Violin vs. Cello

Violinnoun

(musical instrument) A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string, with the pitch set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers; also any instrument of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_family violin family].

Violinnoun

(music) A violinist.

Violinverb

(ambitransitive) To play on, or as if on, a violin.

Violinnoun

A small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle.

Violinnoun

bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow

Violin

The violin, sometimes known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body.

Cellonoun

(musical instruments) A large stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings, tuned from lowest to highest C-G-D-A, and played with a bow, also possessing an endpin to support the instrument's weight.

Cellonoun

cellophane

Cellonoun

A contraction for Violoncello.

Cellonoun

a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing

Cellonoun

a bass instrument of the violin family, held upright on the floor between the legs of the seated player.

Cello

The cello ( CHEL-oh; plural celli or cellos) or violoncello ( VY-ə-lən-CHEL-oh; Italian pronunciation: [vjolonˈtʃɛllo]) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G2, D3 and A3.