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Definition: Cello |
CelloNoun1. A large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cello" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1899. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Cello World-Wide Web browser client for IBM PCs. Runs under Microsoft Windows. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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to a human (Uncropped Version)The cello (also violoncello or 'cello) is a stringed instrument, closely related to the violin. The cello is much larger than a violin, and unlike that instrument is played in an upright position between the legs of the seated musician, resting on a metal spike. The player draws their bow horizontally across the strings.
The cello plays notes on the bass clef, and has 4 strings tuned in fifths: C (the lowest), G, D and A (below middle C) - these are tuned exactly one octave below the viola. For the highest notes, the cello sometimes uses the tenor clef and occasionally the treble clef.
The name cello is an abbreviation of the Italian violoncello, which means 'little violone'. The violone is an obsolete instrument whose name literally means 'big viola'. It was similar to a modern double bass.
A person who plays the cello is called a cellist. Famous or well known cellists include:
- Anner Bylsma
- Pau Casals
- Gaspar Cassado
- Natalie Clein
- Robert Cohen
- Jacqueline du Pré
- Emanuel Feuermann
- Pierre Fournier
- Maurice Gendron
- Natalia Gutman
- Lynn Harrell
- Stephen Isserlis
- Antonio Janigro
- Maria Kliegel
- Julian Lloyd Webber
- Yo-yo Ma
- Mischa Maisky
- Charlotte Moorman
- Siegfried Palm
- Gregor Piatigorsky
- Ernst Reijseger (an improvising cellist)
- Leonard Rose
- Mstislav Rostropovich
- Daniil Shafran
- Giovanni Sollima (who is also composer)
- Janos Starker
- Paul Tortelier
- Raphael Wallfisch
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cello."
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Cello was an early web browser and Gopher client for Windows 3.1. It was developed by Thomas R. Bruce of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School, and publicly released on June 8, 1993. The last edition was version 1.01a, released on on April 9, 1994.Cello was created because most lawyers used Microsoft Windows on their computers, but web browsers available at the time were mostly for Unix operating systems. This meant many legal experts were unable to access legal information made available in hypertext on the world wide web.
External links
- Cello: an Internet Browser
- evolt.org - Browser Archive (Cello can be downloaded from here)
- Original public-release annoucement by T.R. Bruce]
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cello web browser."
Synonym: CelloSynonym: violoncello (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cello |
| English words defined with "cello": awkward ♦ bass viol, bunglesome ♦ Casals, Celli, Cellos, clumsy ♦ fingerboard ♦ Pablo Casals ♦ string quartet, string quartette ♦ ungainly ♦ viola da gamba. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cello": JEW'S HARP. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cello" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (cello), Dutch (cello), German (cello), Swedish (cello, violoncello). |
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Screenplays | Except a cello! (The Living Daylights; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) Me?! You're the one with the cello between her legs eight hours a day (Wings; writing credit: Ere Kokkonen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002) Bach Cello Suite #6: Six Gestures (1997) Cello (1995) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pablo Casals, seated, playing cello while being painted by Luis Quintanilla. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mischa Schneider, half-length portrait, with cello, facing right] / Miller of Washington. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The second-hand cello and the early morning lesson. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Paper Penguin" by Elijana Forto Commentary: "A close-up shot of a paper penguin I stole from my Cello teacher." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Cello solo. | | Cello. |
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| "Cello" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.30% of the time. "Cello" is used about 187 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.3% | 167 | 24,143 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.7% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Total | 100.00% | 187 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cello": cello-brate, cello-oboe. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cello | 636 | cello player | 10 |
cello bag | 88 | cello girl playing | 10 |
cello music | 49 | cremona cello | 9 |
cello case | 48 | cello maker | 9 |
electric cello | 34 | cello tape | 8 |
cello free music sheet | 33 | cello stand | 8 |
cello sheet music | 32 | bach cello | 8 |
cello sale | 24 | cello instrument | 8 |
cello bow | 23 | cello information | 7 |
cello picture | 23 | case cello glass vase | 7 |
cello lesson | 21 | cello chat | 7 |
cello string | 20 | cello competition | 7 |
cello history | 19 | bam cello case | 7 |
cello free music | 17 | cello wrap | 7 |
cello internet society | 15 | buy a cello | 7 |
play cello | 14 | cello helicore | 6 |
used cello | 14 | cello expensive most | 6 |
bach cello suite | 13 | baroque cello | 6 |
cello tuning | 13 | cello size | 6 |
merano cello | 11 | cello poly | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "cello"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | violimçel. (various references) | |
Arabic | فيولونسيل تشيلو كمنجة كبيرة, تشيلو (violoncello). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | виолончело (violoncello). (various references) | |
Czech | cello. (various references) | |
Danish | cello (violoncello), violoncel (violoncello). (various references) | |
Dutch | violoncel (violoncello), cello (violoncello), cel (cell). (various references) | |
Esperanto | violonĉelo. (various references) | |
Farsi | ویولون سل(مو.). (various references) | |
Finnish | sello. (various references) | |
French | violoncelle. (various references) | |
Frisian | fiolonsel. (various references) | |
German | cello (violoncello). (various references) | |
Greek | βιολοντσέλο (violoncello), τσέλο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | צ'לו (violoncello). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gordonka, cselló (violoncello). (various references) | |
Irish | dordbhdhil. (various references) | |
Italian | violoncello (violoncello). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | チェレンコフ効果 (cembalo, change, changer, Cherenkov effect, harpsichord, pitch that comes toward the batter at a speed slower than expected, violoncello). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | チェロ (violoncello). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ellocay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | violoncelo (violoncello). (various references) | |
Romanian | violoncel (violoncello). (various references) | |
Russian | виолончель (bass-viol, violoncello). (various references) | |
Sepedi | tahelo. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | violončelo (violoncello), čelo (forehead). (various references) | |
Spanish | violoncelo (violoncello), violonchelo (violoncello). (various references) | |
Swedish | violoncell (violoncello), cello (violoncello). (various references) | |
Turkish | viyolonsel (violoncello), çello (bass viol). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | віолончель (bass viol, violoncello). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cello": cellobiose, cellobioses, celloidin, celloidins, cellophane, cellophanes, cellos. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cello": violoncello. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cello": brucelloses, brucellosis, cancellous, chancellor, chancellories, chancellors, chancellorship, chancellorships, chancellory, violoncellos. (additional references) | |
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"Cello" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aello, calaloo, caldo, Calli, calloo, Callooh, callop, Callot, calo, Caloo, cel, cela, Celal, Celco, celcon, cele, celi, Celio, celle, cellic, Cellnotr, celloz, cellu, cellul, cellur, celluz, celly, celo, celui, cely, Chedlow, Chelalo, chella, chello, chelo, chelom, Cielo, Cildo, cillo, cilo, Ciullo, cledo, clero, Coelho, Collco, crell, Ctlo, Cuello, Cullom, culo, Cylla, eclu, Ecolo, ecuelle, ello, Kelco, kello, kellog, Kellow, Kololo, Nello, Scollo, Selloi, tello, uccelli, vello. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cello" (pronounced khe"lō) |
| 3 | -e" l ō | bellow, fellow, Martello, mellow, Morello, yellow. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-l-l-o" | |
-1 letter: cell, cole. | |
-2 letters: cel, col, ell, ole. | |
-3 letters: el, lo, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-l-l-o" | |
+1 letter: cellos, collet, collie, locale, locule, ocelli. | |
+2 letters: callose, calomel, closely, collage, collate, collect, colleen, college, collets, collide, collied, collier, collies, collude, colonel, columel, cowbell, elflock, locales, loculed, locules, ocellar, ocellus. | |
+3 letters: allocate, calliope, calloses, callower, calomels, carolled, caroller, clodpole, closable, cloudlet, coalhole, coalless, coevally, coleslaw, collaged, collagen, collages, collapse, collared, collaret, collated, collates, collects, colleens, colleger, colleges, collegia, colleted, collided, collider, collides, colliers, colliery, collogue, colluded, colluder, colludes, colonels, columels, comelily, coquille, cordelle, coverall, cowbells, docilely, elflocks, enscroll, escallop, floccule, follicle, glycerol, localise, localite, localize, lockable, loculate, lodicule, lovelock, molecule, nucleole, nucleoli, ocellate, overcall, pollices, rocaille, scrolled, teocalli. | |
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