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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
woodwind
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a wind/woodwind instrument
▪ Violas blend very well with most of the wind instruments.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
brass/rhythm/woodwind/string etc section
▪ A brass section blares on trumpet, tenor saxophone and bass sax.
▪ It was in Vegas that Sinatra decided to book Norvo as his opening act and as his regular rhythm section.
▪ Now, drummers like Roy Haynes or Elvin Jones could be heard and studied, not buried in big-band rhythm sections.
▪ The rhythm Section became the stars.
▪ The rhythm section provided a perfect cushion for the soloists, springy and supportive but never obtrusive.
▪ The string section repeatedly cut through his fraught baritone with great sheets of emotional counterpoint.
▪ Try I fall in love too easily for the young Marsalis's strong sound gelling with the experience of the rhythm section.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It can be used as an inner voice in the woodwind ensemble, but tends to be obtrusive.
▪ It sparkled throughout with some graceful playing by the soloist plus great elegance and finesse from the woodwind.
▪ Now the secretive whistler with the woodwind song was revealed.
▪ Strings sound silky but not close and the woodwind come to us from a perfectly judged distance.
▪ The woodwind can only be used for doubling notes which are already present in the brass.
▪ The woodwind maintained a perfect pitch and, like the strings and brass, produced a consistently voluptuous sound.
▪ The large gap between the bassoons and the next woodwind part above is filled by the brass.
▪ We will now lay out various chords for double woodwind and two horns.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
woodwind

1876, from wood (n.) + wind (n.1) in the musical instrument sense. Related: Woodwinds.

Wiktionary
woodwind

a. Related to a woodwind instrument. n. (context musical instruments English) Any (mostly wooden) musical instrument which produce sound by the player blowing into them, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon.

WordNet
woodwind

n. any wind instrument other than the brass instruments [syn: woodwind instrument, wood]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "woodwind".

Helmholtz, singing, marching in place, would become flag twirlers, drummers, brasses, woodwinds, glockenspiel and all.

One of the sailors has pursed his lips against a woodwind, his fingers and thumb governing, shall we say, the ventages, whereupon, giving it breath, let us say, with his mouth, it, the pipe, discourses, as the saying goes, most eloquent music.

In between came chirpings and abrupt paeans of music, like woodwinds essaying tentative melodic runs.

Then there were the hornstwo instruments resembling clarinets, one wooden flute, except it was played from the end like an American Indian flute, a last woodwind that resembled a cross between a bass clarmet and an English horn, and one brass horn halfway between a French horn and a tuba, except the brass tubing seemed thicker and shorter.

Sheledon glowered from the woodwind section: he'd've sung the part himself, but he hadn't the voice for it.

It was the Turkish March from The Ruins of Athens, not his favourite, but good enough for this rabble with its piercing woodwinds and rattling snare drums, effects that he could reproduce in his head if not his muttering, groaning voice.

It was the Turkish March from The Ruins of Athens, not his favorite, but good enough for this rabble with its piercing woodwinds and rattling snare drums, effects that he could reproduce in his head if not his muttering, groaning voice.

The composition was more of a succession of solos rather than a symphony, with passages for string instruments, then for woodwinds, while the percussionists went their own way, resonating with the rest of the orchestra while still sounding independent of it.

There were tremolos on the strings and ominous pronouncements by the trombones and trumpets… Violins… Then a repetition of the theme by cellos and woodwinds.

Actually it was male, and the honk came from the horn itself, sounding like a woodwind instrument.

On the table, beside the crystal soul trap and the bowl of rotting fruit, lay a chordal horn, a northern woodwind instrument, which must have belonged to Nameless.

There is also a standing harp, and racks for lute, lap harp (empty), and a variety of woodwind instruments.