What is "harp"

Harp \Harp\ (h[aum]rp), n. [OE. harpe, AS. hearpe; akin to D. harp, G. harfe, OHG. harpha, Dan. harpe, Icel. & Sw. harpa.]

1. A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.

2. (Astron.) A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.

3. A grain sieve. [Scot.]

   [AE]olian harp. See under [AE]olian.

   Harp seal (Zo["o]l.), an arctic seal ( Phoca Gr[oe]nlandica). The adult males have a light-colored body, with a harp-shaped mark of black on each side, and the face and throat black. Called also saddler, and saddleback. The immature ones are called bluesides; their fur is white, and they are killed and skinned to harvest the fur.

   Harp shell (Zo["o]l.), a beautiful marine gastropod shell of the genus Harpa, of several species, found in tropical seas. See Harpa.

Harp \Harp\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Harped (h[aum]rpt) p. pr. & vb. n. Harping.] [AS. hearpian. See Harp, n.]

1. To play on the harp.

   I heard the voice of harpers, harping with their harps.
   --Rev. xiv.

2. 2. To dwell on or recur to a subject tediously or monotonously in speaking or in writing; to refer to something repeatedly or continually; -- usually with on or upon. ``Harpings upon old themes.''
   --W. Irving.

   Harping on what I am, Not what he knew I was.
   --Shak.

   To harp on one string, to dwell upon one subject with disagreeable or wearisome persistence. [Colloq.]

Harp \Harp\, v. t. To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.

Thou 'st harped my fear aright.
--Shak.

Old English hearpe, from Proto-Germanic *harpon- (cognates: Old Saxon harpa "instrument of torture;" Old Norse harpa, Dutch harp, Old High German harpfa, German Harfe "harp") of uncertain origin. Late Latin harpa, source of words in some Romanic languages, is a borrowing from Germanic. Meaning "harmonica" is from 1887, short for mouth-harp. The harp seal (1784) is so called for the harp-shaped markings on its back.

Old English hearpian; see harp (n.). Cognate with Middle Dutch, Dutch harpen, Middle High German harpfen, German harfen. Figurative sense of "talk overmuch" (about something) first recorded mid-15c., originally to harp upon one string. Related: Harped; harping.

n. 1 A musical instrument consisting of an upright frame strung with strings that are stroked or plucked with the fingers. 2 (label en colloquial) A harmonic

1. 3 (label en Scotland) A grain sieve. v

2. 1 (qualifier: usually with ''on'') To repeatedly mention a subject. 2 (label en transitive) To play on (qualifier: a harp or similar instrument) 3 (label en transitive) To play (a tune) on the harp. 4 (label en transitive) To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.

1. n. 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

2. a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade

3. 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 [syn: harmonica, mouth organ, mouth harp]

1. v. come back to; "Don't dwell on the past"; "She is always harping on the same old things" [syn: dwell]

2. play the harp; "She harped the Saint-Saens beautifully"

Harp was a print and online magazine that provided in-depth information on current music, mainly the adult album alternative genre, which encompasses a large variety of music. It was published from 2001 to 2008. The sister publication of Harp was Jazz Times.

A harp is a type of stringed musical instrument.

Harp or HARP may also refer to:

HARP, The Hadron Production Experiment at the Proton Synchrotron was a physics experiment at CERN that took data from 2000 through 2002. Its goal was to systematically study hadron production on a wide variety of nuclear targets. The data is used to help predict neutrino fluxes at experiments such as MiniBooNE and K2K, to understand the atmospheric neutrino flux, and to tune Monte Carlo simulations of particle production.

Harmonic phase (HARP) algorithm is a medical image analysis technique capable of extracting and processing motion information from tagged magnetic resonance image (MRI) sequences. It was initially developed by N. F. Osman and J. L. Prince at the Image Analysis and Communications Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. The method uses spectral peaks in the Fourier domain of tagged MRI, calculating the phase images of their inverse Fourier transforms, which are called harmonic phase (HARP) images. The motion of material points through time is then tracked, under the assumption that the HARP value of a fixed material point is time-invariant. The method is fast and accurate, and has been accepted as one of the most popular tagged MRI analysis methods in medical image processing.

Harp is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Clarine Harp (born 1978), American voice actress
• Everette Harp (born 1961), American saxophonist
• Jessica Harp (born 1982), American musician
• Susana Harp (born 1968), Mexican singer
• Tom Harp (born c. 1927), American football player and coach
• Toni Harp (born 1949), American politician