harp has definitions from the field of music
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[ verb ] come back to

Synonyms

dwell

Examples

"Don't dwell on the past" "She is always harping on the same old things"

Used in print

(The Nation, 193: 16...)

One cannot but wonder whether these doubts about the success of Khrushchev 's agricultural policy have not at_least something to do with one of the big surprises provided by this Congress - the obsessive harping on the crimes and misdeeds of the `` anti-party group '' - Molotov , Malenkov , Kaganovich and_others - including the eighty-year-old Marshal_Voroshilov .

Related terms

repeat

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[ noun ] (music) 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

Used in print

(Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)

Now she could let out the three parakeets without_fear they would be stepped_on or that Stowey would let them out one of the doors ; she could dust the plants , then break_off suddenly and pick_up an old novel and read from the middle on ; improvise cha-chas on the harp ; and finally , the best part of all , simply sit at the plank table in the kitchen with a bottle of wine and the newspapers , reading the ads as_well_as the news , registering nothing on her mind but letting her soul suspend itself above all wishing and desire .

Related terms

chordophone lyre aeolian_harp

3
[ verb ] (music) play the harp

Examples

"She harped the Saint-Saens beautifully"

Related terms

play music harpist pluck

4
[ noun ] a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade

Related terms

support

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 2344
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[ noun ] (music) 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

Related terms

free-reed_instrument

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