-largest bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, the double bass being the largest.

Cellos were derived from other mid- to large-sized bowed instruments in the 16th century, such as the viola da gamba, and the generally smaller and squarer viola da braccio, and such instruments made by members of the Amati family of luthiers.

Cello parts are generally written in the bass clef, but both tenor and treble clefs are used for higher-range parts.

A person who plays the cello is called a cellist or violoncellist.

Cello (web browser)

Cello was an early graphical web browser for Windows 3.1, developed by Thomas R. Bruce of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School, and released as shareware in 1993. While other browsers ran on various Unix machines, Cello was the first web browser for Microsoft Windows, using the winsock system to access the Internet. In addition to the basic Windows, Cello worked on Windows NT 3.5 and with small modifications on OS/2.

Cello was created because of a demand for Web access by lawyers, who were more likely to use Microsoft Windows than the Unix operating systems supporting earlier Web browsers, including the first release of Mosaic. The lack of a Windows browser meant many legal experts were unable to access legal information made available in hypertext on the World Wide Web. Cello was popular during 1993/1994, but fell out of favor following the release of Mosaic for Windows and Netscape, after which Cello development was abandoned.

Cello was first publicly released on 8 June 1993. A version 2.0 was announced, but development was abandoned. Version 1.01a, 16 April 1994, was the last public release. Since then, the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School has licensed the Cello 2.0 source code, which has been used to develop commercial software.

The browser is no longer available from its original homepage. However, it can still be downloaded from mirror sites.

Cello (film)

Cello is a 2005 South Korean horror film.

Cello (album)

Cello is a solo album by cellist David Darling recorded in 1991 and 1992 and released on the ECM label.

Cello (disambiguation)

A cello is stringed musical instrument.

Cello may also refer to:

  • Cello (web browser), an early web browser and Gopher client for Windows 3.1
  • Cello (CAD software), genetic circuit design automation software
  • Cello (film), a South Korean horror film from 2005
  • Ten Minutes Older: The Cello, part of a 2002 film project
  • Cello Dias, bass guitarist for American alternative rock band Against All Will
  • Mashymre Cello, fictional character in the Gundam ZZ series
  • Nadia Di Cello (born 1989), Argentine actress
  • Sello, a large shopping centre in Espoo, Finland
  • Cello (album), an album by cellist David Darling
  • Cello, a former brand of high-end audio equipment by Mark Levinson (audio equipment designer)

Usage examples of "cello".

The gentlemen amused themselves by rattling on about the Guadagnini cello.

The Veronese also bared his head and made the sign of reverence, for they were passing the island of San Michele, toward which a mournful procession of boats, each with its torch and its banner of black, was slowly gliding, while back over the water echoed the dirge from those sobbing cellos.

The living room is full of cellos in black cases the cellists brought in, like sarcophaguses on little wheels.

But the cellists pack up their cellos and they thank her and they drive away, leaving the dishes piled in the sink for Louise to wash.

Round the end of the kitchen table he turned on the radio which eagerly informed him that a group of handicapped mountainclimbers had carried an American flag and a bag of jellybeans to the summit of Mount Rainier before he could bend to turn the dial, slowly, bringing in the full chord of a cello.

Peake, watching her, thought she touched the controls of the drive mechanism as if they had been the frets of her cello or the body of a lover.

I think they picked Moira because they needed a cello for the string quartet.

Moira said, going to the rack where the musical instruments were kept and getting out her cello, and a little later, Fontana came in, carrying a printout of the Mass in Five Voices.

Moira grabbed the cello, manhandled it into its case and snapped it safely inside, then purposefully forced herself down toward the DeMag unit.

Moira put away her cello again, knowing that she, too, should find something to eat.

Moira, even as she clamped her helmet, looked reflexively toward the bin where her cello was stored.

So I let him bring his flute, which sounds quite nice with the cello whenever they hit the right notes.

Anna has fallen asleep inside a cello case, like a fat green pea in a coffin.

The young one with curly black hair, bent over his cello as if he might fall in.

He holds on to his cello as if it might grow legs and run away if he let go.