Meaning Of The Word Music box

Real Dictionary

What's the definition of Music box? Find Music box meanings, definitions and more at the Real Dictionary online.

Music box Meaning

Music box Definition
Music box Definition

What's The Definition Of Music box?

music box
countable noun: A music box is a box that plays a tune when you open the lid.

music box in American English
a mechanical musical instrument consisting of a case containing a bar with tuned steel teeth that are struck by pins or projections so arranged on a revolving cylinder or disc as to produce a certain tune or tunes
noun: a box or case containing an apparatus for producing music mechanically, as by means of a comblike steel plate with tuned teeth sounded by small pegs or pins in the surface of a revolving cylinder or disk

music box in British English
noun: a mechanical instrument that plays tunes by means of pins on a revolving cylinder striking the tuned teeth of a comblike metal plate, contained in a box

More Definitions

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Definitions Of The Day

  • Mentonniere ‐ noun: a piece of armour protecting the throat…
  • Predevelopment ‐ adjective: of or pertaining to the period prior…
  • Full rhyme ‐ noun; noun: rhyme between words in which the stressed…
  • Cracker Jack ‐ a confection of sweet, glazed popcorn and peanuts…
  • Orarium ‐ noun; noun: a garment worn by a deacon in the…
  • Palmiped ‐ adjective: having webbed feet; noun: a web-footed…
  • Shake the dust off one's feet ‐ to depart angrily or contemptuously; to leave…
  • Paracrostic ‐ noun: a poem in which the initial letters of each…
  • Cross-pollination ‐ the transfer of pollen from the anther of one…
  • Protohuman ‐ of or relating to the humanlike primates that…