harp
Noun
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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 (synset 103500383)is a type of: chordophone - a stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zitherssubtypes:- aeolian harp, aeolian lyre, wind harp - a harp having strings tuned in unison; they sound when wind passes over them
- lyre - a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment
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A pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade (synset 103500695)
is a type of: support - any device that bears the weight of another thing
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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 (synset 103499379)
is a type of: free-reed instrument - a wind instrument with a free reed
Verb
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Come back to (synset 200961399)
"Don't dwell on the past"; "She is always harping on the same old things"is a type of: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell - to say, state, or perform againsame as: dwell
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Play the harp (synset 201736594)
"She harped the Saint-Saens beautifully"referred to in: music - musical activity (singing or whistling etc.)is a type of: play - perform music on (a musical instrument)
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